We have threads for things we see other people do - absurd thinking, funny moments, etc. But what about the things we are guilty of ourselves?

What's something you've done in a card room that ended up leaving you absolutely mortified?

My story is, I think, rather mild, and I look forward to toppers:

Wake up in late position with pocket tens. I fire pre, flop and turn, board is all cards below 10 with paired 7's. On river the oop caller bets into me. Sinking feeling in my gut, I flat call.

Better says "Two pair". Disgusted, I fling my cards badly, and they rotate onto their edges and roll down the table to the far end where they land - face up - showing my better two pair. (10's and 7's)

So I've misread my total hand (not really paying attention to the paired board just the fact that I have an overpair), then went to muck it, mucked it badly, exposing my misread to the world. Dealer takes cards, pauses, and calls for floor, unsure what to do.

I'm mortified. I say, "I went to muck, but they landed face up, so... I won't argue with the floor ruling whatever it is." Floor comes, dealer tells his recounting, villain makes his statement about how I went to muck, I say nothing.

Floor rules for me. Standard ruling, retrievable hand and all, but I'm still embarrassed as ****.

I posted a thread in here about it a year or so ago. I was facing an 3-bet all-in preflop in a tournament at the Orleans. I was planning on folding and said, "I guess I'm just going to have to go all-in" and simultaneously pitched my cards into the muck. I had omitted the phrase "Next time" from either the beginning or end of the sentence. The TD gave me a one round penalty for it.

Cliffs at bottom, for the TLDR crowd. Sorry I just like to write


Played a really large pot for this particular NL game a few years ago, total pot ended up being just over $6k.

Anyway, table was very deep/actiony so I called an utg raise with 89dd also in EP, bunch of calls behind including a seemingly solid aggressive TAG in the CO (based on few times playing), both blinds called as well. Flop came K53dd and it checked to the CO who stabbed $100 into like $225, folded back to me and i decided to check raise to 375$, he tanked for a good while and finally ended up calling. Turn Td I checked again and he bet 540$ after a bit of thought. I called and the river came Kc. I ended up tanking and finally decided to shove for $2k, thinking he would just check back a K/not pay off a big bet anyway and I basically had the worst possible flush, so thought the board pairing/him not really being able to have a boat it was a decent spot to try and steal the pot vs a better flush.


He ended up tanking for well over a minute and kept muttering to himself, shuffled his cards etc before finally spite throwing in chips for the call. I shook my head said "nice call" and turned around to grab my jacket to get ready to leave. He ended up clapping, fist bumped his railing friend and turned over his cards/threw a tip to the dealer. At this point he turned over his hand which was 62dd.

At that point had to do the "sorry actually you are not good" and I turned over the winner. Got berated by multiple people at the table over the next couple hours, but luckily the other player took it well/didn't steam at all.





Cliffs: slow/nit rolled reg badly in a 1,200bb pot. Learned lesson to always just show immediately or muck when called to avoid being a douche. Also made me realize how crappy I was at profiling other players/picking bluff spots

First time playing PLO so I was somewhat unpracticed in reading PLO hands. I was last to act on the river and it was checked to me and I checked the nuts. Cost me a value bet in a $300 pot.

The other day playing 2/5 PLO, I thought for sure I had flopped top pair and an open ender. I almost always look back at my hand in PLO. I don't remember the exact flop but I think it was 10-5-4. I thought for sure my hand was 10-9-7-6. Turn is a 3 (board is now 10-5-4-3 rainbow). Player in early position bets the pot, I repot all-in for 425 and get snap called by a guy in late position and the opening bet folds. I immediately flip my cards over to show him the nuts...and what do I have....I have 10-9-6-5. Just top two and the other guy has 8765 for the nut straight with the building straight draw (I can't even hit a 7 to chop).

Of course I hit a 10 on the river to scoop the pot, but I felt like an idiot for misreading my hand.

Congrats, you are in the lead- for now

Falling asleep at the table is a really bad one. Hopefully you've never repeated that offense.

A couple times I've "corrected" a dealer who actually was correct. That feels awful. I've apologized and tipped extra the next time I won a pot or at the end of that down.

Last hand before the break at a daily donkament at South Point. I'm on the big blind. One caller, everyone else folds (because they're all 80+ and have to hit the men's room). I look down at rags and go to check, but instead of a normal check, I raise my arm as high as possible and smack the table 2-3 times. Unfortunately for all involved, the dealer got in the way of my last karate chop, and I knocked the deck out of his hand, and the cards fell face up, all over the table.

Floor was called, re-shuffled, played the hand like normal. I'm fortunate no one was around to see it except the one opponent. But uuuuuuuuuuuuugh I get the douche chills just thinking about that one.

Omaha festival tourney, mid stakes.

Down to 2 tables, I have a decent stack and in the bb. Well known pro raises the btn, I call in bb with 7765.
Flop comes AA7.
Pro pots it, I repot, he sigh jams for a little more and I snap.
He turns AKQJ and says, "7's?"
I turn my cards... and my hand has transformed into 7665.
Everyone just stares at me like 'wtf dude!!'
Turn 6,
River 5.
I say nothing and just stack my chips, but inside I'm dying.

The pro, to his credit, took it in stride, said nh, and left quietly.


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You haven't heard the term "wake up with" ?

C'mon Greebo. He's having a little fun with your use of a tired expression. I chuckled at it.

12 years ago I was playing 2/4 LHE and was sharing a table with a guy using a water bottle to empty his chew spit and I accidentally picked up his water bottle and took a swig from it.

Thanks! In my defense I legitimately did think I was smoked when he called. Wasn't trying to be a douche.

Live and learn...

Hmm. I guess I'm just not used to "Joking Rapini"

I'm also slow to pick up on the joke sometimes. One time it took me several minutes, at a whole table with people who could not believe I was serious, to figure out why J4 is the flat tire hand.

On the bubble for final table of a decent regional event. Sitting third in chips, chip leader goes all in, I look down at 93o, said "fold" but threw my chips in the middle instead of my cards for some reason. Tourney director said it was a call. Out in 10th.

It was a while ago, so I don't remember all of the details, but I have twice misread my hand, once in a 2/5 and once in a 5/10 NL game. I ended up three barreling what I thought was the essential nuts both times, when I was actually unknowingly pulling a three barrel bluff, only to have the players lay their hand down on the river.

In the 5/10 game, I shoved for 3K on the river into a $4500 pot, after check raising flop and betting turn. Villain shows and lays down AA on a non flush,str8, paired board. I say, 'Yeah, good fold, I had you crushed' and then showed an inferior hand to his . Villain, and the whole table, looks at me like WTF? as it looked like I was being a complete douche by telling him he was no good and then rubbing it in by showing him a worse hand.

Morale of story - Bluff more in big pots, even if you don't know you are doing it, lol.

Is there an argument here that his verbal declaration was binding, before the chips went into the pot?

long story short, was doing some side betting with another player at the table to pass the time ($5-$10 NLHE) on which cards would be coming on the flop - I look down and have AA in my hand so I do a standard re-raise preflop from BB and get one caller behind. One of my cards on the sidebet hits the flop and I point and say "10" so the other player acknowledges it; I then try to bet pot to make the flush and straight draw possibilities pay, but the dealer enforces by "10" verbal as a $10 bet (into a $200ish pot after my 3-bet and a call). Turn pops the flush so I check player checks then blank on the river so I bet out, he re-raises I call and he shows a weak flush. Granted I dont know that a full pot bet pushes out the flush drawer for sure, but given the other play from him I'd say much higher odds he folds than calls with a bigger bet. maybe not idiotic or all that embarrassing but still, not my finest moment.

Three diamonds hit the board on the flop including the ace. Can't remember the betting really....doesn't matter. But I did make a nice solid bet on the river. And I get called. Yay. Then I flip over K9 of hearts.

pre-poker boom, I moved up in limits and was playing 15-30 at Bellagio for the first time. UTG raises, couple callers, and I look down at my cards from BB. As is the first card, and I squeeze out the second card, which is also an ace (not sure of the suit). I three-bet, UTG 4-bets, others fold, I 5-bet and he calls. Flop is AKx and we go 4-5 bets. Turn is a low card, and I bet, he raises, I three-bet and he calls. River is another low card. I lead and he calls. I announce a set and drop my hand face up a few inches in front of me. The As is on top, and as the cards hit the table, it slides forward to reveal the 4d beneath it. YUP! pre-flop I had squeezed enough to see the point of the "A" but didn't squeeze enough to see it was actually a 4.

Opponent tables AK and drags a big pot.

Not poker related but it happened at a poker table.

I grew up in a predominantly Irish Catholic town and a lot of my friends were from fairly large families with siblings pretty close together. So when I learned the phrase "Irish twins" it seemed purely descriptive to me.

I was at the poker table when an Asian man mentioned his kids were 5 and 4.

"Ah," I commented, "ye olde Irish twins."

"What does that mean?"

Oh ****, I suddenly realized, it's a racist term.

You know those moments when you know someone is about to say something dumb and racist, and you're just waiting to see how dumb or how racist it's going to be? Well, that was everyone at my table.

It was probably just a few seconds but it felt like an eternity. In the end, I just said, "Um, I don't know."

And everyone laughed at me anyway.

playing a small local tourney...laughing carrying on with table mates.
Cant remember exact hand but had a gutshot to a straight flush draw on the turn.
River drops and opponent bets small into the pot. I show the person and the TD my cards and say..."wow...almost got there" and fold face down into the muck, while carrying on conversation with other table mate.
TD and person i showed cards to looked at me and said" you know u had a straight then?"
pull cards out of muck and had hit the gutshot...just not the straight flush
whoops.

Story 1:

During a tourney I was SB sitting in seat 10 to the dealer's right. Blinds were pretty large and we were close to the bubble. I didn't like my hand and was prepared to fold the SB. The entire table (we were 5 or 6 handed) folded to me and I went ahead with my fold. The whole table kind of erupted at me. It turned out the BB (sitting on the other side of the dealer from me) was in the bathroom. I folded to an empty chair.

Story 2: My 4th or 5th time playing in a $1/$2 cash game at the casino. I'm doing well, taking down a lot of pots for like 4 hours. I leave up $300. Dealers come and go, and I'm still there winning. Finally I just want to leave cause its getting late. I start racking up when the guy 2 seats over says "You might want to tip this dealer, because you haven't tipped any others all night long." Somehow....I just forgot to tip. So of course I feel terrible, overtip the dealer sitting there (hoping he will share it with the others, which I'm sure he didn't) and leave embarrassed.

My friend and i (we both are turkish) was playing on the local casino in germany and it was the last hand of the night. I raised the greek guy called. Since there was no one at the table i started to speak turkish with my friend about my hand. I did everything right in that hand, but the guy hero called and said "i can understand turkish". I was shocked and couldnt do anything!!

Wow that's a good subject and we'll all come up with more and more as we mull. Put the question on auto-pilot in the subconscious and it will churn out answers.

For me, other than overlooking winners and even at least one full house ... there was the maybe unbelievable idiocy of folding quads intentionally. In my "defense," it was PLO and the hand was the third nuts. I had flopped quads and it all checked around twice, then it paired the board again (board something like 9-9-J-J-Q, three diamonds). A rock bet out the river and I don't know where my brain was, I was very young thinking about the rule that you don't give free cards then pay off, telling myself it doesn't matter what the hand is as much as its the third nuts in Omaha ... and for just a stab I folded and showed the hand to the guy who bet, who was right next to me. Funny, he never said a word about it. I"ve done worse probably, but I did that for sure.

** Thinking about this now, this was very early in my career and shortly after moving on from wild card games, where four of a kind routinely had to be folded, you know "low hole card wild" games where you could have two or three wild cards and five of a kind was out all the time. So that is probably part of the half-arsed reason I did it. Quads was no big deal.