What's your home game horror story? (1 Viewer)

rainy_trails said:
Whether it was one of the first games you hosted or somewhere you visited, I'm curious to hear!
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We played for 6 hours, granted we were younger so it wasn’t a ton of money on the table in absolute, but it was a lot for us at the time….

Anyway, very late into the session there’s a crazy series of bets that leads to a 3-way all in. Cards are flipped and we see:

Quad 6’s vs…. Quad 6s vs… 6s full!

And that’s how we learned that someone mixed up decks and there were at least seven 6’s in play, among many other incorrect card quantities. After some arguing we agreed to make everyone whole and check our cards before playing
 
Played several times in a home game which included three people (one female, two male) I was pretty sure were drug dealers.

Bad players. But they were laid back and pleasant enough to be around. The money didn’t seem important to them. The host was one of their cousins, and a great guy, so I figured they weren’t going to make trouble there. I was OK with it.

Flash forward a couple of months … and the paper reported the arrest of the trio for a series of attempted murders, one successful. Oops.
 
Snapplefacts said:
We played for 6 hours, granted we were younger so it wasn’t a ton of money on the table in absolute, but it was a lot for us at the time….

Anyway, very late into the session there’s a crazy series of bets that leads to a 3-way all in. Cards are flipped and we see:

Quad 6’s vs…. Quad 6s vs… 6s full!

And that’s how we learned that someone mixed up decks and there were at least seven 6’s in play, among many other incorrect card quantities. After some arguing we agreed to make everyone whole and check our cards before playing
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god how did you guys even handle that at the time? This is my nightmare scenario b/c what's the call here?
 
My regular game back between 2003-2010 or thereabouts.

One of our regulars invited a friend. Complete tool, bragged about how hot his wife was (she was), and how he was board certified in 2 specialties of medicine.

About 6 months later, after he’d played a few times with us, he gets arrested for banging a 15 year old patient.
 
Not a complete horror story but a few games ago my father (61) joined us (30-40), and he is a funny bastard. He had the whole table on tilt, was wearing a wig and dark sunglasses and kept his chips scattered in front of him all night. At one point I told him to pick them up a little bit and he noticed that he had the jack of spades under his chips mistakenly. No idea how long it was under there, maybe a hand or two. We all laughed no big pots were won or lost. Since then he stacks his chips, and we've moved to a two decks rotation with the shuffle tech.
 
Snapplefacts said:
We played for 6 hours, granted we were younger so it wasn’t a ton of money on the table in absolute, but it was a lot for us at the time….

Anyway, very late into the session there’s a crazy series of bets that leads to a 3-way all in. Cards are flipped and we see:

Quad 6’s vs…. Quad 6s vs… 6s full!

And that’s how we learned that someone mixed up decks and there were at least seven 6’s in play, among many other incorrect card quantities. After some arguing we agreed to make everyone whole and check our cards before playing
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Similar situation. Neighbor hosted, 2 hands in he quietly says we need to use a different deck of cards.
I asked why and he shows his hand which is the same suited jack as there was showing on the flop.
He said the deck had extra jacks in it for playing some other game I never heard of.
Atleast we were only 2 hands in.
We still give him shit when we play at his house and ask if the cards have extra Jacks.
 
ekricket said:
@MrCatPants
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Mine is actually horrible and not usual Cat Pants hilarity. Long time regular joined a few of us for dinner before the game and had a double bacon cheese burger. Mid 50s, smoker, but otherwise healthy - pretty thin. At the game he starts complaining of indigestion. We give him some antacids and a while later it's still not getting better. A few hands in he says he's just feeling too off and can't really play. We ask him if he needs to go to a quick care center, he says he's fine and gets acid reflux sometimes, texts his wife that he's leaving early, we tell him to call or text when he gets home, and he heads out.

Had a heart attack on the side of the road on the way home and passed away.

Ill save you how the next few hours went between when he left and when we didnt hear from him and he wasnt picking up his phone. We didnt/couldn't have really known. But looking back it seems a lot more clear. Definitely watch for warning signs in your players.
 
thetikiking said:
My buddy got boat-over-boated twice last week. Both times his opponent rivered the card to fill up.
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This seems appropriate here.

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This one time, me and my buddies were playing poker, and one of them was new and bad. His raises were too big and suboptimal, and his c-bets were too small. Sometimes he would get to showdown with the worst hand.

We obviously uninvited him from our tournaments, we learned our lesson about inviting riff-raff to our game.

 
NotRealNameNoSir said:
This one time, me and my buddies were playing poker, and one of them was new and bad. His raises were too big and suboptimal, and his c-bets were too small. Sometimes he would get to showdown with the worst hand.

We obviously uninvited him from our tournaments, we learned our lesson about inviting riff-raff to our game.

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Too soon. :)
 
rainy_trails said:
god how did you guys even handle that at the time? This is my nightmare scenario b/c what's the call here?
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If you're asking for a casino-like ruling, you return all bets made during the hand in which the anomaly was discovered. All other action from previous hands stands.

At a home game among friends where everyone is young and new to poker? Return all buy-ins and go to the bar with a funny story lol.
 
I got invited to play in a game with a few guys I know not part of my regular group for their regular home tournament. I've been playing for a long time and I've played cards with one of the guys before and he seemed knowledgeable enough. Found myself thrust into the following situation:

Buyin was $10 with unlimited rebuys available for the first hour, 20 minute levels. One full table.

The host gave out mathematically $10 dollars worth of chips (lol). By that I mean he called the low denoms dimes, the next quarters, then 50 cent pieces, then dollars, then 5 dollars. I think the stacks were something like 5 blue dimes, 4 green quarters, 1 red fifty center, 2 white ones, and a grey 5. The colors alone blew my mind, nevermind the plethora of different chips and weird values to try to keep track of in my head. As it was my first time, I told myself to just shut up and play and maybe at some point in the future gently make suggestions to help improve things, which I did manage but it was hard to bite my tongue for a long time. I did kindly offer at the end of the first tournament that the amount of the chips given out doesn't have to equal the amount of money bought in for. They did not understand this at all. Oh well.

Next bit of fun was the structure. Here were the levels:

.10 / .20
.20 / .40
.25 / .50 (weird but I thought this would include coloring up the dimes. I was wrong...)
.35 / .70 (ok, now I'm getting annoyed a bit)
.50 / 1
1 / 2
2 / 5 (why 5? I have no idea)
5 / 10 (help me....)
10 / 20 (Please, bust me out I want to go home now)
I managed to win but looked at the host's chart to see what fun he had in store if it continued. Goodness gracious...
20 / 40
50 / 100
100 / 200

I just laughed to myself thinking how many rebuys they'd need to even get to 20 / 40 nevermind 100 / 200. lol

During the game I witnessed all of the following:

Multiple players folding out of turn
Players begging for the blinds to not go up for another level
Claims of straights that weren't (I had to intervene. Player had 7 8, board showing 4 5 8 9 T ). Literally no one else knew.
A player going all in for more than a buyin right before the end of the rebuy period for a lot more than $10 so that he'd be able to get a rebuy in if he lost with absolute garbage on a very connected board that he whiffed on.
Players trying to chop the blinds... in a tournament... (I'm dead inside)
Players asking others yet to act if they are going to call so they can decide if they are going to call early position guy's all in.

Great times.
 
Aside from the local open-door Sugarloaf game getting struck by armed robbers twice in two months, shutting down for a month and reopening with serious security improvements (locked pass doors manned by off-duty Sheriff deputies), and then getting raided by SWAT at 2:00 a.m. a month later.....

By far, my worst home game hosting experience involved a middle-aged long-time player who was involved in a three-way hand. Bet-raise-call-call flop, then the turn card. Checks around, then the river card is dealt. Original bettor checks to the flop raiser (the player in question), who was looking down at his cards covered by his hands and tanked.... and tanked... and tanked.... and tanked some more.

After about two minutes of no activity of any kind, his best friend spoke up, "Eric? Action's on you..." Nothing. The gal sitting next to him lightly grabs his arm, and he suddenly collapses onto the table while beginning to violently shake.

The entire table erupts in a chaotic frenzy, and as people are clearing space, pulling him upright, pulling back his chair, and checking his breathing, he suddenly snaps up looking confused and says, "What?" as if nothing had happened.

Paramedics were called, and while en route, his wife was called, who explained that he had a history of seizure attacks that would last a few minutes and then cease. It's like his brain just freezes for a period of time, and he never has any memory of the incident afterwards.

Paramedics arrive within 5 minutes, check him out, after 15 minutes determine it's safe for them to leave (they also checked out the poker action, "Nice chips!").

Eric's biggest concern? Protecting his AQs hand that flopped top pair with the nut flush draw. He didn't want to leave! We resumed the tournament about 45 minutes after the incident (with his action) -- he bet the river, got one caller, won the pot, and eventually finished 2nd. He was fine, but many of the players were visibly shaken from the experience.

About a month later, he wrecked his truck into a residential fence while experiencing a similar episode. Thankfully, no major injuries incurred, but he no longer drives.
 
NotRealNameNoSir said:
This one time, me and my buddies were playing poker, and one of them was new and bad. His raises were too big and suboptimal, and his c-bets were too small. Sometimes he would get to showdown with the worst hand.

We obviously uninvited him from our tournaments, we learned our lesson about inviting riff-raff to our game.

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hold up you did not just post the same issue I talked about in my thread and then call me out about it over there :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
NotRealNameNoSir said:
He's right, you shouldn't have a problem. He enjoys playing poker with his friends, sucks at it and doesnt mind. Its your game, do what you want, but the eye-rolling and not inviting is pretty silly if he's a good friend.

"Minimum skill level" is a pretty douchey thing to say about a poker tournament especially when you said he's only played a few times. @exodus brings up an important caveat: I may keep people away from the game if its too low-stakes/beginner for them, I want to protect my brand new players. But vice-versa, I can't ever imagine not inviting a friend of mine because he's not good enough, only the opposite.

Being a good friend, teaching him, and taking free money >>> Relatively similar skill level. Sorry if this comes off as curt but you asked for opinions. You're not wrong for inviting whoever you'd like to your home game, but when its a social monthly tournament that you'll all play together, and you're excluding a FRIEND and poker player because he's not good enough at poker? Very silly.
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My worst was a long time ago. very young, around 19. My friend invites me to a game. All cool guys but I don't know anyone other than my friend. I start drinking. On about my forth beer I start to take a big swig and someone at the table makes a really funny joke. Table erupts in laughter. I wish I remember the joke. But mid swig I start to laugh, try to hold in all the beer in my mouth, it fizzes up and my throat just closes up and basically tells me this liquid in your mouth isn't going down. I try and jerk my head around but its too late and I spray the host of the game with a mouth full of beer. he was not pleased. I was soooo unbelievably embarrassed. I was never invited back for some reason???
 
BGinGA said:
Aside from the local open-door Sugarloaf game getting struck by armed robbers twice in two months, shutting down for a month and reopening with serious security improvements (locked pass doors manned by off-duty Sheriff deputies), and then getting raided by SWAT at 2:00 a.m. a month later.....

By far, my worst home game hosting experience involved a middle-aged long-time player who was involved in a three-way hand. Bet-raise-call-call flop, then the turn card. Checks around, then the river card is dealt. Original bettor checks to the flop raiser (the player in question), who was looking down at his cards covered by his hands and tanked.... and tanked... and tanked.... and tanked some more.

After about two minutes of no activity of any kind, his best friend spoke up, "Eric? Action's on you..." Nothing. The gal sitting next to him lightly grabs his arm, and he suddenly collapses onto the table while beginning to violently shake.

The entire table erupts in a chaotic frenzy, and as people are clearing space, pulling him upright, pulling back his chair, and checking his breathing, he suddenly snaps up looking confused and says, "What?" as if nothing had happened.

Paramedics were called, and while en route, his wife was called, who explained that he had a history of seizure attacks that would last a few minutes and then cease. It's like his brain just freezes for a period of time, and he never has any memory of the incident afterwards.

Paramedics arrive within 5 minutes, check him out, after 15 minutes determine it's safe for them to leave (they also checked out the poker action, "Nice chips!").

Eric's biggest concern? Protecting his AQs hand that flopped top pair with the nut flush draw. He didn't want to leave! We resumed the tournament about 45 minutes after the incident (with his action) -- he bet the river, got one caller, won the pot, and eventually finished 2nd. He was fine, but many of the players were visibly shaken from the experience.

About a month later, he wrecked his truck into a residential fence while experiencing a similar episode. Thankfully, no major injuries incurred, but he no longer drives.
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woah that was a roller coaster hahaha What was that Sugarloaf game? I'm pretty familiar with the area (I guess not enough)
 
NotRealNameNoSir said:
This one time, me and my buddies were playing poker, and one of them was new and bad. His raises were too big and suboptimal, and his c-bets were too small. Sometimes he would get to showdown with the worst hand.

We obviously uninvited him from our tournaments, we learned our lesson about inviting riff-raff to our game.
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Don't you tell me how to play 7/2 offsuit :)
 
rainy_trails said:
woah that was a roller coaster hahaha What was that Sugarloaf game? I'm pretty familiar with the area (I guess not enough)
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I never played, was (and still would be) above my $ comfort zone, and I'm sure @BGinGA has more details. But memory was that it was a raked game, was held up a few times with like $20k lost or so each time. Then the bust came and cops confiscated $15k or so, charged a half dozen people w/ felonies, etc.. This was all in the mid-2000s.
 
upNdown said:
Somebody had a horror story about a game at an MIT frat? I think that one was the best worst.
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OMG this was Guinness’ story and it was amazing. I’m not even going to try to relay it - I won’t do it the justice it deserves. Watching him describe it in person is side-splittingly funn as he gets increasingly animated remembering the experience.
 

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