That's terrible, but only because of the considerations of a satellite payout structure. With a flatter payout, and with a strong enough "nothing" to win a showdown, that's probably a decent play that no one ever makes IMO. E.g. missed AK betting the flop into 3 people, gets them to fold, now you might win with AK against the all-ins.

There might even be a case where the EV of "buying outs", e.g. hoping to spike one low pair and win in a thinned field, could make it worth it, although that seems more dubious.

Obv on the sat bubble his play is horrible. Just be happy that another time you might be the all-in who gets protection if you keep playing sats with this guy.

my friend decided to get into poker after watching me win a few sessions. i watched him play for a few mins and left after some cringeworthy moves like not raising the nuts on the river in last position. anyhow on the way home that night he tells me "dude im so good at poker. I got like 3 flushes and a straight and kept beating everybody i cant believe you said it would take like a year to get good."

he also did the old "i dont raise with good hands because theyll probably just fold anyway so whats the point."

Tonight at 2/5, horseshoe Hammond. Flop is J high and a flush card hits the turn. Villain 1 bets and villain 2 raises big. V1 calls and bets 1/4 pot leaving the same amount behind on a blank river. V2 tanks and asks to see one card. V1 flips the ace of spades, and V2 takes forever to call with AJ.

I have no clue what either of these guys were thinking but it must have been pretty absurd.

Edit: oh and V2 had the ace of diamonds

just passing on wisdom from other past threads. apparently the winning response to "nice catch" villain, is to quickly (and w/o smiling) retort, "nice throw."

You're really not describing this well but I'm guessing that high card on board was still a Jack and the flush out there was diamonds?

Yeah sorry, typed up my post after a long day of work and poker.

J was still the highest card and the flush was diamonds.

Couldn't V1 have AA?

Yes, as far as I can tell.

Playing at Planet Hollywood about a year ago. The 1/2 table behind me started getting pretty loud.

I turn around to see that an asian gentleman is going all in PF every hand - often blind. If he gets felted, he rebuys $300 and starts again. Even if he gets the stack up to $600 or $900 or more, "all-in" pf.

I asked the floorman for a table change and say something like "it'll be worth $20 to me to get into that game". A guy at the table overhears me and agrees to give me $20 to switch tables with him.

Two other people at the "all-in" table are pissed that we was able to leave and they were still "stuck" at the crazy table. WTF?

well that all depends on what theyre there for. If you just want to make money thats awesome but i could see people who just want to play poker getting pissed. Had a similar thing with an asian guy at 2/5 at bellagio a couple months ago. he rebought max at least 9 times in an hour and a half.

You can't beat people who play that badly.

played some 1/2 yesterday... guy checks behind KK on TJQ5A because he was "afraid ofbthe ace"... "but u gotbabstraight" ... "yes i know... but the A scared me"

1hour later he checks AQ behind on AQ2ssQs9 because he was "worried about the flush"

ez game

It's not that absurd. They have a specific limited amount of money to play with and don't want to have preflop all ins 70/30, 60/40 where they could lose their one buy in and thne be forced to go and sit with their wife and watch tv in the hotelroom.

Had guy sitting next to me in a tounament telling a story of how two guys had split a pot a few days earlier because they both had a royal straight flush. I told him that was not possible and he insisted!

It's possible in one case only: they were playing the board.

Or they were playing stud or draw. I'm pretty sure it didn't happen, because it did happen one time in stud and it made the national news.

Good point. I had my hold 'em blinders on!

Today I saw a guy short-stacked fold a double open-ended straight flush draw to a loose player who put him all-in on the turn because "the pot odds weren't right". He had maybe $30 left at the $1/2 table with about $100 in the pot. He also had a pair on the board. I told him he needs to rethink his concept of pot odds.

Guy just called the river with the absolute nuts twice (Nut flush and quads). Player next to him asked why he didn't raise.

"Didn't think he would call me".

I know its not the best of all time but I was speechless.

Actually this happened with a pro at the WSOP last year. I can't remember who it was though, Allen Cunningham maybe... Anyway, the pro got penalized and argued that he knew the villain wasn't going to call a raise but he wanted to see what the villain had.

I'm sure the guy in your story wasn't thinking that way though.

IIRC Dennis Phillips

I thought it was Darvin Moon.

I know it happened to Darvin Moon one Day 1 the year after he won it.

Last night at 1/3.

Didn't see the action but the board is K9494. Seat 3 bets like $60 into a $100 pot. Seat 2 thinks for a bit, shows a J. He thinks for about 30 more seconds before mucking. Afterwards he said.

"I had KJ. I was showing my J to try to get a reaction out of him."

People talking about signals to get 20$ in the pot to qualify for the BBJ.

How on earth does 20$ not get in the pot when it's quads vs a straight flush?

I could see a few : Friends checking it down. Players who can't figure out what the best possible hand is on a given board so they don't raise. People want to 'show their hand' so they don't raise. I've seen all of these. While its unlikely that they would happen on a BBJ hand it could happen.