Your Worst. Acting. Ever. (1 Viewer)

[Wils]

Not your most obvious tells, I'm asking about any time when you've had good cards, tried to act cool, and totally blown it by acting so badly you basically might as well have written your cards on your forehead.

My own example.... I'm in a casino (my one and only casino tourney, about sixty players). We're down to the last three. I've had bad cards all night, and have survived by a) playing super tight then b) trading off that tight image to take down pots and acting like a maniac.

I'm back in tight mode, as the other two players are playing loose. I just need a good hand, and I can really punish them...

I look down at pocket aces. Pocket ACES. I had forgotten you could get pocket anything.

This is where I'm going to make my killing. BUT!! I gotta stay calm, can't let them know I've got a good hand.

I look down and shrug, roll my eyes and make that clicking sound with my tongue. That'll fool 'em.

I look at the TV on the wall showing the current blinds (making sure the other two see me doing it) , "Hmm what's the minimum I can bet?" I ask myself, aloud, so the others can hear I'm considering a weak bet. That'll make them think I've got a weak hand! Suckers! I hrmph again and sigh.

Okay. My superb acting has fooled them. There is nothing I cannot do. They have been raising aggressively all night. A big takedown is minutes or maybe just seconds away.

"Oh well... I'm going to regret this but I'll might as well bet 6000," I say, the minimum bet allowed, my voice wavering involuntarily, my hands trembling involuntarily, my brow sweating involuntarily.

"Fold," says the small blind.

"Fold," says the big blind.

They say it almost before I've said "Bet" - and almost in unison. Didn't even have to think about it. How the f@ck did they know???

On the positive side, I learnt a lot about how not to act, and I still came second (!) in the tourney... Just had to chalk it down to inexperience and nerves.

 

[Ronoh]

As you classify yourself as playing tight ATM I can only assume the blinds aren't huge compared to your stacks. If that is the case, both of your opponents made horrible folds if they put you on a monster (AA, KK, QQ). Tell me you have a big pair and I'll call blind.

 

[sleepypiggly]

That's a classic Mike Caro poker tell - weak is strong, strong is weak.

 

[bergs]

I'm in an Eastern Poker Tour event and I have 2 World Series Main Event final niners at my table. Third hand, effective stacks 10K, and I look down at AA with blinds 25/50 and I raise to 300 with 6 or so limpers. John Dolan calls, and Jason Senti raises to 900. I raise to 2000. Dolan calls, and Senti makes it 4500. I jam.

Then I lean back in my chair and realize I look too comfortable.
Then I sit up and cross my fingers in steeple mode just screaming strength.
Then I lean back and cross my hands behind my head.
Then I basically just start panting.

Dolan snapfolds. Senti laughs at me and folds showing QQ.

Fuck tournaments with Nolan Dalla's dick.

 

[bergs]

FWIW, the $150 entry fee was worth the HDK showing up 5 minutes late and being denied late registration after he called to confirm it was OK. First he berated the EPT president, than the Foxwoods floor, and when a request to Bernard Lee to fondle his sexual organ was met with an indifferent shocked look, he told the entire Foxwoods poker room to have sex with our respective mothers, and went downstairs to donk cash.

One of the best poker moments of my life. I had said Hi to him not 3 minutes before, and Duhamel walked over to ask Senti "what was that all about?" and I broke into their conversation to make it clear that I had no idea who that was. #awkwardnessabounds

 

[Ronoh]

I'm in an Eastern Poker Tour event and I have 2 World Series Main Event final niners at my table. Third hand, effective stacks 10K, and I look down at AA with blinds 25/50 and I raise to 300 with 6 or so limpers. John Dolan calls, and Jason Senti raises to 900. I raise to 2000. Dolan calls, and Senti makes it 4500. I jam.

Dolan snapfolds. Senti laughs at me and folds showing QQ.

Fuck tournaments with Nolan Dalla's dick.

10K starting stacks...

a) 16,500 with zero risk of busting
or
b) 80% shot at 22,000 and 20% shot at the rail

Survival is far more important than early chips in my book, if given the choice I'll take 20% of one stack and 45% of another for free over risking the rail for his remaining 55%. I'm sure the math does not support this but math is highly overvalued in tournament poker.

 

[bergs]

My point was that every single thing I did just screamed strength and both guys read it perfectly. I got caught up in the fact that I had 2 November Niners at my table and completely blew it. I should've sat there like a stone but I tried to act comfortable and I might as well flipped my hand over.

 

[Ronoh]

My point was that every single thing I did just screamed strength and both guys read it perfectly. I got caught up in the fact that I had 2 November Niners at my table and completely blew it. I should've sat there like a stone but I tried to act comfortable and I might as well flipped my hand over.

I'm guessing the 6-bet preflop was as much of a tell as anything else you did after making it

 

[bergs]

I'm guessing the 6-bet preflop was as much of a tell as anything else you did after making it

Sure, but they specifically called out my gyrations when they folded. I didn't think they were taking it seriously anyway (Duhamel apparently did tho, he final tabled)

 

[tripleflatbarrel]

Benefited from some poor acting Friday night.

6 handed: LAGish/Sticky/Spewy regular in my game opens. I flat OTB.

Flop V bets about 1/2 pot I call

Turn :3h V checks I check

River

V says "ugh, that is the worst card for me."

Bets pot.

I say "Nice Ten" and fold the A high flush face up.

V shows

Easy game.

 

[Wils]

Nice.

 

[Ben]

There's this one guy I play with sometimes who is just fookin' hilarious when he has a monster. He's a LAG who has no problem shoving for 3x pot in a wide variety of situations, but when he has the goods you can always count on the same thing:

-Looks frustrated. Shakes head and sighs audibly. Smacks cards. Then says "I'm all in" like you just insulted his mother.

Only problem is, he overvalues hands a lot so you still don't know exactly where you stand sometimes - oh, that and the fact that I've gotten it in against him as a 70/30 favorite approximately 479 times and won once, I think.