Strange Claims

Last night I was playing in my weekly home $20 buy-in NL tournament, when multiple players made a claim that just dropped my jaw.


I raised the pot heads up with another player with AsKd when the flop came Ad-9d-2d. I lead out, and another player folded after about 2 minutes of thinking, but insisted we rabbit hunt. I didn't care, and a diamond came up on the turn and he showed disappointment that he missed his flush, but I showed my Kd, giving me the nut flush. The dealer went to the river and it was a 5th diamond, to which everybody was in awe. Another player came in and said to my heads up opponent "You folded a split pot!" as if it were a horrible play. I tried to point out that since I had the Kd that I would have won with an AK9** flush over AJ9**, but 3 of the 6 players were convinced that since the board had an ace high flush, it would have been split.

Just a little curious as to other bizarre claims similar to this that have players in other home games have made.

[tonypaladino]

What are they, retarded?

AK high flush beats AJ high flush

[prayformojo]

The great thing about people who have played in very limited home games all their lives, especially if they have played quite often and have the arrogance of youth thrown in, is that they can be so very wrong about poker and yet be convinced that they are so very right. I once had a ten minute argument with a guy over whether a flush beats a straight. I finally hunted around for a pack of cards with the little "ranks of poker hands" card, and he still didn't buy it. A few weeks later I showed him a copy of Hoyle's with the poker basics. He accepted that most of the world played poker that way. He still thought he was right.

[Jack Bando]

Oh, I've played with people with that rule before. After I left someone else came and they believed him...

Here's some more rules they had the next couple times.

1)Heads up the small blind is the button. They said big blind.

2)They said it's okay to lock up a pot. (A and B call C's all in. B said "Do you want to have a side pot?" A said (Me) "Maybe, I don't know yet." B then says "YOU MUST DECIDE NOW!" You can't verbally say that.

3)If I have 75 in the button, blinds at 100 & 200, everyone folds to me. I go all-in, SB calls, BB checks. The main pot is 225 and the side is 250. If i'm in the sb with 75 and the everyone folds to me, I'm all-in and can only win 75 from everyone still in, right? They said I can win the BB from everyone....

People asked why i play with them the first time I posted that...

4)You have to turn your hand up with everyone but one person all-in right before the river? If I go all-in preflop and someone calls, we turn over the hands right? They were saying "it's optional..." and I said "Not in a tourney."

I found out this is optional in a home game, but usually you do flip.

So sadly, in this game of "Who's game knows the least?" I win. (One claims to play at Party and played small tourneys in Vegas....)

[Scotty O]

Sometimes people are thick as a brick and no matter what you say or do... nothing will change.

So where is this home game... think i can get in? (joke)

[midwestkc]

One time I had A9 on the button, and limped in. BB had A2. Flop was A92, BB goes all in, I call. Long story short, they said (and everyone agreed but me) that since we each had 2 pair, with aces, that it was a split pot. This was a friendly game with my wife, my brother, and some friends, and I got told the next day how I was "just mean" trying to take that pot. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

In my former home game (no longer invited back) we played dealers choice where Omaha was an option after we got down to 8 players or less. A girl had three deuces as hole cards with a board of 2 8 K x 8. Her quads beat my full house of Kings over eights.

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Last night I was playing in my weekly home $20 buy-in NL tournament, when multiple players made a claim that just dropped my jaw.


I raised the pot heads up with another player with AsKd when the flop came Ad-9d-2d. I lead out, and another player folded after about 2 minutes of thinking, but insisted we rabbit hunt. I didn't care, and a diamond came up on the turn and he showed disappointment that he missed his flush, but I showed my Kd, giving me the nut flush. The dealer went to the river and it was a 5th diamond, to which everybody was in awe. Another player came in and said to my heads up opponent "You folded a split pot!" as if it were a horrible play. I tried to point out that since I had the Kd that I would have won with an AK9** flush over AJ9**, but 3 of the 6 players were convinced that since the board had an ace high flush, it would have been split.

Just a little curious as to other bizarre claims similar to this that have players in other home games have made.

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Years ago when I started playing casino poker in aroom just after it had opened i saw a women throwing a tantrum in the poker room. There was a flush on the board, but her opponent has a card of the suit that played and therefore had a higher flush than her. She was screaming at the floorman that she played in every poker room in vegas and this was split pot and he didn't know what he was doing.

[JonPKibble]

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In my former home game (no longer invited back) we played dealers choice where Omaha was an option after we got down to 8 players or less. A girl had three deuces as hole cards with a board of 2 8 K x 8. Her quads beat my full house of Kings over eights.

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Classic.