I think the player making the overcall with 8s full made the most absurd play.

If he over called then yeah it was bad. Shoving 3s full is way worse though.

This was a while back, so I don't remember the exact cards, but on the river the board showed a flopped straight (low cards) and flush draws that both missed (this was a $150 tournament and we were roughly halfway through the field). EDIT: This was an unpaired board with 5 live cards.

It was heads up and before the first player to act does anything (he's a short stack), the big stack flips over his cards and says he missed his flush (about a J or Q high). Dealer points out that the short stack hasn't acted yet, so big stack turns his cards back over.

SS goes all in (maybe 15-20% of BS's remaining chips). Big Stack CALLS with J/Q high, knowing the other guy just saw his cards. SS shows a busted straight draw, something like 6 or 7 high, and is knocked out. Plenty of complaining/yelling ensues...

Big Stack proceeds to explain to the table how if the SS just bet, he would've folded, but the all-in indicated a bluff, so he had to call. Somehow he just about convinced me this was the correct play. I almost bought a bridge he owned too........

Thoughts on this? Am I crazy that I think Big Stack is crazy, or do you think it was a smart play?

I don't know why you would think that. There is only one way to have 99, but 3 ways to have 66. Do you think Player 1 would fold sixes full?

Can people stop tarding up this thread pls

So this is kind of long but (I think) worth it. This happened at my table last night, and it's definitely the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen at a poker table, with good chunks of absurd thinking tossed in.

Two pretty poor players, a guy and a girl, are both in the hand, and the flop comes out K x x with two diamonds. The guy bets out $75 into like a $30 pot, which 100% means he has a king. The girl looks like she's in agony. She goes into the tank.

Finally after like two minutes the guy shows his hand - AKo with the ace of diamonds. Girl says, "Well I can't fold I have a flush draw!" and shows her hand, which is a low ****ty flush draw and that's it. They both still have something like 500 behind.

So they begin arguing, guy says "I'm way ahead, the bet is huge!"

The girl starts raving, "I know, i know, but i can't ****in' fold, i have a flush draw!"

So then other people start arguing with her and talking loudly, "just fold, you're way behind..." and she's like, "I can't fold, I can't fold, i have a flush draw, can't you see i have a flush draw?"

So then the dealer is telling other people "you can't talk about their hands, quiet please, it's against the rules!"

At this point someone says to the dealer, "we can see their hands, we can say whatever we want now!" The talking half of the table agrees.

So the guy, after like 2-3 minutes of this total epic stupidity of half the table yelling at the dealer and the girl practically in hysterics about her flush draw, says, "I'm going to bet the turn too if the flush doesn't come."

So she says, "Fine, fine, I call."

Isaac Jourden: Turn brings a diamond making the girl's flush and she goes into the tank again, deciding to check or shove. Table starts yelling at her immediately that she has to shove, it's obvious, etc. Dealer is still trying to get everyone to be quiet. Even the guy who has AK is yelling at her that she has to shove. She starts yelling at him that she's just trying to be nice but she doesn't know what to do.

Finally, someone at the table (one of the few other people who had been silent up to this point) says loudly to the dealer, "This is ridiculous, she knows she should shove, I call the clock."

Girl says "geez I just wanted to be nice...." and shoves. AK instantly mucks. Next hand continues as though nothing was just out of the ordinary.

Where the floor was during this I have no idea. The hand easily took 7-8 minutes or more, and most of that was players yelling, with the dealer trying to get people to quiet down.

In an Omaha Hi-Low game I had something like the nut flush draw, nut low draw with backup and a gutshot wheel draw. I hit a wheel on the river and this guy starts telling me how that was the only card I could hit to win. I'm trying to tell the guy I had a lot more outs, and he says (and I'm not making this up).

Villain "Hulk Hogan was a 9 time WWF champion. You know what? He lost."
Hero "Uhh . . . ?"
Villain "Lol you probably believe that math stuff. I don't believe it. Hulk Hogan bro - he lost. You don't need to have the best hand to win."

This was a while ago, but while playing 5/10 the guy next to me says "You don't actually believe those percentages do you?" Me: "Uhh...?" Him: "Think about it, you don't know what everybody else folded. You may think you have 9 outs, but maybe people folded some of the cards you need." Me: "True, I never thought about it like that".

Believe me, we're trying to keep it under control. Approximately one in four posts made in this thread has been deleted to try to keep it on topic and readable. The problem is that many of the posters who read this thread think it's OK to nitpick the **** out of each other instead of just enjoying the absurdity.

Next time you see the ******edness welling up again, use the "report post" function so that we can take care of it quicker. Thanks.

(And as usual, if anyone has any comments regarding this issue, please feel free to post them in the Moderation Discussion Thread.)

This was excellent! Also reminded me of a time I was leveling a fish telling him that spades are the best suit because they make higher flushes more often ("Man don't you ever notice how often the Ace of spades is out there and all these other high spades? Especially online, spades always make the highest flushes!" ect), and another fish jumped into the convo to seriously argue with me that diamonds made flushes more than any other suit

Got AA, then AKs then JJ in a live satellite every time UTG or UTG+1. The big blind then proceeds to say he knows i'm only raising to steal his big blind.

Didn't something very similar to this happen HU at a WSOP final table? Around 2004/5, European guy who was quite well known at the time was involved. Can't think of his name right now.

Anyone?

Edit: was thinking of Kirill Gerasimov. Found this on Wikipedia:

"Kirill is also known in poker circles for making one of the most amazing calls in WSOP history when after thinking his opponent had checked he in turn checked and then showed his opponent his hand which consisted of a ten-high, missed flush draw. His opponent then claimed that he himself had not checked and after a floor ruling was allowed to bet. He bet all in and Gerasimov, feeling that this was a bluff, called winning the pot with his ten high."

Wow. Sometimes one pair of brass ones is enough to win the hand.

It was late at a NL200 game one night and we were winding down and telling stories just as much as playing. Guy told me a good one about a recent NL game he played in the same room.

1/2 NL, full table. Table is pretty loose PF and played like your typical nit fest post flop. TAG player who is an arrogant jackass who thought he was pokers gift had been doing all the normal jackass stuff including berating fish when they didn't make the correct play.

Guy is stuck a few racks due to tilting from the fish just not respecting his raises, etc. but has rallied back and is almost even however his blind is continually being raised due to it just being a loose game. Someone pops his BB again and he announces that he is laying down this time but "the next mother****er that raises my blind with **** is going to be sorry because I'm shoving on you...".

Guy telling me the story is new to the game and plays a few orbits without incident and no PFR to the guys blind. He has not heard the speech as he joined the game afterward. He gets A-10 in MP+1 and everyone folds to him so he pops it to $8 with about $240 behind to the guys BB. The guy immediately death stares him and says "didn't you ****ing hear me earlier?" Before he could answer he wasn't there for when the guy said what he said, the guy says "you asked for it ALL IN!" and shoves with him covered.

Guy is bewildered and kind of WTF's it for a bit before laughing and mucking. Villan death stares him again and says "I told you what would happen". When someone else asked him why he would risk $240 to win $8, he said that by defending his blind he was showing everyone "he means business" and not to f with him.

Playing in a live MTT:

Two players limp in LP for 800. I raise to 3k with JJ and BB shoves for 13k. Limpers fold and I call. BB has Q7s and rivers a Q. BB proceeds to get hit by the deck for the next two levels.

Later, HJ 3x opens and the same player shoves for about 40 bigs. HJ snaps with AA. Player has Q8s.

AA holds and the player with Q8s says "Damn! Every time I try to go for a flush I miss!"

This whole post is the reason you should never be able to show you cards while they're live and if you do they get killed.

HU, clueless dude checks turn, opponent checks behind, clueless dude starts making a motion like he's about to muck his cards (thinking it's time for showdown). Dealer spots it and stops him, saying, "not yet buddy, still have the river." Clueless guy says nothing, river comes off a complete blank, clueless guy tanks for a while, apparently decides that this is the perfect time for a reverse-level-bluff, donks $100 into a $40 pot, gets called by 3rd pair, and shows 8-high no draw.

Gee****inggee

I seen people call with 10high because they believed they where bluffing against one of the tightest old nits.

1/2 NL. Big hand between seats 8 and 9.

Board: KQ5 K 8

On the river Seat 8 checks, Seat 9 bets, Seat 8 raises, Seat 9 ships all-in...

At this point Seat 8 goes into the tank. Checks his cards. Leans forward and squints at the board. A minute goes by. A minute and a half. Then he says "I call" kind of sheepishly.

We all are certain Seat 9 has the nut full house and Seat 8 has nut flush maybe? Seat 9 tables AT. Seat 8 slowly rolls over...

KQ for the nuts?! Got that one backwards...

Of his tanking he said "I was trying to figure out what he could have."

Sigh.

Tonight at my table two friends got involved in a hand. The flop was like J 5 2. The one guy bets and the other calls. Turn is a blank. Check check. River is another 5 and the first guy bets like $100. The other guy calls.

Bettor turns over 7-5. The other guy turns over A 5 for better 3 of a kind.

The first guy goes off about his bad luck and proceeds to tell the guy who had A5 "you didn't have a better hand than me just a better kicker"

Wut?

Drunk donk steamrolling through a local 120$ donkament, destroying people with 75o vs aces in PF all in. He gets to the final 6 with more than 50% of total chips and proposes an EVEN SPLIT, giving 6th and 5th almost triple their guaranteed prize money and himself taking less than a half of the first place (1800$ vs 4000$ gtd).

wat

Playing a full 1-2 game. There's a maniac who's playing every hand preflop (typical), and constantly chasing with bottom pair or gutshots (typical). Sad thing is that he would try to bluff on the river EVERY time he didn't hit. This worked for a while, and maniac was up. But table got wise, and learned to start calling him with top pair weak kicker, and even 2nd or 3rd pair.

Maniac started getting angry. Someone called him down weak on the river, and he shouts "I would play top set the exact same way!"

Very next hand, again, he tries to bluff on the river, and gets called by a pretty weak hand. "I would play Aces the exact same way! You guys are idiots for calling!"

Next hand, again. Same thing. And maniac continues to lose his whole stack, and berate the table for not understanding that he plays the nuts the exact same way.

Local Pub Tournament. Second level with blinds at 200 - 400. Three to the flop in an unraised pot. Flop K76 two hearts. Bet 5200 into the 1200 pot. One call. Turn 10c. Check. Check. River 2h. Bet 3000, call. Better turned over K7 for a flopped two pair. Caller turned over 63hh for a flush and said "I almost folded thinking you had a bigger flush."

I was the crazy "villain" thinking in this hand...

8-16 limit game at Hawaiin Gardens in LA (some time ago):

I was in bb with K/rag/suited (don't even remember the other card)
Raise/Reraise and 3 callers - and I call trying to hit a miracle in what's going to be a big pot.

Flop all kinds of str8 middling cards (one to my suit) - bet/raise/ and all calls - I decide what the hell - let me see what happens (crazy thinking) maybe I'll pick up a flush draw on turn or something?? (I lol at my own thinking sometimes - just so bad)

Don't even remember the turn card (but it didn't help me) - bet /raise/call /call/etc and when it gets to me I at least give it a little thought... (I thought someone had AK or at least a king bigger than mine) - so I put in a reraise to get rid of anyone who have those cards... actually get call call call and two folds.

King on river... it's checked all the way through. I turn over my king/rag and win with one pair of kings!? A guy screams at me "what the fkkk were you doing in the hand?? What did you possibly want to hit??"

"A king obviously" was my reply. He got so tilted - don't really know what the rest had but I won with a pair of kings.

Turns out my (crazy logic) on the turn was right on at least as one guy said he folded AK on the turn to my raise.

Anytime someone says xx(anything other than AA) is there fav hand.