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Once I got into an argument with a guy sitting at a 2/5 table in a local cardroom (the Lucky Derby in Citrus Heights, CA) over what a gutshot straight was. He insisted that a gutshot was only one where you had to fill the exact middle of the straight to make it. IOW, with 3-4 in your hand, and 5-7 on the board, you don't have a gutshot. I argued with him for a while and then just gave up.

****ing idiots.

Stop tapping the glass.

sitting at a 1-2 nl game in the Trop, after i mucked from utg, a kid on my left limps in and shows me his cards (QJ)for no other reason except to enlighten me to the fact that he was a complete moron. anyway, he limps in for $2 and the cutoff makes it $12. the button, a solid player w/a big stack, reraises to $25, the bb calls, so he calls, as does the initial raiser. (pot=$100) the four of them see a flop of
998. after the bb checks, our hero checks, the cutoff bets $50, button and bb both call, and our hero makes the call. (pot=$300) the turn is the 8. BB checks, our hero checks, the cutoff bets $50 again, button calls, bb folds, and our hero makes the call. the river is the 10, our hero checks, the cutoff pauses for a bit, then moves all in for $275. the button insta calls, and our hero? he also insta calls for his last $250 and slams his cards face up and yells "straight!" the button tables 99 for quads. the kid turns to me and said, "how can i put him on quads? there's no way i can get away from that."

2/4 LOL Limit game at the MGM (back a few years ago when I was a limit player).

The game is ridiculously loose, I'm talking about 7+ people seeing flops every hand, regardless of raises. People calling down bets on every street with gutshots and ace high, typical B&M low limit game.

This hand is no different, about 7 limpers including me, we all see a flop of Q33 or something thereabouts. Flop checks around. Turn comes, checks around. River comes, checks around.

Showdown time, people are flipping over their garbage no-pair hands and one player (a youngish guy, maybe mid 20's) proudly flips over his QQ for a flopped boat. Several players at the table, including me, are in serious 'wtf' facial expression mode.

About 30 seconds later, after the next hand has begun, his friend at the table asks him "Why didn't you bet?" and his response "Hands that good you have to slowplay."

hmmmm....

Calling the river heads up with the nuts, so classic. That is one of my favorite things EVER.

I re-raised a bet on the river once, and, the player tanked for about a minute (I was bluffing in my mind, so, once he was thinking, I knew I was in trouble) -- he eventually calls and shows 22 for quad 2's on a board of QT622 being the absolute nuts. I say, "wow, you got me... nice hand, I can't beat that." He says, "Phew!"

LOL! And you said, "Yeah, tough beat!"

this could actually "feed the fish" if you convince him that there are more gutshots than what he thinks, he could start making more bad calls because "he had a gutshot draw"

Naw. He probably thinks that 3,5,6,7 is an ankle draw and 3,4,5,7 is a shoulder draw.

Last weekend, after I won a pot with top pair in a 2-4 limit game

Player: "Why d'you raise? I thought you must have something better than that"
Me (to myself): "So why exactly did you call then?"

Player 1: You play at XXX?
Player 2: Yeah. Only when the BBJ is over 100k. Gotta hit that jackpot
Me (thought): I play this game to lose!

Board: QxxxA
Player A tables QJs. Player B tables QJo.

Player A to Player B: top-top!

$1/$2 at Luxor last summer. I had been playing pretty aggressive and in this hand I was in the big blind with Q2 of diamonds and checked after two players had limped in. Flop is K-2-3 with two diamonds and I lead out. A semi-short stack who hasn`t been at the table for very long calls and a good player beind raises. I reraise, semi-short instacalls and good player folds after away. I table my pair and flushdraw and my opponent tables J5o and says "you raise all the time so I had to call"...

Home game: I 5 bet shove AA preflop and villian calls with TT. And he goes:

Its coinflip! And I go WTF? And he replays: Either ill hit it or not....

...and yes, he won that flip

does anyone else feel like they are getting stupider the more they listen to the other donks at the table? between hearing their superstitious rituals about always playing the first hand when there is a dealer change to "feel them out" etc and the broken english of the various foreigners trying to explain their bad play, i find myself wishing i was deaf so i didnt have to lose the brain cells.

Pot I was in with a table captain ("TC") and other guy ("OG"):

I don't remember the cards or the board or anything except that I felt I was ahead and wanted to get money in the pot fast to discourage TC from drawing . TC had been spouting off knowledge to impress the table for at least an hour. OG is all in by the flop, the pot is large, and there is a tiny side pot of maybe 4 big blinds. I pot it on the turn, TC mucks and mutters "that was stupid for you to bet $XXX into a tiny side pot."

Making it all the betetr, his draw completed by teh triver and he would've won had I made a tiny bet and he called.

This incedentally is the same guy I like to say "I put you all in" when HU and I have him covered because he always gets tilted and says "you can't put me all in only I can do that bla bl abla."

I heard once that J5 is the hand that is statistically most likely to make a full house.

I got a major lol on that one.

when i first started playing i fell for this but now i only see 1 type of players who do this. douchy college guy. I also love the audible groan or disgust face then checks, then CHECK RAISES he set a TARP!!!!!! hahahaha

In every MTT i play i see this. Someone limps and calls AIs everytime.

Can't remember the last time I saw a 5-bet.

This kind of thing seems to happen all the time.

2/5NL deep. Nitty old white guy raised to $20 UTG. 2 callers to me on the button with Q6s, I call, both blinds call.

Flop is QQ3. UTG pushes his $650 stack into $120 pot. 3 folds. I was bit stunned, but call assuming old white guy crappy bet UTG = big pair. 2 more folds. I ask if he's got a Q, he says "nope, over pair". He misses and I take down the pot.

After re-buying, he goes on bitching about how I sucked out on him. I reminded him that he pushed into me and asked why he would make such an over bet. His reply was "well either someone had it or they didn't".

lol -
Money put in as a 4-1 favorite:$20.
Money put in as a 10-1 underdog: $650

Pretty sure you can only get sucked out on when your money goes in good.
I guess he didn't want to think about how he should play it postflop if someone raised him. He just wanted to use the shove-n-pray tactic so that he wouldn't have to use any real thought.

Both of these Villains are clearly BBV regs.

Oh, I can do so much better than the 5-bet.

1-3 Spread Limit Holdem at Turningstone Casino, Circa 2002. (I think the blind structure was a $1 small blind, and a $1 big blind).

Villain is older man in the Small Blind, sitting next to his wife, with around $250
Hero is on the button, has Villain Covered (Barely), and Gets KK

2-3 People Limp, gets to Hero in the button who raises to $4.
Small Blind Raises to $7. Folded around to Hero who raises it to $11, Small Blind Caps at $14, hero Calls.

Heads up on the flop (the cap at Turningstone was 4 raises, but if it was heads up, raises were unlimited).

Flop: K83

Small Blind Raises to $3. Hero raises to $6. Small Blind Raises to $9. Hero Raises to $12. Small Blind Raises to $15. Hero Raises to $18. Small Blind raises to $21. Hero Raises to $24. Small Blind Calls.

(Ok, I guess he has a set of 8's and finally figured out I might have KK...)

Turn: 2

Small Blind Donkbets $3. Hero Raises to $6. Small Blind Raises to $9. Hero Raises to $12. Small Blind raises to $15. Hero Raises to $18. Small Blind Raises to $21. (At this point the whole table is ooing, and aaahing, and I'm figuring that villain thought better of me having KK and is continuing to value-bet the hell out of his 88). Hero Raises to $24. Small Blind Raises to $27. Hero Raises to $30. Small Blind Raises to $33. Hero Raises to $36. Small Blind Calls. (I guess he realized I might have Kings again).

Turn: 2 Small Blind Donkbets (Again!) $3. Hero Raises to $6. Small Blind Raises to $9. Hero Raises to $12. Small Blind Raises to $15 ...... Goes back and forth for a while. At around $60, I start to ponder the possibility that Villain somehow stayed in with pocket 2's until the river, but decide that the possibility is so remote based on the flop-play, that I will just continue raising him until until Small Blind gets it all in and hero calls. Literally, $3 at a time we build a $500 pot. This hand also led to an interesting strategy discussion on these boards a few years ago as to what point the Hero should just call, assuming both players had an infinite stack-size.

Hero Tables his KK.......



Villain Tables:

T5
A6789

I makes a nine high straight.