Saying nothing at the table is always best. Even when you're right about a strategy point, you reveal so much about your capabilities just by opening your mouth. Much better to be a black box.

My contribution:

A pro at the Belagio turned his hand face up (the current nuts) on the turn (this isn't the absurd part). He got called and then bet the river with his hand face up. I did not ask him what he was thinking.

I know, if he would have just said that I wouldn't have been annoyed, it's the fact that he reversed it that pissed me off.

LOL, jman has his fish on the line ... again

Many years ago I read a quote by Abe Lincoln that I like to take to heart when I'm playing poker. It keeps me from being the subject of threads such as this. The quote is:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Baby NL yesterday, guy sits in empty seat on my immediate right and requests seat change button. Says to table he wants to get away from me. I said "I don't even know you." He says "I know you. You called $150 on the turn without thinking and sucked out a flush on me." I couldn't remember the hand but he went on. "You had AQs, and didn't think a second before calling. I still have nightmares about that hand."

Then I remembered. "You had a pair of 7s, right?"

"Yes, but you didn't know that."

Dude has nightmares about a 15-out suckout. Then he moves away- if I was such a donk, wouldn't he want me on his immediate left?

ahh apparently he thought the guy was all in on the turn? and there is no reason to not bet the nuts on the river maybe the guy is completely ******ed and cant read a hand.

I turned a hand up once by accident on the flop. It was top two pair against a weak loose-passive player. I continued to bet it, and won the hand when he folded to my river bet (I was first to act). What else are you supposed to do? I certainly would have folded if he raised me at any point.

Feh. Snap 3-bet for metagame purposes.




Okay, maybe in limit....

[ ] fish on the line

Once saw a player turn his hand up as he thought other guy had called his all in. He had top pair Ace i think face up and other uy had pockets Queens and thouht for aes whether he should call and hope to catch a queen or make a straight. In teh end he called and lost lol

Borgata 1-2 NL just the other day.
Old guy makes AcKc hi flush on river. Board is unpaired. He has the nuts unless the other guy has 6c8c or 6c3c as 4c5c7c are out there. They both have at least $200. The loser bets $20 on river. The guy with AcKc calls.
He explained to us about a time a couple of years ago when he'd been beat by a straight flush. By the way the loser has a queen hi flush and would definitely have called off all his money!

an otherwise poker-savvy buddy was ranting about a bad beat where he turned a baby diamond flush, stacks go in, and other guy rivers the nuts with his AdXx.

I was ok with his "that idiot called me with a 1 card flush" rant, but then he kept saying "then he hit his 1 outer!" and I play dumb, saying, "What one outer?" and he says, "His only out was if a diamond hit!" So, I jack with him saying he should have bet more on the turn.

Yeah, if you can't even push a guy off a one-outer...

1. It was limit.
2. The other guy took a while to call the turn. Hero said "you must have a draw, so call".
3. Hero no longer had the nuts on the river; possible flush vs. straight. He then tanked when he was raised. This hand took a long time.

I, too, am surprised that so many people who post on this forum (which is probably a self-selective group) yak so much at the table. I just spout some non-sequiteur and have them think I'm a moron, if I lose I positively reinforce their bad play and if I win I make them mad.

Them: "AK is a 60/40 favorite over 66!"
Moron: "Only if no gutshots come up!"

Them: "How could you call with that trash?"
Moron: "My grandpa plays a lot better than I do."

Them: "Are you stupid?"
Moron: "I came here to gamble, so put up or shut up."

+1

(on the turn)

Them: You are way behind here.
Me: That depends on the river!

If you want to hear really, really bad strategy talk come to southern West Virginia and play 2/4 (fixed limit). It takes it to a whole new level. I usually just nod and try not to laugh as I can't come up with something so stupid that it wouldn't be leading them in the right direction.

The one I see maybe three times per session in some form:

Me: AK
Cleetus: 22

Board is AKT8A

I bet the river and get the call.

Cleetus: "I would have folded on the river except it gave me two pair."
Me: (nods)

Another great one is when I flop a TPTKish hand and bet it all the way down, the possible flush gets there but nobody has it, and someone says he tossed a flush draw on the flop (in a raised six way pot no less) because his stack was too small to chase as he wanted to save his last five dollars...

Past that pretty much everyone who plays 2/4 when they want to go smoke will pay the blinds and then walk on the button and return UTG....

heard this one last week
At showdown he says "I have the nut flush, ACE HIGH"

a little redundant maybe, but not necessarily absurd

a little redundant maybe, but not.........ok j/k

"I never raise big Hands just after a card change, the board always comes out with straights, flushes, you name it"

He believes that it takes a few hands for the new deck to be shuffled properly.

I love live poker, good thread

Tonight, on the final table of an MTT, blinds are 1k/2k/200, some random dude raises in MP to 6k and the small blind (the tightest player on the table) re-raises all in for ~30k. MP, who has ~35k behind, tanks and tanks and tanks and finally decides to call. The Small Blind turns over AKs and MP slightly sheepishly turns over ATo. But then he comes out with:

"I figured you had AK, so I had to call as I had one live card."

Eh? Somewhere in that same ramble also came the declaration that he'd prefer the SB to have AK than a pair in that spot. Eh again?

In the same tournament (pretty deepstacked) in the early levels, one guy on my table insisted on limp/calling blind UTG every orbit and leading out (still blind) into A/K high dry flops, inevitably getting raised by the late position pre-flop raiser almost every time. And every time he'd then look at his cards for the first time and proclaim himself unlucky that his 85o didn't hit again. At least he had the sense to stop after about half an hour.

I've never been so pissed off to go competely card-dead at a final table.

Three great ones from last evening at Concord Card Casino Salzburg, Austria.:

This one actually came from a dealer and not a player. After a quarrel about whether a player who already folded would be allowed to call after he saw the action of the player behind him (complete story in a "correct ruling thread" in this forum) the dealer justifies his ruling (call allowed!) with the following:

"He is allowed to call because the major rule in poker is: The best hand shall win." (the player who threw away had the best hand).

Several players agreed to this while the regs laughed their ass off and made fun of the dealer for the rest of the session. She then told everybody: "I don't have to take stupid comments from you guys" When one of the regs said "well, we had to take the one from you" she went to the floor and whined about how mean everybody was.

Same evening, same casino. One guy hits his gut shot three times in a row on the river, always calling 3/4 pot sized bets on all preceding streets. After the third time one player asks him what he thinks the probabilities of him hitting are and he says "It is not possible to calculate probabilities."

After this comment I offered him a side bet for the 3 or 5 or 7 hit on the flop. Guy to my right says to me: "That's a bad bet for you as there are 13 cards in the deck and you only chose 3. He should give you 1 to 3." I say that this is true but he is only willing to give me 5 to 7 which I accept. After I won 50 euros from him, he doesn't want to play anymore, saying "Of course you win as 3, 5 and 7 are low cards and low cards are more likely to hit on the flop." As you can guess the side bet continued with slightly amended hit cards.

2/4 NL at a Belgian casino:

My stack is about € 540 and I'm in with 72o from the BB in an unraised pot, flop comes 7xQx2x, I check-call € 24. Turn is another seven, I check-raise to € 80 with 5 players in the pot, everyone calls (yes, this is a good game). River comes a rag, I raise, get reraised and go all-in, with one caller, who tables Q2.

The whole table berates me for playing 72, telling me I should never play that hand. As I explain I was in the BB and no one raised, people still insist, and the guy who went with me to the flop even said "What if I had QQ but slowplayed it preflop??".

Don't explain anything. If you must talk, tell them that 7/2 statistically makes more full houses than any other hand.

I didn't think explaining how blinds work counts as tapping the tank

i won a hand once in low limit qj or kj or 2 face cards versus something like 6-7 or 6-9 or 2 low cards

the guy basically told me I got lucky because he had a stronger hand preflop, that 6-7 wins more often than kj. I asked him if we could play heads up and I could have KJ forever and him 6-7 and we ccould just run cards infinitely till one of us goes broke, he had no idea what was going on then.