I open raised JJ at 1/2 playing live. A guy with about $140 stack says "Alright, take my money I need to get out of here. It folds back to me and i'm sitting there thinking he's angling me so I'm debating a fold. I'm too much of a donk so i end up calling and he flips over 74o and i hold. He then says gg and casually gets up from the table and leaves. I was dumbfounded as to why he didn't just cash out his chips.
This from last night: this is a live $200 tourney with about 150 players and we are still like 30 players from the money....or in other words we're not even close to the money.
Short stack goes all in for like 7bb a big stack calling station calls and another guy goes all in for like 30bb. calling station folds the short stack had like Q9 and the pusher had JJ.
Short stack ends up doubling up becuse he hits a queen. the calling station bitches and moans for like 5 minutes about how the JJ shouldn't have raised because he got calling station to fold, and calling station would have made a pair of kings by the river and they could have knocked a player out.
This guy was absolutely convinced that the JJ made a horrible play and wouldn't shut up about it. Kept on going on and on how "I could have raised with my K but I didn't. I just called because we need to knock players out!" and the JJ says "why didn't you raise? that would have been fine and I wouldn't have been mad"
"you don't get it! If I raise it makes it harder to knock people out. That's why it's always better to just call. Everybody should just call"
this one I hear all the time
"I lose like 90% of my flips"
i'm thinking "No you don't. are you suggeting math doesn't work in the delusional world you have created?"
edit: I do get it. there was one world series summer where I only won 1 out of 16 or 17 flips. THAT really sucked, and made for a lot of free time. But then a year later I swear I won the nearly all of my flips. I didn't keep count because you don't "dwell" on the flips you win but I know out of the 6 or 7 big flips that mattered where thousands of dollars of equity was on the line I won them all. I eventually lost the last one and of course it was disappointing since I was out....but I couldn't even be upset because I recognized how good I had been running.
One of my favs is from The Poker Tournament Formula.
Everyone folds to the button, button raises. Small blind folds, big blind goes all in. Button snap calls and turns over 88. Big blind turns over KK, to which the button responds "I put you on kings."
Hahaha these posts are hilarious.
I had a guy shove all in w 10 2 off suit against my AA. After I took his stack, he said "mane I been hittin 10s all day NH" ... I had to get up bc I was crying