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Wow. What's the craziest play you have seen at a poker table? Here's mine.
Just finished a £22 dym.
5 players remaining, blinds 75/150.
I am chip leader with 4000 chips and in the small blind. The guy behind me goes all in for just over 1500 chips. I flat call and the big blind goes all in after me also for just over 1500 chips.
the 1st guy turns over 99, I show AK and I'm sure we both looked at the big blind expecting to see AA/KK/QQ.
The big blind has Qh 6h. Unbelievable.
I hit my K on the flop and knock them both out to cash with the other two remaining players.
I'm not going to name the player as I don't think that would be fair but you know who you are and I would love to know your explanation if you wish to share it.
Has anyone seen any play stranger than this?
(Thinking about it, it might just have been a mis-click, but I hope not, that would be far too boring).
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In a word, 'yes', I have seen some really unforgivably dumb play recently. Unfortunately, it was from me.
I was at a live tournament (at The Kensington Close Hotel), and I was already on tilt before I'd even played a hand. I'm normally an easy-going, life-embracing kind of guy... and a long-fuse merchant to boot... It takes a lot to get me miffed. But The London Poker Circuit game was, for once, badly run, and the format had changed to something utterly ludicrous. Worse, was that nobody seemed entirely sure what the structure was, even twenty minutes before the start.
About ten minutes into the first table, I was still unnecessarily preoccupied by all of this, and was seriously contemplating just getting rid of my chips and finding another casino, when I looked down at a very playable hand whilst sitting in the cut off.
Due to players being generally slow and discussing the merits of cotton boxer shorts versus 100% polyester (the latter being particularly prone to promoting inner-thigh chaffing on a balmy day), I started to get even more impatient. In fact, I was now as mad as a lorry. Not proud of it, but there you go (I obviously picked a bad week to give up drinking).
After a couple of limpers, and a great deal of scintillating conversation (that would have made Peter Ustinov appear dull), I raised to 4x the big blind, knocking one limper out. The flop came: J.J,9. “Fantastic!” I thought. ”My Jack, Ace is looking pretty handy here!”
I slow played, and the original limper fired out a big old hairy bet. I did a little bit of Laurence Olivier and then called. The Turn brought a two. We repeated the whole check/call/Olivier routine before seeing the River: A beautiful Ace; wearing an enticing corset, with long silk opera gloves, a fur coat, and a lovely pair of spike-heeled Christian Louboutin open toe stiletto's (at least, that's how I remember seeing the card, but admit that my imagination can occasionally go into hyper-drive).
The air then went black, under a shadowy canopy of flying chips. When we'd finally finished lobbing the plastic around with gay abandon, my opponent eyed me nervously and asked: “You don't have the full house do you?” I started to nod whilst commiserating (which is a good trick if you can do it. Go ahead, try it; nodding and commiserating... it's not easy), and then flipped my cards over, only to see an Ace and a malnourished and puny Ten...
It transpires that during all the chat about polyester undergarments, and the resultant effects on your undercarriage, I'd somehow zoned out, and by the time I'd eventually seen the flop, had convinced myself I was holding an Ace with a Jack.
My opponent – who looked like he'd spent too many years drinking Toilet Duck (although that may be pure bitterness on my part), scooped up my chips with a derisory “You'll have to be stronger than that, sonny”.
Brilliant. So as well feeling like a complete dipwad, I earned a (thoroughly deserved) rub-down into the bargain.
In my defence, having read all of the poker books by Harrington, Brunson, Sklansky, Hanson, Phil Gordon et al, not one of them mentions that you really ought to remember your cards after you've viewed them. So frankly, I blame them. I've merely been poorly tutored. Obviously.
Great story ..... do you and Rich Orford share the same script writer ? Really good read. Oh, and try Specsavers !!
Thanks Inka.
Richard and I did used to share the same script writer until we had a minor disagreement (he tried to use his celebrity status to muscle me, and negotiate a completely unreasonable profit-share on a pilot detective show I was pitching, called Husky & Starch). I ended up giving Miramax the option instead, so it all turned out well in the end.
Thanks also for the tip, but it's not Specsavers I need... It's some kind of anti-brain-fade-spray. I don't know how you'd administer such a product, I haven't thought it through in detail yet, but suffice to say, the eyes are fine. It's the grey matter that needs a new M.O.T.
Lol, etc.
great read m8 have posted my rubbish play re 2k league stars thread dtw
Lol, that's a classic Flut, v.funny.
And yes, I hadn't thought of that, he could have just misread his hand (we had gone past the witching hour), although how do you misread qh 6h pre flop to two bets putting you all in with that stack? Crazy!
Anjie, thanks for your comments.
Actually, it's been said before that I resemble a young John Travolta in photographs. Sadly, it's usually followed by abject disappointment when people meet me in the flesh, and I usually get a response like; “Jeeze, how old is that photograph? And more importantly, who is it of?”
And yes Anjie, my opponent did win. On account of him holding a Jack. Which is a card I didn't have... But thought I did.
Still, I'm over it now, and within the next week or so, I fully expect to be able to sleep an entire night without waking up and screaming.
Hi Anjie, no I hit a k on the flop so both qh 6h and 99 guys got knocked out.
Sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post, but just to clarify 99 guy went all in first, I called his all in and THEN qh 6h called both our bets pre-flop which is why I found it an unbelievable play.