You could argue not enough players take that approach.

Nope. He showed the case ace and said "I figured we were splitting but had to bet in case you thought a king or 2 was good"

People play with bad odds. Hardways get bet all the time on craps. You can explain that a pass+ odds is better but they dont give an f, just give me 66.

Was playing a $330 tourney and this OMC has QJo UTG and limps

Flop is AxKs10s and it checks around. Turn is a blank and he shoves about 16000 into a 1000 pot and everyone folds and he shows.

I say "wow, you really wanted that pot". He replies "I had to do that, I don't want to see a spade on the river". I just reassure him that it's true and it was the only way to play the stone cold nuts. He also said it couldn't be a chop because nobody would ever check the flop, after he just checked the flop.

Guy on the Poker Forum wasn't sure if getting it all in on 332 flop with 22 was good or not.

20 mins into a new 5/5 game starting.
UTG straddle for 25
UTG+1 raise to 75
MP 3-bets to 200
CO shoves 325
UTG <straddle>folds
UTG+1 shoves 525
MP calls about 480

Board 9 T 8 2 6

UTG+1 shows AA
MP shows KK
CO shows KJ and gives the ol' "thats the best hand i had all night" speech.

"Nobody is gonna call if I raise so there's no point."

Bingo. I actually heard this one once in a Casino game. Guy asks the lady why she called with the nuts, she said he'd just fold if she raised -_-

Lets chop so the house doesnt rake.
How about play poker and maybe just fold the small blind if you are too weak to bet? Same result house doesnt rake on nonsense 4 dollar 1/2 hands, but leaves opportunity for heads up play.

Most places are not "no flop, no drop", so you raise from the SB, he folds, and the dealer rakes half your profit.

But, hey, just let the table know you don't chop and your problem is solved.

I play at a place that rakes $5 out of the first $20 in the pot (3$ rake 2$ jackpot drop) and another $1 more at $30 and $40. You bet your ass I'm chopping bvb pots at 2/5, where even if I steal it HU my potential win preflop is only $3, and a standard raise/call pre puts 17% of the preflop pot into the drop

A short-stack went all-in without looking for 20 BB.

After doubling up, he bragged that his play was a "semi-bluff" because not knowing his cards meant he could be bluffing or not depending on whether he had a good hand.

That reminded me...I checked a weak pair, the other player in the hand min bets, I read him as just trying to grab it so I call. The river the card was lower than my pair, I check, he min bets, I call. We turn our cards over and my weak pair beats his nothing. He says to me, "You played that wrong, if you bet I would have folded and I wouldn't have lost anything."

That's an interesting variant on the good old "if only everyone played poker the way they're supposed to i would win".

Playing 2/4 LHE at Bestbet in Jacksonville when super loose/passive gramps checks back a boat HU on the river. Lady next to him asks why he didn't bet and he replies, "If I bet, he would have folded." At this same table I am informed that "when you win a hand, you are 62% more likely to win the next hand." Lol, wut? I just smile and nod, acknowledging their 'wisdom' while scooping pots.

Even though his take on the definition is incorrect, his usage of the word semi bluff was correct. Can win pot outright or at showdown

A dealer the other day was bragging about how he folds pocket aces preflop 3 times this year? He said it worked???

You missed what I was saying, I think itd be better if the small blinds with weak hands would just give up pre. If they have a betting hand then bet it and play poker. If everyone did that like they all do chops then the giving up small blinds thing would equal itself out like chopping. But you would be able to play heads up, and not fold nut vs second nut hands, instead of the stupid chopping.

I'm sure it worked...he didn't lose hist stacks on those hands, did he?

For anyone on The Poker Forum Facebook group, this Carlos Martir is an amazing character. Boasts about how much he wins (he claims $100-$125/h on average at 1-2, 2-5 and $70-$150 MTTs, also that he wins about half of all MTTs he enters) but then posts the most ridiculous things that suggest he is barely a winning player. Maybe the competition in Florida is that bad.

Cracking stuff worth a read if you're on there.

I have played with him many times, I think he was offering advice. I believe he was trying to say if he hit a pair on the turn I would have lost so I should have made a bet to get him off the hand. I was first to act, the blinds were up there I had a weak low pair, I wasn't going to bet it. His weak bet made me think he had the same low pair or nothing so I called. If I had mid or top pair I would have bet but not a very weak low pair.

Playing a random nightly tournament at Golden Nugget Atlantic City, $85 buyin guy playing super tight guy gets into conversation with me about "high stakes games" in the "city" that he has played in New York. Tells me one night he was playing a 5/10 NL game and he bought in for $2,000 and got up to $3,000 then won a 3 way allin with AA vs two people's KK and he claimed he had close to $10,000 on the table. He said the exact next hand he raised to $500 (50xBB raise lol) with the same two suited aces and the same two people went allin for over $9,000 each both covering him.

The most absurd part of the story is coming. He claimed he said something along the lines of "there is no way these are holding up two times in a row" before mucking face up and showing the two allin players how much respect he was giving them. He then immediately cashed out somewhere between $8,000 and $9,000. He was never invited back to the game again because they didn't want his "action."

"Sorry. You did the right thing. I just figured I hadn't hit a straight in like a month, so..."

Couldn't he at least have shown his cards before calling and asking "want to run it 3 times?". They're not going to say no if they can get a shot of at least some of the pot.

Had a player defend his airball hands as an investment by trying to tilt players with suckouts so that he can get paid off later. Pretty sure I saw him breeze through $500 without ever capitalizing on his loose image.