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Old 10-03-2007, 04:32 AM
Alex Italics Alex Italics is offline
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Default How can YOU make this call?

Can you turn down pot odds of $1,000,000 to 1? While discussing E.V. concepts with some of my poker buddies, we came up with this situation.

You are playing in a high stakes no limit cash game in a casino cardroom. An aggressive pot is contested by you and a lone opponent with lots of betting and raising both pre-flop and on the flop. On the turn, you push the remainder of your chips into the pot and your opponent calls. The pot is now exactly $999,999. As river is dealt, both you and your opponent notice that you have forgotten to bet a single, lonely $1 blue chip. Your opponent, who is first to act, bets the $1 and exposes his cards. His holding is better than yours.

The challenge is this: How can you find a way to justify making a $1 call into a $1,000,000 pot with a holding that is unequivocally worse than your opponent's holding? Try and come up with a clever (albeit fantasitc) stretch of the definition of "E.V." that allows you to make the call.

Okay, so this question may test your sense of humor a little more than your poker skills, but after discussing it with some friends with some hilarious results I thought I'd pass it on for you to ponder.

Here are some of my favorite answers so far:

IT IS THE CORRECT PLAY TO CALL BECAUSE...

...it may be discovered immediately after you call that your opponent has been cheating with the aid of the dealer and you will be awarded the pot.

...there may be an off-chance that you actually don't understand poker at all (and haven't up until now), and whatever ostensibly inferior holding you have may actually beat your opponent's hand.

...you may, in fact, be dreaming this entire event (no matter how real it may seem), and we all know that crazy and nonsensical things happen in dreams.

I'm dying to hear some creative new responses.

Yours truly,
-Alex Italics
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