Wow, take that woman out to dinner! Definitely +EV whenever you are at the same table.

I'll bite. I was at a table a couple months ago and raised in EP with AA. This guy cc me next in with 95s, catches bottom pair on the flop, calls me on every street and spikes 2 pair on the river. He never raised me, just called on every street. I table my hand and the guy says "yeah, I put you on Aces".

It was the only time I've ever berated someone in a casino. I said, "if you put me on aces than wtf did you call in the first place for, and after you caught 2 pair why didn't you raise?"

Not hall of fame but board is 9842 river king or something, bettor the whole way bets the river and opponent showmucks JT. Bettor shows 88 and says "man I wish you got your straight and I hit my full house at the same time".

This didn't get nearly enough love IMO. Super solid thinking there lol

People say these kinds of things all the time and it cracks me up. It kind of reminds me of the people who say "If the board had one more ten and you had pocket nine's we would have had the bad beat jackpot! So close!!!"

These are my two gems:

Multi-way limped pot. Flop QQx. Check all around. Turn T. BB bets everyone folds to button who calls. River blank. BB bets and button raises. BB thinks long and folds. Button turns over AQ. BB say yes you had a better kicker. I ask BB what was your kicker. BB takes his cards from the muck and shows QT !!. I had to point out to him that he folded the nuts!


Next one:
I am on the button. UTG raises 5xBB. EP calls. MP calls. As I look down MP says to the dealer: "Where is my cards?" DEALER: "Sir you were standing so i did not deal you in". MP: " Oh ok, then i want my money back"... HE CALLED A PREFLOP UTG RAISER WITHOUT BEING DEALT IN!

This is great. He was probably getting really nice implied odds.

This is great.

I sat at a low limit table with a guy who consistently did this. Would either be dealt out or fold and then bet/raise on future streets with no cards. The deals were shocked the first time then just had to push back his bets. The guy never seemed phased by it either way.

He is playing the player, not the cards. UTG is weak-tight/fit or fold. You can float his c-bets and take it on the turn with any two cards, or in this case, no cards, profitably.

I was at a $50 tourney on Saturday with a group I've never played with before. Nice people but not very good at poker.

MP limps. Button raises. flop is QQ2 rainbow. MP leads out about 3/5 pots. button raises all in for slightly more than pot size raise. MP thinks for awhile as calling this last bet will cost almost all of his chips, then calls. Button shows AK. MP shows KJ and says "I had to call. It's a race anyway". yep. it's a flip. good call.

Just playing pub poker, but everyone at the table is a regular, so they at least think they know what they are doing.

Im on the button. Folds around to blinds, with SB limp and BB check. Flop A K Q rainbow. Check, check. turn 4. Check, check. River 10. No flush can be made.

SB bets out (there is 400 in the pot) for 800, BB flat calls. BB turns over a J, and SB shows his pocket 10's.

I ask BB "Do you usually flat call in position, on the river, holding the nuts?" She replies "I just don't see the point. When I think it's a split pot, it usually is, so there is no point re raising".

I reply, "What about if they don't also have the nuts, but a set, isn't it worth wasting a couple of seconds re raising, and potentially getting more chips?." She replies "No."

$1/2nl at the casino last weekend. I'm not in the hand.

player 1, raises pf, gets two callers.

flop comes down coodinated 9-T-J I think. Player 1 makes a c-bet of $25. Before player 2 has a chance to act, player 3 announces All-in for a little over $100. Action then goes back to player 2 who elects only to call the initial $25 bet. Player 3 is held to his raise. Player 1 then goes all in himself. He has both players covered. Player 2 insta-calls, and shows the flopped straight (LDO). Player 1 shows that he had just paired his Jack.

After the hand, player 2 asks player one: why did you raise? he answered that he thought he could get him to fold. The table for some reason decides to start telling him (very loudly) why that was so dumb. I told him, don't worry about it, you thought you could get him to fold, you have to play your own way. Don't listen to them! He was satisfied with that and I was able to stack him later a few hands later.

Was at the casino the other night, playing 1-2 NL. 4th hand I look down and have aces.

EP raises to $8, folds to me, I flat call, SB raises to $28, EP calls, I push for $95. SB calls, EP folds.

I table AA, he shows 66. Flop Q 6 2. UTG says "Thats whats good about going in with under pair against aces, sometimes you flop sets."

Last night I had this English fellow in seat 5 push all in on a board of 3676r for about $120 into a pot of ~$90. The girl he was heads up with tanked for a while then called with AK.
English fellow shows 44.
River K.

For the next half an hour English fellow was whining and complaining about what a terrible call it was and how there are so many donkeys on the table.
After the girl left I tried to calm the man by saying "You got someone to put in all their money with only an 18% chance of winning, you should be happy."
"HAPPY? BUT I LOST!"

Short term players I swear...



Had a nice jaw dropping moment that same night.
$2/$3
Limped round to the button. Button raises to $13. Blinds fold. UTG calls, UTG+1 folds.
UTG +2 raises to $30. Everyone else folds.
Button shoves for $42 more. UTG folds.
UTG +2 says "I guess you have Ace King then" and folds.

The entire table went silent for a good 30 seconds as I slowly pushed the pot to the button.

I was playing a home game a few years back and like allot of the players the guy would get to play were family and close friends of his (we only know him through a friend of a friend). One of his elder family members raised and I shoved for like 30bb or what ever and he tanks for ever and then goes I know you have AA (which I did) then he calls with j-9 or some thing really silly like that. I win the hand and say some thing along the lines of sick read and the guy putting on the tourney and his other family members were like why did you call if you knew he had AA. The guy looks at them as serious as could be and goes if I would have won I would have been a hero?????????????? My buddy and I looked at each other and it was all we could do to keep from laughing. As soon as we left that night it was like the first thing we siad to each other getting ino the car to go home.
The sad thing the whole family is like that the one guy will never raise only limp and call even with AA and theres another that smokes a cigar and will always and I mean always pay you off on the river right after saying well I gotta keep ya honest.
We always try to be as polite as possible cause we always want to be invited back.

Last night I was playing 1/3 NL and I slow play AA from a late position raiser. Flop comes 10 high. I end up pushing on the turn and as I get the money in I say, "I might have played this hand badly" He turns over set of 10's and says, "You sure did"

I ask him if I repop it, would he have considered folding. I already knew the answer because he earlier called a big preflop raise with Q4 and even called all in on flop when the Q flopped, but he was the 2nd caller to the all in. Therefore I know he isn't folding 10's. But he says, "why would I fold the nuts on the flop?" I had to tell him I meant repop pre flop then he says, "depends how much you make it and how much you have left"

Did he really think I would expect him to fold if I repop in after the flop? Mind boggling

Not that bad, but worst play I've seen. Flop is AJT 2spades and sb and me in bb check to maniac, but he checks. River is Js. Sb bets, I raise, maniac calls sb shoves, I shove, maniac calls.

I have KsQ, sb has KQ. Rivers a 4 and maniac shows 44, points to the 4 of spades and says, "I had a flush draw".

1. Don't tap.
2. Don't embarrass the only girl at the table.

Tropicana AC 1/2NL a few months back.

Player A in early position raises to $13.
Player B in BB re-raises to $35.

Player A re-raises to $100.
Player B pushes all-in for $200+.
Player A insta-calls.

Player B insta-flips over AA.
Player A sheepishly shows QQ.

Flop comes out Queen high. Turn and River blank out.

While Player A is raking in the pot, he says, 'I knew you had pocket Aces. I was just hoping to hit a Queen.' All player B can do is shake his head in disgust while pulling out his wallet.

I still don't get why so many people who clearly have some idea of how to make money in poker violate #1. In the incident I posted a few posts up the guy was getting really embarassed, flushed, and was timidly trying to defend himself until I made him feel alright about his play. Did the guy not want the extra $200 or so he got from him? Keep your egos for bragging about it later. Don't do it at the table!

And of course for Rule number 2: telling the girl how badly they played is not going to help you get their number! Maybe offer free coaching...

Asian guy on mad tilt stacks a guy for a full BI with second pair to top trips, it was something like a $500 pot, then he quickly stacked me bvb in a limped pot when i had T 8 when the flop ran 7 9 2 I flat called his first bet then put him AI on J turn he calls with 93o...had $400 in the middle drawing dead

but that's not the funny part

Later he raised a pot got called from some drooler in the small blind...small blind checks a rag flop, Asian guy bets pot, SB calls. Turn pairs the board SB check/calls another pot bet and I could see that he was staring at the board had to put SB on low straight draw he didn't seem to have much of a clue about what he can call from the SB

River puts trips on the board, SB checks, Asian folds without showdown...yes he just folded and gave the money to SB...i still can't get over it I was thinking 9 high was the best hand in a big pot but i never got to see the cards

Pretty much anything ever said or done at a low stakes FLO8 table.

This is an absurd beat that I witnessed.

Game 1/2 NL
Early position raise - $12, 2 callers behind
Flop QQ4
Preflop raisers leads out for $25, player 2 raises to $75, player 3 goes all in for $200, preflop raiser calls $175, player 2 then shoves all in $400, preflop raiser calls

Preflop raiser has AA
Player 2 has KQ
Player 3 has QJ

You guessed it, A on the turn to bail out the donk that can't fold AA for a $1000+ pot.

Absurd to think AA could be good in this situation.

Speaking of AA, I was at a 1-2NL table last week where a guy criticized another player for only open-raising 6xBB from early position with AA. He stated that the player should have raised much bigger, "because if you don't, someone will always call you with KK or AK and then it's a race...."
PS: About an hour later, he open-raised to $85. No one called, and he won $3. (I truly hope that he did this with 7-2 off, but I doubt it.)

£1/£1 game. UTG raises to £3 (lol internet players) UTG+1 and MP calls, I get AA and since they all only have 30bb just put £30 into the pot. UTG calls, as does UTG+1. Now gets round to MP who says he thinks I have JJ and UTG must have QQ so he calls. I flip my aces.

Board runs out 59QJ3. UTG shows KK and mucks, UTG+1 shows TT and mucks. MP shows QJo to scoop the pot.

Yup, he put me on JJ and UTG on QQ and call AI with QJo. He had straight outs?