at the horshoe event last month a guy limped AJ on me and flopped a higher straight than me on the flop. after the river hits i say how do u limp there and he replies i know if u had a good hand you would raise.

Last night in my local game $1/3. Guy limps UTG and is fairly tight. There is a raise to $15 in MP, 5 way flop. UTG and sb get it in on the flop for a couple hundred. SB shows a set of 8's and UTG shows AA, of course he hits the A on the turn. He later said, "well, he raised for me and I wanted as many people in the hand with me so I could get more money in."

#loves 5 way flops with Aces!!!

your going to verbally announce you have KK preflop so you can prop on it?

At a 1/2 game I was sitting with about $90 (was having a bad night and decided not to add on anymore) limp utg with 9s, folded to hj who makes it $7...btn and both blinds call, i call. flop 9t3. sb checks, bb bets $15 i shove (knowning I'll get called by anyone with a ten at this game) folded to sb who flats bb flats. turn 3, river A. sb quickly shows qj, bb shows j8. so I show 9s full and win obv. the guy in the sb says "you got lucky, that board don't pair you can't win"

A woman on the button flops broadway on a rainbow board. It checks to her and she bets and gets 1 caller. The turn is the 4 of clubs. Her opponent checks, she bets and gets called leaving her opponent with about $30 left. There's now about $100 in the pot. The turn is the 7 of clubs, her opponent checks and she sighs and flips over her cards and says "broadway". When her opponent mucks she says, "I was worried you went runner runner flush on me"

I could almost understand this play if they were both deep stacked and he could pressure her with a big raise, but he only had $30 left.

I was gonna add strat here... a decent amount... but I'll make it quick.

Razz, you played the hand, and situation bad. Not toping off -EV. Making Passive/Bad plays because you've had a "bad night", -EV. Limping UTG, generally -EV. Not raising because people are going to call with bad hands, -EV.

Back to the point of this thread....

Playing 1/2 at Venetian Saturday. Didn't see the entire hand, but saw the river action on an AQ5J3 rainbow board. SB checks, Button bets $20 which is about 1/2 pot. SB sighs... shrugs... makes it $40, and holds his hand out like he is ready to muck (lol tells). Button calls. SB turns over Q5. Button turns over KT for the nuts. Both were about another $150 deep, and SB was never folding. WP'ed, Button!

Playing in a satellite yesterday. 100 people, and 20 get a seat into the next tournament.

With 22 people left this hand occurred at the table next to me. Two people were all in and three others had called them. On the turn, one of the people still in it made a bet...with nothing. The other two folded and nobody got knocked out as the two all ins both had better than high card. They both would have been gone if the kid didn't raise and knock out the winning hand.

His reasoning...I wanted to get you two out of the hand.

Was there a significant side pot? That's the only reasoning I would see inorder to do this and even then it needs to be significant like literally doubling his stack he entered the hand with.

I haven't played live recently but when I used to play live on a daily basis, someone said the following about KK. "I swear, the A shows up 80% of the time I have KK when I re raise with it. If I just raise with it and get called, the A dosen't come, but if I 3 bet with it, 80% of the time it shows up. The 20% it doesn't come, they have AA."

No side pot.

1/2 game - About 6 limpers, villain in BB (around $200 stack) raises to $60 (30bb). Predictably everyone folds. Villain tables KK face up.

Villain: Glad everyone folded - that's exactly what I wanted. I never want any action with kings. They suck, because an ace always flops and then I'll lose anyway. I'm happy to take down $10.

I lol'd. The only thing funnier would have been if someone L/RR his $60 pf with AA.

I played a small (like $200 er smth) prelim tournament over the summer in the middle of nowhere and some 45yo dolt was talking about "when I have play golf with Phil we talk about (x poker situation) all the time..."

He was talking about Phil Ivey. lol.

So he keeps on talking (later about what he tells his "students when I teach at seminars" lol), and eventually the like 60yo woman next to him lost a pot w AA..

She asks him how she could've played it better (I guess she didn't know better than to not believe his bs). He spews his thoughts, then goes,

"Let me ask you this (like he's quizzing the lady lol), it's early ina tournament: what do you do when a player raises UTG, next to act re-raises big, then next to act shoves all in. You then look down at Aces. Because the correct play is to fold."

I just couldn't hold it in anymore, and burst out into laughter. He says, "Hey everyone has their own style of play, and that's just my style, and no one person's style is right or wrong." I held my tongue but really wanted to say, "Ahhh, actually folding Aces pre is wrong pretty much no matter what, especially in that situation. But keep on doing what you're doing while I pick up the EV you left behind walking out of the casino."

Isn't there a "You have AA the first hand of a tournament and there are multiple all-ins" containment thread somewhere?

Anyway....

A good one from last night.

1/2 NLHE, flop heads up is 734 rainbow. There is $5 in the pot. BB checks, button bets $10, BB calls. Turn a Q. Check/ bet $10/ call. River is a 7. BB bets out $50. Button tanks and shoves. BB snap calls.

BB has 73, button has 34.

Button: "Oh well, I knew he had the seven but I should have went all-in on the flop so I had to go with it on the end."

Just got back from Bally's AC yesterday and had these two gems occur:

I'm holding 78 on a flop of 456, I lead out and get one caller (check called). The turn is a 3 so he leads out and I raise him hoping he has a 7 and he will call. He goes into the tank and thinks and thinks and thinks, eventually showing the table a 7 and folding. Everyone at the table begins to question him how he can fold that hand...even I am curious (did I give a tell or something?) his reply. "The flop brought 2 spades...he put me on a spade draw and was too afraid to put all that money in in case the third spade fell on the river." After that comment all respect for that lay down went out the window.

Guy to the left of my buddy tells my friend that pocket Aces are meant to get cracked all the time, you see the auto shufflers rig the deck to shuffle the cards to crack aces. True story.

Let me guess.... This was at the 1-1 table?

Nope, 1/3 table

Lol. Me thinks the joke might be on you.

Yeah no, I highly doubt it.

I lol'd at this one...

V1:Checks river

V2:Bets

V1:"Okay"

V2: Turns up hand

V1: Puts call chips in pot and mucks

Playing in one of the $350 events for the Venetian DSE. We're down to the final two tables (brag). We are sitting at like 3k/6k blinds or something like that. This guy open shoves for like 35k, folded to the SB who is some old tight dude who gives it the "Well, I guess it's late... I'm allin" and shoves for 100k. I'm sitting in the BB with about 240k (brag) and look at TT. I figure the SB is super strong at it's probably AK at best for me. So i decided to muck.

Turns out SB has AJ, other shover has KT. Flop comes JTx and I would have had the double knock out. Somebody mentions that it looked like I had a tough decision and asked what I folded so I told him TT. Then somebody at the table tells me that "That was a bad fold, because pocket tens have the best chance to crack AA."

Wanna know who told me that?... Cause he has a WSOP bracelet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPKIrKZLXLg <----- That guy

he must have thought the second T was an Eleven, which would have given him the nuts -- an Eleven high straight! the best is how he tries to show the dealer how he had it!

You should have responded "I knew no one had aces, so my tens couldn't crack them".

Sunday, about 3am @Winstar playing 2-5-10 ($10 is a mandatory straddle because we're short handed.)
Me/Dealer spot- $2000
SB (Nitty old man)-~500
BB~400
Staddle (Spewy McSpewbox)~500

I fold, SB raises to 40, BB and straddle call.
Pot is ~120. Kc5d4s

N.O.M. leads for ~60, BB folds, Spewy raises to ~150, N.O.M. calls.

Pot is about ~420. t= Kd
Board now reads Kc5d4sKd

N.O.M. shoves ~$310, Spewy snap calls. River is Js

N.O.M. turns over KQ for trips, spewy turns over 2d3d.

"I got so unlucky! Literally any river would have given me the winning hand."

Me "Yup, any river except that Jack."

"I had so many outs, it was almost impossible for me to lose. I had the best hand!"

"You had 3 high."

"But I had so many outs! With the amount of money in the pot already I'd take my hand over his every time!"

Me "Better luck next time."

Unfortunately that completed his tenure with the table. He went from $300, to $800, to 0 over the course of about 20 hands.

"it was suited"

Not the worst I've seen, he did have a lot of outs after the turn obviously, but on a paired board against a nit, I would most likely fold facing that kind of heat. He probably saw Dwan play it on TV. Oh yes fold pre.

Had a guy at my tables writing down all the flops/turn/rivers so he could see what cards were coming up a lot to determine what hands he should play preflop.