I use some pretty stupid logic at times. I like having the biggest chips available, and always use them as my card protectors. Either I want people to think I can't be bullied, or here's some money fellas, come and get it. Doesn't make a lot of sense either way.

Whether or not they work, I don't like wearing sunglasses, simply because I feel they make you look like a tool. If I want to rep a tool image however, I have a not so sweet pair of knock off aviators I put on. I look like a jersey shore castoff when I do.

I show a majority of my won hands, only not showing bluffs I feel will make people upset and play me better, or hands that are irrelevant i.e. walks in the bb. I rarely do things habitually, at least I believe so showing my cards gives people information that I feel they cannot use against me. I'm sure this has backfired on me, only I still do it and I can't think of a situation off the top of my head where it has.

Also my entire bankroll right now is $2000 and I can't wait to sit 5-10. I'm trying to make a score, in the 5 figure range. I have a job, savings and a wife that are all capable of taking care of me if I lose said $2000. My logic is I play well enough that I should be a winner more times than not, but I have no raw data to prove I'm a huge favorite, let alone a favorite at all. I've only played 5-10 three times. If I am up enough I'll sit 10-25, but I'd have to be up to 10 so I can play with 5000 and still have 5000 if that goes poorly.

This was a fun exercise, hope you enjoyed as well.

So an older woman (a reg who plays all the time at this room and has a decent ABC poker grasp) with a stack of 3bets a $15 raise from EP to $45 from the SB. The initial raiser then goes all in for about $240 or so.

She folds, and he shows QQ. She says she folded tens, and then in her hand analysis conveys that she would've folded even if he had shown her AK or AQ.

So I'm wondering, WTF did you 3bet for then? (I didn't say this)

She's says "I don't like racing, I'd rather find out where I'm at."

I can't help myself and say "isn't flipping better than giving him $45 and folding"

She responds, "only if you win the flip"

I respond, "a flip is a flip, it's better than just losing $45"

And she acts exasperated like I'm too dumb to get it. "But only if you win the flip"

I lol and remember why I never talk sense with these buffoons.

And yet,

What? Your barely rolled for 1-2 and your thinking about 5-10? Oh wait, this is the absurd poker thinking part.

Sadly I don't think that is the part he thought was absurd.

You are not using "roll" the same way he is. These responses to a casual player opening up about his absurd thinking are embarrassing.

+1 albedoa

No Idea where to start but yes this is the right thread for this.

Playing at Charles Town, WV tonight. A young guy in seat two has a small stack (about $60) but still calling pre-flop bets of $15. After the flop on one of these hands, the pre-flop raiser bets $35. Our young guy has $45 in front of him. He tanks for a while and then, holding the $35 of chips in his hand like he's ready to call, very earnestly asks the other guy "How much more do you have behind?" He finally folded. After this hand, it became standard at our table to ask "How much more do you have behind?"

A few hands later, the same guy asks the dealer if he can buy two more red chips and pulls out $10. His stack is increased to $40.

Lol. Now that's kind of a new one, to me anyway.

Buy 10 bucks more worth of chips.. hmmmm lmaoo

Standard move for when you feel a good hand coming and want to maximize double up equity.

One night a guy kept busting out - made several trips to the ATM. He then gets into a hand and another player completes a straight -- busting him out again. He grumbles that he can't ever make his straights and yet his opponent just made one. So his opponent says, "I was open ended, you had a gutshot". First guy replies "it's the same thing" and hurries back to the ATM. He comes back and bets a few hands larger than his usual preflop -- when he busts out yet again he turns his cards over in disgust and explains "I needed a 10 most of the time for my straights -- now that I have a 10 and bet it -- I can't get a straight!". He had been betting up any hand with a 10 in it -- because it was the "missing card". lol

Just remind him... "If you bet it, it will come."

my favorite from last night:

3 of us in the hand at 1/2 -- one player started with $175 -- 3rd player, our "villain" (and preflop raiser -- who had been raising a wide range of hands ) and I each had about $650. Flop is K 10 x. I flop open ended Broadway. I am first to act and check the flop. Short stack bets $35 into what is a roughly a $50 pot. Villain calls. I call. Turn is an Ace, completing my straight. No 3 cards to a flush on the board. I check. Short stack checks. Villain bets $50. I check raise to $200 (pot sized bet or so). Short stack goes all in for less than the $200.. villain tanks and starts thinking out loud, saying more than once "I put you on broadway". He finally shoves his entire stack! I call.. river is a 6 with no flush on an unpaired board.

Short stack had a set of 10's
Villain had AK for two pair.. and kept muttering:

"I knew you had Broadway! I shoved just to make sure you had it!".

He needed to keep you honest, lol

I love when they say something like, "you've gotta have the flush. I call. ...Nice hand."

I was dealing in a casino to players who were there as part of a large group that does poker in bars. I was thinking that such a group - many of whom have never been in a casino before or played for real money - would give me a story.

And it did.

Playing a tournament, a woman who was talking a LOT got into a hand with a woman who I didn't hear say a single word other than her bet amounts my entire time at the table.

The quiet woman raised preflop, the loud one reraised her and the quiet woman said "All In" which was a massive overbet.

The loud woman deliberated for a second before practically screaming at the other woman, "I know how you play! I know you have Ace-rag and I have queens but you always get lucky against me so I fold!"

Hey carnivore, she wasnt racing, and his bet didnt make it seem a race. She was dominated, and wouldve put that money in on the next street clueless. She got a read and folded to a 5x raise which is smart IMO so you look less than stellar with your post.

Pretty sure his story was about the conversation afterwards based on the hypothetical calling with tens against an opponent that shows you AK/AQ, not about the range of hands that would bet like that.

I mean, it doesn't really qualify as "most absurd thinking" but it's not about the folding of the tens.

You guys need to watch the WSOP seniors stream right now. It's literally happening just like this.

So I'm at a table with a tilting maniac, already a few buyins in after about a half hour since the table was started, he open raises again from EP, I'm in the SB and I look down at AA. It folds to me, 99 times out of 100 I'd 3 bet here but in this case I think a flat call and check raise on the flop will probably get me his entire stack. So I flat and we go to the flop heads up, the flop is something Jxx. I check, but then the maniac kind of perks up and says "oh wow". "You leaned back in your chair right after you checked, you're going to shove all in, aren't you?"

He caught a read on me and was dead on, I had leaned back a bit in my chair and was going to push him all in after he bet (he had about 120 behind at that point). So he bets anyway, and I push him all in anyway, and the aces hold up.

Good read, except you fell into the trap anyway, and still called.

Maybe he had QQ.

I was thinking JJ when I was reading that.

"Why would I raise Aces pre flop? Nobody would call me? I just made £20 more than I would have if I'd raised." - This was at a 1/1 table where the average flop was seen by 4-5 players.

J8o might not be worth it to you but I can play my cards however I want, any hand can win it's just about getting lucky." - From an addicted gambler who put in 4k chips from 10k starting stack at 25/50 blinds and sucked out on AA.