To be fair, when the old codger calls your 3 bet then calls three streets with bottom bair no kicker and you miss everything, he's kinda right.

LOL, great story! Too much work and too much thought put in the entire act though...is it worth it? Maybe if I am an inspired actor.

Nope - he'd still be completely wrong. Although, he'd probably be right that you shouldn't bet three streets with A high against a passive calling station.

my local casino 1/2 pot limit omaha. hi only

board reads KQ345 rainbow.

Lady reg next to me has 67 in her hand(i had passed) and she says "pot" which was £35. 2 folders and then guy on button re-raises "pot"

Now this lady is faced with a bet of £100 or so and looks at her hand again. After a minute or so she passed.

When the dealer had sent the pot to button i asked her "Kate,I was pretty sure you had the nuts there"?

Her reply "Yes.But he must have had something to bet the pot there".

I love my local game.

Of course it isn't. But that was at least part of why it was so funny. The event required a perfect storm of things to have occured to work to perfection. If you told me to try this sometime, I'd tell you there's no way the entire act is worth it, due to the fact that the opportunity will present itself approximately .000001% of the time, but here it is, working to perfection. Acting like a fish by saying things like "I love T5o, it can make any straight", okay, we all do that from time to time. All the different things this guy did? The over the top acting like a fish? The wrong sized call? And all within one story? Ridiculous.

Plus,the wrong-color chip raise - it was just so perfect. It was done so smoothly - it looked like he really just wanted to call - he obviously did not just come up with this idea on the spot, he had this thing in the back of his mind somewhere.

When you factor in the number of different things that had to occur for this to work - the mark buying the over the top fish act, the mark overlooking the 99.9% reliable tell of calling into an out-of-turn raise = strength, the mark being a rule-nit when it comes to enforcing an apparent accidental raise...truly surreal. Then saying "pretty good for dead money?", and using the phrase "4bet"? I almost died.

If I were to pull the exact move, my aces will probably get cracked.

The real "best part" of this story is that there's someone to relay it to us in a funny and well-told way.

Sure this all sets off warning signs to the observer, but you have to believe when the mark is looking down at KK he has nothing but dollar signs in his eyes when this "fish" looks like he just wants to get in there and gamble. He was too blinded by avarice to realize it might have been to good to be true. If he's buying even 50% of what SB was selling, he could rationalize that SB had QQ or AK.

Had an older guy tell me the same thing....but he only raised AA if he was winning at the time

The other day

"If you have aces or kings, you need to make it 10x pre-flop, otherwise you let hands in like KQ and 33, and they might beat you, it's better to just win the pot right there to avoid a bad beat"

Oh!

Someone shipped it preflop, player calls, and this dude tanks for a bit and then calls as well.

He flips over 32o and says, "I didn't think he had anything."

It was mind-boggling.

two blank cards obv

This just happened a few days ago, I was deep in a local tourney, we were playing 3 handed and I had just taken a horrible beat to be knocked down to just over 1 big blind.

blinds 20k/40k, I am in small blind. Button folds, I shove for a total of 45,000, big blind folds and proudly turns over 2/3 off suit saying "i don't have to call if I know i'm beat!"

How people like that get to a final table let alone top 3 players is beyond me, it probably had to do with his ridiculous suck out, his AK vs dudes KK on a k86 flop, turn A river A obv...

^^^^^
Wow thats bad I had a situation in a tourney the other day. Redic blinds it was a $20 earlybird at a charity event. The chip leader with 11 people left had 12bb lol . The Sb shoves on me I have 4bb and look down at A5clubs. I snap call and lose obv guy not in the hand says wow A5 you should of waited for a better spot you still had alot of chips. LOL donkments

Yesterday... 1/2 NLHE

MP raises with 43o, 2 callers, BB calls with 65o. Flop comes 2s3s4h. BB leads out for 1/2 pot. MP raises 4x the BB's bet. BB gives a weird speech about being in a sick situation and then calls. Turn comes Jd. BB checks, MP checks. River Ks. BB checks, MP bets 1/2 pot, BB says fold but doesnt muck. MP shows his hand (2 pair) and says "yeah I must've had you". Upon seeing the hand, the BB gets real upset and shows his straight and yells "How can you bet on the river without a flush?" When asked why he didn't reraise OTF or bet the turn, BB said it was because he was scared of the flush draw.

$4/8 LO8 last night... older woman says "don't raise preflop because I'm playing for the jackpot and I'm not going to call a raise". Later she says it again "this is a jackpot table, I'm playing for the jackpot so don't raise preflop or I might fold a jackpot hand".

facepalm

obviously she called the raises anyway, and dusted off $100 before leaving.

She could be the sister of someone at my local casino. She insisted it was against the rules to raise if you were the first to enter a pot. The dealer had to call a floor over this foolishness.

1-2 NLHE

5 mins after I sit down the guy to my right says "I always fold the first time I get AA at any table because I never with with that hand..."

This one is not as obvious but it still kind of amused me:

Last week at a 1/2NL cash game there was a regular with $37 in front of him. He went all in a couple times and picked up the blinds (congrats on your $3 sir!). He finally goes all-in and gets called by a better hand and loses. People often do this when they want to blow off their last money and leave (or double up of course) but this guy proceeds to reload for $100 (max. buy-in is $200). This is what I find weird... why blow off your last $35 or $40, and then buy back in short? If he reloaded the $100 before losing the $40, then at least he'd have $140 and could play a bit of poker. Instead he lost $25 on his first hand and was relatively short stacked immediately again.

Sometimes you've just got to scratch that gambling itch.

I have a 300 BB stack playing 1/2 the other night.

I got 36o in the small blind with on a 1st position limp.

I 3x cause I am bored.

BB Bets raises my $6 to $15 with AA, 1st position calls, and now I am getting 5-1.

Flop is 4d 5d 7c

AA's goes all in for like 300, 1st position folds and the fireworks insue!

"Your f'n idiot why are you calling with 36o. If I raise 3x a raise it means I got AA's". Meanwhile I am LMAO.


Granted I am like 8-1 vs his range. I'll gamble with 5-1 and give myself a chance of stacking off on a weak player.

Either Way hilarious.

Wow,
It is hard to think of a way he could've played AA worse.
I guess BB never heard of something called implied odds.

$4/8 limit hold em.... ~45 year old guy wearing sunglasses and running good limps in on the button with AK after 5 other limpers.

Flop KQ9

Guy with AK caps the flop. Ends up winning vs KT and some other draw.

After the hand... "see, I played it good! I let everybody in and didn't raise with it on the button!"

Same guy proceeded to 3 outer me and another player on the river in large pots after he limped his QJo and AJo (expert plays of course) and continued to explain his strategy after every hand. "I raised my AA because I don't want a family pot".

Later after I'm losing and I bet my A8 on a 8-8-7-7-3 board and a different new player shows JJ and folds, I say "yeah obviously I had that beat." Mr. Sunglasses pipes up and says about me to the new guy "he thinks he's smart, he's a real poindexter". I explain that I was just saying it was a good laydown, Mr. Sunglasses says "oh well I didn't mean any offense, I was just making an observation." Wtf?

I haven't wanted to punch someone in the face that badly in a while

Id check the deck

I noticed that 2.

I was playing a $4/$8 game at Sunset Station in Henderson.

I held Q-Q and it was capped 4 ways pre-flop,

The flop was Q-7-2r

I bet $4 into the $40+ pot and everybody folds.

I show the Q-Q and then the old lady next to me says:

"You should have checked, if another Q came out, you'd get to spin the wheel"