I'm in my normal home game. We're playing this type of poker we tried and fell in love with. It's called Nebraska Ract'um. It's essentially Texas Holdem except the deck of cards has 46 deuces, 7 queens, and 2 kings. Best five card hand wins. (It's a 55 card deck)

Friend goes all in with a flopped set of queens on a 2-Q-K rainbow. I call with my set of deuces. I end up winning the pot with Five of a kind (Nebraskahahaha).

Friend says "At least I got my money in ahead".

That sounds like a terrible game.

I'd have to think on it, but wouldn't a large % of hands end like "I have 5 deuces" "me too, chop it up"

I think the most absurd poker thinking I've ever heard is somebody coming up with a game with 47 dueces in the deck. I keed.

Used to be 47 but too many chops so we took one out.

Too many chops so you took one out??? Everyone would have pocket 22 every frikin hand and everyone who did would chop the pot like 95% of the time. This has to be joke, even if you make queens full someone will have quad 2s literally every time.

Variation: you can't chop nebraskahaha. Pot carries over until one winner who's then the Lincoln Emancipator.

It's not a joke. Whenever you win a pot you have to declare "Nebraska Ract'um Rekt'um" before you can drag the pot.

Guy calls my all in and says I had best hand preflop. Guy is on tilt.

2/5 I have $400, he has $600. He was up to $3500 and is on tilt. Hard. He raises preflop to 30. I reraise with AA to $85. He calls. Flop J95 with no flush draw. He bets $100 quick (a bet I perceive as a bluff). He isn't a good player and will call to the showdown if he has top pair always. Two pair or higher he slow plays and will check / allin a bet (having played with him for 5 hours straight). Hes also 10 drinks in at least.

Knowing this, I push all in. If not and he calls I put him on AJ, KJ, QQ, KK, all of which I have beat. He calls with J 7. Not a hand I'd have him calling with but knowing hes on tilt it doesn't surprise me.

Turn 8, River 6. J 7 wins with straight.

Makes me take a long walk after that BS.

Guy had earlier shown me his hand and mucked his hand when it went to showdown, he mucked the best hand in a $900 pot. He didn't realize he had the winning hand.

Only thing absurd here is the bolded part.

1. Guy folds the best hand in a big pot, then
2. Guy calls a 3 bet with J7o then essentially donks off another 65 BB as a 4:1 dog.

3. For some strange reason, it annoys you when you didn't even lose 1 buy-in?

You don't walk there - you run to the ATM to get more cash and get back in the game with him.

I sat back down 15 mins later and did do well.

You perceive his donk lead as a bluff so you go all in??

Grunching, but: "I'm gonna go all in because I don't think you have the spades."

Whenever someone at the poker tables whines about losing a hand with a variation of "'my hand was better pre-flop," I can't help but say:

"Hey, if the game was called Best Hand Pre-Flop, you woulda won!"

I bet, got a call and then got 3 bet, so I folded, and the caller folded. Then the caller berated me for leading out, and he said I should have limped so the other guys bet wouldnt be so big?

This hardely counts, but need to change the subject from this dumpster fire "ahead" argument, so I'll share my favorite line from last night's freeroll donkament.

"K8 is my favorite hand. You have something for high boards and for medium boards. With pockets you're stuck with whatever you've got."

This said after a guy raised to 3BB UTG, called a 9BB 3-bet with about 20-25BB effective stacks, and then agonized about folding to a shove on an AT3r board because "I have my favorite hand."

Dude, is it OK if I use this? I mean, if I say this and you happen to be at the table, will you get mad?

I prefer saying "Dude, it's Holdem, not 2 card stud."

^^ Awesome. I'd steal that, but there's too good a chance I'm going to run into you at the tables.

go for it

Nit reg raises to $17 in a 1/2 game behind a limper with QcQd. Shortstack goes AI for $61 with AJcc. Folds to the nit, who calls.

Both players flip their cards. Nit stops the dealer from dealing the board, and offers the shortstack $25 to muck his hand. SS offers to muck for $40, nit agrees. SS mucks, nit gives him 2 $20s out of his pocket and takes the pot.


--klez

Lol... nice

That is roughly a fair equity chop. The $20 deal would have been a good deal for the "nit".


There is currently about $122 in the pot (blinds, limpers and rake change this). I don't have a calculator to look up the exact equity of precisely QcQd vs. AcJc, but I assume it is around 70/30 (I'd guess the QQ is probably just a couple percentage more than 70).

70% of $122 is $85.40. So if they run it out the "nit" has an expectation of $85.40.

If the "nit" gives the "shortstack" $40 and takes the rest, then the "nit" ends up with $82.




I guess it is kinda absurd to be doing these things in a 60 big blind pot though. Although the $20 deal would have been roughly $16.60 better for the "nit" than running it out.

Was there a maniac on that table? The one thing I hate about maniacs on a table is everyone starts trying to set them up, so you can get caught in these raises you normally would not be caught in because someone limped with KK, you end up raising with your pocket 9s and ultimately get forced out of the pot when he re-raises to 50 or 60 when without the maniac he makes it 15$ and you call. Basically the entire table starts trying to set the maniac up but it usually just ends up with the other players constantly being forced out of pots when they make small raises and then you end up with no flops whenever someone has a monster. It sounds like that may be what this guy was trying to say but did not know how to correctly say it.

The tables are so passive that they think im a maniac and I play TIGHT. The guy was just an idiot who was willing to play atc for 12 but folds to any raise. The reraiser wasnt acting out of line at all.
It was cheap info, and the complainer was just a dummy.

utg opens, mp 3bets, 2 call. i have KK on SB. loose passive mawg who hasnt done anything too crazy cold calls my 4bet jam w/ 53o for 120BB. rest fold. board runs out 53xxx.

whilst im throwing up inside, he has his eyes wide opens with a serious face stating "i just knew it was coming. its so crazy, i dont know how but i just had that feeling".