Low stakes NL game in Vegas:
Pot is limped around like 6 ways as is typical in these games. I flop bottom set in position on T83cc. A lady who had limped utg open shoves for $107 into a pot of $16. I call and beat her QT. she says:

"I wanted to see if someone had pocket 3s."

She obviously demonstrated a superior understanding of the fundamental theorem of poker.

One guy had AA on Sb and raised a limped pot to 15. CO called.
A59r. AA raised, CO called.
2x. AA raised. CO called.
4x. AA checked. Co shoves all in for something like $150+.
AA called and CO shows 83os. AA asked how he possibly called a prf bet AND a cbet with that hand and the CO said I can tell you because then you would figure out my strategy.....................
Safe to say the CO guy left with Zero chips........

This may not be as bad as some on here but i still found it very odd.

1-2 game. The 2 players involved essentialy have $400 stacks starting this hand. UTG+1 opens fror $15. Folds around to CO who calls. Everyone else folds.

Pot $33

Flop KK3.

The pre-flop raiser checks. The CO sais "all in" for roughly $385. I was not in the hand and was checking a score on a football game on one of the TVs. When I heard the "all in" I checked around the table thinking a short stack was in the hand that I didnt notice, but there wasn't. Pre-flop raiser calls. CO turns over KJ. UTG+1 turns over AK.

Turn A
River 6

So the guy who shoves damn near $400 cold into a $33 dollar pot is pretty stunned and sais "Damn, didn't think you had a king."

Now granted, in this type of hand the odds are pretty high that all of the money was going in at some point anyways but still......You flop a big hand, so you over shove huge in a heads up pot in position? Chances are you're only getting called when youre beat, unless he has a big PP or a smaller K and thinks you're completely bluffing. And if you are good you take down an $18 profit and missed a chance at a big pot. The thing is I don't think he was trying to make it look like a bluff and induce a call from a lesser hand. I think his train of thought was more like "Uhhhhhh, I gots me 3 of them there kings. Ive gots to have him there crushed. Im all in"

this one made me lol

i was playing a tourney at my local casino late stage 25 people left i had around 30k blinds are 500-1000 i had 9 9 on the button

UTG opened with a raise to 3k. this guy was pretty tight and folded to my 3 bet before. one player after him flat called (fish) came to me I made it 11k, UTG thinks for a good two minutes then folds

fish shoves 15k I obviously call

I lose the hand, its ok i final tabled, but what UTG said was great

he tells me what a dumbass play i folded the best hand(claimes JJ). I say ya how dumb of me i got the best hand out and the worse hand in. he didnt talk till he went out 10 minutes later

hand vs Omaha player at NLHE
Villain (UTG+1, $265) Hero (MP, Covers)
UTG opens for $7, Villain calls, Hero raises to $30 with 89o, UTG calls, Villain calls

Flop is 57Tr ($100)
checked to Hero, Hero bets $65, 1 fold, Villain calls

Turn is a Q ($230)
check, Hero bets $130, Villain calls with $42 behind

Villain says: "Why did you bet to price me in, you'll regret it when I bink"

River is a 2 ($490)
Villain says "you bet $5 and i'll fold"
Hero goes Allin (for $42 effective), Villain folds

After the hand, villain says that I priced him in on the flop and turn and that he had a straight draw. He was curious why I would only bet enough to price him in.

Lol, buddy $42 really makes a difference is whether you are "priced in" OTT.

Heres one I just witnessed last night at the casino. I forget some of the specifics but thats not important here.

The villain has our very ethical and nice guy hero covered on the turn.

Board reads. QK4 7 with three hearts. Pot is already over $100

Villain bets $20 with an unknown hand. Hero raises to $60 with AJ and the A of hearts, leaving himself $21 behind.. ?????? Villain sais all in. For some reason our very ethical and probably inexpierienced Hero starts tanking in this close to $250 pot with his last $21 with a broadway and nut flush draw. The dealer either didn't realize the hero had money behind or just assumed an inst-call and prematurely deals the river. 3 of hearts. At this point we dont know hero's hand yet. Noone really had noticed he didnt call and Hero could of easily tabled his hand and scooped. Instead he sais he didnt complete his action and the river should not have been run. So dealer calls floor. Floor explains to reshuffle the river into the deck and let Hero complete his action. Hero then calls. New river brings 4 of hearts and hero scoops anyway.

Villain goes bizerk! "That's fn bull ****. That ain't right. I got screwed!! He saw the 3 of hearts and that helped him call. If he didn't know that card was in there he might have folded." This just keeps going on.

This was the second day of operations at this casino and both players and dealer were very inexpierienced. Why was the hero tanking for his last $21? I have no clue. But he was ethical enough to give up the stone cold nuts on the original river to have the hand dealt out correctly, and for that he gets an outburst from an idiotic villain who somehow doesnt realize that HE got a second chance at a pot he lost, can't understand the new river was still random, and thought that the hero seeing that one of his outs is still somewhere in the deck made him call his final $21 into a ~$250 pot with two nut draws. I couldnt help it and just started busting out laughing, which Im sure pissed the villain off even more. So as this debacle of a hand is being sorted out, I rack up, walk off, and ask for a new table.

I am playing a donkament. I 3bet or iso a guy pre - can't remember - he calls and we get all the money in on JT5. I have JJ, he has J9. Turn 9, the guy says something like "There's life!" River 9.
As soon as the river hits he jumps up from his seat and starts celebrating! Two or three other people are celebrating with him high fiving him for catching a miracle to stay alive in the tournament, and win a big pot off of me because I was raising often.
Meanwhile my demeanor hasn't changed, and the dealer looks at the board confused trying to figure out what's going on. I finally break it to the guy that he lost the hand.

Great story. Pretty awesome that he didn't recognize immediately that his only chance to win was to make a straight. Even more awesome that people were celebrating him turning top pair weak kicker into an underboat. Must be a great tournament EV-wise.

That's the kinda thing ESPN needs to be showing. This 2012 WSOP ME is awfully dull so far.

I could totally see myself as the dealer there, just staring at the board with a WTF look. Just Awesome!

It kinda happened earlier. Some t bet three streets with TT on some ATxxx board, shoving the river. Baumann (sp?) had AJ with ended up going runner-runner nuts (flush). TT shoves river, Baumann snaps and shows had, TT starts celebrating with his rail before Salaburu is like "You lost, bro"

Found it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=X9NDaJm4yqU

Ship to 2:30 for lolz

I was playint 4/8 Bellagio a few years ago. Board was something like AJ4 5 5. I had AA and it had been 3 bet with like 6 players pre-flop, so a big pot. On the river it goes 5 bets before I stupidly think to myself... "did he really have runner runner quads?" Knowing the type of people at the table, I slowed down and just called.

Villain turns over 4 5 and is yelling at the dealer when he pushes me the pot, "But I have a full house!"

Not sure if he was the absurd poker thinker of if I was more so on that hand.

Yup this already happened, they were even talking abt 'U Lost Bro' tee shirts

That was probably me. I drink A LOT at the Bellagio if I am playing 4/8. The hand sounds familiar too.

Shoulda known. I get two weeks behind in watching it, make a comment about something not happening, and there it is at the end of the first unwatched episode.

Yet somehow, it remained a very boring TV moment. It could have been done so much better. "you lost, bro" and "oh *bleep*" is all we got out of that?! Where's the giddy needling? Where's the collapse on the floor in writhing anguish and embarrassment? Kids watching this are going to start to think poker is supposed to be played in a polite fashion by adults. This kind of display of maturity will ruin the game!

In a limit game player calls 3 cold with bottom pair. Sucks out on the river. "You guys shouldn't bet and raise so much if you're trying to get me to fold. Once I see that its going to be a big pot, I'm never folding anything."

I should clarify, he was saying that he would've folded for 1 bet or 2 but not 3.

I don't know if this is example of absurd "thinking" or example of complete non thinking.

Playing in an underground $20-$40 game in Houston. UTG raises, MP player three bets, and button four bets. As the dealer is about the put out the flop, button realizes he was dealt only one card and request a second card.

There's a guy that I play 1/3 with who does this frequently, like if he doesn't do it a least once a night it's semi-surprising.

One time he raised, and called a shove from a guy with like $150, and promptly asked for his second card.

In a loose limit hold them game, folding is usually not an option.

I have seen some strange and miraculous things happen in limit based on "pot odds"

Yeah, I don't think I miss giving the button his second card once a year.

He does it so much that he will wink/signal at the dealer when he wants to do it and the dealer obliges.

I'm totally for it considering every time he is the button I watch to see if he gets his 2nd card.

Easiest. limp/raise. ever

I finally have a good one for this thread from last night 1/2 NL.

Player A limps in MP, player B opens for 12, everybody folds, A calls.

Flop is 9TJ with a flush draw. Check-check

Turn is a low brick. A bets 8, B calls.

Then, before dealer turns a river, player A SHOVES in the dark for 300 (player B covers). River is an offsuit Q and player B snaps with AK.

Player A shows KQ (with a flush draw!): "I had the nuts, I had to!.... At least I got my money in good."

Something I think is a little absurd. I'm playing 2/5 at the Venetian. They do a happy hour special where they take no rake for 30 minutes or an hour or something. During happy hour, the players at my table still wanted to chop when it was folded to the SB.

There are 3 players in the hand. Turn comes out - the board is 9986 rainbow. Everyone has about $600 left in a 2/5 game.

Checks to the button, who throws his hand down face up and says "pocket 3's!" Everyone sees his hand. Dealer says "it's not the river, sorry." "Oh ok, I check then"

Button: "Come on, 3, come on!"

River is an offsuit 3.

Before the other 2 players can even act, button: "I'm all in!"

Remember, they saw his hand face up. Both players check, villain has to shove, both players snap call.

Player 1: 99 for quad 9's, Player 2: 88 for 8's full.

Table: "They saw your hand, why did you go all in? What did you expect them to call you with?"

Button: "I had a full house! Of course I"m going all in!"