Ok not absurd thinking but I think this was kind of a funny hand so maybe others can get a laugh.

3 way AI between 2 shortys and the 3rd that has them covered. Board runs out AQ976, the one who has them all covered shows JT as does the short stack that can win the side pot. Then the other shorty mucks his cards. A few of us look at each other with puzzlement. Seriously couldn't take down that pot, but put in a decent amount of money with what exactly?

Did you keep betting or worry that he was trying to stick on 20 with JJ, QQ, KK?

I opened button with J8s,
BB called.

Flop: 1092 rainbow, BB led out for 12 into 16.
Turn 2, BB led for 30...i raised to 75, BB called...
River Ace. He checked, i shoved...he snapped with A3.

His reason for calling the turn: "I had to call, you know, i had the ace! That's the only reason i called. If i don't have ace, i don't call".

There's a small raise preflop and 5 players see the flop. Flop is 933. It checks around.

The turn is a 2. The SB is distracted watching TV. The table waits for a few seconds for him to realize it's his turn, but all of a sudden the button says "All in." He has about 75BB. We tell him it's not his action yet. SB realizes what's going on and checks, then BB checks. I check. Then the guy on my left says "All in." for like 60BB. We tell him that the Button's action will be binding if it's checked around, is he sure he wants to bet?

He says yes. Button thinks for a few seconds, shrugs, and folds 55 face up. Guy on my left lets out a sigh and shows 33 for flopped quads. He got so excited about having a big hand he just couldn't control himself.

When we asked him why he bet instead of checking, his response was, "Well, you never know what the other guy could have, I wasn't sure if he'd call."

O_o

I have absolutely no idea how his "thinking" led him to shove with quads against someone who would have been obligated to put their whole stack in the middle had he checked. Even if button hadn't shoved, it's still doesn't make any sense. Guess he just couldn't handle the pressure.

I saw a guy overplaying a heart flush draw say "They say you gotta have hearts to play this game!"

final board 25678dddd...player 1 goes allin(playing 1 hand every 2 hrs, player 2 calls and sees player 1s A9dd in his hand, player 2 shows 2 black aces and is like"i had to call!.. i had aces" looool

Playing PLO and nice guy (but clueless Omaha player) announces that he'd fold AAKK preflop because "it's really bad hand....you don't have anything to draw to, you are holding all your own outs." And he was dead serious. Yum yum!

Not so much a thought process, but something that pisses me off to the maxiumum...

When there is a fishhh in the BB and he see's people throwing £1 in as a call, when it gets to him he doesn't thinks he must do the same thing so throws in £1. Obviously once he does this and realises he raises he cant change his decision or even admit he didn't mean to since he'd look like a dick.

Just costs me an extra BB and 30 seconds of my time when I wanna see a cheap multi way flop.

If this happens often, you want to be in this game regardless of 1BB or 2BB flops. I don't understand how you're often in that situation for many reasons, though.

Playing in a 1/2 game last night. Straddle and about 5 limpers. Button does a min. raise. SB calls, BB calls as does the limpers that put their money in initially. Gets to CO who raises to $36 and button comes along. Flop comes 9 high not drawy, and CO check folds to a $60 bet. After the hand their was discussion and CO says they had a big pair, but had a "feeling" they were beat. Button definitely bets any pot checked to him unless he has the set.

Standard old passive guys in 3/6 limit game...final board reads 4sThJh9dQh...headsup and after the 5th raise and a ton of murmurs about a badbeat possibility, button finally just calls. Villain says 'I got the straight flush, do you have it?' and tables...Kh9h... Then everyone's attention goes to button thinking by some miracle he has a badbeat hand...He of course tables Ah5h...and everyone let's out a big sigh...

ummm....what hand could he possibly have that would qualify for a bad beat??

lol...did you miss the thread title?

That was the point.

Last night a guy to my left suggested that if you ran all pre flop hands against each other a million times Q7o would win the most money because it is "the middle hand and can get luck against the big hands the most and stay good against the bad hands the most. It has to because it is right in the middle."

One thing that annoys me so much though is all of my friends agree that dragging chip into the middle at the end of each betting round is "stupid". Instead all the chips a player has put into the pot stays in front of them for the whole hand, whether they've folded or not. There is no central "pot".

Absurd thinking in my opinion, they looked at me like I was an utter idiot when I suggested that we collect the chips as a pot in the middle.

The casino by me if someone acts out of turn he would have to put whatever his bet amount was or up to that amount if player in turn bets less, and if player in turn checks he has to check. The bad thing is I know the stupid rule and still checked knowing I had the best hand thinking he would have to put his bet back in.

This chestnut has quite a history, the poker equivalent of an urban rumour--but I haven't heard it in quite a while. Q7 is called "the computer hand" and you can find various explanations of why if you search 2+2 or online more generally. I remember being told, in 1992 in the old nofoldem Toronto charity games, that a computer simulation had shown that those two cards won more than any other two starting cards. (That's palpable nonsense and other explanations--that computer simulations had simply shown it was the "median" hand in holdem--are somewhat more understandable if still not accurate.)

But a lot of players in those games gave that notion some credence and wouldn't fold that hand for 3 bets. (Of course, it was all limit back then.) You learned to be careful when the flop came down Q7x or 77x.

I think I have one.... not most absurd ever, but very recent.

OE 6/12 @ Parx
Omaha 8 round, I have JJ88 and the flop is KKJ. In MP, I bet, BTN calls. Turn blank, I check, BTN fired, I check raise. River blanks, I fire, BTN calls. I show Jacks full, BTN tells me that I should only be betting the nuts. It would have been easy to pair his kicker to make Ks full.

I told him I understood and raked the pot. I didn't tell him that if I'm supposed to have the nut to bet, why is he calling with trips?

If you're going to play in this game you really need to be on the lookout for players shorting the pot and/or palming chips back after the fact. This setup is almost certainly for that purpose.

good example, calling in MP with JJ88 in O/8 is pretty absurd

Couple nights ago a guy folded second set on the J92 flop when he was three-bet and showed it as he did, saying he was 100% sure his opponent had flopped top set. His opponent didn't show, but claimed that yes, he did have top set. (yeahright.)

But that sparked a long and repeated discussion over folding big hands with one guy in particular going on and on about it. Somewhere in there he asked if anybody had ever seen anything like this.

I mentioned a hand I'd seen a while back where a guy folded top two pair on a two-suit flop to a small bet, proclaiming "I feel a flush coming". I thought I was presenting an example of bad play. But the guy who had just folded his set pipes up and says "YES! EXACTLY! I do that all the time! Sometimes you just get a feeling a bad card is coming and you have to get out of the way!"

The guy who was giving Mr FoldedSet so much grief pretty much shut up after that with a "oh... now I understand" sorta look.

Everyone in the game are good friends, cheating shouldn't be an issue. It's only a £5 SnG anyway.

Their reasoning for not having a central pot that it is easier to see who is in the pot by how many chips they have placed in front of them. So the betting round will end and they'll go "right everyone who called should have X in front of them, yes? Right let's deal the the next card".

I suggested doing it the 'proper way' and explained why their way was more confusing and they didn't agree, so I just let them do it however they want. It's all in good fun anyway.

At a 1-2 table right now, a player got aces cracked by 7-9 when they got it in on a 10-8-8 board and a jack hit. Shortly after, the three players to my right concluded that aces around 42% to win against a random hand PF(I think they meant the random hand is 42%, but who knows)..unless it's up against another pair, in which case it's '87-point-something' percent

i know a guy who has been playing $40 no limit for 7 years... he is broke as **** and has been playing that silly game for that long

he has no clue.. kinda sad really

anyways he has horrible etiquette.. you would think by now he would be somewhat of a smart player..


anyways he always asks.. "all hands dealer"


when question about it and if he knows truly what the rule meant he replies...

"its ok to ask one time an hour to gain information"

i'm surprised he hasn't crossed the wrong person yet