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What's the rarest thing you've ever seen at a live poker table? What's the rarest thing you've ever seen at a live poker table?

01-27-2012 , 12:14 AM
In roughly one orbit of 10 hands at Ballys in AC, I saw the same guy river a set of Kings and then flop 2 more sets of kings and also flop trip aces. He won each hand and on the 10th hand had pocket Aces cracked by a backdoor straight with like (8 10 off) with no other draw or piece (gutter on the river) after the guy with Aces bet hard pre-flop and the whole hand.

I also saw a guy flop a set of aces in back to back hands (and lose the second one to a backdoor flush after checking the flop...standard) and then flop quad aces less than an hour later.

I was in a hand with K 8 suited and a K 8 suited flopped and two others in the hand also had K 8 suited.

I was in a hand at Showboat in AC and a guy had 9 10 on a flop of 6 7 8. All the money went in 3 ways and needless to say he was pretty pleased with himself as he was the only one with the straight. He wasn't too pleased for long though as he was drawing stone dead after the turn. How was this possible??? Turn was the 2 giving one of the guys the nut flush and the other guy in the hand had a set of sixes with the 6 and I folded two spades pre-flop including the j. Brick on river.

Saw a guy play an entire hand blind while not even seated at the table as he was busy cutting some cherry tomatoes that I had brought from my garden. This was at the Hilton in AC when they still had the poker room upstairs. It was like 4 am so the game was a little lax and the dealer let him play it out of his seat. He limped in from the small blind and the flop comes 10 10 3. He says I bet $5 and gets 2 calls. Turn is 9 (rainbow board). He says that had to help me and bets $20. Guy next to act shoves for about $200 and the other guys goes all in as well. Guy cutting tomatoes walks back to his seat and looks at his cards for the first time and say I have to call....I've got the nuts and indeed had 10 9. First shover had A 10 and the other shover had 9 9. Brick on river.

Saw a similar hand at the Hilton where a youngish regular with a bit of drinking problem just took a bad beat and was steaming. He decides to bet $100 in the blind in middle position on the next hand (he still had about $400 left). Old rock sees this and limps in in front of him. The $100 raise stands and old rock calls the $100. Flop is 7 7 J. Old guy checks and tilty drunk bets another $100 and old guy just calls. Turn is brick and it goes check check. River is another brick and tilty guy grabs about another $125 and as he's about to put it in the old guy says I call. Old guy was actually trying to be nice and not take his stack and turns over KK. Tilty guy turns over J 7 for a flopped boat.
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01-27-2012 , 12:58 AM
Was playing at the Trop in Vegas where they let you run it twice or more. Had QQ and raise and get 3 calls. Flop comes 10 J 4. I bet out pretty strong and one guy calls. Turn was the Q giving me top set. I lead out and get shoved on and called ($300 pot). Of course he had A K. We decide to run it twice and the first river was a 6. The next river was a Q giving me quads and a chop. However, I asked to rabit hunt a third river (because we considered running it 3 times) and it was another 6. So if the money had gone in on the flop and we ran it twice, BOTH times I would have hit a set of Queens on the turn giving him broadway and both times the river would have been a 6.

One more from the Hilton in AC. When they still had a bad beat jackpot (and a room for that matter) of Aces full losing to quads or higher. I was in a hand with a friend heads up and I had AA and she had KK. Nothing special happens and I win the pot. VERY NEXT FLOP was A K K. Flop lag cost us $80,000 combined.
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01-27-2012 , 01:45 AM
Limit O/8, I'm in the BB with 4456, 56 suited in hearts.
3 to the flop. flop is 344, i check, bet, call, i raise with quads, call, call.

oh, and 34 on board are suited in... hearts!

turn is 7 hearts, i bet, call, call.

river, is blank, bet, call, call.

they both show A2xx, i take half the pot with a straight flush and quads.
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01-27-2012 , 01:57 AM
Saw some dude win a big pot in 5/10 omaha with quads and a str8 flush on the same hand. One of his other two opponents, that tabled their cards at the end, had a full house. Honestly surprised anyone had any piece of the board after what we all saw he had lol
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01-27-2012 , 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by hang
floor, theres 5 sixes in this deck
Yeah, oops, V had 6x not 66
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01-31-2012 , 12:01 AM
don't have much live experience... so prob not really rare
currently playing poker in hobart, australia during my gap year...

1/2.50 game

6way-limped pot , board runs out AQ753 all diamonds. Get's checked all the way through and dealer has to do a 6way split of a $15 pot and take $1 rake... took her about 10min to split $14 to the 6players...

Also had Quad As Quad Qs and a royal flush in a timespan of 2hrs at that table the same evening
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01-31-2012 , 05:43 PM
Both hands happened at Seneca Niagara around 2005.

At one of my first trips to a casino to play poker, I am playing 5/10 and had been drinking rum and cokes since about 3PM. It is now about 4AM. The table is clearly gunning for me as I am quite intoxicated at this point and splashing chips around. I am pretty sure the only reason the game was going was because I was there. I have about $1500 in front of me and I am dealt 88 on the button. UTG opens for $50, one caller and I call.

Flop is K83r. UTG leads for $100, fold, I min-raise to $200. UTG insta-shoves and has me covered. I call and UTG has KK. Turn x, River 8.

Not that the hand itself is all that amazing, but the entire situation. I started the day around noon playing at a 1/2 table with $100 and ended the night leaving the 5/10 game with around $3500 completely drunk out of my mind. When I woke up the next day, I could not find my car in the hotel parking lot for 10 minutes. I just didn't remember where I parked.

Hand 2 (not the same day) I am dealt JJ in the SB and call a button raise from an old nit. Flop is KJ4 we end up getting stacks in on the flop. Turn is a K. There is a $82,000 BBJ and the table is rooting for a Jack. Well it's a blank and I lose.

Dealer turns over the next card in the deck, a jack.

Last edited by evagaba; 01-31-2012 at 05:48 PM.
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01-31-2012 , 10:41 PM
Playing $1/2 NL at South Point in Vegas. At the time they had a straight flush high hand bonus. Regular kid gets in a hand with a tourist who is taking the game OMGSEERIOUS and is giving people he is in a hand with the staredown.

The spade SF bonus is pretty high and the river brings the third card for it. Reg kid looks back at the JP board and exclaims "Hell yeah! Bout time I got one!" Table laughs since he just gave away his hand. Someone begins to joke with him about it and he is muttering he doesn't care since he gets the mini JP, etc. as hand doesn't have to go to showdown.

His opp does the laser stare bit and bets like 1/3 pot. The reg looks stunned and says "you are betting into me?" Guy is stone faced and bluntly repeats his bet amount. Reg laughs and says "um OK I raise I guess..." Which causes guy to insta-muck.

Kid flips his hand over to be paid the spade SF jackpot and jokes with the guy "why did you bet? I told you what I had..." Guy looks legitimately shocked and is like "Wow a straight flush, what are you gonna do?"

Um, NOT BET might be a start.
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01-31-2012 , 11:46 PM
I was playing 2-4 Limit at Poto in Milwaukee 6 years ago and was dealt A7 on the button. I don't remember all the betting details, but this is what I can remember.

Flop: 9xTJ
5 Players call 2 bets with one being all-in.
Turn: 8
3 Players cap betting, 4 see River(1 all-in)
River: 9
2 Players cap betting

Player 1: JJ for Jacks Full
Me: A7 for 7-J Straight Flush
All-In Player from Flop: KQ for 9-K Straight Flush.
Player 4 who folded at the river said they had TT.

I doubt I'll ever see anything this nuts again. The side pot was bigger than the main(thankfully). I think I got a shirt or something for the Straight Flush too.
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02-01-2012 , 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by evagaba
Hand 2 (not the same day) I am dealt JJ in the SB and call a button raise from an old nit. Flop is KJ4 we end up getting stacks in on the flop. Turn is a K. There is a $82,000 BBJ and the table is rooting for a Jack. Well it's a blank and I lose.

Dealer turns over the next card in the deck, a jack.
Forgot to mention villain had KK in this hand.
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02-01-2012 , 10:41 AM
Saw some guy get cold-cocked at a 1/2 table at the Venetian over Thanksgiving. I was at the table next to them so I don't know the exact details, but homeboy lost his chips, stood up, decked the guy on his left and made for a hasty exit. Can't outrun the cameras though, and the Randolph Air Force MP's were on duty so yeah... busted.
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02-01-2012 , 11:11 AM
I haven't been playing long enough to see anything truly outlandish, but this one was weird in a LOLBAD sort of way.

A few weeks ago at a new card room here in London, 1/2 table. I fold pre-flop when someone raises, 3 others call, so four to the flop.

Flop is AAx.
Check check check check

Turn is another A
Check check check check

River is a J
Check check check check

First or second to act says with a bit of disgust in his voice, dammit, I guess my J was good and flips over Jx for the Aces full boat.

Last to act on the button flips over AT for QUAD ACES.

That's right. The first guy checked a full house on the river, while the button checked trip Aces on the flop and Quad Aces not once, but twice!
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02-01-2012 , 11:16 AM
2-2 game at Jax, FL poker room. I open-limp in MP with 64, folds to SB who raises to 7$, BB calls, I call.

Flop comes Q75

SB bets $12, BB calls. I raise to $40 (with about $80 behind). SB folds, BB shoves all-in, I snap-call.

BB turns over 77

Turn: 7 (I begin pulling out wallet...)
River: 8

BBJ - $160,000. Boom!
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02-01-2012 , 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Dragon Ash
I haven't been playing long enough to see anything truly outlandish, but this one was weird in a LOLBAD sort of way.

A few weeks ago at a new card room here in London, 1/2 table. I fold pre-flop when someone raises, 3 others call, so four to the flop.

Flop is AAx.
Check check check check

Turn is another A
Check check check check

River is a J
Check check check check

First or second to act says with a bit of disgust in his voice, dammit, I guess my J was good and flips over Jx for the Aces full boat.

Last to act on the button flips over AT for QUAD ACES.

That's right. The first guy checked a full house on the river, while the button checked trip Aces on the flop and Quad Aces not once, but twice!
The softplay between regs in all the games here in Detroit would be pretty annoying if i let it annoy me. I can attribute the earlier rounds to slowplay, and i can sorta almost hear the quads guy thinking, "No need to bother betting, no one's going to call me since it will be obvious i've been slowplaying the case ace."

If weak-playing opponents' thoughts weren't weird, we'd never make any monies.
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02-01-2012 , 12:14 PM
At a WSOP ME qualifier at Daytona about three years ago I have 22 in BB. It is raised in front and a call, I call.

Flop 2-4-6. I bet, raised, reraised, I reraise when it gets back to me, it is raised again, player shoves.

I fold. Middle guy hims and haws and calls.

I was up against 44 and 66. So set over set over set on the flop.

(Sick brag I let it go, btw).
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02-01-2012 , 12:35 PM
Home Game .25/.50 NLH cash Player gets Quad 5s (not the dealer) NEXT HAND dealt, same player gets Quad 5s again (not the dealer) Also we use two active decks to speed up the game so two different decks dealt/shuffled by two different players. This must be astronomical odds. Our resident poker math whiz did not want to try to calulate the odds!
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02-01-2012 , 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Bene Gesserit
Our resident poker math whiz did not want to try to calulate the odds!
Should be pretty straightforward, although not do-it-in-your-head simple.

First assumption: You'd post on here if the same player received "identical" quads or better in two consecutive hands, right? The odds against exactly quad 5s twice in a row would be higher than the odds against the same quads-or-better hand twice in a row, of course. But we'd consider quad 4s or a 9-high straight flush to be equally remarkable.
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02-01-2012 , 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by cnall
2-2 game at Jax, FL poker room. I open-limp in MP with 64, folds to SB who raises to 7$, BB calls, I call.

Flop comes Q75

SB bets $12, BB calls. I raise to $40 (with about $80 behind). SB folds, BB shoves all-in, I snap-call.

BB turns over 77

Turn: 7 (I begin pulling out wallet...)
River: 8

BBJ - $160,000. Boom!
congrads... I too recently won a BBJ that went for about $115,000 @ 1/2, quad 3's vs jacks
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02-02-2012 , 04:17 AM
last week, there were two guys to the flop and it was 467ddd, turn was 5d, river was 8d. straight flush on board. They both got hats for the straight flush.
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02-02-2012 , 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by timmay28
congrads... I too recently won a BBJ that went for about $115,000 @ 1/2, quad 3's vs jacks
Charles Town, WV?
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02-02-2012 , 05:14 PM
5 ft. tall cambodian player pulls knife on villain after being check-raised in a large pot.

oh that's not what you were looking for?

my KK vs. villains AQ aipf:
flop: AKQ
turn: Q
river: A
another player at table confirms folding 4th A.
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02-03-2012 , 04:22 AM
no1 tops mine, happened in a $60 donkament at foxwoods and the old floorguy talks about it all the time if u ask him(one with the raspy voice)

The hands: AA 44 53dd
flop: A24ddd
turn:4
river:A

poker table went crazy.
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02-03-2012 , 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark275
in a $60 donkament at foxwoods, turbo 4 way allin on the RIVER!
AA vs 22 vs 44 vs 35dd
Flop: A24ddd(3 people flop sets, 1 flops straight flush)
Turn:2(giving 1 guy quads and the other two fullhouses)
River:4,(giving 1 guy quad 4s and other guy aces full)

table EXPLODED! when all hands were revealed.
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Originally Posted by Mark275
no1 tops mine, happened in a $60 donkament at foxwoods and the old floorguy talks about it all the time if u ask him(one with the raspy voice)

The hands: AA 44 53dd
flop: A24ddd
turn:4
river:A

poker table went crazy.
!?!??! What happened to the ducks!??!
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02-03-2012 , 10:01 PM
Probably remembered it wrong.
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07-25-2013 , 10:54 AM
I flopped 7 sets (holding pocket pairs) in 2 hours of live play. Assuming 50 hands were dealt the odds came out to something like 1 in 34 million
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