I played some 4/8 LHE a couple times years ago against some drunken rig workers, who just got back into town. They were hammered and decided not to look at any of their cards the entire time, which was at least 3 hours each time (separate occasions). They were running like god and both made pretty good money. The one guy moved to 15/30 and then 30/60, from what I heard a week later, he probably started looking because he won about $4500 from what his buddy told me.

But both times people were getting mad and wanted to leave b/c they didn't want to play a super aggro player who wasn't looking at his cards.

About 10 years ago, I was playing 10/20 LHE at Foxwoods and a guy at the table was playing every hand, and betting, raising, reraising or calling every time the action got to him preflop and OTF. Sometimes he'd slow down OTT, and would only get aggro OTR if he had the goods. I remarked that the oddest thing about him was that he actually looked at his cards, since it apparently didn't matter what they were.

He left after about 3 hours and I thought he'd need fork lift to take his chips to the cage. he had a good 6, 7 racks of reds.

The next day I saw him with a huge stack at 20/40 LHE.

Two weeks later I saw him playing 2/4.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Playing in a showboat ac daily, the entire 4 handed final table is playing like 40 bb total, I'm playing like 8 bb (no antes) I look at a king jam the button, sb folds, lady folds jj face up and says "I know you have kings."
Obv showed the k and told her good fold.

Weekly freezeout yesterday.
Early hand goes raise pre and check check to river on a j high board river completes 3rd club. Guy makes small bet and lady snap folds kk face up. "I knew you had the flush"

This thread makes me miss the days of the online poker boom and Party Poker in the US!

Disclaimer - I know I made a (maybe 2) mistake(s) myself, but the thread is absurd poker thinking, leave me alone :-)

Playing a £70 tourny on Friday. Blinds are 100/200. I have 40K, absurd poker thinker has around 21K.

UTG+2 opens for 1,200, when the dealer voices the raise, he looks a little confused for a moment and the table then berate him and he admits it was a mistake and doesn't look happy about it. He gets one caller and I put in a raise. The raise was supposed to be 3.5K but because I'm not used to the chips, it ends up being 15.5K Absurd poker thinker next to me raises all in for around 21K and it folds round to me and I dwell for a couple of seconds and call. I flip my pocket tens and he flips his 6 8 off

Now I look a little confused at him, as does the rest of the table and I have to ask him why he shoved, his reply, "I thought you were full of s**t". I could make the move and be a lot more full of s**t than I was, he was unlucky that I had close to the top of my range BUT, the bottom of my range is two overs to 6 8, or a pair (probably not 2's or 3's) and he has zero fold equity, so he's shoved knowing I WILL call and WILL be crushing him.

Most players at low BI live tournies barely know what math is, let alone fold equity.

In this case, did the first raiser confuse the 500 & 1000 chips, or accidentally grab 2 500s?

In your case, did you confuse the 1k chips with the 5k?

Hint: separate the chips by denomination.

If you're color blind, I apologize.

ive heard that before and my response was

"give me JJ every hand and id win all the tournaments" (i had quite a few beers and was killin the $300 local bi)

no one really had a smart reply lol but a couple just laughed.

A guy started ranting at me last night after I took his stack with my turned flush against his rivered straight saying: I don't know why you'd even call my bet on the flop (I had four to the flush on the flop) when I had more outs!"

I was a bit surprised and too quickly said "uh, I had more outs with the flush draw". He looked at me like I was stupid and said "no, I had an open-ended straight so I had more outs". I then nodded solemnly and said "oh, I forgot -- you did have two different cards you were drawing to and I was only drawing to one suit -- so you had twice as many outs. I got lucky".

He stormed off awhile later after losing another buy-in or two...

lol, I've stopped reasoning with them. they're all pro's anyways.....


See you there later.....

1/2 PLO with a $5 bring in. About half the table is button straddling for $10 so it plays pretty big. Player A is very tight. He has limped and raised 3 times tonight and gotten it in, each time with an AA combo. That's 100% of his range there. So the situation arises again where he limps and then reraises and player B gets it all in in a 3 way pot with him for around 300 each. Someone says "dang player A, you have aces again huh?" And 2-3 other players agree that he does have AA again. Board runs out and player A shows his AA combo and player B shows A644 for a flopped a set of 4s and scooped. He points to his own ace and says "yea I knew he had AA too, but I knew I had an A so it was less likely that he would hit a set with his, and I was hoping the other player had the other ace too so he really couldn't hit a set!" This statement surprised me zero coming from B. Coincidentally, I NEVER leave a game when player B is there

That was the best response! I will use that for sure in the next straight draw vs flush draw argument. Maybe everyone will think I'm an idiot and it'll make me some extra money.

Not likely. Unless you're in a high stakes game, they're likely to believe you.
And those who do think you're the idiot usually won't adjust a single thing.
In fact it might be more profitable to be at a table where everyone gets the joke and thinks its funny. Friendly atmosphere.

"That's the bad thing about getting pocket aces with a starting stack of 5000 chips."

A NIT calling out and ridiculing another NIT for being a NIT and not giving any action.

Nits gotta nit.

18 players left in 80 player field, $100 entry, $25 bounty. I'm about 4th in chips around 175K, blinds at 4000/8000, I'm dealt 44 in the SB, folds around, button calls, I call, BB makes it 16,000. Button calls, I call. Flop comes 4h7s4s. I lead out for 25k, BB all in for last 47K. Button folds. BB turns over AsJc. and says "****ing luckbox calls a preflop raise with 44". Entire table laughs on exit.

Gotta love it.

Would have been believable if you hadn't included "luckbox". Nice try though.

What is the point of this post? You think the story is made up?

Chip leader is always a confirmed luckbox. BB's who minraise are following total wisdom.

I was on a cruise ship that had ONE poker table in its casino. It was one of those electronic tables and it was a 1/2 table. I sat down and played a few hands when this hand and story came up.

I was in the BB and look down at AA. Inside I am upset because the whole tables is folding all the way around and it gets to the SB. I asked him if he wanted to chop because I always do BvB. He looks at me all snotty and says, "I don't EVER chop." with emphasis on the EVER.

I said ok and he proceeds to raise. Well, I three bet him. He gets all flustered thinking I am just raising because he wouldn't chop and he proceeds to ship his entire stacked just over 100BBs in the pot. I obviously snap call and I have him barely covered. He has 33. Needless to say Aces held up and he stormed off. I am glad he didn't EVER chop.

Come on, Suit, you've been around this forum long enough by now to know that every time someone even makes a typo or fails to be consistent on the most minute of details that it discredits their entire body of work and renders the post itself a falsehood.

To a raise, I pretty much always fold low pocket pairs all the time.
I will limp crap pairs to set mine, but that's about it.
Calling with 77 and under has been EV- for me.
Need to learn to raise with these crap pairs.

I lol'ed. Great story

Overheard in a small $100 donkament the other night.

A: Hey, how are you doing?
B: Well I was doing good when they were hand dealing (hand shuffling), but then they went to those machines and I started losing, but they just announced to hand deal again. I like that better. I should be ok now.

I mean, technically he's right?

Head shuffle = less hands = less chances for him to spew chips.... ?