I Love Novice Players (does anyone have a funnier rookie story?)

grandgnu · #1 02-27-2005, 06:39 PM

So I'm playing against this kid who's folded the nut straight and a full house before (god I love newbies) but is prone to calling large bets with nothing.

We're three-handed and I raise pre-flop 3x the BB with A/Q. He calls with K/2. Flop is 6/Q/A rainbow and I check and he checks. Turn is a Jack putting two clubs on the board. I bet about half the pot and he pushes all-in.

I ponder whether he holds K/10 but call and see him flip over K/2. He says he has a straight! I explain to him that you can't go J/Q/K/A/2 for a straight, the Ace can't be both high and low. No 10 on the river and he's out.

A straight, my god man, I'm dying here!

speclj · #2 02-27-2005, 09:52 PM

Funny stuff! My brother who is also a HUGE newbie, is very prone to calling huge bets and then showing down straights composed of four cards instead of five.

FlipPokerFever · #3 02-27-2005, 10:24 PM

actually....the J,Q,K,A,2 straight confusion is quite common. Some variations allow this "wrap-around" straight

dblgutshot · #4 02-27-2005, 10:39 PM

Funny n00b story that happened to a friend. Playing 4/8 at the local casino, someone is new and doesn't really know whats going on. He calls the final river bet and just holds onto his cards. Everybody is waiting for him to show and saying "Let's see your hand!"

Finally he turns his hands around and opens his palms face up. He was 'showing his hand'. WHole table burst out laughing.

fishfeet · #5 02-28-2005, 02:29 AM

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"Let's see your hand!"

Finally he turns his hands around and opens his palms face up. He was 'showing his hand'. WHole table burst out laughing.

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Now that is CLASSIC!

jzpiano14 · #6 02-28-2005, 02:44 AM

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Funny stuff! My brother who is also a HUGE newbie, is very prone to calling huge bets and then showing down straights composed of four cards instead of five.

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That's what I like to call a small straight...but we arn't playing Yatzee are we? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

JKDStudent · #7 02-28-2005, 03:02 AM

A new guy to our home game was using the little card that came in a deck to reference what hands beat what. The board made it pretty obvious that I had a straight. He called my bet with trips. Why? Because instead of reading the card left to right, left to right, he was reading it straight down. He thought his trips beat my straight.

That was a nice pot.

EliteNinja · #8 02-28-2005, 03:40 AM

Oh man, this thread is classic!
BWAHAHAHAHA! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

theRealMacoy · #9 02-28-2005, 05:28 AM

so we had a friend of ours who lives in vietnam sit in for our regular game. he is half french and half vietnamese and pretty much embodies a french james dean (very cooool with everything). he isn't too bad at poker and is used to playing for a lot higher stakes, although totally different types of games (e.g., they play some kind of crazy pineapple variations). at the start we go over low hands for his and other newbies' benefit. later on, after playing quite a number of low games (razz, lowball draw) we play night night chicago (low hand and lowest spade in the hole). he is betting large and heavy from second street onwards, generally reraising any raises. finally he is heads up on the end against one of the better TAP in the game. i figure it for a split hand because he is showing two pair so he must have the low spade. at showdown he turns over a full house (fours over threes) and no low spade. the other player takes it all with a 7 perfect and the 9 of spades for low. he thought that lowball meant using low cards to make your hands! i guess he had been playing that way for the previous hour and it hadn't been noticed. after this, he finally got the low figured out but still ended up making a hefty donation to the rest of our league.

cheers,
the real macoy

jtr · #10 02-28-2005, 10:00 AM

Some funny stories in this thread.

Not saying I'd give the money back in any of the examples above or anything, but I feel a little uncomfortable taking money from someone when it was a basic confusion about the rules of the game that cost them the pot. I feel a whole lot better taking cash from someone who is 100% clear on the rules and just made a bad decision within them. Anyone else feel the same way?

Love the one about the guy showing his hands.