A gentleman seated next to me announced to the whole table that he had not folded 2 hands in a row since 1994. He then proceeded to dump 3 Buy ins within 30 minutes

Stuff like this just baffles me. I'm sitting here shaking my head. I'm really, honestly trying to understand his thinking. So he's proud that he never folds 2 hands in a row, and loses a ****load of money in 30 minutes. Does he care?

OK if he wants to have fun and gamble, cool, whatever.

But if he goes home and feels bad about what happened, my God.

I guess all I can really do is thank them and stay quiet.

This is pretty simple really, thinking for all 3 goes something this:

Preflop: Not gonna raise until I see a safe flop with no cards higher then my J/Q/K

Flop: slowplay

Turn: slowplay

River: Damn, an Ace beats me, hope I get to see a cheap showdown

Yeah, none of this thinking is uncommon in isolation, although getting all these leaks together in three players at the same table who all happen to get big pairs and flop sets is pretty remarkable.

A horrible player last night was trying to determine what the percentage that a 4 to a flush hits after flopping a flush draw. Actually most of the decent players at the table said nothing, but it was the Dealer who let this one fly.

Dealer: Well you have nine outs, so that means you have a 1 in 9 chance of getting the flush. 1 in 9 is about 11%.

I had to restrain the player next to me to not speak up when he started laughing after a few players agreed with him!

Sweet, so I should always get my entire stack in when I'm drawing to one out because I'm 100% to hit it!

any possibility this was a BBJ hunters? working as a team maybe? keeping pot small and just playing a lot of Limp pots?

thats where my Thinking leads

$1/$2 No Limit at Parx Casino in Philadelphia.

"Hero" is in small blind with AA, stack of $300.
Decent woman is in CO with A6, covers.

Preflop ($3):
folds, CO raises to $11, fold, "Hero" calls $11, fold.

Flop ($22):QT8
"Hero" checks, CO checks.

"Hero" BETS $60 DARK

Turn ($79): 4
CO goes all-in.

Hero: "Dealer, how many diamonds out there?"
Someone answers three.

...

Hero calls.




When someone asked him why he called, he said, "I had Aces. I had to call."

"In a game like this, you have to be radical."

Another one that I just remembered:

1/2 NL. There's a big aggro fish at my table, had re-bought a couple times and was now sitting on a $600-700 stack and I have him covered. I had been waiting all night to get in a hand with him.

I have 10 8 in the hole.

Flop comes 10 8 3 rainbow.

Villain bets 30. I call. We are heads up now.

Turn 8.

Villain checks. This line of betting was different from what he's been doing all night and I figured he had an 8 in the hole and was trying to trap me. I checked to represent a weak hand.

River 4.

Villain bets 30. I make it 100. He reraises to 200. Now there's about 400 in the pot. I shove. He tanks for a moment, then calls for the remainder of his chips (about 400). He tables 8 2.

Later he explains "I know I was beat but I had to call. There was more in the middle than I had in front of me. Pot odds you know"

I nodded in approval.

Saw these two today in shreveport.

Old man checked the nuts on the river last to act and said he was waiting for someone to bet.


Then with a straddle bb goes all in in the dark. His action isnt official until it gets to him and like 5 people call the straddle and then folded when it got back around to bb's all in bet. Very perplexing.

In a tournament someone explained his bustout in a prior tournament with AK vs. QJ. It went like this, 'someone from early position raised, I had AK and about 18 bb's. I shove and get called by QJ, did I play it right?'

Other guy says, that is why I don't raise all in with AK there. I want to see a flop first. You are still deep enough with 18 bb's. Mind you this is a bar tournament where dude saying he doesn't shove with AK cashed in a WPT like 6 years ago and thinks he is the ****, just ask him, he'll tell ya. Basically this is against a bunch of the same people weekly.

UBBER maniac 1K
Hero 425.

PARX, 4 ways to the Flop. 1 player all in for 14. Another player only has 22 Left.
Flop{28T rainbow}
First to act Goes A.I. ($22) 2nd player raises to 150!?!?!?!
I have 22. I tank and decide Im getting it in here vs this idiot w/ AA.

I MIN click it back to 300. and would be happy w/ Fold or call. He FLATS?!?!
Turn Ace. I throw up a lil and call his all in on the Turn.
And he says I don't Have Aces! I think GG-
I have Jacks... ... ... ... ...

Oh, I have a set. him, I thought so.

My friend shows up at the table 10 mins later and says ur up a little. and the guy proceeds to say Tell your friend about the hand that went down. {awkward} then he proceeds to tell him after I say, no I know he does not care.
weird situation

I swear this is how 80% of the players at my local must be thinking:
(NLHE 2/3 full-ring)

"Hmmm, middle position with Q6 offsuit...Raise to 10BB's, only way to go. I might flop a boat!"

"Hmmm, early position with A3 offsuit...Raise to 10 BB's, only option. I might flop a boat!"

"Hmmm, under the gun with J8 offsuit...Raise to 15 BB's, only option. I might flop a boat!"

"Hmmm, late position with 44, under the gun raised to 10 BB's...Better re-raise! I Might flop quads! <Flop is TJQ, all spades> "Hmmm, there are still 2 cards, I might still get quads!"

"That other guy with the big stack UTG raised it to 15BB's, I have 34 suited, that might make a straight! <Flop is 5AK, all diamonds> "Wow! I have 3 to a straight! I'm hanging around for this one!"

Just total and utter 1st level thinking.

At a game I was at last week this old timer kept talking about how "you should always bet your draws (flush/straight)" His theory was that it builds a pot because when the flush/straight card hits it will scare everyone and you won't get any action. so you have to "plant seed money" to grow for when you hit.

I got the "stop raising that isn't poker" a bunch of times from a loose passive old man yesterday.

Should be right up there with "check raising is poor sportsmanship"

I've had a guy relate that idea to me once....except he liked to use a few choice words mixed in that statement.

I was told check raising is "dirty pool"

"If you flop a set 8's or lower, you usually need some more help."

Not sure if this is still common knowledge: Sometime before i started playing poker, when cash games were always limit, it was not infrequent for rooms to ban "check and raise". I played in Circus Circus as a total noob in 2004 and there was still talk that, as the last holdout, they had finally given in and allowed C/R.

I shove with KK on a board of 96J2 with the river to come, no flush possibilities.

"I call....I only have a backdoor pair draw"

You have what???????

He turns over an AQ........I don't know if he was serious or not but I had to laugh.

Lool. I'm taking this one...

Preflop, he had a backdoor royal flush draw

One of my friends who plays at my home games does this constantly. If he is 3 cards to a flush/straight he will bet it guaranteed. He then wonders why he never wins.