this behavior is rampant among haitians/jamaicans in south florida poker room, they are uber superstitious. One time in a tourney this haitian dude posted his $100 ante with a $500 and in interest of speeding up the tourney i just made him change and he WIGGED out and called floor claiming I was trying to jynx him.

Far from the worst, but still funny and there's nowhere else to post it, so ....

$25 live home game freezeout.
Some preflop action, bit of action on later streets, arrive at river with board JT974r. Player A bets. Player B, an awful loose player, tanks, flashes cards to people around him. Announces, "I think I might have it on high card here". Eventually calls.

What's he got?
K2o.

Again, not the most absurd thing ever, but, pretty tough for K2 high to be winning here unless Player A's range is entirely comprised of Q/rag

Had some old guy tell me he never reraises pre with aces because he can flop a third ace and win a bigger pot.

Eventually we got into a pot together (1/2nl)... Limp limp limp i'm in the sb with AA, I make it 20$ to go, old guy calls out of the BB... some shorty who limped shoves over me for 40$ more, folds to me and I elect to call to trap the old guy. He calls behind

Flop comes the beautiful A 10 4.. check check
turn is a 4, goes check check again,
I lead river and guy folds his 88 face up..

I table my full house to collect and the old guy of course says... You see, you gotta hit that third ace.

It was a moment that reinforces the idea that people have no sense of "the long run" or the most profitable way to play a hand. They are just 100% results oriented.

It was fun to stack him later with ak v his a10 on an ace high board though.

Are you posting about yourself or the old guy?

2/5 NL

UTG limps, UTG+1 limps, MP1 limps, Old Nit limps with KK, Button raises to $15, BB raises to $60.

Old Nit shows me his KK and folds... BB ends up winning a big hand after he flopped a set with JJ

After the hand the Old Nit told me, "that's why I just limped with KK, because I wanted to see if anyone had AA, as soon as the big blind re-raised I knew I was dead"

I said "But no one had AA you had everyone dominated..."

He says "The bib blind had 3 jacks didn't you see the hand!"

:Facepalm:

Later, he was telling me how he is about to purchase a retirement home near Pheonix, and that the Casino Arizona has like 50 tables, and he's just gonna play poker everyday there until he dies. Can it really be that fun? He likely losses over 75% of the time, and how much fun can poker be if you only limp, and the only time you ever raise is when you have AA...

Doesn't it amaze you guys that, all these middle aged, and older gentlemen are still losing players and have absolutely no concept of the game at all after playing it regularly for 20+ years. Its amazing.

In a 1/2 game I am shortstacked. I have like 30 dollars left after losing a prior shove.

I pick up JJ so I shove pre. I get 2 callers. Flop comes A49. One of the callers shoves and the other guy folds. turn is a 4 river is a blank.

Guy flips over 45 and says, "Had to call it was a nutcracker hand."

To me that seemed ridiculous calling 30 with 45 off. The third guy in the hand had position on this man and was also the original raiser to 15 before I shoved.

I understand calling maybe 15-20 once in awhile with suited connecters but he called 30 with an unsuited 45 and he wasn't even deep stacked.

I'm 87.6% sure this is a bad beat story.

"This is where i need to change my game up. should i be flat calling more check raises or 4 betting to get information?"

from this forum

2p2er =/= good player.

I have learned that from live poker listening to two old guys talk about two plus two, then the 45+ woman dealer chimed in about it. I dont think 2p2 is as secret as we think lol.

Also the majority of young kids at my casino are too aggressive and leak oop... Live poker is very hard to be good at.

In a 1/2 5 Card PLO8 game.

Flop comes 27j all spades in a 3 way pot. UTG checks, fish pots, 3rd player folds and utg calls. Turn is offsuit ace. UTG checks, fish pots and utg raises fish all in. Fish tank folds face up and shows 222jk no spades. He then goes on to say he wasn't really scared of the flush and only folded because he thought utg had a set of aces.

I went to a newer cardroom in Northern Iowa and the floor had never heard of 2p2. I told him there was probably a wealth of interesting stuff for him there, and definitely made sure to tell him not to out himself as a floor.

More absurd thinking!

I can't really think of when I'd call 10xbb with a suited connectors like 45 unless I was getting insane odds and everybody was super deep.

Played the $600 Foxwoods Deepstack on the 15th and had a situation at the 200/400 level where EP raises to 2K, another guy shoves for 10K with pocket 2's and I'm in the blinds with a stack of 17K and pocket Aces and manage to lose to quad 2's, which crippled me early.

I'm explaining this situation to a coworker:


COWORKER: Had you seen the flop before you put your chips in?


ME: No

COWORKER: I wouldn't put my chips in without having seen the flop, because I've seen Aces lose too many times and you don't know what the other guy has.

ME: I'm an 80% favorite, I'll win that matchup 8 out of 10 times in the long run. (I then tell him a story where I had KQ on an 89TJ double suited board against a guy with 67 s00ted and we got it all-in and he flushed on the river).

ME: So in that other spot, I was an 80% favorite when all the money went in as well.

COWORKER: Yeah, I'd get it in there, because you've already seen the flop and there's only one card to come.

ME: But the math is the same. It's 80/20 when I have Aces against 2's with five cards to come. It's 80/20 when I have the straight against the flush draw with one card to come.

COWORKER: I get the math, but I wouldn't put all my money in preflop, you've gotta see the flop first.

ME: What if you had Aces and I showed you I had pocket 2's...?

COWORKER: Well, that's different.

During a home game a few days ago 2 people to the flop and it comes JJ3 (1 heart), turn brings 5 of hearts. Player 1 bets small, player 2 minraises, player 1 min re-raise, player 2 shoves all in. Player 1 proceeds to tank for 3 minutes and folds face up showing AJ and says he is worried because he thinks player 2 has a flush draw and doesn't want to get beat by a flush.

Of course player 2 turns up a flush draw, we rabbit it and the river brings a 3rd heart and player 1 says "see, I knew he would have hit a flush, good thing I folded"

double facepalm

Old guy to me "I hate pocket Jacks. They never win. That is why I limp with them always." This is of course a 3/6 LHE game where it is full of loose passives.

Old lady to me "I play every hand that has a 4x in it. I love 4's and will never fold when I have a 4."

$200 later....bustoooooo

I have seen a guy fold on the flop to a single bet with the nut full house because he thought a guy flopped quads.

the same guy also folded small and big blind in an online game when he had 1550 in his stack, and blinds were 500/1k no ante.

Seen a guy this weekend in 1/2 call flop and turn bets, then open shoved a aggressive young asian guy on the end. Asian called and the guy (bluffing) said "I knew you had a set, I just thought I could get you to fold". I almost peed myself laughing.

i saw a woman with $5 left in a 1/2 cash game limp pre, then fold to a bet on the flop. after she lost that $3 two hands later, she rebought full.

1/2 game. Villain has obviously never played NL before. Keeps asking "how much can I bet?" Seems generally confused.

He's there with a buddy. They mostly limp (when they're not generally confused about betting limits). One time he raises to $4, gets a bunch of calls, and seems upset that his raise didn't thin the field.

Several hands later.

limp, limp, limp, Villain "I raise . . . to $50."
Everyone folds

Villain pounds table, shows aces: "Dammit, how'd you guys know!"

Roughly 1/2 hour later.

Villain 1: "I think we got the hang of this, lets go move up in limits."
Villain 2: "Yeah, lets go play 2/5."

Villains pick up and move to 2/5

Super-standard for older 3/6 LPs. Absurd but super-standard.

A little extreme, but still pretty standard. Everyone treats each buy-in as a separate tournament. The notion that you could just top up from $5 to $100 or $200 occurs to few casual players. Most would just pick a hand and stick their last $30 in to gamble, however.

I have this guy at my home games. He plays ATC. Alot of newbies like to see every flop, this guy likes to see every turn. The absurd part is that he's been doing this for many losing years.

So much so that my favourite is the short-stacked player who seems not to realize that he can cash out because he says to the table, "Hurry up and win this so I can go home!"

Long story short, 7 handed to the flop on a raise. Guy folds to an all in about pot sized and says, "I folded an open ender." There were also 2 clubs on the board and the dealer jokingly says, "it would be easier to call if you had the flush draw to go with it, he follows with "I would still fold"

LOL

Not really poker related, but I found it funny...

Sitting next to a 40yr old guy who is doing well at the $2/3 game. He mentions how everyone is too serious, it's not like vegas, and also mentioned the 2+2 forums and some other stuff about grinding for a living.

Then he randomly starts talking about how he met a "professional roulette player" in vegas and the way to beat the game is to "spread out a ton of chips over the table in order to lower the house edge".

I asked him, "how is that possible for a person to win in the long run? Roulette has some of the worst odds, I think the house takes 5%".

"Well if you spread out your bets, you can get the edge down to 2 or 3%."

"So how can you make money?"

"Well I don't know but the roulette pro made $10,000 in 10 minutes so he must know what he's doing."