What should I say?

So I have a friend (who posts here but will remain nameless), and he was talking to me over instant messenger while he was playing in a PLO/8 game (note: I was NOT in the game. He was just telling me what was going on).


He tells me he has A236 with ace suited clubs in late position, and the flop comes 334, which is obviously a great flop. The flop gets checked around, and a 9 falls on the river. Someone bets the flop, he raises the pot, and everyone including the bettor, folds. Ni han.


A few hands later he tells me he has A23J, and that the final boarded ended up being AQQ47. Pretty good board for him. He told me it ended up being heads up on the river. So I asked him if he scooped it, and he told me he didn't get any of it. Obviously I was confused, since it was clear he had the nut low, and considering that board, a pretty good high. He then sheepishly admits to me that he just realized he was in a PLO high table this entire time.


I was speechless. Should I say something like "Hey don't worry man, it happens to all of us"? Cuz I mean, I sure as hell know it's never happened to me. Or should I just start making fun of him immediately? What would you do in a situation like this?

Ask him when he expects to play again? I'll let others elaborate on what else you need to do.

Give him your deepest sympathies.


Thanks for mentioning this Sooga. I already had half of the posters here convinced that I was a moron, and this should help confince the other half.


In all honesty, what Sooga said did happen exactly as he told it. However, my only (very feable) defense is that I was simultaneously in an online tournament that was nearing the final stages and had captured all of my attention. I was folding dang near every hand in the PLO game, and when I saw A23J in the BB, I decided to play it through.


My bad. My very, very bad.


Josh

Josh,

We all know how loose you play just by your posts. As far as you being a moron, not at all. It is good policy to never call the fish names, you know that. /images/smile.gif


On-line it is not at all uncommon for that to happen. I have seen countless players, many everyday winners, do the same thing. It usually begins by winning a pot with no callers then scooping with a high only hand. Next thing you know you go all in with nut low and 2nd nut high and feel stunned.


Easy E may not have known but most of us know you and Sooga are Buds.


Better luck,


Jimbo

PS: As Mason implied, when you gonna play again? I would like to join your table. /images/smile.gif

well "it happened to me" once, but at least it wasn't pot-limit. (Or would it be more accurate, conceptually, to say "I happened to it?")

Another error online: I was planning to make a late open-steal attempt of the blinds with a weak hand since the blinds and the cutoff and button were very tight. I went to check the lobby, and upon getting back, saw the action was on me and so I quickly raised. To my horror I then noticed that it had been raised first by the UTG. Anyway I got lucky and caught running trips on the turn and river to leave my opponent no doubt shaking his head.

I did similar once. I was playing in two games, and in the second game, it was just about my turn to act, so I clicked on the middle of the window of the second game.


Right as I clicked, my three options (Fold, Call, or Raise) popped up, and I clicked Raise (I didn't see the button until too late). This was a cap w/ 64o.


Flop came K52, so I took one off, and I hit two running 6s to win. Nobody said a word....they wanted to keep the fish comfortable, I guess.


Josh

It happens. Actually, it happened to me on PP the other night. I had just switched from two stud games to one stud and one stud 8/b and I played two playing hands as if the game was high only until I realized it was high low. Cost me around 4 bb.


I've also misread my hand on occasion. And anyone who tells you they have never thrown in a winning hand or miscalled their hand is LYING, big time.

Hmm, are you talking about on the river at showdown, you muck a hand that's a winner? I can honestly say I've never done that (or even thought that I did that). But if you're talking about mucking a hand like 59o preflop and the flop coming 5 5 5, yea I've mucked 'winners' like that all the time. And I've never miscalled my hand either.. I always know what I got in the pocket. It might also be because I don't play live that much, and when I play, I stop when I feel I can't concentrate on the cards anymore.


I dunno, do a lot of people muck winners and misread their hands fairly frequently? I can imagine it would be very possible in Omaha, with 4 cards to remember, but in Hold'em, I don't see how it should happen that much...

Well, I've done it a number of times at stud. I guess it would be much harder at hold em.


In stud, sometimes you may not realize the combinations you have going. For example, you might be fixated on making aces up to win a big pot and not realize that you have backed into a straight or flush. Or you could misread your cards and not realize you have just made two pair.


I made a $300 raise once with what I thought was a full house and had only two pair that lost.


I'm not saying it happens often, but it does happen. Probably not as often in hold em because you only have two cards to look at and your own cards don't change. But I'd imagine there have been times with hands like aces that a player did not realize the 4 on the river giving the board 23854 made him a straight and mucked to a hand like trip 8's or two pair.


You don't realize usually when it happens because you muck. A few times, I have accidentally laid my hand on the table and been told it was a winner when I thought I lost.


I lost a major pot this year with trips to a guy who called two pair in stud only to have the dealer tell him he had a flush with 3 running suit in a row.

shed a tear bur realize he's a sucker for not knowing what game he's in.

was this an online site where you could play more than one table simultaneously?


Wow, instead of 8 opponents, you now have 32 with four different hands?

I know some online casinos allow you to sit in FOUR games at once. Just concentrate on one at a time.


Josh, how many hours do you play each week? Do you post and play at the same time also?


At least I have have other hobbies besides poker.

Not to be critical, but there are other things in life.

Mike -


I do lots besides poker, although were I will go in a couple day spurts of ODing on poker. I live on the beach, play a ton of sports (basketball, softball, volleyball, etc), shoot pool, drink.


I think that it may seem as though I only play poker because I remember EVERYTHING that happens at a table, and write about a lot of it. I play, when going on a poker-heavy stint, maybe 4 times a week, and that's TON for me. Right now just so happens to be a poker-heavy stint.


Josh