Blunders made/witnessed at the poker table (1 Viewer)

[Mojo1312]

Haven't seen a thread dedicated to the subject.

Played a marathon session last night that began at around 6PM and ended this morning at 5:15AM. (Hero is a degenerate.)

Hero has made the not so uncommon mistake of misreading his hand while playing exhausted, but this was a first.

Playing $1/$1 NL Omaha-hi with a $6 pre-flop raise at around 3:30 in the morning, $24 in the pot. The flop 8, 9, Jack rainbow. Hero bets $15, Villain pushes all-in for $82.

Hero is holding x,7,10,K in the cut-off and thinks he has the nuts, even though he knows the queen will give him the straight to the King. He completely misfires by making the call and realizes his mistake only after the Villain turns over Ten, Queen.

The board runs out Q, Ace giving Hero Broadway, thereby busting the Villain.

 

[Sprouty]

Last night against @WedgeRock and @Marc Hedrick playing dramaha I was holding 335xx and the flop was 35x. I thought I flopped a boat and played it that way, Marc gets out of the way and then wedge rightfully takes my money.

I realized what I did right after I acted, but it was too late.

I played like a donkey last night.

 

[Frogzilla]

Not a specific instance but I go down a couple buy-ins and then old madden habits kick in. Hail Mary mode. It’s had mixed results

 

[Saoliver]

In my early days of playing limit in college...

Capped preflop.

Flop brings a Q with 2 spades. Capped.

Turn is a blank. Capped.

River brings a 3rd spade. I bet. Raise and call behind me. I close the action.

In disgust, I announce “fold” and flip my hand over.

Dealer and all players look at me confused because...

The river brought a possible flush, but paired the board. I was so fixated on not wanting a spade that I failed to notice I had filled up. Both villains had the flush of course.

I was sober.

 

[WedgeRock]

Last night against @WedgeRock and @Marc Hedrick playing dramaha I was holding 335xx and the flop was 35x. I thought I flopped a boat and played it that way, Marc gets out of the way and then wedge rightfully takes my money.

I realized what I did right after I acted, but it was too late.

I played like a donkey last night.

I actually thought you played it perfectly. I was just really, really lucky...

 

[dkersey]

Was playing $1/$1 NLHE game a few weeks ago. Guy bets $25 into a $10 pot on the turn. He had no cards. He did have cards and was in the hand but at some point he mucked them. He doesn't remember. Alcohol was not involved. I've brought that move up every week since, lol.

 

[JMC9389]

Last tournament I hosted I was enjoying my second 8.6% Cape May Brewing Co. Devil's Reach of the night when I was in the big blind with Q7o, or what I thought was Q7. Flop came Q58 rainbow. I raised first to act and get only one caller. Turn was a brick. I c-bet and villain flat called me again. River comes another Q. I bet pot and villain flat calls again. We go to showdown, and to my horror, I actually see that I have K7o instead of Q7 like I thought. That was embarrassing in itself, but I ended up losing to 89o. I felt like a donk and immediately grabbed a water from the fridge. That'll be the last time I have that particular beer during a game

 

[RocAFella1]

Witnessed by a friend of mine. Relatively new player sits down in a NL cash game. Action is irrelevant but hand goes to showdown and quad queens are tabled. New player checks cards again, neighbor sees pocket jacks for quad jacks, but new player is unaware of bad beat jackpot and mucks hand, not into muck. Neighbor loses his shit and tells new player to flip hand over for bad beat jackpot. Floor rules that hand was mucked, bad beat jackpot of over $100k not awarded.

 

[ruskba]

Playing $1/$2 at the casino for my bachelor party, I hear a minor commotion at the table next to me. Turns out my best man attempted to limp by tossing in two $1s but had a $100 and a $1 on accident. Tried like hell to get it back, but didn’t verbalize call so it stood as a raise. Someone snapped him with KQo and I don’t even remember what my buddy had but it was barely a $2 hand much less a $101 hand. He’s still pissed about it like 6 years later.

 

[WedgeRock]

Witnessed by a friend of mine. Relatively new player sits down in a NL cash game. Action is irrelevant but hand goes to showdown and quad queens are tabled. New player checks cards again, neighbor sees pocket jacks for quad jacks, but new player is unaware of bad beat jackpot and mucks hand, not into muck. Neighbor loses his shit and tells new player to flip hand over for bad beat jackpot. Floor rules that hand was mucked, bad beat jackpot of over $100k not awarded.

So how long was the line to kick his ass?

 

[Moxie Mike]

At the WSOP ME this summer a dude with a live hand bet all his chips, then with action pending he exposed his hand, then mooned the table, then completely dropped his pants, then took off his shoes and flung them at the dealer.

Then after being escorted out, he went to another casino and climbed onto a craps table - to once again expose himself to all passers by before he was finally arrested.

I don't know if that qualifies as a 'blunder', but it did get him kicked out of a 10k tournament.

 

[abby99]

Was playing $1/$1 NLHE game a few weeks ago. Guy bets $25 into a $10 pot on the turn. He had no cards. He did have cards and was in the hand but at some point he mucked them. He doesn't remember. Alcohol was not involved. I've brought that move up every week since, lol.

Ah, the bluff fold.

 

[Mojo1312]

Here is one from Wednesday's night $50 NLHE tournament.

Four out of nine players left, approximately 75BB's on the table. Tournament pays out top two 66.66%/33.34% Hero is in the BB with 9BB's behind. Villain raises 3x the BB from the button. Hero looks down at and makes the call. Heads-up.

The flop: . Hero jams. Villain snap calls and turns over pocket sixes.

 

[mike32]

I have many examples of me screwing up over the years but the two most recent were both in 2-7 triple draw. One hand I held something like A2357 and totally forgot that Aces were high. I was very excited about the hand and made a big bet that luckily everyone folded to. Another one I held something like 2c4c5c7c8c and did not even realize I had a flush. Once again I got lucky and everyone folded to my bet. When I rolled my cards to show off my excellent hand everyone else at the table knew right away that I had once again bluffed myself into thinking I had a winning hand. Bluffing yourself is an important tool to have in your arsenal as it makes it harder for your opponents to realize you actually have a weak hand.

 

[Highli99]

Saturday night at Krafticus’ game. Already busted the tournament in a standard, not interesting way. Now playing .25/.50 Cash.

I am up early with about $160 in my stack. I open in mid position to $4 with

There are 4 callers. Flop comes out

I bet $15

player to my left is very abc. He raises to $45.

i see monsters under the bed and fold Asking if he had a set. Nope. He had

without knowing his hand I still played this hand poorly. Should have bet less on the flop and floated the raise, or three bet. Oh well.

 

[JMC9389]

Saturday night at Krafticus’ game. Already busted the tournament in a standard, not interesting way. Now playing .25/.50 Cash.

I am up early with about $160 in my stack. I open in mid position to $4 with

There are 4 callers. Flop comes out

I bet $15

player to my left is very abc. He raises to $45.

i see monsters under the bed and fold Asking if he had a set. Nope. He had

without knowing his hand I still played this hand poorly. Should have bet less on the flop and floated the raise, or three bet. Oh well.

Yeah, if anything I'd have raised more preflop. I don't think you played the flop particularly wrong, but I would always put a tight player on a set or two pair if they're raising like that personally.

 

[Changster]

Should have bet less on the flop and floated the raise, or three bet. Oh well.

Nothing egregious here I would say. Floating the raise is standard tho.

 

[Changster]

I made a horrible mistake yesterday. I was crushing an MTT and about half a day in I had 250bb or so which is really deep at this stage. New player that came from another table had sat to my left a few hands ago.

I raise 56 suited on the button. SB/villain calls, BB calla.

Flop is 456 rainbow. Check, check, bet, call, fold.

Turn is a J. Quite a safe card. Check, bet, all in, and I instacall.

He turns over 55.

I didn’t even realize he had 200bb and the all in raise was like I had to call a gazillion times the pot. He had a couple 25K chips that blended into the 1000 chip. Fukkin dirty stacks!!

I felt like a complete donkey to not know what his stack size was and instacalling my two pair. If I took my time and actually looked at how big the raise was it was probably an easy fold. Of course a short while later I bust out.

I felt like up to that point I was playing so well + running good. It’s not easy to get the stars aligned like that. I felt like I had an easy shot to make the money/final table as we were in the last 1/3 or so of the tournament I would say.

 

[Beakertwang]

These two were all in on the flop.My son had the OESD, and he was hoping to buy the pot, but willing to gamble. The guy with the gutter is an absolute calling station, and was ready to go home. Nobody, including myself, noticed that their kickers didn’t play, and we awarded the pot to my son with 97. I realized the mistake the next day while looking through pics, and my son paid him half the pot, which was about $7.

 

[Hot Nuts]

Saturday night, playing $.25/$.50 cash game I was sitting on $235 after rebuying and making a good run starting with the Ninja J2 full house hand against 2 flushes.

Everyone was busto except 1 guy who had $115. This is a fairly tight player, but when we got heads up he started betting weird for him, like $6 into a limped pot of $1.

I kept folding until my 10 7 saw a flop of 89J rainbow into a $1 pot. I checked out of position and sure enough he bet $6. I called. 3 came. He bet $15. I pondered, told him he couldn't always have it and raised to $65. He counted out the raise and then pushed all in. I snapped called and turned over my straight. He flipped over KK.

Then he said, "Oh well, I get second place money." I'm like, "wait, what?"

Somehow he thought we were playing a tourney because we played one last time, despite that I had texted it was a cash game, I've never played a tournament with $.25/$.50 blinds AND blinds never increased, the buy in was $20-$40 - whatever you wanted to play with, multiple people re-bought at various times, etc - all the signs of a cash game were there.

This is a smart guy too, but he really thought it was a tournament Working too much I guess, but I could tell he really thought that. Still, everyone left hanging around was stunned.

He asked if he could just match the $65 bet and keep the rest because he would not have done that if he knew it was a cash game and this was the last hand of the night. I struggled a little bit, but agreed because I could absolutely tell he was confused. Plus I've never lost in this game and usually take home the most money at least with a cash game. I want to keep good karma. I'll be bringing in a 1.75L for the next game too to share.

 

[inca911]

Playing Draw2maha, I look at my hand and think about options. I even take a picture to gather advice later. I finally decide I should discard the 2 to keep the top set and straight draw on the board to go with my pair of QQ on the draw side. My next action was tossing my whole hand in the muck on my action. Oops.

WCB10: The Brownie Experience

 

[SiouxperStack]

I was at a 1 2 NL Holdem
Two players went to a flop after a $12 raise.
Flop comes Ace 10 2 rainbow. First position checks, Initial raiser bets 15, and gets a call. The turn comes a 4 and the dealer tries to get first position to pay attention by letting him know action is on him. First positon shows his hand, pocket 9s, as if the hand is over which causes the floor to get called. The initial raiser says I'll show my hand to be fair. Initial raiser shows Ace Queen, top pair, and then puts first position all in, for a remaining $40. 1st position calls and misses the river and walked out of the poker room to the sound of the table's murmurs and quiet laughing.

 

[DRacula]

Heads up, $700 pot or so on the river.
Player A over bets $1,000
Player B says “That’s bold”
Player A says “Good fold” and shows the bluff with a shit eating grin.
Player B says “I call”

Chaos ensued

 

[allforcharity]

Whenever I'm playing, it's an automatic blunder.

 

[CraigT78]

One time, at poker night, one of the players called a hot dog a sandwich. He hasn't been invited back.