Accidental calls?

VladK

I just called an all in by accident with 5/4 unsuited. I was just about to check off fold box so it would fold my turn came when someone before me quickly went all in and i ended up pressing call button. Guy who went all in had KK and someone else caught an A.


at least it was not a big tourney...just a $10 buy in....i was doing pretty good thats the part that sucks. It's not the first time this happened though but first time with this outcome.

MDStorey

I have done that before, when I first started. I don't use the pre-action buttons anymore, except under certain circumstances, because A) you could press the incorrect button, costing you $$$, and you can give off timing tells if you always use them, once you stop people can get cautious.

Obviously the circumstances I do use them in are when I want to send false tells... but even than, I won't use them unless I am up against someone who I think will actually percieve it...

Paul3221

It's happened to me before, but never for an all in. I'm usually very careful now about hitting them, and make sure that there are still a couple people to go before I hit it.

The Poker site designers should make it so that the buttons for pre-action don't line up with the real action buttons. One of the sites (Absolute I think) uset to have pre-action buttons that were in a different order than the action buttons. Thus, if your timing was off on folding, you could actually call, and visa-versa. Needless to say they got some nasty E-mails about that, and it was fixed pretty quickly.

Sorry about the bad luck...

Big E

MDStorey wrote:

I have done that before, when I first started.  I don't use the pre-action buttons anymore, except under certain circumstances, because A) you could press the incorrect button, costing you $$$, and you can give off timing tells if you always use them, once you stop people can get cautious.

I've done this before too, and I think this is good advice online..not using the pre-action buttons. I only use them when folding as I believe you can give or pick up slight tells. When playing multiple tables you have to be careful where you click as well!!! I've folded good hands or called when I didn't want to just trying to get to that third table that is covered by two others...doh!!!!

Soup66

Yuck, horrible way to bust out! But imagine the shit storm you would have started had you taken down the hand calling an all in with 45o!

QueenNine

I have done that too, and I never touch the precall buttons anymore for that reason. Another thing I have stopped doing is the ingame chat while playing a hand. I have inadvertantly folded a good hand because I was typing something in the chat box and I hit the fold key, or I have raised with a crap hand etc..

BBC Z

I just called an all in by accident with 5/4 unsuited.

Your bad luck was that it occured in a tournament and not a cash game...

You coulda made a killing on all your monsters after that image play..

CrazyJoe113

MDSGuy wrote:

I have done that too, and I never touch the precall buttons anymore for that reason. Another thing I have stopped doing is the ingame chat while playing a hand. I have inadvertantly folded a good hand because I was typing something in the chat box and I hit the fold key, or I have raised with a crap hand etc..

i did this at the Pacific Poker $1 Million Guarantee, i accidently raised someone's all in with 69o because i was typing in chat box, thankfully i broke even in the hand when the board had a 10 J Q K on it and the other guy that called had no A.

PokerEH.com

Sometimes when Multi-Tasking, the poker room will pop up, and I've had several experiences calling all in bets when trying to click on a link on a webpage. I try to off-center the poker room window so that the buttons are right at the bottom.