The Worst Strategy You've Overheard at a Table

[slowplayj]

[ QUOTE ]
There are hot seats.

Like any hot streak in any gambling game like blackjack, roulette, craps there is no set way the cards are distributed.

Seat 3 can have the winning hand 20 hands in a row just like red can come up 20 times in a row. Not believing in streaks is vastly -EV. Moving to that seat may be the only way to get in on the good runs of cards.

[/ QUOTE ]

You're joking right?

[Drew16]

"Never fold hearts. Ask any pro, they come up more often than anyother suit. Its a fact."

[HLS2k6]

[ QUOTE ]
It's actually a 5 and T. Every single straight has either a 5 or T in it.

I played a guy who said that T5 is one of his favorite hands and is surprisingly strong because it 'makes the most straights' obviously completely butchering the original idea.

He was playing 10/20 limit and I've seen him at 20/40 before.

[/ QUOTE ]

I agree with whoever said there might be some leveling going on here.

I've explained to someone at the table on more than one occasion that I think 10-5 offsuit is the best hand at loose, limit holdem games. It takes big hands like straights and flushes to win these multiway pots, I say, and with that hand you can make all the straights and half the flushes.

[ChuckyB]

Overheard at my B&M 4/8 game...

Villain #1: "Would you call a board like that (Q85r) with 44?"
Me: "How much money is in the pot?"
Villain #1: "It doesn't matter!"
Me (to self): "Methinks it's the only thing that matters."


Villain #2 (to me): "Pot odds are, no offence, are something that weak players use to justify their bad calls." Never mind that we were talking about 'implied' odds.

[Degenerasian]

Not the worst strategy, but something that got a little under my skin. Playing 1/2NL at a casino.
Folds to me in LP with 8c5c and I raise to $8. Button calls and so does a short stacked BB. Flop comes
Kc Qc 4d.
BB goes all in for $15, I call and Button makes it $70. I only have $110 at this point so I show and fold.
Proceed to be called "chicken-sh!t" by the 70 year old guy who is 6 buy ins deep, and that I don't know how to play poker.

[DaveyDonk]

A friend of mine that I play in a weekly low limit NL homegame with likes to gamble...bigtime. Anyways, on multiple occasions he has had a flush draw and made humongous overbets all-in when he was obviously beat and was going to obviously be called. The person calling will flip over the nut straight or whatever the nuts are and my friend will say "I know that's what you have". I think ask why the [censored] he pushed all-in then, and he replies "so that I can win a big pot if I hit." Needless to say he's broke as [censored].

[ocdscale]

Tons of leveling going on here.
You're leaving value on the table if you aren't saying this kind of stuff at low limit tables.

[the_casino_kid]

one person called my trips all in, and when i asked him how he called that he said he had 'time outs'... i and the rest of the table proceeded to mock him till we could no longer speak haha

he called with ace high btw

[punkass]

I like repeating all this crap at the table to 1) "teach" the newbies and 2) let them know I might be an idiot.

Man, I want to play poker now.

[GiantBuddha]

In a $1/2NL game recently I saw someone fold top pair K kicker to a short stack shove because he thought the other guy had a flush draw. He actually folded because he believed he had the best hand a didn't want to get drawn out on.