Guys OOP checks in the dark, after several times of doing this somebody asks him, "why do you check in the dark?" and he replies "so I can negate your positional advantage"...

Was this Phil Helmuth?

Since when has A9o been a good hand to check raise a nit with?

In a 2-2 game, a calling station on my right raises to $10 only to have a woman on my left on the button re-raise to $25 and he calls. He calls a bet on the flop but then folds the turn. She turns over KK and he says to himself "Oh well. I had two live cards."

TAG VS Whale

Board
259K9

TAG bet the flop and turn, pot is around $200
TAG checks river.
Whale shoves for over $500.
TAG umms and aaahhs for a while then exposes his hand to the table: A4
Whale freaks out asking the dealer if he's allowed to do that, if is hand is dead or not, how its so unfair to expose your hand to get a read.
TAG immediately calls.
Whale shows 96o.

1/2 - guy in early postion raises preflop, I look down at AK and reraise his bet. Flop is A 2 9. He bets and I put him all in as he is severly short stacked. He calls and flips A 9 offsuit for two pair. He then puffs his chest out as if he just pulled a great play. I comment that I'd love to see him play A 9 any day to a reraise and he comments something like, "It was a great call, I flopped two pair. If there wasn't a 9 on the flop I wouldn't have called your all in."
I wasn't about to debate the math/odds with him.

Head 'asplode. That is just beyond words.

Why can't those players be playing in my casino?

Thinking it's a good idea to educate the fish is the most absurd thinking of all.

a guy who plays $40 no limit capped and 5 years later.. prefers the same game and still plays it with a $6 dollar rake.. losing a few k a year


some 16 year old can deposit $40 somewhere and run it up to a few hundo k

Amusing tidbit from one player last night from a 1/3 table (max buy-in $200)...

As UTG+2, she limps AA in hopes of limp-raising. Pot is not raised and she loses about $50 as her AA was cracked. Her logic? "Why raise when there is no money in the pot to fight for?!"

This young kid sits next to me at the 1/2 table Friday. After every hand he tells me what he folded and stuff. He told me he already folded AK preflop 3 times. Obviously i dont believe a word he is saying.

There were to players who were going after each other every hand, one of them raised, the other reraised. The kid showed me AA and threw it into the muck. I couldnt believe wat i saw...

His explanation was that "its best to stay out of their way when their both in a pot" because their just gonna bet you off your hand anyway....

Later in the session he showed me hands like AK, KQs that he mucks preflop...

^^^ This has to be most obsurd.

hilarious!! nice

I was playing at 1/2 at borgata and im the bb with a suited j something and flop is like 345 all spades so i bet like 6 bucks 3 people call then turn is some blank like a 9 or something i bet like 15 and sb is like i flopped it so im thinkin ok he flopped the flush but then hes like i raise flips over a2 off with no spades and says all in then obviously i call since hes drawing dead well later on that night i see the guy and hes like dude you made a real nice call against me lol hard to call knowing you cant lose

After an all in pre flop where qq hits a set on the flop and cracks pocket aces a regular in the game who was not in the hand goes on to explain how he read somewhere that a queen comes on the flop more than any other card therefore pocket queens flops sets more than any other poket pair.

I am not embellising this story and it happened today at the 2/5 at Mohegan Sun.

Most absurd... trying to correct absurd thinking by other players.

Somewhere down the list but not to far from most absurd... I play in a bar tourney every Monday night and on numerous occassions an older guy has stated with pride that he never raises with AK because its a drawing hand. The first couple of times I really had to bite my tongue (see most absurd above). Now I just say "yep, me neither."

Me and a buddy were in Vegas a few years back, and we headed over to the Sahara to play some Pai-Gow. I ran my 100 up to about 280 when we heard the 60$ nightly has 10 more mins to start.. Ok, lets play.

About 80 in the tournament, Mostly regulars who play daily is what I was told.

Blinds where 100-200, and I was sitting with about 10k. UTG +2 or 3 limped, short stack raised to 500, and I look down at QQ in HJ. I raise to 1200, BB calls and so does short stack.

Flop came somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 7 J with 2 spades. The sb takes the initiative and checks and the short stack thinks and asked the dealer when was the break, how much is the pot etc. He talked for about 1-2 minutes with the dealer, and I was getting antsy. After his brief chat with the dealer, he throws in a 1k chip and left himself with 1 100$ chip. I immediately say Im all in, and flip up my QQ.

My cards are face up, and the minute I flipped them I remembered SB was still in the pot. He looks at the board, then my cards, looks at his cards, leans back, counts his chips. He had me covered by about 2000, and said something along the lines of "Well, that changes things, hmmm I think I am going to have to call, how much more is it?" dealer cuts out my chips and says " 8000 more". After hearing that he says, Alright, I call.

Im like, siggh.. Im pretty behind. Shorty turns over AK, and the caller turns overrrrr...

66. I immediately got that yeeeeeeeeeessssss feeling that you get when you win a big pot, and the others at the table got up and starting laughing and talking about it, told the table behind us, and the dealer even leaned his chair back to look. Of course, as soon as the card was burned and one flipped, there was the 6 of spades right there.. and I was gone.

Why did he do it? "Well, it was a big pot, I already had 1500 in, and there were 5000ish in the pot, and when you go all in, the pots closer to 14000. I am pretty sure I have to call this, because if I win, Ill be chip leader (there was still 40ish players in the tourny).

Nice call, guy!!

I think that's 1b below "I'm not scares of him"

I mean aces fold pre flop wtf

Best was when I was on the flop against some guy in a tourney and we get it all in... I had an overpair, he had a flushdraw... so he's gonna win the hand there 1 in 3 times pretty much until he pipes out, "Yeah man- I had to do it, I'm the favorite."

I spoke up, "Maybe, but you're still only gonna hit it one in three times."

He responded with, "No, I get 2 chances to hit a 50/50, that's 75%. Stupid kids and their non-graduating from elementry school."

I explained that each deck has 4 suits so this could only even be a 50/50 if there were only 2 suits. Even then, the draw itself negates a true 50/50 because some of his suit are already on the board.

To which point he was like, "watch and see moron."

Of course, the diamond peels on the river and he pipes up, "Go back to school kid, you're too stupid to make it in this game."

On my way out, I hear a different player pipe up, "Man, that kid was on drugs... 1 in 3?"

Fun tourney hand to bust out on.

^^ That would tilt the **** outta me. I'm getting kinda frustrated just reading it.

After about 5 minutes of senseless talk about which hands are harder/easier to make...

Player A: I think the odds of making a flush when you have 4 cards to it on the flop are 11-to-1.

Player B: Really, I thought it would be a little less than 50/50?

Player A: Yeah, that's the same thing right? Doesn't 11-to-1 equal something like 45%?

i was explaining omaha to a guy and he said "do I have to declare which two cards I'm going to use ahead of time, like announce it to the table?" I was like WTF? but I was nice, I just said "umm, that wouldn't really be much of a game if , like, everyone said what they had, now would it" and he said "well, you could be lying?" I really didn't know what to say. So you had to announce which two cards you have to play like "Ace Spades, King Spades", but then you could lie? I think this guy has played too many home games with 17 wild cards or whatever.

OMG. I forgot. I played in California on a bus. trip last week and got to play some limit hilo and got this gem:

So a guy sits down in a 4/8 O8 game with half kill. And he was like "Allright, hi lo. I loove this game. haven't got to play it in forever, but I used to play it all the time. Seemed like a huge calling station, as he played the first four hands to the turn or river, then this one comes up. Flop is 3 spades. No low cards. Bet, raise, he calls, 3 bet, call, he calls. Turn pairs the board. Original better bets, raise, he calls, original better folds as he knows his flush is no good. River blank. Bet, he calls. Dude flips over the boat (duh?) and Cally McCallerson here flips over ACE HIGH. No pair. No flush (not even a spade like he was cluless and thought he was drawing. Old guy next to him: "What the hell?" and says "Oh, man, I thought he was bluffing for sure."

Dude burned thru like 3 buy ins in 20 minutes. Then left. When he walked back buy, we all tried to get him to set down again

At a (converted to USD) 4/4 game, UTG all-ins blind for about 100. MP calls with 83o.

Well, he was all-in blind, could have anything I suppose.

As I was reading this I thought to myself "damn I've heard people at Mohegan Sun say that so many times about queens." Then I read that it happened AT MS. Must be something in the water....