The Worst Strategy You've Overheard at a Table - Page 23

KurtSF · #**221** 05-08-2007, 07:58 PM

What I have learned from this thead:

To most people the phrases "coinflip", "race", and "50/50" can be translated as "I have outs."

Also, if it is a "coinflip", "race", or "50/50" situation, that is if someone has outs, then they mustn't fold their hand, LDO.

allbad · #**222** 05-08-2007, 08:18 PM

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Also, if it is a "coinflip", "race", or "50/50" situation, that is if someone has outs, then they mustn't fold their hand, LDO.

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Ain't this the truth. Last Saturday for instance: battle of the blinds, late in a tourney. I call in SB, BB checks. Flop is 3 hearts, not connected; I check with two black overs, BB checks. Turn is a black 3, I go all in and we've got similar chipstacks. Old WW2 vet thinks about it and thinks about it then finally calls with a 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. River pairs one of my cards... but gives him the flush. "I knew that heart was gonna come".

pepeman · #**223** 05-08-2007, 09:54 PM

I don't think anyone can beat this. Playing a live tournament here in Venezuela, the buy in was $1500 with 200 players. I got eliminated and was watching another table bc a friend was in it. On to the hand:

There were like 10 players left to enter the prizes. The action goes like this: Preflop UTG raises, UTG+2 reraises, player in mid position goes all in, buttom all in, UTG folds, UTG+2 calls.

UTG+2 shows AKs, mid position QQ and buttom 42 off suit and all the table was like WTF!!???. The ace comes on the flop and the guy with 42 makes a straight on the turn... After the hand the guy proceeds to explain his logic as to why he went all in, he said "there was too much action preflop, so I figured my opponents had all high cards, hence there are a lot of low cards left on the deck. I knew the board would help me, I actually thought I was going to catch 2 pair at least" Needless to say, the moron was eliminated 1 place from the bubble.

Dima2000123 · #**224** 05-08-2007, 10:08 PM

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I had a guy at a live table on Sunday who every time he had a flush draw after the flop, would call any bet, then flip his cards over and state "it's a coin flip".

I thought he was joking the first couple of times, but after the 5 or 6th time and calling huge post flop raises, it finally sunk in that he was completely serious.

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It's fairly common sense, actually. You have to hit one out of four suits, and you have two shots at it. You're 50% to make your flush.

knicknut · #**225** 05-08-2007, 11:17 PM

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I don't think anyone can beat this. Playing a live tournament here in Venezuela, the buy in was $1500 with 200 players. I got eliminated and was watching another table bc a friend was in it. On to the hand:

There were like 10 players left to enter the prizes. The action goes like this: Preflop UTG raises, UTG+2 reraises, player in mid position goes all in, buttom all in, UTG folds, UTG+2 calls.

UTG+2 shows AKs, mid position QQ and buttom 42 off suit and all the table was like WTF!!???. The ace comes on the flop and the guy with 42 makes a straight on the turn... After the hand the guy proceeds to explain his logic as to why he went all in, he said "there was too much action preflop, so I figured my opponents had all high cards, hence there are a lot of low cards left on the deck. I knew the board would help me, I actually thought I was going to catch 2 pair at least" Needless to say, the moron was eliminated 1 place from the bubble.

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This is actually not totally wrong in O8 in some select circumstances. But the "two pair at least" line is funny.

kmak · #**226** 05-08-2007, 11:46 PM

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European middle aged guy sits at our 15/30 at the Bellagio. He posts, checks, flop comes paired board, bb bets around to him, and he flips over his full house and mucks his hand. Everyone is just staring, incredulous, and he says, "I always post and always muck my first hand. It's good luck in my country." Maybe not the worst strategy, but has to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen at a table.

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Was it good luck?

TonyDanza · #**227** 05-09-2007, 12:03 AM

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European middle aged guy sits at our 15/30 at the Bellagio. He posts, checks, flop comes paired board, bb bets around to him, and he flips over his full house and mucks his hand. Everyone is just staring, incredulous, and he says, "I always post and always muck my first hand. It's good luck in my country." Maybe not the worst strategy, but has to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen at a table.

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Was it good luck?

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What country? I'm looking to move.

Assani Fisher · #**228** 05-09-2007, 12:29 AM

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Tourney in Sarasota, 120 runners and I'm at a table of geniuses...I look down at two black aces, and push all in after 5 limpers, I get immediatly called by UTG, who tables 10-7o...Board no help, I double up and he's crippled. He says"Knew you had the Aces" I ask "So why did you call?" He replies:Because 10-7off is the best hand against aces" To which I state "No, actually, it's more like 7-8 suited" Genius then says "Nope, It's 10-7 it wins 55% of the time against aces. I ran it through my odd calculator TEN times!"
So I say"Wow! Thats quite a sample size" and he says "Hey, you really only need to do it 10 times, everything after that is just repating the past results!"

I hope he isn't doing my taxes this year.

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Even ignoring his obvious stupidity, how exactly can something win 55% of the time on 10 trials?

Assani Fisher · #**229** 05-09-2007, 12:40 AM

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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.

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Why would you ever show there and give them that info?

Assani Fisher · #**230** 05-09-2007, 01:45 AM

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I chuckled, but managed to keep it under my breath. Then the megadonk on my right tried to pay for his beer with tournament chips and I just burst out laughing.

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Off topic a little, but I just want to state that if I hear the joke from another player asking to "cash out" his tournament chips I just may strangle him/her.

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This probably deserves another thread, but what are some really annoying jokes that everyone has heard 100 times at the tables? A few of mine:

-Two guys have the same hand and split the pot....One asks the other: "You play that crap?"

-BB doesn't realize that hes BB and thinks hes EP and goes to fold his hand, dealer tells him and allows him to keep his hand. Someone almost always asks "Cards are that good huh?"

-"AK = Anna Kournakova(sp?)...looks good but never wins."