What's absurd is having AK and wanting A6 to fold.


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at my casino they have a jackpot going which you win if you flop a royal flush.

at 2/5 and blind raise to 10 one limp v1 limp, guy next to v1 raise to 60, folds back round to v1 who picks up his cards as he's going to fold then notices he's QT is suited (guy still in the hand can clearly sees his cards) still calls to try and hit the jackpot which is currently $3.5K, cards face up and everything then check folds the flop when he misses.

is getting 50:3,500 when the chance of flopping a royal is 1:20,000

never said that was a 'want'.. simply absurd to think that 1. calling a 30+ bb raise pre with that hand and 2. specifying that the suit was a factor in calling as well.

and for those that are thinking it was a belittling conversation, it wasn't.. very general/relax convo between me/V/others at table.

There are only two reasons you'd ever make the comment you made. 1.) You want villain to feel bad about playing bad to sate your ego....hmmmm, maybe there's only one reason. I can't think of any more.

Haha, that's so true.

It's like you have AA and want KK to fold preflop.

Umm guys, how about letting this go. He never said he wanted to other guy to fold.

You want people to think that you're an idiot who is about to go on tilt, setting the rest of the table up for a trap.

I'm sure that value is greater than the value of not making a fish feel uncomfortable at the game....

The "if had I bet x amount would you have folded" comment is pretty common from rec players after they lose a big pot with a good starting hand. Usually the kind of players that will raise JJ to $50 at 1/2, then show it after everyone folds and say "phew, I hate pocket jacks, I was just happy to take that one down pre-flop."

I've never seen that kind of comment as condescending or particularly berating and it's definitely in line with keep a fun, fishy atmosphere at the table.

You've never seen a guy with kings lose to a weird randomly flopped two pair and go off on the winner saying "You called $xxx with THAT?"

I'm talking about berating the fish and it's completely bad for the table and it deserves being pointed out in this thread.

Don't you know he'd rather just take down the blinds preflop? That way he can table his kings when everyone folds and exclaim "of course everyone folds when I get kings, unbelievable!"

Need a ruling. Live $5-5 PLO with a time rake. We lose a few players (down to 6) and guy that's playing >75% of hands complains about being short.

Is me finding this absurd, absurd? We're going to see more hands short, right? And he's putting money in the middle no matter what, so more hands per hour is a good thing?

I would guess that his complaint has nothing to do with time charge or hands/hour; rather that he's simply uncomfortable playing short. Many people are. This is a weakness in their game, but it's not absurd.
(OTOH, playing >75% of hands is borderline absurd, but not uncommon in some games...)

No doubt. However that doesn't seem to resemble the comment that Noles made in the slightest.

yeah it's not. I had no issue with the call, was more than happy to bloat a pot knowing I have the better hand 99% of the time.. and simply thought it was funny that the opponent specifically referenced the suite as a reason for his play.

yeah ok. Totally not the same thing

There was a discussion in here a little while ago, where it was concluded through rigorous research (people asked a few people they were playing with) that when most people visualize a flush, they visualize hearts and spades, and therefore clubs and diamonds have greater implied odds. The findings were based on a sample size of maybe ten people, so I am pretty sure the results are solid.

So your opponent was playing some next level stuff against you by knowing that he gets more value out of diamond draws.

You don't wonder what it takes the other guy to fold without wanting the other guy to fold.

He never said he wanted a fold and would deny it if you asked but we can all read between the lines.

The fun has been removed from this thread by this ongoing "what amount would have made the Ad6d" guy fold.

Of course after the other guy win the hand he wished he had gotten a fold instead. That's a reasonable wish.

I played in a $100 freeze out a few weeks ago. I am in the cutoff with AA. It's after second break and in Level 10.

Three limpers (UTG is one of them) and I raise 6x big blind. Button, SB/BB fold as do the limpers.

Flops comes trey, trey nine. UTG bets and I open push, She snaps off her stack and has me covered by a SMALL margin, and rolls trey-nine of diamonds. Table gasps in "horror", and they ask how she makes the first call.

The answer is obvious. "I was suited"! Yes, so goes the game of NL Holdem'...LOL

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I've removed a bunch of strat talk. Please try to keep this thread to a more lighthearted discussion of absurd behavior and/or discussion of the levels of absurd behavior demonstrated by posting one's thoughts about what is or isn't absurd behavior.

As always, do not troll each other in this forum. Thanks.

This thread needs more truly absurd reasoning and less of the thinly veiled bad beat stories.

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Thought I would share a hand I a few months ago at 1/3 live 200 max, it would have been at least 3am on a Sunday morning and a very intoxicated (drunk and high on something I would assume) 40yo WG sits down for 200, calls anything pre and generally has no idea what he is doing or how to play. Plays about 3 small pots then doubles with 99 to runner runner a straight vs a decent reg board ran out like q107j8 or so and scoops vs QQ. Next hand I get KK and we are now about 450 effective. Someone raises 10 utg. Villain calls utg2 I make it 50 utg3. button calls, utg calls and utg2 calls so 4 way to a flop of 1082hh. Checks to me I make it 135 only utg2 calls. Turn is 4o utg2 checks again and I go all in. After some hesitation and 'thinking' utg2 looks around the table and goes "oh so is it just us two then". I reply yes. So he looks at the dealer almost immediately and says "I guess I call then". River is 7o and he flips over Q9o no flush draw, nothing. Would have been sickening if that river was a J but he genuinely just called because I shoved the turn and it was only us two remaining. He really didnt care too much at all and just got off and strolled away.

Thanks villain