Since it was a flat $10 vs. $9(x8) I would assume we're running the board for an $82 pot each hand.

maybe not absurd, but pretty damn nittttttty !!

home game, 2/2 PLO.

i flop the nut straight flush with QJxx on a board of
89T.

flop checks around.

turn blank. checks to me, i bet 1/2 pot, and get 2 callers.

i love the river: T. checks to me, i bet 2/3 pot, thinking that was a great card for my hand as it is now likely that someone may have a boat, or (*** fingers crossed ***) quad Tens.

i get 1 caller. he rolls over 67xx for the ten high straight flush on the flop. he checked 3 streets with it and lost the absolute minimum!! wtf??!?!

too bad we weren't in a casino as it would have been a jackpot on the flop!

This one actually made the dealer LOL. 5-5 game at the local reserve, I'm dealt pocket aces and to make the story short I manage to go all in pre-flop and get called by pocket 5s. I show my aces and the guy says " I know you have aces but pocket fives are as good as pocket kings against your hand, and I'm never folding kings preflop."

Sick read by him.

Playing last night the guy next to me asked "Why are you raising preflop if you're going to fold somewhere later in the hand?"

He read your soul cold.

"i put you on quads, so i check/folded my top boat on the flop." how often can you say you put someone on quads or better??

my theory was that he just thought he had a small flush and didn't even realize he flopped a straight flush.

Congrats on watching an xtranormal video, re-stating the joke, and claiming it as your own.

The xtranormal video based on a different post in this thread.
As surprising as it sounds, I've heard this logic outside of this thread.

What would be really funny is if someone calls an all in with KK, and says
"I thought you had aces, but I had to call because my kings are like kings, and I'm never folding kings preflop."

yo dawg i heard you like kings so we put a five with your five because they're like a king with a king

Possible, but there is a class of player that when faced with aggression will assume the other player has the mortal nuts, especially if such a hand is clear on the board, and call down.

I've saved many a bet (fixed limit although it probably happens in NL) on the wrong end of full house over full house because the top full decided my 3-bet had to be quads and just called.

I can see one of these guys looking at this board, seeing the obvious higher straight flush potential, and going into call mode.

Yes first post. Friendly home game. One player, who I know well enough to know that he wasn't joking, after seeing what he thought was a lot of pocket pairs in the game the last little while deadpanned the question, "I wonder what the chances of getting pocket pairs in order in consecutive hands would be?". ie. one person getting 22, 33, 44...AA in consecutive hands. We all sorta chuckled and said that it was a slight longshot, most unsure if he was serious or not. He then said, "yeah, must be like 1% or something." We were in shock and I just said, "I think your decimal place is off a few places."

He was quiet for a while after that, until...

Him, still being frustrated by the amount of pocket pairs being divied out stated and then demanded that the deck be shuffled by spreading them in the middle of the table and shuffling them around. (unsure of the terminoligy for this) as this would bring less pocket pairs. We discussed this for a while on the following break with him not backing down on his stance. I try so hard not to teach.

Oh, and he is famous at the game for coining the phrase "I fold, you rebluffed me." Atleast he makes the game profitable.

This is called washing the deck.

Probably the weirdest for me was someone who a player who told me that because the last time when I raised I had AA, since I raised again he was sure I had AA again. He was completely serious about it.

Oh, and someone claiming that he got the exact same cards 3 hands in a row, and wondering if the dealer was shuffling properly (even though there was a shuffling machine and 2 different decks).

So this guy to my left in a 1-2 cash game in AC has a question about something he overheard another player say while recounting a big hand. He turns to me and says this

him: "you play a lot right?"
Me: "Not as much as I'd like"
him: "what the hell is a RAMBO flop? I always hear guys say that and I always wonder what that is."

I tried so hard not to laugh in his face but i couldn't help it. funny thing is he almost tripled up in that game and cashed out while still that far ahead without having any idea what he was doing. Maybe I should stop learning about this game.

"I just had a feeling."

Overheard at a 2/4 LHE table at Mohegan Sun around October 2008. Typical 8 players to the flop, loose-passive table (except for me and the guy on my right who knew something about poker). We're both running a bit card dead and getting beat with low/mid pairs on dry boards - sometimes as little as J-high. He's tilting but I'm laughing it off because I'm about even.

Guy on my right (6 seat) raises PF (something heavily frowned upon at this table). 6 or so to the flop (269x), woman in 3 seat donks, guy on my right raises, some calls and folds; turn comes (3x) woman donks again, guy on right raises, all fold but woman - it's now heads up; river comes (Qx) woman donks again, guy on right raises, woman calls. Guy on right turns over A9o. Woman slow-rolls Q-rag off and says "I just had a feeling."

Guy is livid and can no longer control himself. He's shouting everything you would think a tilting PH would say after a suck out. He's warned at the table and very soon afterward busts and leaves. I always give me best smile and say "you played it great. I would have done the same." Everyone likes hearing that.

The chances of this happening are 1 in 221^13

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Rainbow

RAMBO FLOP, he misheard "RAINBOW" Flop

I was sitting in a 4/8 half kill LHE game last week and the guy next to me told me that you could play every hand you were dealt (as some at the table were doing) as long as you were playing with other people's money.

I was in the BB (1/2NL) with suited rags. I flopped a pair and an OESD and bet out on all three streets, eventually getting a guy to fold who turned a better pair. As he was talking himself into his fold (he put me on 2 pair), one of the things he said was, "I think you flopped a straight... but why would you bet it?"

Example of someone hearing good advice but not understanding why it's good advice (and mis-applying what he heard).

Full table, 3 players see the flop. The short-stack guy is all-in on the flop for $60, me and the other guy still active. There is significant turn betting, then I bluff all-in with my missed straight when river paired thinking other player had overpair or TPTK. He shows his underfull and folds. The side pot is pushed to me. I go to showdown with my missed straight and all-in player drags the $180 main pot with his pocket pair. Side pot had about $300 in it.

Guy next to me whispers, "you should never bluff into a side pot, don't you know that?"

I sheepishly tell him, "yeah, you're right. Bad move on my part."

No, sorry, I probably didn't explain this well. I told him I'd take two Aces, we would DEAL his 8 hands, and there would be no betting except the initial bets. Just run the board and best hand wins. Obviously, this is advantage Aces guy (even bettin $10 to his $8 or whatever I offered). The guy's contention was that the Aces weren't a faviorite. And he initially said he would take this offer. When I pressed him that "Let's go get a deck of cards and a hotel room or something to play this at!" he then became quiet.

Like I said, I normally don't tap the tank, but this guy was adamant that the right move was to fold Aces facing "3 or more" players.

"I won $700 in 7 hours playing $1/$2 last night. That is what I should be winning all the time. I feel that last night was my true win rate. All the other times I get sucked out on or coolered. "