worst brain fart during a game?

[ResidentParanoid]

Since then I have a rule in massive pots: Just turn your stupid cards over and let the dealer figure it out. I had already been playing for a very long time at that stage, but the size of the pot and all of the raising turned me into an idiot.

[PinkyRingo]

1) Flopped quads with 66 online NL. Accidently clicked Check/Fold instead of Check/Call. Someone bet into me, and my quads disappeared into the cyber-muck.

2) Moved all-in for 1k on the river after misreading the board. Thought I had the nut straight, when in reality I had 8-high. Luckily the bet wasn't called.

[Vancity82]

Miscalling my hand is my biggest mistake. At B&M after a guy says trips I say straight and lay down a 4-card straight the table erupted in laughter. Also another time being asked if I have the flush before a guy turns over his trips and saying nope a straight flush having a huge brain fart and not realizing it was a royal flush, the dealer was like sir in this casino we call that a royal flush

[the_joker]

Well I didn't have it, but someone did it against me. In a home game single table tournament, I had two pair, my opponent calls several big bets from me and eventually I put him all in on the river. He turns over his cards and said "I have a straight". His straight was only 4 cards long [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[otnemem]

One time I was playing 15-30 against a bunch of hyper-aggro maniacs. It was my first time playing 15-30 and I was playing a little scared. I raised with pocket queens and got two callers. The flop came A-9-5. Check, check, I bet, call, call. The turn brings another A. Check, check, check. The river is a brick, a ten or something, bet, call, call. The bettor announces aces up, and for some reason I forget about the aces on the board and mucked. The guy who called the bet says, I got the nine, and the other guys says good hand. So one of them had a 5, the other a 9, and my queens are going to the muck. But luckily, before they hit the muck, I announce that I had queens (still not realizing I won). The dealer flips the hand up and it's still good, because it never officially hit the muck. I am awarded the pot, but not my dignity as I feel like an ass.

[skp]

Two of them:

Circa 1995 - I was not a poker player then but I was at Atlantic City at the Taj playing a little 6-12.

I call preflop with 6d5d in late position. There are 6 or 7 players in the hand.

Flop: 4d3h2s

A few of us are still in for the turn as I slowplayed the nuts when the loudmouth to my immediate right bet.

Turn: 7d

Loudie bets again. I raise. Everyone else folds. Loudmouth mockingly ask "that 7 helped you, huh" and then gets into a raising war with me. We go about 10 bets. He keeps ranting that I must be on a flush draw. He then finally says "do you want to just push it all in?"

I had about $250 in front of me and he had me covered.

Suddenly, I panic. I start thinking "[censored], what if he has Ad5d and thinks his straight is good but then goes on to hit the flush. Damn that would suck."

I decline the invitation to go all in and just call after about 10 bets (of course, it never even dawned on me that the guy couldn't have the 5d as I had it...lol)

The river is a diamond and loudmouth starts swearing at the dealer and checks. I bet and he calls. Turns out that he only had a bike with Ac5c. If the river wasn't a diamond, maybe I would have accepted an invitation to put it all in but then again, I may still have panicked and said no...lol

The second brain fart was just a couple of years ago when I put in 19 bets on the river until I was all-in after having misread the board. There were 4 hearts and the Ace of diamonds on board. I held red Kings. Somehow, my brain told me that there were 4 hearts including the ace of hearts on board. I looked at the board about 4 tiimes during the raising war trying to see if there was a straight flush possible that I somehow missed. Everyone at the table assumed that the other guy was out to lunch while all that raising was going on. Man, that was an embarassing and horrifying moment when the chips in the middle went to the other guy.

[J_V]

I love that story. It's a scary story though.

[cheapsuit]

it happened pretty recently, think i was playing in a 2-4. was dealt KQh utg and the flop came something like Ad, 9d, 5d. i looked at my cards again and said to myself 'yup, i got the nuts flush' so i bet and the guy directly to my left raises, everyone else in the hand folds, i reraise and he caps. we continue to get into a raising war through the turn and river (neither of which added any diamonds that could be used for a straight flush or paired the board to make for a potential fullhouse). he, of course, had the actual diamonds (one of which was the K) and walked away with the the approx 25bb pot and i immediately left the table in shame/embarrasment.

[lucas9000]

one more: playing 2/5 nl, multiway pot. i was drawing to a straight the whole way, didn't notice that i backdoored a flush, though i of course noticed i didn't make my straight. at showdown villain showed 2 pair and i mucked, realizing just as my cards hit the muck that i'd made a flush. i was PISSED at myself (and i didn't try to take the pot...my hand was mucked and i wasn't going to be "that guy" who swears up and down that he had the nuts but accidentally mucked them, and thus should get the pot). that was a nice $1,000-2,000 pot down the drain :P

[James282]

bicyclekick witnessed this, and I think it's probably the worst one out of anybody on the site.

I am playing 300-600 and 100-200 and BK is sweating my action because the game is so good. BK is sweating both games and I've been telling him my hands, when I get dealt KQs in 3-6 and TT in 1-2. I raise both, and the flop comes an IDENTICAL 842 in both hands, when the disaster hits. I win the TT hand uncontested and as I am doing that I type TT to BK. For some reason this forged in my head and I see the turn come a T on the 300-600 table. I start to get incredibly excited and I check-three-bet the turn, which is capped. The river is a 3 and I bet out, my fishy aggro opponent calls with JJ and the table goes crazy. I'd say that's a pretty bad brain fart.
-James