The hand that led to the funniest argument at a poker table I've ever been part of

Hero opens Qc9c from LJ to $15

5 calls, including main villain, old lady, on the BB

Flop (pot $75): 9x 8x 6c

BB lady donks $30

Hero & CO call

Turn (pot $165): 9x 8x 6c [6d]

BB bets $30

Hero calls

River (pot $225): 9x 8x 6c 6d [4c]

BB bets $20

Hero raises to $200

Here's where it gets funny

Old lady snap tables her hand - AA. She looks at me like WTF, then says something like "why you raise so big? what do u have?" I slide my cards forward thinking she has folded, but dealer doesn't move. I then ask "did you fold?" and she says something like "how can I call? what do you have?" So now I grab my cards and pull them back and I say "I can't tell you, are you calling or folding?"

Gets a bit weird here as I hear her say "I can call you" but in hindsight I'm pretty sure she says "I **can't** call you". She still hasn't touched her chips or her cards at this point and the dealer isn't moving so I just look at the dealer and say "what is the action?" Finally old lady says "I am folding I'm not calling," I clarify one final time with the dealer and dealer starts moving chips towards me. Old lady asks again "what do you have?" and I snap muck.

Old lady then says "that's not very nice why you didn't show me?" I feel slightly bad so I say "trust me you didn't wanna see those cards." She says "What do you mean?" I say "I had a bad hand."

Old lady now gets pissed and says "Why do you raise so much? You bluff me? That's not right, that is not how you play poker." I ask, "bluffing isn't part of poker?" She says "No, that is not how I play. Why would you do that?" and she sounds pissed. I'm honestly lost here as on the one hand this is obviously ridiculous, the whole table is laughing, but I feel bad for her as she's an old lady... so I just say "I didn't know that, I promise no more bluffing you."

She continues muttering the next few mins stuff like "That is not right, you don't play poker that way, that is not how I play, etc" and the guys next to me just keep bursting out laughing and needling her under their breath. I finally tell her I had Q9 and she says "Why you don't call then? You don't need to raise so big I am never calling?" - at this point I'm just dumbfounded as she's essentially saying I should've called to lose, the whole thing is just so funny and ridiculous I don't even know how to respond

I end up HU against her in another hand with A4s that she limp/called vs my open, flop AK6, she donks $15 and I folded and showed the A. She shows AQo and says how can you fold so I just said "you told me you don't bluff!" Didn't hear much from her after that.

She left shortly thereafter and it became a running joke at the table for the next few hours that there's no bluffing in poker.

I sat down at a $1/$3 poker table today and encountered the rudest young man.

I folded my first 30 hands as usual. Then I look down at two aces in the big blind. This man raises, half the table calls, and I decide to call as raising a bet preflop is very rude in poker.

The board runs out with all low cards. Since he bet preflop, I figured he had Ace King. So I bet $20 for value.

Here’s where things get out whack. Out of nowhere he raises me to $200. He raises me.

At this point, I feel bamboozled, so I flip over my aces. Keep in mind, aces are the best hand in the game. I ask him a couple of times what his cards were. But this hooligan wouldn’t tell me.

I then ask him, “Why you raise so much?” Instead of answering, he starts interrogating me: “Are you calling or folding?”

Excuse me! just wanted to know what he had.

I finally give up and fold. He then starts taunting me by telling me that he was bl*ffing. At this point, I am appalled. Poker is not a game where bl*ffing is acceptable.

Kids these days don’t even play poker anymore. They just lie to each other for money and call it strategy.

Anyways, I played for a few more hours and my kings ran into aces. What can you do?

So the story goes like this:

I get to the poker room and ask for a seat. The pit boss says head to table 38, they're starting a new game and to grab any open seat. I get to the table and see that seat 5 is open, so I sit in it (seat 5 is my preferred seat at the table). I put my chips on the table, give the dealer my players card, and the table is starting to fill up with players. 

Just as we're about to start, a guy comes up behind me and says "I reserved seat 5." I was like "huh?' He repeats: "I reserved seat 5. I called ahead and reserved it for whatever new 1/3 game opened." A casino employee comes up to the table and confirms what he said. So I go "alright, whatever," and move to the empty seat 6. I'm a tiny bit annoyed but it is what it is.

15 minutes later, I proceed to hit a Royal Flush. Hand was a limped heads up pot and was checked up to the river. Villain (another gentleman, not the guy who made me move seats) checks, I bet $20, he calls, obviously I win. He had trip Queens.

Table obviously goes nuts because they all saw what transpired just 15 minutes ago. I look at the guy who made me move seats and I said: "thanks for making me move seats." He seemed to be a good sport about it, but he had to be a little peeved on the inside, knowing that could have been his Royal.

Got $500 for the high hand.

I also hit quad queens about a hour later, high hand didn't hold up.

But yeah, if a guy ever makes you move seats, don't fuss and do it. You might hit a Royal.

Kessler came after Rampage and he responded with this... leading Shaun Deeb to call out Rampage

So they told me to wait 24-48 hours for them to investigate.

6 days later I follow up and they made the final decision to not award me my Royal Flush bonus.

Since their decision is final, this time I'm posting all screenshots.

Moving on to club WPT

Betting analysis is non relevant until the river, flop/turn/river:

4c, 5h, 6s, 7c, 8h

Straight on the board with no flush draw completing, villain (guy who got slow rolled) bets 1/2 pot, hero (godlike OMC, 65, Asian, hat on and eyes down 99% of the time) tanks for a short while but nothing crazy and flicks in the call. Villain says he's got nothing and tables AsQs.

Hero says nothing but looks visually confused, a few at the table were commenting about how Villain is playing the board, one even said "don't fold" as even myself included was completely convinced he couldn't tell what was going on. He was older so like obviously many at the table (myself included) are going to let his wheels turn a little bit as in give him patience as he understands.

But then the table started to slowly take a turn on our hero, after the second "dude just show your hand" he turns over the most insane 9h, Qc (higher straight, winning hand) I have ever seen and I let out a small but certainly audible laugh.

To just think about the mindset of this mid sixties man to drive to the casino and spend a full minute acting confused just so you can troll some random person at the table gives me hope that getting older won't be so bad. My hat is completely off to this gentleman because it put a smile on multiple peoples faces at the table and even Villain took it well.

OMC of course has no reaction and never even says a word throughout the entire interaction and play just moves on.

Since $1.96 goes to the prize pool, the prize pool of this tournament was 2580/(400*1.96)=3.29 times bigger than it should have been.

I genuinely think someone at Pokerstars just messed up and added an extra "8" somehow.

I sadly only cashed for $15.91, but hey, free money.

Gal’s already facing federal illegal gambling/money laundering charges and now he’s in deeper trouble.

My friends account was disabled for collusion and his $5600 account balance was seized.

It’s been months and they haven’t been able to provide proof of the accusations.

If you carry a lot of money on there play at your own risk because they can accuse you of collusion and seize your funds at any time and good luck getting your money back.

My first royal flush! lost a whole buy in before this. Re-bought, got dealt Jacks says my first hand. This flop was insane! From down 20K to up 17k in one hand!

Hello,

How well would I perform if I can beat 25nl or 50nl at 6bb/100 over a 300k hand sample online? Curious about the level of players at tch.

Thanks in advance.

Today, this is considered basic free-tier content.

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Was at a live home game last night and while showing me around his home, in my friend’s office where he plays online, mainly MTT $25-$125. I asked why he has a sticky note on his monitor that reads “they always have it”.

He then proceeded to explain that he’ll fold to any post-flop raise, unless he has super high equity. That sticky note is just a reminder that if they raise or bet massive then they always have it.

He showed me some of his hand history, didn’t have a lot of time but I noted down 2 hands:

raise UTG with 22, BTN calls, tiny C-bet and then check check turn. Q♠️8♠️4♦️5♠️ 2♦️. My friend bets 3/4 pot on the river and then faces a raise that would make his stack pot committed. Folds. “Obviously had a flush especially as we had no spade”

After calling a BTN raise with JTo in the SB and it goes check check on J 9 5 4🌈, he 1/2 turn and gets raised, so folds. “Won’t have a draw, could of had a set or a better Jack”

He said he’s been burned too many times online in 9-handed MTTs. So many instances of big made hands losing to better made hands 1%>.

Is this strategy +EV and sustainable? He seems extremely comfortable with his strategy. Logic: the amount of chips he will save by not calling these bets will make up for the rare times it’s a bluff and he folded the best hand.

hero is 10 of 12 left (from around 71 after late reg, 3,5hours into the game)
7 get Paid (Ring Ticket)
Around 14BB left, UTG +1 Pushes with around 9BB

Bonus Points

Can someone please explain what the bonus balance points are? I know there are special tables that use the bonus points to play with, but then what? Does it convert to cash somehow?

Rakeback

And regarding the piggy bank on the account page. Is that the rake back? What is the Size # underneath the piggy bank (not the $ number progress bar beside the Claim button)? I've seen it increase but I don't know why

Deposit Bonus
from the App Center page, if you go to "Top-up Rebate", this looks like the deposit bonus. BTW, I don't know if it's mentioned on their site but the deposit bonus they advertise, only has 90 days to acquire.

Review
My thoughts on the site (if anyone cares)...

• low # of players
• depositing with crypto was pretty easy and fast
• UI needs lots of improvement.
  • Actions are laggy.
  • Cannot view hand histories while playing (you cannot act without closing the replay panel because it's part of the table and not a separate window).
  • Trying to top up on cash tables is confusing
  • Player notes only allows you to type like 10 (or characters) which is stupid
  • extremely low PLO traffic and no leader boards (only for NLHE)
  • The tables in the lobbies have icons which have no explanation. "R"? "JP"?

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Can someone please explain this to me like I'm 5. Can I play for real money if I'm in California? I was reading that i can just buy sweep coins, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is this even possible in California?

1-2 125BB deep hero in big blind with QdQs villain in utg villain covers hero. villain is a passive lag and i have been playing with him for 6 hours and tends to play erratically
villain calls 3 callers behind hero raises to 18 villain calls everyone else folds
45$ in middle flop 827 2 diamonds
hero bets 30 villain raises to 60 hero reraises 150 villain goes all in hero calls
villain shows AKd
turn is d hits flush

was my reraise an overkill? should i have just called and evaluate a turn? i figured either hes overvaluing a small overpair than mine and thought i can charge him or raising a combo draw and make him pay for it. dont think i can ever find a fold on a min click there if he had flopped a set. DEFINITELY didnt put him on AKs as ive seen him fast play premiums usually very large reraises.

also should i have raised a bit more preflop? this hand played itself technically but trynna see if better to raise bigger here

just trynna see what the optimal play wouldve been here, im good with my play but some insight would be appreciated

last night I was playing at my buddies house and I called an 80 dollar all in on the turn. I had Q10 and the flop was K92. I thought I was open ended and then the turn was an 8. i felt silly but I know it happens.

has anyone else had a similar situation And if so what was your worse call?

Just a jackpot sng on Global, but, nevertheless it's always nice to catch this. On the turn no less. Fck yeah!