Stupidest poker strategy/statements ever heard...

[Xargque]

"Once you flop top pair, you have to stay in for the two pair, even if you know he's got a better kicker" [said by the guy holding A3o as I rake in my third big pot of the night won with AK].

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[A_C_Slater]

"I had to stay in with it, them 2's have been coming up all night" Some guy who called a pre flop raise with 52 because earlier in the night the flop came up K22 and on another occasion the turn paired two's J282 or whatever. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[ClaytonN]

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If I'm going to play 7-2 offsuit, I come out raising.I would never fold it if I have position."

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To some extent, I agree with the first part. There are games where I can make +EV plays from the button when folded to me with 72o. But the second part of the statement is obviously wrong in the games I play.

[LokiV]

'He just had a monster the hand before, what're the odds he had another?'

[MicroBob]

pretty good one loki.

There's a lot of confused logic out there obviously.


Same goes in blackjack.
I was a dealer for 8 months....and people just make things up:
"the dealer has a 6. he will go on to bust 75% of the time with a 6."
me, "really? I thought the number is something like 41-42%."
"no (laugh)are you sure you've been dealing this game. the dealer busts 75%....i've seen it and anyone who plays or deals BJ sees this and knows it."

[Gomez22]

Playing at a 1/2 UB table yesterday, I was in MP with AQo. I open-raised, and was 3-bet by player to my immediate left. We were HU to a flop of 10 6 8 Rainbow.

I checked, he bet, I folded.

He showed Ad 10d

I typed in: nh

He replied: I never call a raise pre-flop.... I either raise or fold.

Another player said: But 3-betting with A10s????

He replied: It WAS suited....


That had to be the funniest thing I've heard in a while.... an actual person stating the ever popular: "But.... It was SOOOOOOTED!!!!!"

[bonanz]

The other week i was playing live and this ultra ultra passive old guy says:

the only part of this game (holdem) that involves any skill is before the flop. After the flop it's all luck.

i hear a lot of funny things at the table, but i thought this was hilarious. and he kept repeating it throughout the night.

[stinkypete]

my favourite bit of strategy advice i heard a few months ago at the tables:

"you see, every straight has a ten or a five in it... so if there's no ten or five on board, you know for a fact that nobody has a straight"

[MicroBob]

"you see, every straight has a ten or a five in it... so if there's no ten or five on board, you know for a fact that nobody has a straight"



good gracious.
that one is so incredibly stupid I find it hard to believe someone actually said it.

[ricdaman]

From a guy I knew for a fact had lost $1500 over the prior month:

Asked of him: "How have you done over the past month?"

"I'm up a little."