Something I can just never believe when I see it

[eastbay]

I play in the $109 PP SnGs. My wallet thanks these folks, but I am continually incredulous when I see stuff like this:

A guy makes a big preflop raise in L2, bets his stack down in increments of about 250 down to about 50 chips, getting called all the way, checks on the river, and then folds when his opponent bets his last 50 into a pot of ~2000.

What planet do these people live on?

Is there any kind of warped thinking which can even attempt to justify this?

eastbay

[Girazze]

Seen it many times and you can only sit there and wonder!

[AtlBrvs4Life]

Could be the planet of collusion.

[eastbay]

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Could be the planet of collusion.

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Interesting idea. I actually hadn't thought of that.

eastbay

[Girazze]

Me neither.....but that would be against the rules so it can't possibly happen. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[AtlBrvs4Life]

The guy folds with 50 chips so he doesn't have to show the rest of the table that his hand is worthless.

Collusion is the only reason I can see for anyone calling and folding like this.

[Hood]

I was about to reply and say 'perhaps he had absolutely nothing, and was sure to lose it'.

Then I remembered a hand the other day. I was (I'm sure there's a good reason) totally bluffing. Bluffed on the flop, turn and river. Was called on every single street. Won the hand with my 82o. IIRC, board was something like AJT43.

[Filip]

My first thought was chipdumping.

[37offsuit]

I've seen this happen too. Usually it's a big draw that misses, say an open ended straight flush draw, where the person bets the flop, gets called and thinks that betting again on the turn will force the person out. When it doesn't, they hope to check it down at the end. When they get bet into with nothing, they don't know that you should probably still call. Maybe they think they can mount a miracle comeback.

[Prickly Pete]

The chip dumper would almost always be better off by not dumping his chips. If you were to collude, you'd want to keep your stacks even not give all your chips to one guy.

It's most likely stupidity, not cheating.