Dumbest move you\'ve ever made
 

Last night I was Hamlet at the poker table. I was only crazy when the wind blew North North West, but damn was it blowing hard. The inability to make a decision was killing me, and I was treading water. If not for Lady Luck I wouldn't have been up at all...and I knew I didn't deserve even that. By Three in the morning I was tired, and disgusted with the way I was playing.

It was at that moment I made one of the dumbest moves of my life.

The game was Omaha, and thanks to a couple of threes in the hand, I had flopped a boat. With a flush draw on board, the hand held serious promise. For the first time all night, I played the hand perfecdtly, drawing my arch nemisis into the pot. There was sixty dollars in the pot when the spade came up and I knew my foe made his flush. He checked, with the intention of raising and I pushed all in, keeping my body language perfect. He reached for his chips, as I worked hard on avoiding his eyes and reaching for a smoke.

"You got the boat?" he asked.

Now, there are many things one can say in this situation. Best, perhaps to say nothing. One may debate the best thing to say, but may I offer the worst.

"Yes" I answered, perhaps in the back of my mind thinking he had called. I honestly don't know. Suddenly I panicked. Crap! I just told him my hand by accident. This is where one has to rely upon their brain to make a sound judgement and come up with a clever response. I slipped to auto-pilot and waited a millisecond for my brain to come up with something smart to cover everything up. My cover?

"S@#t! I just told you what I had."

Thanks brain. Thanks for nothing. Now I don't feel bad for trying to kill you with all those drugs and booze.

He sat there stunned for a moment thinking to himself "Is Bob really that dumb?" Finally he folding, showing how much respect he gave my ability to screw things the pooch when the pressure was on.

Fine. Perhaps I'm not sure if telling the opposition what my cards are before he bets is the dumbest thing I ever did...but in the morning it sure feels like it.

What's the dumbest thing you folks have ever done at a table?

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when you are in the hand don't talk. It's not even what you say so much as how you say it sometimes. Just sit there and wait for him to make a decision.

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Next time you're in a big pot and push in with air and he asks if you got it again say 'yes'.

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My personal hall-of-shame hand:

I hit an ace high straight (holding A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ) on the river at a B&M 5/10 limit table. The guy in front of me is my only opponent. The board has J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] blank blank. He and I start betting and raising each other. Now, I don't know why I didn't give him credit for the flush other than I was just looking to hit the hand I was looking for and basically told myself that he didn't have a flush.

Not only did he have the flush, he had the royal. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

On the river I think we reraised it about 8 times before the guy finally just stopped and called me.

Funny thing, he said, "I have a flush. I also have the straight. Oh #@%*, I have a straight flush!" He honestly didn't even realize it until he turned it over and looked at the board.

I cashed out and left within the next orbit. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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I was playing in a limit holdem game once and raised proflop with two queens. I was playing so tight that night (we were 11 handed with wild players) that that most likely meant I had a high pocket pair. One guy decided to call me with QT admittingly knowing he was a dog bc he "makes a lot of boats with that hand" the flop comes QTx and we're betting and raising all the way until the ten on the river where he bets and out of sheer stupidity, I only called his bet. I could have easily made another 2-3 big bets at least in that pot.

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I was playing in a limit holdem game once and raised proflop with two queens. I was playing so tight that night (we were 11 handed with wild players) that that most likely meant I had a high pocket pair. One guy decided to call me with QT admittingly knowing he was a dog bc he "makes a lot of boats with that hand" the flop comes QTx and we're betting and raising all the way until the ten on the river where he bets and out of sheer stupidity, I only called his bet. I could have easily made another 2-3 big bets at least in that pot.

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This play 0WNS Gbob's in a dumb contest.

The one play I always hate remembering though I'm sure I've made dumber was at the final table in an online tourney with some pretty big $ payouts (for me). I had already made at least 1K with 7 people left. There are 2 extreme short stacks (1 has 1-2BBs, 1 had about 4) and I have a fairly large stack though not the biggest sized stack. A big stack pushes in on my BB from the button when I hold 88 and I call. Big stack had been pushing in a ton but still I'm probably racing when I can win at least $1K more by waiting out the short stacks.

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My brilliant move happened last week... At the final game for my friends league. (largest payouts and free buyins for winners from the previous games)
Flop is A K Q.... Normally I look at my cards constantly but not this time. Turn is a 9 and the river comes out a J... Betting, raising reraising between me and 1 other person and i flip my cards and say "Strait". I had a J-2 not a 10-2 (Big Blind hand w/ no raise) Needless to say i was a bit angry at myself...

This was however overshadowed by some new guy who we let buy into our final game who went all in with a wraparound strait Q-K-A-2-3.. and got angry at us when we said that its not a hand..

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I was playing 7 stud and thought both my initial hole cards were hearts. I caught 3 more and capped the river with my A hi flush, flipped my cards announcing "flush" and saw 4 hearts, 2 diamonds and a spade. No pair. AWESOME.

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PLaying a bar tournament, and for some reason the bar has allowed a 16 year old kid to play in the tourney, he just has to leave at 10pm. So, 10pm comes and the kid has to leave, and he has about 2700 in chips. So, he just starts going all in blind every hand, and he's directly to my left, so I always act before him. Well, after about three hands of this, with about 3800 in chips, I pick an Ace Jack, not a great hand, but I'll play it against his random hand. I call, with the intention of calling the kids all in, now the guy to my right had also simply called. As expected, the kid goes all in, the table folds around the guy to my right, and he calls the all in, putting himself all-in, (he had about 1900), suddenly, my brain goes into complete meltdown, and I have visions of the guy to my right having a monster. I htink about it, and fold. I still don't know why. I had been prepared to call the kid's 2700 chips, and the guy to my right didn't make it cost anymore for me to call then it originally had, all he did was give me a better price for my money, almost 3-1 instead 2-1 and if I did lose the hand, I wasn't busted. And yes, the guy could have had a monster, but so the could the kid, I knew there was the possibility that I would have to hit the flop to win. But I still folded. No reason in the world for me to do it, and I did.

And for the record, the kid turned over a J4o or soemthing, the guy to my right tunred over KQo, an ace came on the flop.

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hindsight is 20-20

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I was playing 7-stud at a home game, and had had a few beers...

I'm calling my 2 pair all the way, then I hit my boat against a flush, and go nuts, cap the pot. I proudly flip over my full house - and see 2 pair. I had been trying to track folded cards that affected my hand, and my neighbour folded a three, so I had played the entire hand thinking I had two pair. My friends laughed at me, for a very long time. In fact, they still do it. Especially when I misread my straight this weekend... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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I've told people before that I've had the nuts...only I've never actually had somebody fold to me when I've said it. Dumb bastards.

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I was learning the game of Omaha. I was reading the rules and thought: "Hey, you must use only two cards from your hand. Okay, sounds easy."

First hand I'm ever dealt? 4444. I freak out, push allin, and realized how stupid I was.

When I was first learning Hold'em, someone was bluffing EVERY hand. So, I called with Q7. He had K-something and I was out. Didn't think I made a mistake either. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Rofl, i gotta go play there. Nothing better than people who don't even know what they have [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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On a few occasions, i started being agressive on a paired board with my somewhat low pocket pair or 1 of my cards maching the 3th flop card for 2 pairs. Then didn't notice the board pairing again higher than my pair and keep continuing the agression without even having a usefull kicker to the boards 2 pairs.

Recently, i was 4 tabling and got QTs in late position. A hand i normally would have played there. In my hury as i was also busy with the other tables i noticed the suitedness just after i pressed fold. Of course, the flop came with 3 cards of that same suit.
Not really a huge -EV mistake by itself, but pretty painfull in this particular situation [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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3/6 holdem at local casino a few years ago. I flop an ace high flush draw and call to the river. Normally passive player who has been betting the whole way, bets into me on the river after I have missed my flush. I think I had A2spades and all I was looking for was spades, I fold on the river after backdooring the nut straight. I didn't even realize until someone said that they folded the ace for the straight. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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board made trips, then a 9 fell, i had a nine (for a boat). friend raised and i said to her "god i already know the outcome of this hand", i called, then called again on the river. she turned over ace high and thought that i meant i knew the outcome was a split pot...i didn't raise with what i *KNEW* was the best hand (only i thought 2 people had it!)

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I was dealing out a hand in a home game, I had already folded and I believe it was heads-up after the flop. The guy next to me had showed me his hole cards, I think he had a set after the flop and was slowplaying them.

After dealing the turn, I burned another card and previewed the river. Hmm, king of diamonds.

Unfortunately, this wasn't an internal thought. I had just said, "Hmm, king of diamonds" out loud. Everyone just looked up and just stared at me. I think my friend's stare was more of a "You just cost me all his chips you friggin moron" glare.

I smoothly covered myself by turning bright purple and stuttering "Uh, uh, what I meant to say was..." and trailing off. Turn was checked. I deal the king on the river. Friend bets, other guy folds. I'd put this behind me if I could, except whenever that king of diamonds shows up on the board, I hear it from every side: "Ooooh, king of diamonds!"

I'm stupid. Don't think out loud.

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I was dealing out a hand in a home game, I had already folded and I believe it was heads-up after the flop. The guy next to me had showed me his hole cards, I think he had a set after the flop and was slowplaying them.

After dealing the turn, I burned another card and previewed the river. Hmm, king of diamonds.

Unfortunately, this wasn't an internal thought. I had just said, "Hmm, king of diamonds" out loud. Everyone just looked up and just stared at me. I think my friend's stare was more of a "You just cost me all his chips you friggin moron" glare.

I smoothly covered myself by turning bright purple and stuttering "Uh, uh, what I meant to say was..." and trailing off. Turn was checked. I deal the king on the river. Friend bets, other guy folds. I'd put this behind me if I could, except whenever that king of diamonds shows up on the board, I hear it from every side: "Ooooh, king of diamonds!"

I'm stupid. Don't think out loud.

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I don't know why your friend glared at you, or why you didn't think of reshuffling, but that is so funny. I can just imagine seeing someone think out loud like that, i ncluding the "hmmm", scratching his chin and looking down, not noticing the hand being played. I'm actually laughing out loud

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I was learning the game of Omaha. I was reading the rules and thought: "Hey, you must use only two cards from your hand. Okay, sounds easy."

First hand I'm ever dealt? 4444. I freak out, push allin, and realized how stupid I was.

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That one's my favorite.

My dad plays in a home game that includes omaha hi lo except you have 5 hole cards AND you can play your 5 hole cards rather than the board if you want. Too bad weren't playing in that game, huh?

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I have KK. The flop comes three of a kind. Sweet a boat!!! Money goes in the pot. Turn comes a blank. More betting. River puts quads on the board. I haven't been playing long, and I know that when you make quads with your two hole cards the kicker doesn't play (ok technically it does, but nobody can share the quads with you so you know what I mean).

So me and another guy get into a betting war that drives out two other players and I'm lauging at them in my head for folding in a split pot....Just as I put in the final raise, I go--oh [censored], kickers play!. Of course the other guy had an Ace.


--Zetack

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Soo many dumb things I've done, so few braincells undamaged...

Over a decade ago paying over $400 to learn Omaha in a homegame full of sharks and booze seems like the topper. I must have forgot how many cards to use at least three times. Always seemed to remember to keep my drink fresh though.

Not doing whatever it was we did to find books before the internet and not getting S/S 1 nor TOP back then is another. ;~)

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I finally came up with a good one--remembered a good one. I've done the misread the board and think I have a straight thing a few times and tried to bluff out a calling station the river when it was obvious they had a strong hand that they weren't folding, but this one probably takes the cake.

I was playing in a home game against a loose player preflop who reads other players pretty well. I'd been playing about three weeks and practiced online and read some basics, but was still quite inexperienced. I bet before the flop w/ ATo and was called. On the flop, but the other guy bet, seemingly pretty clear he had a pair. Unfortunately for me, I had checked out of turn because I was hyper and mostly had played on the internet. I always made my decisions beforehand so I was ready to act when it was my turn. I still tried an all in raise on the guy and I knew he saw my check out of turn. He thought about it for a while and of course called me. No suckout and I lost ten bucks. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Good lesson leared though.

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board made trips, then a 9 fell, i had a nine (for a boat). friend raised and i said to her "god i already know the outcome of this hand", i called, then called again on the river. she turned over ace high and thought that i meant i knew the outcome was a split pot...i didn't raise with what i *KNEW* was the best hand (only i thought 2 people had it!)

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So she couldn't have had quads or a PP better than 9? Don't see what's so dumb about calling down here.

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I was playing some 7-stud on three tables, and suddenly realized that one of them was a hi/low game (the only one I was winning well on)- I had won a pot with threes full of twos and I guess the other players put me on a low and I scooped, but had been playing 10 minutes before I knew what game it was. Pretty dumb, pretty lucky. But of course, that's me.

Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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I was playing some 7-stud on three tables, and suddenly realized that one of them was a hi/low game (the only one I was winning well on)- I had won a pot with threes full of twos and I guess the other players put me on a low and I scooped, but had been playing 10 minutes before I knew what game it was. Pretty dumb, pretty lucky. But of course, that's me.

Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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The most impressive thing here is that you actually found an active 7 card stud hi lo table.

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I have done almost exactly the same thing twice:

In a 2-table tournament at a friend's place, I have QQ under the gun. I make a normal raise, and it folds to the BB, a guy I've never played with, but who doesn't seem either terrible or great so far. He re-raises me a modest amount, and I call. The flop puts a two-flush (which I am not suited-to with either Q) and a TJ draw out there. BB checks. I bet about half the pot, and the BB calls.

I mull-over his action, thinking what possible cards he might have, and get quite lost in my thinking. 99? TT? JJ? AK suited? I've seen people re-raise with AJo and KJs at this table. Maybe he even has AA or KK and is milking me...

The turn is an A, suited. I start thinking again, trying to figure out if I'm beat. Thinking I might be, I'm hoping to get to the showdown on the cheap. BB checks. Meanwhile, I'm trying to piece it together and I don't notice his check.

Somewhere in there, with all the scare cards and the thinking, I am nudged and told that it has been checked to me. From thinking about getting to the river cheap, I have somehow convinced myself that there are five cards on the board, and I'm relieved that I don't have to call a bet. I flip over my Queens, thus killing my hand and giving him the pot.

I never found out what his cards were.

-steve albini

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Mine...

5 card draw online. My opponent is on tilt. I have two kings in the BB. He raises pre-draw. I call. He changes 1 card. I know he has two pair. I draw a king. We go to the cap post-draw. He shows his two pair. But wait - I accidentally had discarded one of my kings, so i had capped with only one pair. Arrrgggghhh.

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I'm on the button in a 4/8 limit game, I get dealt 99. I make a raise and get two callers. Flop shows a 9 and two diamonds. Check, Bet, I smooth call, turn is a brick, check bet, I raise, call, call, river is another diamond, and it gets checked to me so I check, fearing the raise. One guy turns over his flush, and I muck my set. Only after throwing away my cards do I realize that the river also paired the board and I threw away my boat.

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Not my move but I was dealing the hand in a tournament tonite. Board comes 3, 5, A rainbow turn 5 river 3. The three players in the hand checked it all the way down. I tell them "lets see a winner". One guy turns over Q J the other two both say "I can't beat a Q" and muck their hands. Another player says "thats a three way chop", I say as i'm pushing the whole pot to the Q J "it would have been if the other two had not mucked their hands".

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using the "instant bankroll" freebie money bonus at party poker before I'd heard of 2+2 or read SSHE.

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2 -

#1 - Playing in AC - 1/2 NL. About 4 hands in (this was my 2nd time in a B&M) I get what I think is AKs. board has 3 spades, river is a blank and I go all-in against a lady who has 2 pair. As the dealer says flip them over and is counting out our $, I say "don't worry about it, I have the nutz" and flip over my AsKc. The whole table laughs outloud. A spade rivered, so I ended up winning the pot, but it wasn't worth the shame of seeing all these veterans laugh at me, the noob.

#2 -
Simpler. I was #2 in chips in a MTT at Turning Stone. 25 left and 18 pay. The guy who is #1 is directly to my left, in SB (I'm OTB). Folds to me and I look down at 22. For whatever reason, I go all-in and the guy in the SB calls with JJ. I'm busted. I've never, ever forgiven myself for what may have ended up costing me around $2,000.

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Dumbest Move: I moved to Boston for a year, long before Foxwoods opened. No action but Bridge for that year.

Next Dumbest: I moved from Beantown to Oklahoma, well at least we have poker. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I like dogmeat have been playing STUD games and thought they were all Hi only when multi-tabling. Remarkable how that seems to work out so well upon ocasssion.

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Playing 3 tables, I got dealt 44, 44, and 55 at the same time. While thinking about how wierd it was to get dealt these cards, I realized I flopped a set of 4's on one table. I jammed the pot on every street only to realize that I was actually on the table with 55 and had like 4th pair.

Folded for one bet on the river [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

bk

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I am on heavy duty tilt from blowing my first buy in and am playing WAY over my head in a 3/6 nl online game that I am trying to limp and wait for monster to double up. in BB I actually flop a str8 but not the nut str8 and when two prior to me get all in I can't pull the trigger to bet my stack. Guy 1 has two pair other guy just Top pair, top kicker and I watch as board goes rag rag and i would have won and dobled up on 400 stack. Great, you can imagine the tilt from there made quick work of stack anyway. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I've done sme, but not all, of the things listed in this forum. Made pretty good reading.

The dumbest move i've ever made, however, took place about 5 years ago.

I was young, I was arrogant, I was underbankrolled for the limit I was playing.

I put the last 20 BB of my bankroll on the table.

lf

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My dad plays in a home game that includes omaha hi lo except you have 5 hole cards AND you can play your 5 hole cards rather than the board if you want. Too bad weren't playing in that game, huh?

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What, no wild cards?

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My second month of playing, thankfully this was a live freeroll tournament.

I had a bad run of bad beats for a few weeks leading up to this so I was highly paranoid.

I get dealt TT and me and a bunch of others go to the flop.

Flop is like 6 T K, giving me a set of T's. At this point I raise big, get 1 caller.

Turn is K, I'm like "OH crap he has a king and now he has three kings and my stupid three T's are no good..." but I bet all in and he calls.

He flips over QJ and I'm like "Whew" and I call out my hand, three ten's and flip it over. Any card but a 9 or A and I win.... but the river gets me, blamo, an A, giving him a straight, I push him my chips and get up from the table and go home.

The next day I'm telling my friend about my horrible bad beat and he was like "Didn't you have a full house the whole time?" and I was like "What? ... oh SH!T" and felt really really really really dumb.

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One of my worst folds:
3 handed: Button doubles BB. SB folds, I'm in BB w/ 55 and call. I think to myself, "Alright, gimme a 4 for a set!"

Flop: Jd 7d 5c
I check. Button goes all in. Thinking I have 44 and was 1 card in rank below hitting a set, I fold. As I fold I look at my cards, and realize my memory isn't as badass as I thought it is, and realize that my hand was 55, not 44, and that I indeed did flop a set.

Button shows JTs and says "I knew my Jacks were good"

Fortunately it was just a friendly home game with a chump change buy-in [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]