As simple as the thread title indicates.
Can be poker related or not, but the more shenanigans there are, the better.
I'll start with one. I told this story on here once before; apologies if you saw it and it's a repeat. Anyway...
This was a couple years back now. Friend of mine was hosting for a micro-stakes cash game with dice chips (keep in mind this was before my join date here, didn't know any better!). We did .10/.20 blinds with unlimited $10 buy ins or top offs at a time. We all buy in and open the card boxes and shuffle and deal the cards. My memory is fuzzy on the details on which hand I had and when, but on the very first hand I look down at pocket Jacks. Even in early position I raise, and to my amazement I got 4 callers on our 7 person table. Flop comes J K K. Full boat off the flop? Awesome! I'm second to act and I call a half pot bet from BB that was first to act. Amazingly, there was one other flat caller. Turn comes a 10. BB bets again, I raise and both last to act and BB flat call again. Alarm bells are going off but I soldier on. River comes an Ace. BB jams and I jam with my KKJJJ boat, and last to act folds. BB turns over AKo and I donked away my first buy in after just the first hand.
Whatever, I buy in again. Very next hand I get dealt AJo. I open with a raise and get called twice and the new BB three bets, which isn't out of the realm for him, but he doesn't three bet unless he has a high pocket pair. Again, to my amazement, I call and so do the other two callers to my initial raise. Four handed going into the flop, comes out A T J. I open with a full pot bet to chase away the other players in the hand with top two pair and to try to get some money back. My spidey-sense tingled even more after I got two callers to my large bet. Turn comes a Q. I c-bet and again, one player calls and BB even raised me (again, not an out of the ordinary move for him as he's one of the more LAG-ey players at the table). I flat call and third hand folds. River comes another Q. I shove and BB snap calls and turns over QK suited for the straight.
At this point I'm pissed off and ask the host to take a look at the decks, as there was no way that I could have two hands like this in a row. Sure enough, I take a look at the decks, realize there's a lot of face cards in there, and come to see that we're playing with a bunch of pinochle decks! Everyone is laughing their asses off except for me, but I came around a few seconds later and laughed about the absurdity of the situation too. Luckily I've known the host and all of the players in the game since high school, so we all agreed to nuke the game so far and start from scratch with standard 52 card decks, giving me a buy in back to start from where I began. The guy that was responsible for bringing the cards to that game, to this day, is banned from providing the cards for the recurring game that we've run.
Can be poker related or not, but the more shenanigans there are, the better.
I'll start with one. I told this story on here once before; apologies if you saw it and it's a repeat. Anyway...
This was a couple years back now. Friend of mine was hosting for a micro-stakes cash game with dice chips (keep in mind this was before my join date here, didn't know any better!). We did .10/.20 blinds with unlimited $10 buy ins or top offs at a time. We all buy in and open the card boxes and shuffle and deal the cards. My memory is fuzzy on the details on which hand I had and when, but on the very first hand I look down at pocket Jacks. Even in early position I raise, and to my amazement I got 4 callers on our 7 person table. Flop comes J K K. Full boat off the flop? Awesome! I'm second to act and I call a half pot bet from BB that was first to act. Amazingly, there was one other flat caller. Turn comes a 10. BB bets again, I raise and both last to act and BB flat call again. Alarm bells are going off but I soldier on. River comes an Ace. BB jams and I jam with my KKJJJ boat, and last to act folds. BB turns over AKo and I donked away my first buy in after just the first hand.
Whatever, I buy in again. Very next hand I get dealt AJo. I open with a raise and get called twice and the new BB three bets, which isn't out of the realm for him, but he doesn't three bet unless he has a high pocket pair. Again, to my amazement, I call and so do the other two callers to my initial raise. Four handed going into the flop, comes out A T J. I open with a full pot bet to chase away the other players in the hand with top two pair and to try to get some money back. My spidey-sense tingled even more after I got two callers to my large bet. Turn comes a Q. I c-bet and again, one player calls and BB even raised me (again, not an out of the ordinary move for him as he's one of the more LAG-ey players at the table). I flat call and third hand folds. River comes another Q. I shove and BB snap calls and turns over QK suited for the straight.
At this point I'm pissed off and ask the host to take a look at the decks, as there was no way that I could have two hands like this in a row. Sure enough, I take a look at the decks, realize there's a lot of face cards in there, and come to see that we're playing with a bunch of pinochle decks! Everyone is laughing their asses off except for me, but I came around a few seconds later and laughed about the absurdity of the situation too. Luckily I've known the host and all of the players in the game since high school, so we all agreed to nuke the game so far and start from scratch with standard 52 card decks, giving me a buy in back to start from where I began. The guy that was responsible for bringing the cards to that game, to this day, is banned from providing the cards for the recurring game that we've run.