The Worst Strategy You've Overheard at a Table

[Arbitrage]

I couldn't beleive some of the strategy I heard at my 6-12 game today. Flop is checked around. I turn the nut straight in the BB w/ 5-7 in a 5 way pot and lead out, get called by button. The 6 pairs on the river. I bet, button raises and I three bet and MHIG. A couple of players try and lecture me on how I shouln't have 3-bet after the board had paired and that I play bad. They call down with under pairs & gutshots and they won't 3-bet without the nuts?

I know people have probably heard alot worse. These players logic just boggles my mind.

[dudemanjack]

Well, my personal favorite is someone saying something like this "I was afraid of a possible flush draw making it so I didn't bet the turn."

[bsnone]

I actually don't mind people trying to tell me I made a bad play at a table, why not have everyone think you are a donkey and call you down when you make your staights and obvious flushes. I had a player lecture me once for 3 betting with 99 on the button after i out flopped his TT... Nothing like a tilty table to brighten the day...

[TonyLA]

This is my personal fav from a $500 restricted buy-in NL game -

It involved a player I was in a pot with who turned a straight flush against my A-high flush on a Jc7h10hJh5c board - he managed to keep the pot as small as possible (driven in part by his oscar winning performance after the turn), leaving a significant amount of money on the table.

When I saw his hand, I commented half-joking, half-serious that it's completely inexcusable that I had any money left after that hand.

He responded in a totally serious tone - "I didn't want to bet out more because I was afraid you'd fold quads."

(?!?)

On a high hand jackpot table no less - if I had quads, we would have split a $100,000 jackpot (quads beaten).

The entire table was in hysterics after that comment. Good times.

- T

[Bulbarainey]

a dealer from one gardena casino was playing at another one at a table with me, trying to tell me that in all of his years of experience as a dealer, the most important thing he learned is that 'how the dealer cuts' the deck determines who is lucky and who is going to win, and that certain dealers cut the deck in a certain way that only certain players will win, and then to play accordingly.

[mtgordon]

I've heard a dealer say that KJo is the most profitable hand.

[cwes]

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I've heard Bill Fillmaff say that KJo is the most profitable hand.

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[Taso]

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Well, my personal favorite is someone saying something like this "I was afraid of a possible flush draw making it so I didn't bet the turn."

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That's basically the one I was going to say, execpt that was a strategy of mine :P It never actually came into play, I was just theoririzing(yup), thinking I'd struck gold, and a friend of mine told me how incredibly stupid it was - I immediately realized how big of an idiot I was, and proceeded to quit poker. Ok, I didn't quit, but I'm sure a few of you will recommend it. Anyways, just a temporary lapse in common sense :P

[Neuge]

Idiot at a 4-8 table said you shouldn't raise a bunch of limpers with AA in the BB because you never know what might flop. He's an overall winner in that game too.

Some idiot frat douche in a tourney said you shouldn't get all in PF with AA. You should always take a flop first and make your move if it's not scary. He bused out "slow-playing" KK on a J98 two heart flop (it was "safe").

Then my personal favorite, 4-8 game, I raise 99 after a limper in LP, CO reraises, I call. Flop 9xx, I bet, CO raises, limper folds, I reraise, she 4 bets, I raise (no cap in HU pot), she reraises... until she's all in (had about 40 behind after the PF betting). She flips over AKo drawing dead after the flop, lol. Explanation: You have to be aggressive with AK because people will bluff you out with anything.

[pa3lsvt]

Tournament, blinds 50/200/400. I have 11k and a super loose table image. EP player raises to 1600, folds to me with AA in BB. I flat call, planning to check raise all in on any flop that isn't KQJs. Flop comes T82, 2 hearts. I check, villain bets 1600, I check raise all in (overbetting the pot) and villain beats me to the pot with his JJ. Rivers a Jack to beat me.

Nimrod proceeds to state "that's what he gets for slow playing AA." [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]