At some guy's homegame playing $50 SNGs. One of the players, when faced with a bet on the river, would tank, look thoughtful, and would always call regardless of what he had. After doing this a few times, he does it again and calls with AK-high. His opponent asks why he thought his Ace-high was good, his response: "I'm either ahead or behind, so it's 50/50, but my pot odds are 2.5:1"

In 2004 there were 4 of us left of 20 in a home MTT. I am button and fold pf, I deal 666 flop to 3 checks. Turn (666) A, 3 checks. River is (666A) 6, and SB is all in. BB tanks (!) Host is railing the game and says, "why don't you guys just call, the board is the nuts." BB comes to his senses and calls as does UTG. SB is 'all WTF' to say the least, and UTG is upset because his plan to slowplay his turned full house was counterfeited. The host was quite embarrassed.

Hey 'boat...I believe you go the Shoe in s. indiana. Maybe I'll see you there and partake in your scarce sageness.

Hero: AA
Villian: J10s
1/2 NLHE

Tight table -- action is folded to the Hero on the button who raises to 10. SB folds, Villian/BB calls.

Flop comes J 7 4 rainbow

BB checks, Hero bets $16, BB raises to $48, after thinking about it, Hero shoves all in for a total of $50, just $2 more than the BB raise.

BB folds.

His rationale: "I knew if you re-raised me, you had me beat."

Professionals know when to save a bet, that's how you grind these games.

Playing today at the Midnight Rose casino in Colorado a small buy in $60 tournament.

Midway through this event a guy in EP moves all-in for his whole stack(His stack is barber poled every other chip is different) blinds are 400/800. It folds around to me in the BB and I ask how much is that.

The dealer says “ I can not tell you I can only spread the pot”

I say no not the pot. What is his all-in bet and again he says” I can not tell you” I am like WTF? At this point several people say 8850 which looked about right. I call and lose but that's not the point.

At break I approach the floor person and explain what happen. He states the dealer is correct and I must ask the player directly and if he does not say the deal give me a count.

The floor also stated they had many complaints about the dealers counting all-in bets when people wanted the player to say what they had.


I like that I think I'll pile my chips up cover them with one hand and declare all in you figure out how much I have. (Grins)

Last note I did take 1st for 1k so it was all good.

Playing at turningstone1-2...2 kids going all in every hand...my friend sittin with about 200$..when one kid goes it again...the other calls blind and goes idc its your money...my friend proudly folds KK coems yelling to us about his fold ..his reasoning..well i couldnt call against two blind hands when theyre just using eachothers money

Playing a tournament tonight. Down to final table. Everyone is pretty short with most people around 10-15BB. Guy ships allin preflop with about 9BB. Big stack just calls and the orignal raiser flips his two jacks faceup, not realizing there was still action. Folded to guy in blind who has about 10BB. He thinks for a while and mucks his AKs face up. Big stack shows 1010. AK would have hit which doesnt matter to the story.

Guy with AK and his friends immediately powwow and all agree he could not call allin there because he needed better odds!

playing an evening tourney in the stratosphere as my friend was staying there and i was playing as him and his gf were up getting ready etc for dinner/drinks later on .

I look down at AA and it has been raised infront of me and i make it either 3/4x the intial raise , I get reraised all in by the friend of the initial raiser , his friend calls the all in and comes to me so i have no real action but to call all in here.

First friend shows 34 off , and the other friend shows kq suited ...

The guy who showed 3-4 off tells me he only called as he thought i was going to knock his friend out of the tourney .If he went out as well means they could both go on and get a few drinks .... the 3-4 guy mentioned he didnt want play the tourney he just played because his friend did and promised they would hit a club/bar as soon as they were out.

Needless to say the 34 guy makes a straight knocking me and his friend out. Now with his friend out not only cant he join him for some drinks etc he is now the chip leader in a tourney he did not want to play in the first place and is desperate to leave

My favorite snap-off:

Dude is having a bad card luck night. You know, the kind where in $1/$2 NLHE you raise to $6 PF and everyone calls you and your pocket QQ's get out-flopped.

So, I wake up with AKo UTG and I raise it to $12 PF. Dude shoves all-in for like $40. Dude is obviously tilting and since I'm the card room owner and he's a customer and I'm up like $300 I flip over my hand and ask him if he wants me to call or not. (Yes, everyone else folded and it's heads-up.) I assured him that I would, in fact, call or fold based on what he wanted me to do.

He says he wants me to call, so I do, and he flips over Ace/9. He says he figured it's his turn to "suck out". Of course, he didn't.

"I still don't understand how the casino makes any money on this."

I have heard this one also. Lol

MIGHT be correct if pot is raked.... guy puts in $1 gets it raked on a 100% chop.

Need to work it out. Probs bad since he paid the first bet,

but folding to a bet and raise with little invested might be ok.... idk

bump!

i love reading these

If someone at the table asked you if 6789J is a straight you say "YES!!!".

its really hard to imagine that odds would ever be good enough to win half a bet.

Last year I'm playing a $125 donkament at Caesar's in Vegas.

At the 25/50 level I get AA and raise a limper to 250 and get 2 callers. Flop comes 10-10-9 rainbow and I check. Some guy bets 1000, and I think for a bit and go all in for 1100 more. He thinks for a while and is about to fold, but says "well, it's early" and calls with A-J offsuit. Turn Q, river K obviously. He had a nice 2% shot.

I'm in shock and say "wtf? That's an insane beat."

Guy says "Sorry man, I called because it was early in the tournament."

I'm still confused to this day.

At 1/2 some Hillbilly who was probably named Rusty or JimBob tanks for at least a minute facing a river shove and finally calls showing the nuts.

His explanation, "Welp, I thought ya had me on that one." lulz.

He was by far the biggest winner at the table. wtf.

One from this weekend at a limit game:

"I'd rather have AA under the gun than on the button. If I raise UTG people might fold, but if I'm on the button and there's a bunch of limpers already, they're going to call"

It's common in low limit games that your goal once you get a hand is to get everyone to fold.

I have actually heard this one before. It made me laugh my ass off.

Not really absurd thinking, as the amount of stupid **** that is spoken where I play... is insane... I try to just delete it from my memory.

However this little thing I saw today was very short, and just weeeeird.

Old Greek Man is sitting at my 2/5 NL table, good game and stuff, and im just kinda staring off and watching everyone play while I nittally wait for good cards to play.

Table is loud so alot of weird little things usually arnt seen, 2 loud drunks, but anyway im watching Mr.OGM and he had just bought in for full, he only had 2 red stacks ($200) now he had $500. I watched him bust out a small lighter, light it up and wave it around and around over the top of his chipstacks. I dont know if he burned them but he definately heated them up, anyway after about 10 seconds he stopped and thats the end of that.

Just uhhh....weird?

LMAO wow thats hilarious

Playing dealers choice at my local B&M. Game is crazy pineapple. Good player had flopped the nut straight but he loses on the river to the 7th nut flush.

Good player: "dammit I had to fold the nut flush draw because I flopped the nut straight"

Idiot #1: "Wow I would never fold the flush draw cause if you hit you will have the real nuts"

Idiot #2: "Ya no ****. This game is like omaha you should keep the flush draw for sure because the straight is never going to hold up."

Good player: smile at me

Me: I smile back and think god I love poker.

I once had a dealer at a casino explain to me that T5 is a much much better hand than people give it credit for because in order to make a straight you have to have either a T or a 5. Therefore when you have T5 it makes it much more difficult for your opponent to make a straight and gives you a huge edge.