If that's the most absurd thing you've heard at pub poker you should try to find a better game.

Fun home tourney, I raised preflop with A7o on the button and get one caller. Flop comes down T77, I bet and get called, turn is a low blank, he checks, I move all-in for about 1/2 pot and he calls. As I turn over my cards, he winces and says "oh man, didn't think you had that" and flipped over QJo

This one happened the other day...not the most absurd, but pretty high up there.

Player on the button raises pre-flop. 3 people call. On the flop first player bets huge, second raises, third goes all-in. Player laments..."This is why I hate being in bad position. If I was in better position I could have just gone all in!" He showed me 2 8's on a 2 suited board of 10 K A. I was horribly confused.

1/2 game in Foxwoods. 6 people are in a hand by the river, the board reads K10JAQ with no flush possibilities. One guy pushes all in for $650, the guy next to him goes into the tank for like 3 minutes, then eventually says "nice bet" and mucks. Then 3 more people fold, and only one guy calls. They chopped a nice $120 pot 2 way instead of 6.

Heard a guy say after the cards are turned up, "damn you have me out kicked" when there was a straight on the board and both were playing the board.

good one!

i'm sure there thinking was "I don't wanna pay the rake"

Player limps in early position and says "I hate this hand."
Another player asks "Why are you playing it then?"
"Well, it's not a bad hand, I just don't like it."

He mucked on the flop, and once the hand was over another player asked what the hand was.
"J8"

I was playing in a 100NL game in SoCal and it was about 7 regs and 1 guy I never played with. They were all pretty bad players, but this one new guy was REALLY bad and this really solidified my reasoning for it.

A hand begins the kid in EP folds and we have like 6 limpers to the flop, I am on the BTN w/ KTo. Flop comes K65 two spades. BB leads out for 25 into pot of 13 and I raise him ALL-IN (I have him covered). Pot is now 163 and BB has ~100 behind. BB tanks for literally 2min and then mucks face up 78 spades. He has 14 outs twice and says "I wasn't getting the right odds to call that". THEN THIS NEW KID STARTS TO EDUCATE MY FISH, I'm thinking WTF....

The kid asks, "But if you have 15 outs then you're mathematically ahead and odds wouldn't matter, right?" And the BB explained how he just didn't get it and you ALWAYS need pot odds when on a draw. The kid started to turn a little red. And starts to make BETS with MY FISH (who all firmly believe it's impossible to have more than 16 outs) that he can think of a situation with 21 outs AND THEN TELLS THEM without a bet. They disagree and ARGUE with him and HE STILL insists on educating my FISH - where the f*** did this guy come from??? At least he dumped like 6 buy-ins before he left....

LHE, player cold calls 3 bets pf and then open folds 10 2 os on the turn and says "it works for Doyle"

Not necessarily in LHE for a raised pot pre, but overall in all forms of HE this is extremely common, tons of moron fish are obsessed with T2o. I've mentally churned out an insatant over-under while in the box on number of Brunson comments that are forthcoming anytime the flop is TT2.

AKQJ10 Rainbow Board

Seat 1. "all in"
Seat 2. "i'm All in"
Seat 3. "someone has to have a straight, I fold"

Somehow this is pretty common, amazingly the people who say this manage to drive themselves to the casino.

Also, on ANY paired board the BBJ chasing fools start talking about THE BAD BEAT and WHAT A BOARD, BAD BEAT POSSIBLE. A2289 IS NOT A BAD BEAT BOARD!!! STFU!

If the jackpot is aces full beaten its possible.

If the jackpot is aces full of Jacks or higher then no its not.

Depends on the casino.

I was playing a home game with a few mates and I flopped a straight but he thought I was bluffing so anyway we end up going all in and I won but when I asked to see his cards he ripped them up and mentioned the rule we had which was if the cards are damaged the hand is canceled.

Needless to say we looked through the rest of the deck for the 2 missing cards...

Bad sport!

Why would you do that?

Numerous occasions of people calling a river raise/bet on the end with something close to the nut low because they thought I might be bluffing.

Also numerous counts of people explaining that the small blind is the best position to be in, because you always get to act first after the flop and can force anyone out with a big bet. It's also cheaper to call the BB that from anywhere else, apparently.

I'm not an expert, by any means, microstakes MTT/SnG grinder studying the game and looking to learn, but I can't help but laugh at things like that.

Who's the bad sport?

I know a player who thinks he is perpetually "in position" or "has position" on his opponent when explaining why his opponent played the hand wrong.

When first to act: "I can't believe you called my bet on the turn with your pair of fours. You know I had position on you and you would have to call another bet on the river."

When last to act: "I had position so I could call your bet on the turn with my pair of fours and I knew you'd lose all your money if a four came."

LOL!

this is like the 4th or 5th post about making a 9-high straight with T5 - any of you ONLINE REGS rady to play LIVE yet?

This was at a live home game... not at the casino but it's worth it for the double whammy.

Fairly early in the tournament, I'd just lost a good size chunk of my stack to set over set a few hands ago... I think I had about 13 or so bb left.

Anyways, the cards are dealt and with 4 limpers to me I wake up on the button with Kh Jh and raise it 3x bb. The blinds fold and the limpers call.

Flop comes down 9h 2c 5s
It checks around to me, and I check.

Next card is the Qh.

Checks around to me again and I shove for my remaining 9bb or so. It folds around to the final limper who thinks hard about it and eventually calls (roughly 3/4 of his stack).

He turns over 7c4c... very puzzled I turn my cards over and ask him why he called....

Him: "I thought you were bluffing"

Me: And you called me down with 7 high?

Him: Well we both have 6 outs!

Me: ...

He of course ends up hitting his 4 (non-hearts) on the river... good thing they allowed re-buys.

Raising to 3x over 4 limpers for 1/4 of your stack with a crappy holding? Poor live thinking indeed...

Good spot to shove, though.

Raising 3x over 4 limpers in a live game is building a nice pot for somebody else.

The guy was actually right, he calculated his outs perfectly and decided taking slightly worse odds because he probably wanted to gamble. Even though it was a mathematically incorrect call, he read the situation well and was aware of his chances.

What is absurd is your play. What exactly are you trying to achieve by raising it to 3x with 4 limpers? There is now 18 bb in the pot and you have 9 left. You are basically pot committed against 4 opponents, and you will flop complete air 70% of the time = not a good situation to be in. As you can see your raise wasn't even enough to drive out the 4,7. And indeed he made a correct preflop call bcs of the odss he was getting even with a 4,7. Theoretically he made less mistakes in this hand than you did.