I have schizophrenia man I only leave the house to go to the hospital, catch up with mates or go to the movies and or beach
I spend most of my day playing online because it gives me structure like my old job use to

As Kelvis pointed out, you started the hand with 50 BB, and have put in over half of YOUR stack on the flop already. How does it matter if he has $25,000 behind?

And even if you weren't short stacking, let's say you have $10,000 on the table. There's $325 in the pot. How much would be the minimum he could jam for that you would fold a set of tens on the flop? Is there any conceivable world that his $140 could have mistaken for that amount?

c'mon man it was like my 4th time playing live I was trying to count his chips.
I don't call until I know the amount by the time I said call I didn't even know the amount still.

No one was annoyed at the table - you guys seem to be getting more annoyed then the table was.

Everyone was fine with it. relax guys

I would have called any amount imo

I'm not annoyed, I'm trying to point out the live etiquette. And hard for you to say no one at the table is annoyed when you yourself have said a huge thing that stops you from playing live poker is the slow pace. Things like someone taking 30 seconds to count chips when by their own admission it doesn't matter because they "would have called any amount" contributes greatly to that slow pace, which then runs players off from live poker.

GL to you.

This. Folks, stop derailing the thread by nitting up people's stories. Strategy/etiquette analysis is not what this thread is for.

ever been to a casino game where you have 30 seconds to act?

I took that much time man.

Gl to you 2

Nice that you caught a hand early and hopefully you can work your way past some of the things that make you uneasy in a live game. There are plenty of points and sub-points in your story that I'm not going to touch them in this thread. It's good that you understand yourself and can remove yourself from uncomfortable spots. The worst thing you can do is sit there with scared money that wont allow you to play your best and create more anxiety in your life. It's interesting at how an 'auto' spot at one stake changes when the $$ is higher. You could've been behind or been sucked out on and only you know how your mind is going to react. Hopefully you can play more live a little bit at a time. I think it will be good for your health and possible your pocket as well! GL

I didn't, but dasypygial is even more obscure.

I love the inverse of that story: Where the guy is facing a river shove, tanks for three years, FINALLY folds showing NOTHING and proclaims, "I missed" / "I couldn't call anyway".

This is part 1 of 2.

I was playing limit the other night and this guy kept slow rolling everyone. Not super blatant, just enough to be annoying. He was always reluctant to show, even when it was on him to show first, and at times display the best hand or the nuts.

I raised pre with QQ 2 callers. Bet a J high flop and he calls. J turn I bet he calls. River is a low card I bet he calls. I turn over the queens and he says "you're good, you are so good" and then turns over J8. I say I guess I wasn't good and he says "oh I thought you were".

I waited the rest of the night to slow roll him and never got the chance. Hopefully I get the opportunity here in the near future and I will add part 2 of 2 to this story.

Obscure indeed: I get only 2 search results when I Google that word.

Try "dasypygal," without the "i."

Let it go. Not slowrolling him is the way to go. Trust me it will feel better.

Hopefully you'll call with a super strong hand (instead of raising) just so you have the opportunity to be childish and immature?

Good players rarely get to slowroll because they're spending most of their time fastrolling as last aggressors or fastrolling when they catch opponents at the bottom of their range.

Great story - Enjoyed that

Not gonna lie, I've lost money doing this. lol

People who get tilted this way (and yes it is tilt when one person is determined to "get back" at someone else) are some of the best people to exploit.

I think this story belongs here.

I was playing on the strip many years ago at a crowded room. This room was very strict on foul language and there was a player at the next table that just couldn’t stop himself from dropping the f-bomb every other sentence. After a couple visits from the floor he was asked to leave.

This didn’t go over well and he stood up and towered over the 60+ year old, 5’6 floor man and demanded that if he had to leave than the floor needed to get him a rack. The entire room has come to a stop at this point and is watching the scene play out.

The floor looks up at this guy and says “you can go get a rack yourself”. The jerk ***** his arm back like he is going to hit him and does the half-punch, made-you-flinch thing but without the expected results. The old floor man didn’t even blink and the jerk walked over to the counter and got a rack.
This was pretty great by itself but as the jerk was walking to the cashier he had to get one more f-bomb in and told the floor what he could go do to himself.

Enter drunk vigilante from a different table. Some random dude stands up and yells “YOU CAN’T TALK TO HIM THAT WAY” and proceeds to knock the jerk out cold.

Chips went flying and the foul-language jerk could be heard literally snoring on the ground because the entire room was dead silent. Vigilante sat back down for all of five seconds before security was pulling him up and taking him away.

I have a similar story.
No poker hands... but pretty funny:
*****
So... I'm at an upscale room playing 1/2 on Saturday around noon. Most people have been there a while although I had only recently arrived. One guy looked pretty drunk/tired and was playing pretty loose and cursing but not aggressive. Kind of a.... HappyDrunk.

After loosing a few hands.... I watched HappyDrunk metamorphosize into AngryDrunk. He started berating a player mercilessly and pelting him with f-bombs. The dealer calls the floor-guy who listened to the story... took one look at AngryDrunk and gave him a 30-minute penalty to cool off. The floor-guy walks back to his station and AngryDrunk follows him and get's in his face (nose to nose) telling him he can shove his 30 minute penalty right up his etc etc. AngryDrunk then returns to the table, picks up his half-empty beer bottle and throws it a good 20-25 feet at the floor-guy. It misses him but almost hits a player at another table. Several security guys arrive quickly and the floor-guy tells AngryDrunk that he's going to jail.

AngryDrunk starts collecting his chips and begins to walk away but security is in his way. AngryGuy pauses for second...slowly looks around... steps to the side...and then... (amazingly)... makes a run for it! I think the security guys were so surprised, they let him get a few steps ahead before (like an old "keystone cops" movie) gave chase through the poker room! AngryDrunk might have had a chance to escape had he just been "Angry" but his inebriated state coupled with probably 12+ hours of poker playing were not conducive to an athletic gait and he slips on the polished floor just outside the room sending hundreds of chips in the air... and gets gang-tackled by security.

Wonderful theater!

Great stories Laughlin and Lunkwill!

Re: my desire for a revenge slow-roll, I think Rich and Call are right, guy had just gotten under my skin. No need to stoop to that level.

I can't read this without hearing Yakkity Sax (Benny Hill theme)

Grand Victoria Elgin IL about two years ago

It's August and the Bears are in a pre-season game and Cutler is being Cutler, all the tools but missing the intelligence. This generation's Jeff George.

Packer fan on my left starts ripping him.
Now mind you, I'm not a big NFL guy, I live for college football, so I really dont have much dog in this fight, but I cant let this go since he just wont stop.

After he shreds Cutler for about 20 minutes I look at him and go, "dude, your team went from one Hall-Of-Famer to an even better Hall-of-Famer at QB. You'll be the only team in history to have a 30 year run of Hall-Of-Fame quarterbacking. So to pick on the Bears is just pathetic."

He just laughs it off and says, "draft better" not realizing that GB didnt draft Favre and Rodgers was the 24th pick (GB loved him so much they waited and waited and never moved up to nab him)

About 15 minutes later he and his friend (Who is on my right) are noticeably annoyed that the table is fairly tight, (We're playing 2-5) and I flop a set, he flops top two pair, as we are getting it all in, his friend says out loud "yessssss!" and my set hold up and I stack him.

Yes, the Bears still suck, but the lesson is this, dont be a jag. When you have the best 30 year run of quarterbacking in the history of the NFL you're not allowed to pick on other teams. It's like the hot chick making fun of ugly people. Not cool.

I think everyone knows this.

Packers fan here, can't us Packers and Bears fans just get along and rip on the Vikings fans instead?

Not for a couple years at least. The North has a new top dawg!