From the same player.. at a $1/2 table, all in the same hour:

1) After he is dealt his cards but before action gets to him, he asks the dealer "can I rebuy here at the table or do I have to go to the window?". We all see that the player is down to about $40 from his original $200 buy-in. Dealer tells him he can rebuy at the table and as action gets to him he pulls out some cash and hands it to the dealer (cash doesn't play at this room, and even if it did, he didn't pull it out until he saw his cards) -- the dealer tells him he must wait until the hand is over. He is noticeably perturbed but proceeds to raise to $15. Everyone folds. He then laments that he couldn't get any action on his pocket aces as he shows them to muck.

2) On the river the board shows 3 8's, a 5 and a 7. He proceeds to ask the dealer as action gets to him "in this room, do kickers count with a full house?". He gets reraised on his river bet, calls, and proceeds to show his 8's full of 7's. The other player (who sadly was worse in his skills all the way down the line), showed his 8's full of 5's.

3) He wins a pot at showdown after he called bets on the flop and turn with a gutshot draw. After a comment was made his response was "I didn't come here to fold".

We missed him after he left...

Kurn FTW!

This is poker's version of "I didn't come here to make friends..."

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You may have heard the same dumb advice I heard around that time about how 56s is a better hand going against AA than most others.

Playing 2/5, I was in seat 8, nit in seat 9, and two splashy guys in seats 1 and 2. 1 and 2 are gambling it up hard, going all in blind if it folds to them in the blinds, straddling and making blind bets as a double straddle, and giving lots of action.

Double and triple straddles aren't allowed, but you can make blind bets instead. I was going to be big blind the next hand. 1 and 2 ask the nit if he would straddle so they can make blind bets of $20 and $40. That's awesome for everybody to have all that dead money out there but the nit refused. I offered to pay half his straddle and he agreed. I think I was the least absurd of the 4 but it's debatable :/

The only thing that stands out is a guy posting his blinds while outside smoking so he would still be eligible for his portion of the bad beat jackpot table share.

This reminded of a time I was playing in Macau around 2007.

Very friendly guy and he owned a number of local Chinese fast food franchises - I think it was Dico's or something like that (think KFC). At one point he gets a very important call because the kitchen in one of his restaurants caught on fire - there was some issues with fire code and insurance payout, could even get his business licenses revoked - so you can imagine he had a million things to coordinate at a very frantic pace. However, he still didn't want to stop playing though - so meanwhile he setup a makeshift office at an empty table next to us, there he sprawls out all these documents, his 3 phones and a pad and paper and goes back and forth making calls, taking notes and referencing his documents.

Now the important part is he kept playing blind the entire time, not even looking at the board. He'd just arbitrarily say call/fold/check/bet whenever his floozy tapped his shoulder to indicate the action was on him. His floozy would then put out the correct amount of chips with the dealer's help.

He called several all ins and by the time he was finished had either felted or doubled up half the table and he had to buy back in a few times himself. When it's all said and done he went back to the table and continued playing like normal. I finally asked him what the hell just happened and he looked at me and said quite plainly, "I was just dealing with hundred thousand dollar decisions, I didn't want to make a poor call in real life by being distracted by the poker table and when your business is on the line you really don't care about a few thousand dollars on coin flips - that way was able to have some fun while I'd otherwise be panicking."

Great outlook despite being -EV for poker, says everything worked out in the end with his restaurant and despite losing over 5k usd in about 40 minutes he really couldn't be bothered.

damn, not really absurd i guess, well kinda, really cool story though.

Made final table of a daily tournament, with 8 spots paid. Floor guy comes up when we go down to 9 and jokes "hand for hand guys." I joke back "eh round for round is much better". He says "yep you're right, round for round it is good luck". Dealer hears this and says round for round. We assume he is joking too. Guy busts and gets up to leave. Dealer says to stay, it is round for round. We spend 5 minutes arguing with the dealer that it isn't actually round for round, he is wanting to call the floor.

what would round for round even mean??

Guessing this can be different in different places but In some casinos in Oklahoma they do round for round instead of hand for hand. In that case round for round means that every table plays one revolution of hands. Say the shortest table has 8 players while the rest have 9. Every table will play 8 hands. Once those 8 hands are up if the bubble has burst anyone who got knocked out during that round will split the winnings for the payouts.

How is that even a remotely good idea? Who does it benefit?

It would benefit the chip leaders with zero risk of busting as they pound the next couple hands after the bubble guy busted because no one else is going to play a hand after that until the "round" is over. (obviously I totally agree with your sentiment)

Is that round for round really a thing?

It would also benefit the players who are worried about not being the bubble because some people think min cashing is a win

Round for round is faster than hand for hand. Say you have 10 tables at the bubble. If you go hand for hand every single hand takes as long off the clock as the longest hand at any of the tables. If you do round for round, each table plays a full orbit, with some hands taking 45 seconds and some taking 5 minutes. If someone busts they are supposed to sit and wait. If more than one person busts in that orbit they chop last place money.

weird ive never heard of that before. i still think h4h is better tho.

H4H better with 2 or 3 tables, R4R better with more than that IMO

Round for round sounds terrible. Don't a lot of tournaments either paused the clock or add time when they go hand for hand?

why would they chop last place money? wouldnt they chop last and next to last money?

Probably just a miswording and/or assumption that the round for round was being played on the money bubble.

Say you have 90 people left with 89 paid. Two people bust. They chop 89th place (last place money). If three bust then yes those three chop 88th and 89th.

No most don't. We burned an entire one hour level playing hand for hand in a wsop $1k this summer.

They should add action for action. AfA

Ex.
90 tables playin
UTG makes a decision (fold raise call) dealer raises hand. Other 89 tables now have to catch up



Hahahah

About 6 years ago, I saw an entire WSOPC HORSE event played "round for round". Each table would play 8 hands of a game and then wait until the last table finished, and then flip to the next game (so all tables were playing the same game). Haven't seen that since.

A new shortstacking megafish reg who plays 110% of his hands and never folds was on tilt because "every time I play small cards, big cards come on the flop" / "every time I play big cards, small cards come on the flop!"

He was HU w/ a good player, limp-calling a pre-flop raise for about half his stack. Flop was A63 rainbow. Good player goes all in. Megafish tanks talkatively for a couple of minutes before saying, "You know what!? I'm gonna gamble witchu! I'm gonna gamble witchu! I call!" and flips over Q5o. Good player had AK and scoops the pot.

Bad player rages and accuses the dealer of cheating. Dealer is mind****ed. Megafish: "I know what you're doin', man! I've watched YouTube videos!" Megafish kept passive-aggressively accusing the dealer of cheating for several more hands before getting fed up and moving to another table (without asking).

The next day, he threatened to punch a girl in the face at the table. "I'm about to break a bitch's jaw!" I bought-in moments after he left, so I only got to hear about it. I asked if anyone called the floor and no one did!!!

The truly absurd thing was that he came back later that night and argued with the floorman about losing his seat for sitting out too long, saying threatening stuff like "I ain't afraid to go back to jail!" Absurdity compounded on top of that, the floorman allowed him to buy back in!!!

(Yeah. This place is crazy.)