What is the stupidest thing you have ever saw in poker.

[hobojim1247]

Here is mine. In 2015 I was in a qualifier at Firekeepers Casino in Also

Here is mine. In 2015 I played in a qualifier at Firekeepers Casino in Battle Creek Michigan for an $1100 ticket into the MSPT main event. It cost $260 and it paid the top 20% which came out to 15 people getting tickets and 16th place getting $880. My strategy was to play tight and pick my spots carefully since 5x the starting stack will be the average stack when the game ends. In this game that would be 50K.

This is what happened. With 20 players left we had a redraw for new seats. I got seat 1 with about 60K and I noticed the chipleader was in seat 6.. My default plan was to muck my way to a ticket. As it turned out I took out seat nine on the first restart hand, leaving 19 players and giving me about70K. A player was eliminated from the other table leaving 18. I then took out the player in seat 10 leaving 17 and giving me about 115K. I noticed seat 6 had been in every hand and always raising and his stack had dwindled to about 80k leaving him in 2nd place.

In the next hand seat 5 was the BB, seat 6 was the former chip leader, and seats 7 and 8 were the lowest stacks both with less than 2 bb. Seat 6 raised from the hot seat, it was folded to me I saw that I had AA and I 3-bet, then he 4 bet, so I called. The flop was Axx, the board was dryer than the sahara desert . Seat six bet I raised him and he shoved.. I rechecked the board , recounted stacks to see I was about 35K better than him so I called him. He was toast and bubbled out in 17th place for no prize. AS he left someone asked: "what was he thinking". One of the short stacks answered: "I don't know but I am glad he thought.

Note: If he had had more chips than me I would have folded pre flop. If the flop had been wet I would have mucked.

Lesson learned, Pay attention

 

[Risto234]

Me Win a Tournament

 

[Highfish]

I have played the sunday mill on stars countless times without ever making it into the money. That's why one hand in particular is burned into my memory.
We are on the bubble and I am getting AA UTG. I raise to 3.5 BB and everyone folds up to the SB who 3 bets me. I 4 bet and he shoved.
Yay, I think to myself and make the call. Great, a double up, he covered me only marginally.
He shows 72o and I think to myself, what a douche. The flop comes A35 rainbow and I already suspect bad. The turn is a 10 and the river of course a 4.
How can someone with more than one brain cell make such a move on the bubble? I will never understand this.

 

[rastapapolos]

I have played the sunday mill on stars countless times without ever making it into the money. That's why one hand in particular is burned into my memory.
We are on the bubble and I am getting AA UTG. I raise to 3.5 BB and everyone folds up to the SB who 3 bets me. I 4 bet and he shoved.
Yay, I think to myself and make the call. Great, a double up, he covered me only marginally.
He shows 72o and I think to myself, what a douche. The flop comes A35 rainbow and I already suspect bad. The turn is a 10 and the river of course a 4.
How can someone with more than one brain cell make such a move on the bubble? I will never understand this.

I think if you 4bet shoved he'll never call with this type of hand. On the bubble there's a lot of ICM pressure, so you'll see this type of move frequently. He may be thought he could make pocket JJ,QQ, KK, or AK fold.
Recently playing the CC platinum freeroll on the bubble I was the big dog at the table with 22bb, the MP 14bb opened x3, I shoved from the button with 62o and he called. Unfortunatly for me I was up against AA, but the board run out in my way bringing two 6s. the bubble burst and we were in the money. there was players with 2 and 3 bb still in the tournaments. I think that if he shoved pre, I'm never calling with this hand.

 

[Babelis]

It was yesterday 😂 we played with my friends and I got 5,A in my hands and my friend moved all in with 2,7 on table was 2,5,Q and then 7,7 🤷‍♂️ we can call it poker gods, but for me its stupidest all in ever 😂😂😂

 

[German629]

What is the stupidest thing I have ever saw in Poker?!. Hm, if honestly on the present time I can't remember anything special...
May be, because in Poker (as and in Life) is possible all, and I habbit by this?!. Some thing like that!..

 

[Highfish]

I think if you 4bet shoved he'll never call with this type of hand. On the bubble there's a lot of ICM pressure, so you'll see this type of move frequently. He may be thought he could make pocket JJ,QQ, KK, or AK fold.
Recently playing the CC platinum freeroll on the bubble I was the big dog at the table with 22bb, the MP 14bb opened x3, I shoved from the button with 62o and he called. Unfortunatly for me I was up against AA, but the board run out in my way bringing two 6s. the bubble burst and we were in the money. there was players with 2 and 3 bb still in the tournaments. I think that if he shoved pre, I'm never calling with this hand.

I´m well aware of ICM play on the bubble. But hey, we both had a stake well above average.
From his point of view, I can't see any sense in his playing here.
Would you play like that in this situation and risk your tourney life?

 

[hamon08]

A few years ago, I played in a tournament. The prize money was small, about $100 for the first place and $50 for the second. There were only three players left in the game, I had the second stack, but I was not far behind the first. I was dealt 1010, I made a raise, and my opponents just called my bet. They put the first three cards on the table 10 10 9, I checked, and then the chip leader just went all-in, and the second player did too. I immediately called, and one of my opponents had QJ of diamonds and the other had AA. I was a big favorite, but then the fourth card on the table was the king of diamonds, and the chip leader won the hand and the entire tournament with a straight flush (9-10 JQK of diamonds). Although I took second place, I wasn't happy at all😭.

 

[demibar]

I am trying to justify even to the most stupidest action as super aggressive move or tiredness when sometimes you can lose your patience and thinking of game. I have seen many cheap leaders lose all their stack by shoving over and over ( freeroll) I don't have much experience to big tournaments or live games.

 

[Gallarado777]

I think now you rarely see something stupid in poker now everyone is learning from GTO and playing it and I rarely see everyone playing with 2 8o and I think it's stupid

 

[hobojim1247]

A few years ago, I played in a tournament. The prize money was small, about $100 for the first place and $50 for the second. There were only three players left in the game, I had the second stack, but I was not far behind the first. I was dealt 1010, I made a raise, and my opponents just called my bet. They put the first three cards on the table 10 10 9, I checked, and then the chip leader just went all-in, and the second player did too. I immediately called, and one of my opponents had QJ of diamonds and the other had AA. I was a big favorite, but then the fourth card on the table was the king of diamonds, and the chip leader won the hand and the entire tournament with a straight flush (9-10 JQK of diamonds). Although I took second place, I wasn't happy at all😭.

NOTHING YOU COULD DO DIFFERENTLY...

 

[spectralwave]

Any hand limping, but the stupidest is limping AA, deserves to lose the hand.

 

[valen.bs.95]

It's poker - there's nothing you can do about it 😂

 

[BetterThanAvgButNotByMuch]

I would say people showing up to the low limit live poker table wearing sunglasses. I get it because they were emulating what they see from TV but they didn't realize that the other folks at the table were not capable of reading them or even cared about such things. And it was funny because they're trying to fit in on the poker floor but they looked like someone that had zero clue what they were doing at that low limit. Besides, who in their right mind wears sunglasses while sitting indoors at a table? lol.

But stupid? Eh it was silly and awkward but I don't think stupid. I mean a lot of things aren't stupid if you look at something for a different perspective.

I can take the OP about playing a $200+ tourn and I knew folks that would come onto the floor of a casino to see if their cash game was going early during the summer months during the day and if not would instead of going home or doing something else would play in a 150-$200 tourn if available and they were really just killing time until the evening when they knew their game would be running. Two hundred dollars or whatever wasn't much to them. I mean $200 live is like a the daily tourn or one buyin at $1/2 nl at the casino I used to play at and some folks are just there to relax and play anyway.

Their main/only goal is not to win but to actually enjoy themselves and play and not care. Poker is something on the side like a distraction to them and this is one aspect that I really miss about poker. Too many people are selling get rich schemes and folks are buying in. I really don't play that much but Instead of glasses I woud bet these similar folks are talking about gto and some math stuff without knowing basic stuff like starting hands, not realizing that stuff isn't needed for the table but . . that's just my perspective.

Cheers.

 

[thedarkman]

Learning the game in my case/ Tonight I was busted out of both freerolls by quads, but I min cashed in the $300 so no complaints there.

 

[Luvepoker]

Mine is from a cash game in our local casino.. Player had come in and was very wild when the last hand was played.

He had raised and was called and then 3 bet but called the 3bet. Flop had come and he lead and was raises small and called. He check called a big bet again on the turn. The river came and he check called an all in for his $325 stack. The other player showed his set and out friend who called just stared at him and the board before laying his TEN height on the table. AT this moment he just stood up and tapped the table and walked away.

The funniest part of this story was the whole table including the dealer just watched hi as he left the poker room. Nobody could believe what we just saw.

 

[PupsikCat]

Sign up for an expensive tournament, but not no-limit hold'em, but some kind of 5-card Omaha or something like that, in short, the buy-in was thrown to the wind)

 

[hilary antonik filho]

I went to a city in the interior of São Paulo for a tournament, the game would start at 1 pm on a Saturday, my return ticket scheduled for 10 pm, around 9 pm, in three only on the table, I decided to deliver the game, getting third prize, on the return trip, I began to calculate the I had done, afraid of losing the $14 ticket, I stopped earning $3,000

 

[Artemloshara]

Giving olin out of 7 4 is the dumbest tactic, but it almost always wins