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[horseshoez]

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.

Don't you just love flops that are either made or semi-made?? I love seeing stuff like this. Coincidentally had one last night our monthly tournament. Was holding 55 in the SB, no action, and the flop was 353. Just love that sinking feeling of others betting on their trips, straight or flush draws while you're sitting on the nutty nuts lol Was a three-way all in with two others who each had a 3. Cutoff ended up holding A3 actually and she hit 3s full of but my 5's full of 3's held up.

 

[sheikh617]

Don't you just love flops that are either made or semi-made?? I love seeing stuff like this. Coincidentally had one last night our monthly tournament. Was holding 55 in the SB, no action, and the flop was 353. Just love that sinking feeling of others betting on their trips, straight or flush draws while you're sitting on the nutty nuts lol Was a three-way all in with two others who each had a 3. Cutoff ended up holding A3 actually and she hit 3s full of but my 5's full of 3's held up.

Best feeling ever, especially when you know for a fact that the other two holdings are worse and anything less then winning the pot is a major suckout lol.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Don't you just love flops that are either made or semi-made?? I love seeing stuff like this. Coincidentally had one last night our monthly tournament. Was holding 55 in the SB, no action, and the flop was 353. Just love that sinking feeling of others betting on their trips, straight or flush draws while you're sitting on the nutty nuts lol Was a three-way all in with two others who each had a 3. Cutoff ended up holding A3 actually and she hit 3s full of but my 5's full of 3's held up.

Play PLO and you’ll be betting that full house on the flop for protection!

 

[Frogzilla]

How bout this hand history from young Frogzilla. 10th post on PCF. We are 80% avg stack in a 3,000 runner $400 tourney with 150 left and elected somehow to bluff-raise the flop with a weak ace. Then called my stack off when I got 3-bet. Wasn’t even drinking that day. So so bad, young frogzilla

Hero has A7dd in CO. Folds around to V in HJ who raises to 18000. Hero calls. Folds around to button who flat calls.
Flop 10 5 4 two clubs. BB checks, V leads off 18000. Hero senses weakness and bumps it to 55k. BB folds. V raises to 300k (hero easily all-in if calls). Hero knows he will regret this, convinced V doesn't have a hand, calls the all-in and flips over Ace high. V flips over J8 clubs...hero is ahead! Crowd goes wild. No clubs on turn and river and hero has doubled up to a great stack. Many complements to Hero

 

[timinater]

Awesome stories so far. My submission.


Ages ago I would sneak into my local casino underage. Had done this several times before, and had pretty good success keeping a low profile. So I sneak into the casino at 17 years old with a buddy to play some 3/6 Limit Hold'em. Hit the Royal on the river and my opponent bets and folds when I raise (duh). She mucks and I say, "we'll I've got to show this hand" and turn over AK for the royal. The table goes wild, and the entire poker room turns around, looks at me and gives me a round of applause. So much for the low profile... All of a sudden the floor comes over and wants to talk to me. I proceed to sweat bullets. I'm so green that I didn't know there was a Royal Flush bonus and they come over to grab my name, and let me know they were going to check the cameras and come back with my bonus. I panicked and said I was my (of age) brother. A few tense minutes slowly tick by and the floor comes back, stands me up for the room to see and says "[not my name], congrats on the Royal Flush", shakes my hand and walks away.

The next week my brother was playing and some guy leans over to him and says, man some kid got a royal flush last week, couldn't have been a day over 19!

I laid low for a little while after that.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

In !

Recently @Bobb59 made me win a big pot at one of his game. It was a 15k "double chance" tourney. So If felted before the first break, you would receive a second stack. And it would act as an addon for those who were not felted.

It was the last hand before the break and I was heads-up vs. one of my regular players.

Me : 2-7 (cut-off)
Him : K-Q (middle position)
Preflop :my friend opened raised 2,5BB. I know he can be LAG and I make it 7BB. He calls.
Flop : 4-4-J
Turn : 2
He bets half pot and I call. He's annoyed.
While the turn is dealt, @Bobb59 gave us the 15K addon saying that we can't use it this hand.
Then my friend looked at the addon and says allin.
I'm pretty sure that the allin was done because he realized that in any case the double chance was there.
I snap called and doubled up as the river did not change anything.
Thanks again for bringing the addon chips at the perfect moment @Bobb59 !

 

[warewulf]

I have an exciting story from last night:

Wife's work Christmas party is at a vineyard near the Pechanga resort in Temecula. So wifey asks me a few weeks ago, want to stay at Pechanga that night? Well duh!

So we don't make it back to the hotel until close to midnight. I had a long week and drank a lot of wine, fell asleep.

Wake up this morning around 5AM, slept like shit. Wide awake, wife is still asleep. Complete successful covert escape operation, got dressed in the dark, put on my shoes in the hall outside the hotel room.

Make it to the Poker room. Only one table running at 5AM: $1/$3 NL. Chips please! Sorry sir there are no seats open ATM. We'll put you on the board. You're first on the list. So I grab my free Card Player mag and head downstairs to the food court for a quick breakfast. Bring breakfast back, wait 30 minutes, still no seat. Wife wakes up and wants to eat and go home. No Poker for me! I feel so unfulfilled.

That was exciting with the trick ending right?

 

[jbriod]

Have been playing poker for since high school. Graduated college and planted roots in N.J. I have some great friends here that I’ve know for years and we started playing mixed games and now nlhe and omaha. We get together once a month at my place to hang out and play and catch up on life. We keep the stakes decent and competitive but fun for all since we all come from diff economic backgrounds. Which leads me to the love of this community. I’ve introduced better chips and fun things like dealer buttons, cards and accessories to my group. I’ve been and keep getting educated by our fun community here at pcf and enjoy this hobby even more. Glad to have found you guys and enjoy the communication and toys shared.

 

[Ethan]

I’ve gotten a few ...interesting... nicknames playing poker.

A few months after my 21st birthday I went to the casino for the first time. Was on a massive heater playing 2/5. Few players a bit tilted by the kid taking down pots. Dealer caught me with greens behind a few barrels of 5s. Threatened to kick me out of the casino if she caught me again. First I had heard of the rule. Apologized and fixed the issue. She then threatened to call security to check my ID because I “didn’t look a day over 18”. On her next rotation to our table she laid off but proceeded to call me Young Buck.

Poker buddies haven’t dropped it to this day.

 

[Undream]

Two of my regulars, one about 70+yrs old and a younger guy are chatting about something. The young guy wants to show old Uncle Larry a picture of something on his phone. Hands it to him and old Larry reads out loud

"I love it when you put it in my mouth"

Guy's girlfriend had texted at the exact moment he handed him the phone. It has been months now and it still comes up at the table.

Funny stuff

 

[Pinball]

After Christmas dinner my brother in law wanted to play real poker (real = with money). His girlfriend: Don't wast your money. He: Don't worry I have a plan.

Game started after three hands the following happened:

He limps, I raise 4 BB with AA
He called
Flop: J 6 3
I bet 6 BB, he calle
Turn: 2
I bet 15 BB he called
River 2
I went all in, he called
I turned over my AA
He: oh, that's bad for you I have two pair
He showed 6 3
I: Well, I have a two pair too with the 2s
He: but than I have three pairs...
I: only 5 cards count

His Girlfriend: You plan should be learning the rules first....

PS: she still married him the year later

 

[Sunshine]

So, by virtue of being one of the very few quasi-sane players in my home game, I've developed a reputation for being a total robot nit. But that's just 'cause most of the rest of them are slobbering lunatic degenerates. Except for one, we call him Slim since every game must have a Slim and he's the only guy who's qualified. He, too, tries to play a reasonably rational game. Deep into a night of 10x opening raises with plenty of straddles sprinkled in otherwise, I decide I'm going to show how ridiculous all this is. So, I straddle ahead of BB with a "this is totally stupid" smirk. Couple of calls (yay, point made!), and then Slim calls (uh oh, well gonna help make the point, I guess). I look down at 99, good hand but very likely behind, and check the option. Flop comes 9A9. I bet just shy of pot all the way down, getting two callers to showdown. So, my crew learned exactly the opposite of the intended lesson ("Look what happens when you loosen up!") and have fallen even further into the abyss of utter madness.

My last best hope is going to be using smaller denom chips more prominently (have to count out more of them to make a big bet) in hopes that their laziness and inability to count is more powerful than their insanity.

 

[gadgetmcnasty]

Here’s my poker story:
I’ve never told anyone this. About eight, nine months ago, I'm at the Taj, it's late, and I see Johnny Chan walk in. And he goes, he sits $300/$600. And the whole place stops when Johnny Chan walks in. Everybody puts an eye on him. After a little while, there wasn't even a crap game going cuz all the high rollers are over there watching him. Some are playing with him, giving away their money to this guy to say, "Oh, I played with the World Champion." And you know what I did? I sat down. Now, I know what you’re thinking, I need $50,000, $60,000 to play right in that game. Well, I had $6,000, but I had to know. You wanna know what happened? I played tight for an hour. I folded mostly, and then I made a score. You’re probably thinking wired aces or kings. No. Rags. I had nothing. But he raised. And I just decided, you know, I don't care about the money. I'm just gonna outplay the guy. I'm just gonna outplay this guy this hand. I re-raised. I played right back at him. And he just comes right back over the top of me, trying to bully me like I'm some fucking tourist. I hesitate for two seconds. I re-raised. And he makes a move toward his checks, and he looks at me. And he looks at his cards, and he looks at me again. And he mucked it. I took it down. He askes, “Did you have it?” I looked at him and said, “I’m sorry John, I don’t remember.” I got up, and I walked to the cashier. I sat with the best in the world, and I won. I put a move on Chan. That’s why I made a run at KGB’s place.

 

[toynoob]

My story is simple, I'll begin here: the end.

Congrats on 5k posts.

 

[CraigT78]

I once had a few beers while playing poker, so I don't remember any cool stories.


Except this one.

I was playing Scrotum8 at the SQM meetup last year. I kept trip 3's down - villain kept two.

I'm sure there was some pre-flop action, perhaps a pot or two.

Flop comes out

Villain says pot. I say pot. Villain waves his hand and says pot, pot, pot. I do the same. We are in for all of it. We flip.

Villain has - bigger boat - FUCK ME.

Turn is the magical and most delicious case - Quads mutha f*cker

River is no help.

SCOOP! Hero is up over $1k. Villain rebuys and is subjected to an hours long chat on why pocket Ks was a bad hold.

I won't name any names, because it is still probably too soon.

 

[Rhodeman77]

Two of my regulars, one about 70+yrs old and a younger guy are chatting about something. The young guy wants to show old Uncle Larry a picture of something on his phone. Hands it to him and old Larry reads out loud

"I love it when you put it in my mouth"

Guy's girlfriend had texted at the exact moment he handed him the phone. It has been months now and it still comes up at the table.

Funny stuff

I hope he is smart enough to marry her!

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Poker had introduced me to my best friend and has mended my relationship with him as well. 2009 was when I was introduced to him as we were both getting really into poker. We became very tight and hung out constantly. Around 2012 I broke up with ex and his sister was really into me. We made the cardinal sin of messing around without consulting him. It lead to the point that we caught feelings for one another, so we kept it from him. Eventually we fessed up, but he stopped talking to me after that. In the time since, I tried to make amends to no avail. At the same time he was traveling to Vegas and different poker rooms. I'm not gonna lie, it kinda stung watching him post pictures of him and some of our buddies playing at different venues, because we essentially started playing seriously at the same time. Then one day out of the blue in 2014 I get a phone call. "Yo bro, I'm having a cash game in my house. You in?" I was never relieved to hear those words. Eventually we aired out our feelings. He trusted me with his sis because he saw how serious we were about one another despite him and I not being on speaking terms. Long story short, we got married, he was my best man, we became tight once again, and both our wives fuel our poker addictions, as long as we fuel theirs

 

[BarrieJ3]

Poker had introduced me to my best friend and has mended my relationship with him as well. 2009 was when I was introduced to him as we were both getting really into poker. We became very tight and hung out constantly. Around 2012 I broke up with ex and his sister was really into me. We made the cardinal sin of messing around without consulting him. It lead to the point that we caught feelings for one another, so we kept it from him. Eventually we fessed up, but he stopped talking to me after that. In the time since, I tried to make amends to no avail. At the same time he was traveling to Vegas and different poker rooms. I'm not gonna lie, it kinda stung watching him post pictures of him and some of our buddies playing at different venues, because we essentially started playing seriously at the same time. Then one day out of the blue in 2014 I get a phone call. "Yo bro, I'm having a cash game in my house. You in?" I was never relieved to hear those words. Eventually we aired out our feelings. He trusted me with his sis because he saw how serious we were about one another despite him and I not being on speaking terms. Long story short, we got married, he was my best man, we became tight once again, and both our wives fuel our poker addictions, as long as we fuel theirs

You win! I mean, it’s a random selection and all, but you win!

 

[200 Motels]

Sadly my memorable poker stories all star me as the villain.

So it's a $50 tournament with 9 players. It's host's wife's birthday as well. We also play a $5 best hand where birthday gal currently has AAATT.
For some reason, the host opted to have an arbitrary amount of "ghost seats" or rebuys available. Something he's never done before. 3 total I believe and it was communicated at the start but still with a few people grumbling about the arbitrary amount of available rebuys before the tournament. It reaches it's cap before I'm eliminated. I'm technically the first out. I stand around for about 10 minutes and ask if I can rebuy citing the strange 3 ghost seats. Host and a few others agree I can rebuy as well as anyone else before the rebuy perioud ends. No one speaks out against it so I rebuy. I end up coming second and winning the high hand. I feel like the worst person. I offer birthday gal the high hand money but declines. Everyone's in pretty good spirits about it other than one player who's never returned to this home game, likely due to this.

With the same group I've also one outed a straight flush for the high hand on the last hand of the high hand period. I'm now known as the high hand swindler. I get shit for it frequently but it a lighthearted kinda way.

 

[Mr Winberg]

tl;dr: A story perhaps only entertaining for me about extremely scared money.

First time in a casino, I went there with 2 friends and hoped to play the lowest tables which were 10kr/10kr (10kr ~ $1), which was really a lot higher stakes than I felt comfortable playing back then. I had never ever played a live cashgame, only tournaments.

No 10/10 table is open, so I reluctantly joined my friends at a full 20/20 table buying in for 1000 extremely scared Swedish kronor. "Played tight, mostly folded" is an understatement. After a while I won a hand with AK after a c-bet on a missed flop, I nearly shat my pant from anxiety.

With about 1060 in front of me I get pocket kings UTG. There were 2 extremely loose and splashy players, one in middle position and one in the BB. They seemed to be friends, they were both from the middle east but spoke ok Swedish. They each have around 6-8 thousand. I decided to try to get it all in preflop using their aggressiveness (since I'm to scared to play post flop) so I limp for 20 (at least one of the two had so far punished limpers). Everyone folds except the middle position guy who raises to 200 and the BB who shrugs and calls. I move all in, the middle position guy instacalls. BB thinks and thinks for what seems to be forever. Finally the middle position guy says in broken Swedish "C'mon man, make decision! Poor guy getting heart attack!", and the whole darn table erupts in laughter! Except me, I didn't find it funny at all. My friends later told me that during the BB's tank I had turned completely pale and was sweating profusely.

The hand: During the tank the 10/10 table opened. So once BB called I made an announcement that win or lose, I am changing tables and that I apologize for the hit and run if I win. Everyone understood

The hand: The two checked it down. I couldn't believe my bad luck when hit the river. But.... four hearts! What did I have? Usually I know exactly what I have, but I could hardly remember my middle name. Peaked, and saw . Pocketed the pot, said my final apologies and changed tables. There were no hard feelings though, the whole table wished me luck.

 

[raynmanas]

This story is only peripherally related to poker, but I don’t know where else I would tell it. I work in a corner office in my building. This is not a brag, it's not like an executive corner office - more like a back corner of the building away from everything kind of office, the point being I only have one immediate neighbor. A couple years ago, building maintenance shows up at my door, asks to come in, and starts poking around in the vents above my office. This is not uncommon, so of course I had no problem with it, and didn’t even ask why, and they checked other surrounding vents as well. My office neighbor Henry came over after and said he had called them up to check on an ongoing rattle he has been hearing in the HVAC system, and asked me if I ever heard it; I had not. He said it was intermittent and there didn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason as to when it was happening. They tell him to call next time he hears it and they will try to come check immediately. The next day, my neighbor hears it again and runs over to my office to ask me if I hear it - which I again don’t - but he calls maintenance again, and same story - they don’t hear it, I don’t hear it, and they can’t find anything. Henry is starting to wonder if he’s going crazy, and I am starting to wonder if Henry is going crazy. I am out of the office for the next week, so I don’t get any updates, and when I get back, first thing Henry tells me is great news - the rattle is gone! So I settle in and start my day reading all the emails I missed. As I am doing so, Henry comes rushing in saying this is unbelievable, the goddamn rattle is back again, and I look up from my computer to acknowledge him while I am mindlessly shuffling a stack of Mesquite Star $25s on my mouse pad…

 

[Forever to Thee]

Young guy playing an older gentlemen. All night young fellow is destroying the older gentlemen. After about the 5th rebuy a 1G later old guy says "I have never played against a better and luckier player. Its a good thing I make a shit load of money." Old guy rebuys again.

 

[DoubleEagle]

Can't remember very many funny stories, but this happened a few years ago at Harrah's in KC playing a $1/3 cash game. Older gentlemen wearing denim coveralls gets felted and re-buys. Gets felted again and re-buys. I get involved in a hand with him and he gets felted for the third time. He then announces, "I guess I am going to have to sell another cow!"

Well, it seemed funny at the time...

 

[Anthony Martino]

I'm going to take you back, to the year 2007. Poker is booming, I've been an active member on the Bluff magazine forum for awhile at this point

Well, Bluff hosts a WSOP party at Sapphires in Vegas and invites their readers, so Jenn and I decide to take our first trip to Sin City

We snag a great combo package off Vegas.com and stay at Harrahs on the Strip

The night of the Bluff party comes and we get to Sapphires. It's supposed to be free entry for us because of this party, but the scumbags there are like "oh, that's only if you came via our free limo service, you came in a taxi so that doesn't apply" scumbags gonna scumbag I guess

Anyhoo, we attend the two hour party with an open bar. Wind up meeting forum members we knew only online and hanging out. Got to meet various pros, etc

When the private event is over we head onto the main floor. I'm buying Jenn lap dances, and we notice a few tables behind is is Dnegs and his entourage. We thought it was pretty cool but didn't want to bug them

Anyway, wife and I hit the restrooms and in mine there's an old guy busting his tail as the bathroom attendant. I want to tip the guy but the smallest bill I have is a $20

I ask the guy if he has change and he says he's sorry he doesn't. I say "you know what? Keep it"

All of a sudden another guy in the bathroom erupts OH MAN, THAT'S SO MONEY! I GOTTA BUY YOU A DRINK!

I'm caught off guard but agree to head to his table after my wife is done

Turns out it was Brian B. from Poker Royalty, Daniels agent, and it was his table! So we got to meet him and hang out for a bit

 

[CraigT78]

Young guy playing an older gentlemen. All night young fellow is destroying the older gentlemen. After about the 5th rebuy a 1G later old guy says "I have never played against a better and luckier player. Its a good thing I make a shit load of money." Old guy rebuys again.

I played against a similar player at a local casino. He was terrible, would rebuy several times a night. I got into a big hand with him, and he shoves. As I tanked, he says - "Careful son, I might have it this time - and if I am wrong, no big deal, I'm a neurosurgeon and don't need the money"

 

[BarrieJ3]

I played against a similar player at a local casino. He was terrible, would rebuy several times a night. I got into a big hand with him, and he shoves. As I tanked, he says - "Careful son, I might have it this time - and if I am wrong, no big deal, I'm a neurosurgeon and don't need the money"

Aaaand....

 

[CraigT78]

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Sorry - I called and he didn't have it.

 

[Rhodeman77]

The rest of the week is very busy for me, work dinners and a friends wake/funeral so I am going to leave this open until Friday since I won’t have time to do anything with it anyways.

So post your stories for a chance at some cool chips and other poker items.

 

[Teggy]

First off congratulations on the 5k. I am not even close to that but hopefully one day I will be.

My story is fitting for this forum and for all the poker enthusiasts in community.

A little over two years ago I believe, I found a guy selling some chips...Nevada Jack Ceramics. I have known about these chips since I was in high school playing with my friends at big meet ups. There we would always dream about one day having a nice set of chips and for me I always wanted a set of the Jacks. One thing led to another and time got away from me and poker was left behind to peruse my degree and a career.

Grown up and with my a home of my own I was determined to get a game going again with friends. I had throw. A few games and the group was increasing rapidly. It was great to see this game bring people back together...friends from high school and new friends that share this passion for poker.

I knew I wanted to find a better set to play with other than my shitty dice chips at this point and saw a post near me for...you guessed it a large set of Neveda Jack ceramic poker chips. At this point I had no knowledge of poker chips or this forum or community only that I wanted this set.

Long story short I ended up buying these chips from @Polochris. We immediately hit it off and had a lot in common not just our love for poker. I ended up inviting him to one of my home games and the rest is history. He turned me on to this forum and found a renewed love for this game and a new found love for poker chips and this community.

I should say that since meeting this guy I have spent a lot of $$$$ on chips that I never thought I would spend .

Happy to say that the one off sale turns me on to this forum and a new friend. I hope this passion inspires new friendships to be made like this one for me and @Polochris. We continue to play each month at a hosted game and always are on the hunt for different sets and different chips...the struggle is real but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Special thanks to @Polochris for turning me on to this site and community, without which I would not have the amazing sets I do today.

Thanks for reading. Keep on chipping!

 

[Mike Wells]

Used to have a weekly mixed game at my house. This new mild-mannered guy gets coolered a couple times, goes on tilt, and plays a few hands badly. After getting felted for the third time, he jumps up and throws his chair across my living room! Somehow does no damage. Yells "I'm done with this stupid game forever!" and storms out my front door. After a moment of stunned silence, we all start laughing about it and making jokes. Ten minutes later he walks back through the door and says, "Give me some more chips". We did. We still give him shit about it today.