Stupid moves in poker!!!
I was jsut reading through the thread about weirdest things seen in poker, things liek quads being beat by bigger quads, all kinds of stuff liek that. but all i coudl think of whenever people say stuff like "ouch that must have hurt" or "what a bad move" is all the times i have mis-read the board or forgotten my hole cards and thought i had something different.
so here is the question kiddies, has anyone else made just rediculous moves that cost them alot? were you REALLY on tilt after it?? ScottyZ gave an example in that pre-mentioned thread where the board was 6666A and some guy bets and the next guy folds. WOW!!
are these just beginner mistakes? (try not to be to harsh here STP.....) or have you done such things later on in your poker careers??
Thanks guys.
Johnny
so here is the question kiddies, has anyone else made just rediculous moves that cost them alot? were you REALLY on tilt after it?? ScottyZ gave an example in that pre-mentioned thread where the board was 6666A and some guy bets and the next guy folds. WOW!!
are these just beginner mistakes? (try not to be to harsh here STP.....) or have you done such things later on in your poker careers??
Thanks guys.
Johnny
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stp
"no diamonds, No diamonds" the best part was the look on everyones face when i said that. everyone looked at me really funny.
Johnny
I doubt the 10-12 beers I had before this hand had anything to do with it.
So I'm in Vegas couple years back and swing by the Bellagio Poker Room with my wife and another couple just to show them what a happenin' poker room is like. So we saddle up behind a table to watch a few hands with some BIG MONEY on the line. I'm not sure the limits being played .....but there was LOTS of money on the table. I remember one VERY young asian lady sitting with a MOUNTAIN of chips..I estimated it at around $20 K - $25 K and a few others were similarly heeled. Complicating things was the fact that at this table, cash also played and a few players had piles of bills in front of them...very hard to estimate their $ value.
Anyway, in the hand in question the young asian lady bets a big chunk on the river into the guy I'm standing near. He ponders for a minute or so, and then picks up his wad of bills and proceeds to count through them much like a bank teller would. This goes on for 15 or 20 seconds...I remember thinking he must've counted around 30 or 40 bills or so - and they were hundreds - so call it $3 K or $4 K. He announces his raise and throws the bills down. She calls and the dealer asks buddy to turn his cards over. As he does so, this look of utter horror flashes across his face and I COULD CLEARLY READ HIS LIPS - and he said to himself "FUUUUCK !! I thought I had a straight!!" He actually had the hand referred to as JACK SHIT and lost the pot. I walked away chuckling to myself thinking 2 distinct things - i) I can't imagine having $30 000 in my pocket and walking into a casino to play a little poker like the asian girl who couldn't have been 26 years old and ii) even at these levels, people make HUGE mistakes. THis clown couldn't even remember his two hole cards. And this second thought made the first thought seem a wee bit hasty; perhaps fishing for flounder like that is exactly where someone with $30 000 SHOULD be sitting down.
Though this didn't cost me a lot or may not be seen as incredibly stupid.... I'll make Lamb of John feel a little better. The biggest screw up I've ever done was to go all in when LoJ called an initial blind steal b/c I shoulda known he had 2nd pair (10s), then the river was a 10, and I had an ace... I think there was two pair on the board, and I thought we'd chop, so I went all in... John of course called with a full house.
Mark
It feels good to purge myself of that memory.
Only story that comes to mind right now, playing 1/2 NL Holdem on Stars and board completes for example QQ2QQ. I know there were 4 Queens and a low card. I make a big bet on the river and HU opponent quickly folds. I type:
Me: I had it.
3rd party player: 5 of a kind?
Me: Yep.
3rd party player: VNH
Somehow i think i have A9o and just keep forgetting to look back at my hole cards.
Guy to my left raises big and gets one caller. on the turn. Big bets and gets caller to fold. flop holds a 5 and the river is a 5. when guy to my left shows his great play on bottom pair that he managed to get everyopne else out of the pot with, and i see no 9 on board, i muck my hand.
Everyone asks what i had and i say A9, and they all say well dont muck and the dealer reaches in and pulls over My A5o. I HAD A SET DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!
an di mucked it ending my tourney.
wish i woudl have taken a better look.
Johnny
72o
...thanks, Shannon, the guy who switch my hole cards without my knowledge. Best practical joke over.
I started shuffling, and his phone rang so he went out in the hallway to talk. During that time we dealt him pocket A's, dealt my roomate KK, and some crap hand for me. We rigged the deck so flop came AKK. We were curious of his reaction. Of course he checked it to my roomate who bet...it just went into an all in fest. Before the showdown I was trying to enduce side bets to see who had a better hand, my friend who had AA, bet us a pizza that he had my roomate dominated. Lets just say we enjoyed our pizza and that joke thoroughly afterwards.
Today I am playing in a 5/10 game.
Board flops 10 10 2 (I can't remember the suits)
I bet 5 and get raised, I reraise and someone caps it. (Weird betting pattern at this table)
Turn comes 6
3 of us left in the pot, UTG bets 10, I raise, and get reraised, it gets capped again
River comes 4
UTG checks, I bet 10, 3rd guy folds
That's when the stupid play comes in, UTG types to me "Do you have a 10?" I type "Nope"
He raises to 20, I reraise, he thinks and thinks and thinks before he just calls.
Then my pocket 10s are revealed and he FREAKS on me in chat.
Calls me every name in the book, I am a F____ing liar, a F_____ing Scumbag, you name it.
I typed "You asked if I had a 10, I didn't lie, I had 2 of them, if you asked me if I had 2 10s I would have told you.
River completed both obvious straight and flush draws that the 3rd player might have had, so I checked. Even so, the pot was enourmous, and I easily had a call here. The pot was almost equal to the average stack, and at this point, I only had ~2 big bets remaining in my own stack after all the fireworks going off on the present hand.
I clicked the wrong button and folded. To be honest, the reason for my mistake was emotional, and I was steaming at the probable beat when the draw arrived, and was trying to make a quick check and call, in some sense, to get the hand over with.
Turns out that the active player had rivered 2 pair, so I actually made a top notch FTOP-fold, but it was a horrible fold in reality.
ScottyZ
The flop is QJJ, Rob bets 200 and I raise All-In. Rob breaks the All-time speed record for calling, and flips over QJ. D'OH!!!!!!!!!! I thought he was just pushing me around. Wow, did I feel like an ass.
On the weird side of poker, Mario and I were heads-up in a long game, and had been drinking heavily. Mario, being the goofy drunk that he is says "I'm all-in blind!". I call, thinking that he has garbage, with K-10 or something and he turns over AA!! D'OH!!!! What are the odds?
JohnnieH
JohnnieH
blinds were 2k/4k  and UTG (who was really tight and had a stack of about 15k) just limps.... UTG+1 riases to 12k, and the player to my right makes in 24k
i cant wait to get out the way, as i look down at 10-7off and go to muck it  -  but somehow i push the raise button.... Â
i have everyone covered and  UTG calls with AA, UTG+1 calls with QQ, and the player on my left pushes the rest of his chips (15k) with his KK
i call and get crippled, with the worst misclick of my life
ScottyZ
I did that once when I was multi-tabling 2 tourneys at once. I was actually in the money already on one table but short-stacked when I flopped a full house on the other...I clicked raise on the wrong table and went allin with 10 3 or something.