Player is asked why he doesn't button straddle. He replies "I don't straddle. I prefer to look at my cards first." He then limps K2 utg.

1/2 Casino Game. SuperNIT Fish Reg raises to $45 (Forty-five dollars) from UTG and everyone folds. He collects $3 pot and shows AKo.

I literally say something like "What the hell is wrong with you George? Why don't you raise to like 10 or 12 or something?" and he responds "Oh yeah and then a bunch of people will call".

Multiple limpers and woman in the CO folds A9s (she tells me her hand after) and says "Can't call from that position".

<Jackie chan wtf.JPG>

For some reason it tilts me very hard when someone makes a comment like "you shouldnt give him a free card". Even if it isnt aimed towards me.

Few days ago at the Hardrock Hollywood in the $350 entry some whale at my table was losing it calling off starting stacks w any two he liked. And had 100K infront at 20k starting at 200 400 lat reg open still Utg opens w 45k for min, whale makes it 3k from btn utg ships it. Guy thinks for a few seconds and say quietly to maybe only a few ppl could hear. " I guess I need to get lucky or I don't" and calls w23cc. I ask him what that means as if 3 high will win, he told me to stfu and that he clearly won the pot. He lost like 50k right before late reg ended still had twice starting stack and just left. After complains about losing a2 to ak and ak saying how fcked it was hes gotten.

Playing 1-2 a couple weekends back at Choctaw during the WPT. This guy(will call him Bob) is the typical recreational poker player that has every tell in the book written all over him.

A few hours into the session this hand comes up. Don't remember all the preflop action but there is around $55 in the pot or so and three players see the flop. Flop comes Kc Qc 6c. Check, Check, Bob makes it $30, one fold and young woman who is a decent-good player raises to $75. Bob has around $120 left behind or so and goes into the tank. He starts to mumble to himself for around 45 seconds to a minute. He then for no other reason than that he has seen the "pros" do it on tv before flips his cards face up on the felt showing 9c 8c. Everyone at the table begins looking around and is super confused on what he is thinking here. With his $120 behind I have no idea why he is showing any cards here. It's not like his play will be the last action so don't know what he was thinking.

Anyways, he still tanking and mumbing and after two minutes he looks up at her and just says "You always beat me, always beat me" tanks some more and finally folds. Table hmms and hawws at what they just saw. Young lady shows the 4c we all assume she has the 5c also but she only shows one card.

So while not the craziest thing at a poker table a few of us were pretty dumbfounded on why you are playing 8c9c and not willing to stackoff on a board like that. I mean if your beat your beat and you reload. If this guy wasn't so much easy money it would have been the first time I have ever called the clock at a cash table simply because he has his hand face up for over 3 minutes, just mumbling to himself. Times here aren't exaggerations either as their was a tournament in the back of the room going on and I was watching the clock to figure out how long this was taking.

if she only shows 1 then she probs did have the Ac, i think she would have shown both if she was beat

Heard from across the room: A player is ranting at another player "You're selfish! You keep raising every hand and don't give the rest of us a chance to play!".

The best thing that ever happened to my game was the realization that folding a hand was still "playing" the hand.

This is the perfect spot to prod the complainer about just re-raising and watch them adjust poorly as stacks start getting punted back and forth.

1/2 yesterday two Vs are each 125bb deep. V1 calling station terrible middle aged reg. V2 younger more competent reg but still not a fabulous player.

Flush gets there on the turn (Qs is high card on the board)I don't remember exact pot size but V1 OOP check calls a decent size turn bet leaving about $150 behind. V1 then shoves river.

V2 tanks and eventually calls with J7s. V1 flips over 23s for a losing baby flush.

After V1 leaves, V2 leans over to me and says that V1 'must have put him (V2) on a bigger flush but thought that he could get him off it with a river shove'.

It didn't need to at first, but it does now. Guys you've gotten well away from what this thread is for. If you want to discuss bubble strategy please take it to the MTTc forum. Thanks.

But was he suited?

I had a guy once, in a 1/2NL, directly to my right limp every hand a long with a bunch of other limpers. I was raising every hand I was playing. I had a good run of cards early on and raised his limp a few times in a row. He slammed his fist down on the table and yelled "Can't we just see a f**king flop!?"

you're right, that was pretty absurd of you to say that. Good one!

This times 100...I think the dude made a good fold. Even if he played like a crazy person.

At a 1/2 table. Middle aged regular scoops a $14 pot that went to the flop with 7 players with AA. Middle aged guy says 'if I was on the button I would have raised, but there is no point in the bb'

1/2 game, 1 limper in LP, SB calls, BB goes all in for 300. Limper and SB folds and BB shows AA.

"Just in case someone was slow playing KK", was the logic

It boggles the mind. I'd love to do an experiment where you took someone who knew nothing about poker and emersed them into a 1/2 poker room environment for 1 month to observe and learn the game from the regulars / rec players and fish.

The non poker person would actively solicite poker advice from the 1/2 crowd with the intent to write a book about how to play / beat the game.

I would love to read that book

That would b actually b awesome. Make it happen. Ill buy one...

It's a great idea for a hilarious read but it would cost an arm and a leg to stake a person with zero knowledge of the game for a month

True. But they wouldn't necessarily have to play. They could just observe and then ask regs/recs/fish for advice on a book they are writing about beating LLSNL. I think he'd get a lot of ppl happy to give their 2 cents.

Phil Helmuth already wrote it

Live 1/2. I sit down at new table in the BB w/ KK. Button straddle for 8. Everyone calls up to me. I raise to $35. 4 Players call to the SB who shoves all in for $120 more. I go all in and have him covered. Everyone else folds.

I show my KK before the flop and he says, "That's what I was hoping you had" and shows Ace rag off.

With all the dead money in, I'd say his shove is bad but not atrociously bad.

He's a roughly 70-30 underdog and with the $150 dead he gets 2:1 on his money. If someone else calls with a lower pair then he's a 3:1 dog while getting 2.8:1 on his money for his top pair mining venture.

Although it probably wasn't his thinking, he also has a chance to pick up the pot pre without a fight if you were FOS...he effectively would be running a squeeze with a blocker. If you ever do this with KQs it actually allows him to gii as a favorite.

I think his best play is to fold pre when it limps to him, but I actually don't think his shove is that bad EV wise.

That's true, but if I were him, I'd assume some of the initial callers folded at least 1 of his outs.