Here--let me show you a card so you know you are ahead...
 

New one tonight. It's heads-up on the river with a board something like 389T3 and player A bets $40 into a $50ish pot. Player B goes all in and has player A covered for about $240 more. Player A goes into the tank. After a minute player B helpfully says "here...I'll show you one...pick a card". Player A perks up and says "that one". Good to his word, B turns over that card revealing a 5--a card which cannot be of any value whatsoever. Player A does a double take and happily says "I call" and turns over Q3 beating his opponent's 53.

This must be some new sorta strategy they teach in one of the poker books I haven't read yet.

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This must be some new sorta strategy they teach in one of the poker books I haven't read yet.

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It is not in a book, I think they saw it on TV.
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I want to say, "Aw, come on, you made that up!"

...but you can't make up stuff like that.

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Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

Good story

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What? You haven't seen Jamie's new book, dvd series, and online instructional workshops?

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What was the table talk afterwords?

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What was the table talk afterwords?

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"I had top top. You know me why would you call that"

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What? You haven't seen Jamie's new book, dvd series, and online instructional workshops?

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lol - yeah, lots of blueberry fueled Jedi mind tricks in there

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Saw it on the Stu Unger movie. But the guy who did it knew what he was doing. Don't remember the details-Holllywood. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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What was the table talk afterwords?

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The loser was still at the table and people were polite and didn't discuss it in front of him. But this was the beginning of his fall. He'd sat down with $200, and played loosey-goosey and run it up to $700 in about an hour hitting hard almost any two cards he played. Then he lost this hand with 53o. 20 minutes later he played another hand, again with 53o into a preflop raise and turned a straight only to lose to a flush on the river, sucking another $200 out of his stack. He went on monkey tilt and flushed away his last $200 within another 10 hands by trying to make 2nd pair and worse pay.

Once he left 'bout the only thing said was from the winner who said he couldn't remember ever receiving a gift quite like that at the poker table.

If I had been Mr. 53o, and my opponent had pointed at my kicker, I would have looked disappointed, said "oh...I can't show you that one because you'd see what a crappy kicker I have--I'll have to show you this" and turned over the 3. (Well...I wouldn't have said ANYTHING at all, actually, if I was Mr 53o, because I almost never engage in such tactics, but if I HAD shown one card, it wouldn't have been the 5.)