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[Rhodeman77]

After seeing @detroitdad reach 20k post (15k original posts, & 5k Sunset pics ) and did a nice giveaway I decided to do the same for my 5k post.

To enter post a poker related story. Doesn’t matter what it is about, a big win, somebody having a melt down, a crazy hand, the time your Grandma felted you and slow rolled you to do it! Really anything fun or interesting.

I won’t be picking my favorite or best story, but will pick a random winner from the stories entered. So don’t think your story sucks compared to someone else so I won’t post it. Everyone has the same chance to win.

*Story has to be a minimum of 5 sentences to qualify,

Prize to be determined but will include a variety of chips, including some of my custom chips, some cards, and other poker related items.

Open to all members, but if you are outside the USA I will pick up the first $15 in shipping, the rest is on you if you want the prize.

I’ll keep this open for the next 5 days or so. If the stories stop coming in before that then I may end it sooner.

 

[WedgeRock]

After seeing @detroitdad reach 20k post (15k original posts, & 5k Sunset pics )

That ratio is a little generous...

For my poker story, I went to a charity poker game at a church near my house. I didn't really know anyone that played, so I went alone. Poorly run, shitty chips, bad structure, but it was poker. This was 15+ years ago. I met two guys at the final table were that I still play with today (Kevin A. and Jim H. (who plays less now) -- Sean O. (RIP) was railing because it was a final table and yeah). My 99 held up against Jim's A9. I don't recall what Kevin A. went out on. Anyway, I exchanged contact info with Jim and he, Kevin and Sean were staples in my early game. Running a game allowed me to connect with more players (@Azcat and @detroitdad, and eventually @mike32) who brought more of the Detroit Crew together. And now, these guys are friends instead of just poker players.

Oh yeah, and for the tourney results, I won. They had to end at midnight (lol charity tournament rules). We counted up chipstacks and I won by one chip. Probably 75 Buyins, $25 to enter, and the max prize was $500.

 

[Statesvegas]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/tales-from-the-attic.46754/

This is the best poker related story I have, and I had already shared it in a different thread. Congrats on reaching 5k posts !

 

[markleteenie]

Congrats!


The details might be a little fuzzy but I believe it's mostly accurate.
My first time to Vegas, I went with my good friend when we were both 21. We had been playing a lot of home game 5c/10c $10 cash games and $5-$10 tournaments. So naturally we were ready to take on Vegas.

We stayed at the Plaza Hotel downtown (I love downtown) and the first day I was playing in a $1/$2 limit hold em cash game (first time playing limit). In this first session, I get dealt , I bet, I get raised, and I three bet. A lot of us make it to the flop (since this is limit...). The flop come out... (not in that order, but still!) I bet, one guy raises, and I three bet. He calls.

I don't remember what the turn was, but I bet and he called. I don't remember what the river was, but I bet and he called.

I tabled my hand and obviously I won, and then he mucked his hand.

I remember thinking, "Man poker is easy," as I pulled in a $35 pot. I've gotten some great hands since, but that's the one I think about.

 

[FordPickup92]

This one time at band camp.. lol

I was playing in a speed round low buy in game with some friends and family, we have one family member who is a total wild card and super donk totally talks mad donkey gets super lucky most of the time... he went all in folds to me I went all in (I was super annoyed by this point) rest of the table folded. He turned over KK I turned over 97o .....
Flop came, 497 .... turn J river 5 ... lol pretty much everyone pooped there pants. Good times

 

[k9dr]

At the San Antonio meet-up, @inca911 and I were in a hand together. I turned top boat on a flushing board and bet, Forrest looks down and his hand had been inadvertently mucked. Wanting the call, we agree he can tell the dealer his cards so they can be retrieved from the muck. I jokingly add, "just don't pull the royal flush from the muck" That was the second time I have lost to Forrest's royal flush in San Antonio

 

[Nuhockey]

The very first poker game I played in was at the Trump Taj Mahal. I always enjoyed watching the poker action, but I never played live in a casino. I’ve played with friends a lot, never in a casino. That day i decided I would play. Here is my very first hand would you believe I got pocket aces. The board was not exiting. However, the guy said, “ I have a set.” So I threw my cards in. The guy next to me tried to stop my hand but it was too late. They guy then said sh6t I misread my hand and revealed like pocket 6s or something. The guy next me told me I got Kneecapped and that the guy likes to do that to newer players. I lost over $100, but it was a good first experience to learn.

 

[Geremie]

This was probably a year or so ago. A buddy invited me to a game that he played at a couple times. The stakes were 1c/2c. I decided to go because I had nothing better to do.

This game was a complete gong show. The max buy-in was like $200 (10000 bbs) and I think there were 7 or 8 different denoms in play. If that wasn’t tilting enough, there were a couple nits at the table that rarely called a raise (even 3x...lol). It seemed that all night was a waiting game for AA vs KK or nuts vs second nuts after the flop.

In hindsight, I probably should have stayed home and stared at the wall.

 

[detroitdad]

The first time I ever played at a Casino was a little crazy. I sit down in the BB for my first ever Casino hand. I wake up with A/A. The first to act dude makes it 15 bucks (I'm like, wtf, this is 1/2). Then he proceeds to get 6 callers. I shove for my 200 dollar stack. A middle position guy with 6/6 calls. I win a big pot. I ended up in for 200, out for 1100. I was like "wow, casino poker is easy".

About 10 years or so ago I was playing 1/2 NLHE at a charity hall. A jackass two seats to my left kept making it $15.00's every single hand. I couldn't get shit to play against him. Finally I wake up with K/K. I'm first to act. I limp (which I had done a couple of times). He of course makes it 15 bucks and gets 4 or 5 callers. I only have 150 behind. I shove. What makes this hand funny is that the dude that bet 15 lost him mind because I limp/raised him. He probably 30 years old. He got up pacing back and forth. He was bitching about how I was an unethical player. He wasn't berating as much as pouting and whining lol. After a few minutes the dealer had to ask him to act. He slammed his cards into the muck and said he was folding a strong hand. I got one caller and won the hand.

He stayed gone for about 15 minutes. After he came back I did it again with shit cards just to be a dick. He folded and left the game lol.

 

[arch3r]

The year, 2011 and I only started playing tourney poker at my neighbor's monthly friendly $25 buy-in game. Before that it was only nickel/dime dealer choice for a few old friends.

Probably had played for 6-8 months with much success when I heard about a charity tourney run by one of the other players. Buy-in was $150 + $10 bounty and usually got 60-80 players. I think I'm pretty good at poker since I have been beating up on the neighbors ( but in retrospect, they are not that good ) so I'm all in on this charity tourney.

On the day of the tourney, i hear that one of the other players is taking prop bets and I'm 16:1 to take the tourney down. I know 4 people from the home game put $10 on me to win.

Within the first orbit I bluff off over half my stack and realize this game is at a way different level then the home game. Go into full nit mode and squeak to the first break building back to just under starting stack. Just play tight and let everyone pick off each other. I felted two short stacks with my AA and KK. Yea, neither a hard call for the all-ins. Anyway, for the most part I just fold my way to the final table.

Only then do I get noticed by the guy taking the props. He's a bit nervous, if I take it down he's out ~$1k with all the bets he took involving me. When I get to the final 3, he offers me $500 to go all in blind the next hand. I should have taken him up on it since I had AK suited vs. QQ and felted the Qs. Now heads up, even stacks, play for 10-15 minutes and we are just trading chips back and forth. Offer up a 50/50 split on prize pool but have to play one hand to determine winner. Deal accepted and I have a good final run out to claim 1st place. Everyone cheered except the prop bet maker. $2380 was my take home and my 4 buddies each got their $160 buy-in back from the prop bets. Still have the trophy, well err, belt buckle given to the winner.

It was a great first real tourney I ever played in. Been hooked ever since.

 

[Josh Kifer]

We had a hand about ten years ago, it was a raise-a-palooza in a .25/.50 cash game. I couldn't explain why it played out... But after everyone's cash was in the pot before the flop, it ended up Aces, vs Kings, vs queens, vs tens with pocket sevens and pocket fives folding. Only one person before the flop had something other then a pocket pair. And I folded the fives. Hilarious part is the Kings and queens hit trips, with the Kings holding up.

I mean, give 7-8 people a ton of cheap beer and don't quite know how to play yet, and this was like finding Sasquatch at a table completely wasted. It always gives the group a laugh now remembering how wild it was....

 

[JMC9389]

This happened about two years ago.

We're playing poker at my friend's house. Usual $10 to $20 buy in with dice chips before I knew any better. The buy ins are collected, the chips are counted out, and the game starts. I get pocket 10's to start the game in early position, so I raise.

Now, one thing everyone should know reading this story is that this group of players is on the nittier side, and you hardly see any preflop raises unless they're coming from me and one other particular player about 99% of the time. To my amazement, a player that usually doesn't raise in the small blind three bets. A couple of players fold, and me and two others call. Flop comes out 10 Q Q. I'm thinking "awesome, a flopped boat!". Small blind bets pot, which again is highly unusual for this player, so I call. Turn comes 9. SB bets again and I re-raise. He calls. River comes an Ace. SB goes all in (I'm at this point starting to think "WTF does this guy have?"). So I shove too thinking I'll just buy back in and the asshole turns over pocket queens. I'm fuming and I buy in again.

First hand dealt to me is AKo this time. I'm in a bit later position this time so I raise again preflop. Amazingly, I got 4 callers in a 7 handed game but no three bets this time. Flop comes J Q A. First to act bets, and I and everyone else call. Turn comes a 10. I'm thinking "awesome, a straight, I can't possibly lose this one after the last hand". Checks around the table. River comes another Jack. First to act checks, second to act shoves. Third to act folds and, pissed off, I shove too. Everyone else folds except second to act. I show my straight and the other guy turns over J Q.

I'm absolutely livid now having lost $20 in the first two hands of the night. Before everyone mucks, someone else points out that one of the Jacks on the board is the same suit as the player's hand, a jack of clubs. Now, this isn't going where you guys think. Still absolutely pissed off, I ask the host if I can check the deck, because no one knows this other guy at all as a cheater, but i just want to make sure. The host obliges, I check the deck, and as I'm leafing through the deck, I am definitely seeing more 10's and face cards than usual. I pick up the box the deck was in, and sure enough, we were playing with a god damn pinochle deck for two hands. I've never went from pissed to hysterically laughing that quickly about anything.

We ended up nuking the game and starting over (with a standard 52 card deck, we checked!) and though I got all of my chips back, I elected to start with $20 in chips rather than get my second buy in refunded.

And that, kids, is why whenever I get together with this group to play poker, that someone checks and counts the decks before we start to deal the cards.

 

[Beakertwang]

My first live poker experience, outside of the $5 games I played with my close friends, was a Toys-For-Tots tournament run by my hometown Lions Club, probably in ‘06. I was back helping my brother with some remodeling, so he bought me in as a thanks.

This game was self-dealt, played on plastic folding tables, with dice chips, of course. If I remember correctly, starting stacks were 25x10, 50x10, 100x5, 500x5, for 3750.

The extent of my poker knowledge was to be tight and aggressive. Fairly early, I was involved with the T4T rep. I had a pair of aces with a 7 kicker. I bet strong on the river, and he raised me for my stack. I made the call, and he showed A3. I was shaking so bad I had to take a few hands off and have a drink to calm down.

Managed to place 2nd for about $250. I made a couple etiquette errors along the way and got chewed out by more experienced players.

I played in that game 3 other times. Once I was short stack and played fold or all in for two hours, then went on a heater. When we hit the money, I was big stack, and we got down to two with basically even stacks, and agreed to a chop for about $350 each.

 

[Hornet]

I could tell a very compelling bad beat story but I won’t. So boring!

My favorite poker story is one of my first Vegas trips my buddies and I were playing 2-5 NLHE at the Venetian. Pretty nice room and they serve great food from the Grand Lux.

We are at a table in the middle of the room in the seats (3,5,7) facing the dealer. At the table behind the dealer, a guy has food brought to him on a cart. I have the best view of it; it’s a Chicken Caesar salad and it looks delicious. I don’t normally eat at the tables, but I’m thinking I’ll have to get one of those later.

Guy takes the utensils out from the napkin, puts the napkin on the table and plays a hand. When the hand is done, he turns back to the cart and starts eating the salad ....... WITH HIS HANDS. Even worse, after a few bites, he turns back to the table and plays the next hand. I am simultaneously disgusted and very amused. I point this out to my buddies, and we can’t stop cracking up. The guy continues to eat the entire salad while playing. And it somehow gets even more gross. When he finishes the salad, he takes his hand, wipes it on the inside of bowl to collect the extra dressing, and then eats the dressing off his hand.

I was so thankful I wasn’t at the guy’s table. I can only imagine the other players didn’t see how he was eating because he was turning away from the table while he ate.

 

[Josh Kifer]

This happened about two years ago.

We're playing poker at my friend's house. Usual $10 to $20 buy in with dice chips before I knew any better. The buy ins are collected, the chips are counted out, and the game starts. I get pocket 10's to start the game in early position, so I raise.

Now, one thing everyone should know reading this story is that this group of players is on the nittier side, and you hardly see any preflop raises unless they're coming from me and one other particular player about 99% of the time. To my amazement, a player that usually doesn't raise in the small blind three bets. A couple of players fold, and me and two others call. Flop comes out 10 Q Q. I'm thinking "awesome, a flopped boat!". Small blind bets pot, which again is highly unusual for this player, so I call. Turn comes 9. SB bets again and I re-raise. He calls. River comes an Ace. SB goes all in (I'm at this point starting to think "WTF does this guy have?"). So I shove too thinking I'll just buy back in and the asshole turns over pocket queens. I'm fuming and I buy in again.

First hand dealt to me is AKo this time. I'm in a bit later position this time so I raise again preflop. Amazingly, I got 4 callers in a 7 handed game but no three bets this time. Flop comes J Q A. First to act bets, and I and everyone else call. Turn comes a 10. I'm thinking "awesome, a straight, I can't possibly lose this one after the last hand". Checks around the table. River comes another Jack. First to act checks, second to act shoves. Third to act folds and, pissed off, I shove too. Everyone else folds except second to act. I show my straight and the other guy turns over J Q.

I'm absolutely livid now having lost $20 in the first two hands of the night. Before everyone mucks, someone else points out that one of the Jacks on the board is the same suit as the player's hand, a jack of clubs. Now, this isn't going where you guys think. Still absolutely pissed off, I ask the host if I can check the deck, because no one knows this other guy at all as a cheater, but i just want to make sure. The host obliges, I check the deck, and as I'm leafing through the deck, I am definitely seeing more 10's and face cards than usual. I pick up the box the deck was in, and sure enough, we were playing with a god damn pinochle deck for two hands. I've never went from pissed to hysterically laughing that quickly about anything.

We ended up nuking the game and starting over (with a standard 52 card deck, we checked!) and though I got all of my chips back, I elected to start with $20 in chips rather than get my second buy in refunded.

And that, kids, is why whenever I get together with this group to play poker, that someone checks and counts the decks before we start to deal the cards.

Last week I grabbed a new deck, removed the joker's, and tossed out a new hand. Guy to my left gets a huge grin and starts better into the pot. We give him shit, and he proceeds to flip over a joker and say "wouldn't you all raise getting a joker in your hole cards"....

We all Got a laugh there.

 

[GenghisKhan]

This was like 20 years ago when my friends and I started playing poker.

A friend who had moved out of town came down for the weekend and organised a higher stakes game at his brother's. We were playing $5 cash games and $5 tourneys back then so I wasn't comfortable raising the stakes but wanted to see my bud.

So of course I go play and crush it. There was a couple there (bf/gf) who both played aggressively and tried raising/reraising most hands. Not sure if they were colluding but it felt like it. I called their bluffs and busted them both out multiple times.

End of the night my friend goes outside for a cigarette with one of them, where they proceed to beg him for their money back.
He told me (asked if I'd give it back since I'm the one that had all their money) and I said fuck that cause they definitely would have kept MY money had they won it.

 

[krafticus]

Playing nickel/dime/quarter in college, all of us broke (1993ish)... someone calls Acey-Duecey. It started quiet and calm, but a few missed calls had bloated the pot to about $5. A favorable board comes out, and he pots it, only to pair the board. We played you had to double the pot when that happened. Next hand, same thing, and the pot doubles again. After a few bad boards, a paired board comes up. We played that if the board paired, you had to match the pot. We’re at around $30 and we get the almost perfect board. - K-2. Someone pots again, and boom, Ace. Before we knew it, playing nickel/dime/quarter, we’ve got a $60 pot. Everyone is now terrified to pot it, because nobody has that much money.

eventually, it was bet down enough($5 here and there) to bring it down, and one player finally won a very nice pot.

I played with my dad and some friends before, that that college game really jump started my love for poker.

 

[bsdunbar1]

This is more of a crazy hand story
Alamo 2017
I have 78 and the flop comes out J910
First to act I check
@justsomedude bets
@pokerplayingpisces goes over the top all in
@David O goes over the top of him all-in
Action back to me for the easy fold, I don't remember if some dude called or not but it turns out -
All 4 of us flopped the straight
I flopped a straight and lost $0

EDIT: I am taking the overs on the 5k Sunset Pic Posts

 

[CraigT78]

I could tell a very compelling bad beat story but I won’t. So boring!

My favorite poker story is one of my first Vegas trips my buddies and I were playing 2-5 NLHE at the Venetian. Pretty nice room and they serve great food from the Grand Lux.

We are at a table in the middle of the room in the seats (3,5,7) facing the dealer. At the table behind the dealer, a guy has food brought to him on a cart. I have the best view of it; it’s a Chicken Caesar salad and it looks delicious. I don’t normally eat at the tables, but I’m thinking I’ll have to get one of those later.

Guy takes the utensils out from the napkin, puts the napkin on the table and plays a hand. When the hand is done, he turns back to the cart and starts eating the salad ....... WITH HIS HANDS. Even worse, after a few bites, he turns back to the table and plays the next hand. I am simultaneously disgusted and very amused. I point this out to my buddies, and we can’t stop cracking up. The guy continues to eat the entire salad while playing. And it somehow gets even more gross. When he finishes the salad, he takes his hand, wipes it on the inside of bowl to collect the extra dressing, and then eats the dressing off his hand.

I was so thankful I wasn’t at the guy’s table. I can only imagine the other players didn’t see how he was eating because he was turning away from the table while he ate.

And there you have it. The first time in history of story telling where a good story started off eating a salad.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Playing nickel/dime/quarter in college, all of us broke (1993ish)... someone calls Acey-Duecey. It started quiet and calm, but a few missed calls had bloated the pot to about $5. A favorable board comes out, and he pots it, only to pair the board. We played you had to double the pot when that happened. Next hand, same thing, and the pot doubles again. After a few bad boards, a paired board comes up. We played that if the board paired, you had to match the pot. We’re at around $30 and we get the almost perfect board. - K-2. Someone pots again, and boom, Ace. Before we knew it, playing nickel/dime/quarter, we’ve got a $60 pot. Everyone is now terrified to pot it, because nobody has that much money.

eventually, it was bet down enough($5 here and there) to bring it down, and one player finally won a very nice pot.

I played with my dad and some friends before, that that college game really jump started my love for poker.

Acey-duecy has a way of ending poker nights! I’ve seen people write checks to cover the money they owed. Haven’t played it in many years thankfully, but we eventually put a cap on the amount anyone could bet to keep that from happening.

 

[JoeBGo]

Got my first taste of poker about 2001. Started playing with some guys from work .25/.50 dealer calls game. We played baseball, anaconda, 2 to the left. I was hooked. Then came the poker craze. I didn’t have cable when I moved out so I would always stop by Dads house and watch WPT. Made more friends during that time and our obsession turned to Holdem. One of ours went on to have some incredible success. Multiple WPT and WSOP final tables. Oh the hay days of UB, Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Party Poker....over 15 years and more than a handful still play together. I love poker.

 

[Kain8]

A lesson that I had to learn the hard way was many years ago. Playing a $1/$2 home game which played fast and very loose. There's a raise to about $15 from early position and I call in middle position with A7ss. 4 more calls happen and we take the flop 6 ways.

Flop comes down Ax 7x 2x, giving me pretty much the stone cold nuts with how this game plays. Checks to me, I grab three $25 chips from my stack and fire them out. One by one I see everyone fold, so I muck to earn the pot. Or so I thought because there was one player to act still! At this point my cards are in the muck so the player calls the $75 and wins by default.

From that point on, I trade my cards for the pot!

 

[BarrieJ3]

It’s been so hard for the last couple years to get any consistent table time, I’ll visit when I started. Sophomore year of high school, 2005, we started playing Hold Em only to pass time between school getting out and night games.

Bunch of kids playing with pocket change, some still asking what beats what, playing in the school van on the center console. I jumped out for a bathroom break, come back and am hit with KK. After a flop of QQK, I end up headsup and the pot is the biggest of the day ~3 bucks. Turn is a K, don’t remember the river.

We’re pulling out lunch money from backpacks, change, everything. He mentions wanting to use money from his locker, everything. Knowing I had the nuts I said fine, and we settle on a $100. Both turn over 4 of kind. Found out a year or two later that for sure someone had tried cheating and stacked the deck, but screwed up the deal.

Of course the kid didn’t have the $, so it made for a great year. He’d carry my sports bag, we took off a $1. Gave me his breakfast burrito, $1. Think we called it even once he had about $20 left to work off. Good lessson on karma early on.

 

[ekricket]

One time I was playing with my old group in Oklahoma and the tornado sirens went off. Being a well raised Midwesterner, I stepped away from the table to look out the door to see if I could see it. I was gone for about 30 seconds, and when I stepped back in the House it was was completely empty.
I knew they had to have gone to a storm shelter, but I had no idea where the host had his safe room. I was relatively new, so I didn’t want to search around, so I just called out a couple times and when I didn’t get an answer I just drive home. They called me about 45 minutes later ready to play again so I went back over.

 

[doughboy63]

My group has been playing together for about 7 years now. I had been playing with neighbors/friends sporadically (4 times a year) before this group came together.

This is a good group who know how to play, take it serious, but still have a good time while doing so. The funny part is how this group came together.

One of the guys wife posted to a neighborhood for sale site on Facebook “my husband has no friends but wants to find people to play poker with” lol.

so we now have a monthly league and frequent cash games and lots of drinking and laughing.

 

[TeamNapoli]

This story took place about 6 years ago, but its haunts me as if it was yesterday.
I was in a thanksgiving tournament that was aggressive and a lot of hot action going on. I won my table and now on the winners table of 8 players. Four prizes with the 4 place being the buy in. Break even is not winning so I look at it as 3 prizes. Back then i was a 2 pack a day smoker, however because of the play I didn't get a chance to go smoke and used the last break session to wait in line to return the beer i was drinking. So the cravings are kicking in, my nerves are being stressed and at this point im thinking flop my hand and run for two drags. Five players left the hand is dealt and i have , one would be happy to see this. Well not me, as the asction is going around im reaching into my jacket to go get a fix. every limped in so i stayed in just in case the flop is fantastic. The flop is some 2 card (cant remember ) and a . The first bet was a heavy bet, then a flop a call and then i flop and say i will be right back. I run out side literally take two deep drags and run back. When i got back i see the next two card were and two players being eliminated (at some point it became an all in) with the winner having a flush. My heart sank. i literally walked away from a royal and would have knocked 3 players out and have have chip lead. It hit me so hard that I have not picked up a cigarette, since.

 

[Beakertwang]

It’s been so hard for the last couple years to get any consistent table time, I’ll visit when I started. Sophomore year of high school, 2005, we started playing Hold Em only to pass time between school getting out and night games.

Bunch of kids playing with pocket change, some still asking what beats what, playing in the school van on the center console. I jumped out for a bathroom break, come back and am hit with KK. After a flop of QQK, I end up headsup and the pot is the biggest of the day ~3 bucks. Turn is a K, don’t remember the river.

We’re pulling out lunch money from backpacks, change, everything. He mentions wanting to use money from his locker, everything. Knowing I had the nuts I said fine, and we settle on a $100. Both turn over 4 of kind. Found out a year or two later that for sure someone had tried cheating and stacked the deck, but screwed up the deal.

Of course the kid didn’t have the $, so it made for a great year. He’d carry my sports bag, we took off a $1. Gave me his breakfast burrito, $1. Think we called it even once he had about $20 left to work off. Good lessson on karma early on.

We have a strict rule in our van game: center console, pocket, and backpack stakes only.

 

[horseshoez]

Can't think of anything better than my first sit down at a casino poker table.

Bellagio 2010, 2/5. My first year or so of playing poker, so let's just say I didn't even need to look around to find the sucker at the table. I sat down knowing I was the sucker and couldn't do jack about it. Just accepted the fact and figure I'd make the best out of it.

Night started out somewhat slow and I somehow multiplied my $200 into a modest $800 by just playing ultra-premium hands and only betting when having second or top nuts. I think back on it and I still can't believe what a damn noob I must have looked like on my showdowns. My cards may as well have been written on my forehead with a sharpee pen come to think of it.

At any rate, guy two seats to my right has been playing with his Ferrari key all night and talking about how he had to rent one on this trip to Vegas and just rambling till no end about its features while nobody on the table could give two shits. Really, all I kept hearing from the others were,"uhhmmm, oh ya? oh nice." Truly very disguised STFU answers to this boneheads comments about his Ferrari. His chip stack was right around the $900 mark.

Ferrari Man opens the betting on the button to $25, small blind calls, I call holding A4o, and three more call. Flop comes Q64 rainbow. Small blind checks, my inexperience noob ass checks, MP throws in $20 goes around to Ferrari Man and he re-raises him to $70. Small blind calls and noob ass me calls for sure with my lowest pair on the board, MP folds. Turn shows an A. With my lack of experience, you could have probably thrown in a contract selling my soul to the devil and I would have instantly signed given my two pair. Small blind checks, I bet $100 and have at this point my cards couldn't be more transparent. I was wearing that Ace on my forehead clear as day to this guy. Ferrari Man comes raises to $300 and I instacall really making it obvious what I have. Just couldn't be more of an amateur at this point. Not even a little acting or a pause to represent a draw or chasing, just a 1/2 second quick call.

River card, A. If my heart rate could have been measured at that precise moment, the heart rate monitor would probably have broken. My thoughts, "Mamma mia are my eyes playing with me? My first night in a casino and I've got myself a boat." I check, Ferrari man shoves his remaining stack followed by my call before he could even finish saying all in. Literally, I don't think the IN part was complete yet and I had already said call lol. Tosses his hole 44 in front of me stating, "I've got a boat buddy."

How does one answer such a comment you ask? Amateur here opens up A4 to reveal the better of the two and with a smirk that would even piss off even Mother Teresa I state to the guy, "My boat is bigger than yours." With no prior knowledge of poker etiquette whatsoever, noob here quickly looks at the dealer prior to even organizing the chips into stacks and says, "color me out please." If looks could kill, I'd have been murdered by Ferrari Man right at the moment, who was in the process of counting out some hundreds from his pocket to take another shot at me.

 

[horseshoez]

This story took place about 6 years ago, but its haunts me as if it was yesterday.
I was in a thanksgiving tournament that was aggressive and a lot of hot action going on. I won my table and now on the winners table of 8 players. Four prizes with the 4 place being the buy in. Break even is not winning so I look at it as 3 prizes. Back then i was a 2 pack a day smoker, however because of the play I didn't get a chance to go smoke and used the last break session to wait in line to return the beer i was drinking. So the cravings are kicking in, my nerves are being stressed and at this point im thinking flop my hand and run for two drags. Five players left the hand is dealt and i have , one would be happy to see this. Well not me, as the asction is going around im reaching into my jacket to go get a fix. every limped in so i stayed in just in case the flop is fantastic. The flop is some 2 card (cant remember ) and a . The first bet was a heavy bet, then a flop a call and then i flop and say i will be right back. I run out side literally take two deep drags and run back. When i got back i see the next two card were and two players being eliminated (at some point it became an all in) with the winner having a flush. My heart sank. i literally walked away from a royal and would have knocked 3 players out and have have chip lead. It hit me so hard that I have not picked up a cigarette, since.

Not sure I could have picked up another game of poker after going through that for at least a couple months. First thing that comes to mind reading that is broken items like say, phone, car door, etc lol

 

[sheikh617]

So a sick hand from my game last night that resulted in one of the bigger pots my game had seen. I got deal pocket KK second to act. Blinds were .25/.50 but the game was playing fairly big as people were not folding to "correct" bet sizing lol. Think I made it 10 to got 1 fold and the following player bumped it to 20, folded back to SB who raised all in for about 90 bucks. He had been splashy all night so my eyes lit up. I re jammed all in mainly because I was okay isolating to heads up and buyin the equity of the $20 raiser. He also runs so good against me that it's disgusting but I just wanted his ass out of the pot. My jam was for about 190 but I had the other guy covered and he reluctantly made a call for around 165 so I felt I was ahead. I told them I had kings and they both kind of just shoot their head. The splashy player said "put an ace out there" and I knew he was on some ace little suited type of hand lol. Flop came, K99 and I flipped my cards right over as I knew that any straight or flushed were no longer good. Turn came in A and put some sweat in there. Another A would have lost me the hand but it came 7 and I took down a $450ish pot.