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.

[Tom Bayes]

I have several teenaged cousins. When I saw them at a family reunion about a year ago, they were all into poker. I was playing with them and they decided to play Omaha. First hand, someone tries to claim the pot playing 3 from his hand. I had to break it to them that in Omaha we play "two from the hand, three from the board". Everyone of them honestly thought it was just 4-card holdem.

At least the lesson only cost them about 15 cents from their old cousin Tom and not a lot more to somebody online or in a B&M at some point in their future.

mine:

NLHE game at a bingo club. guy insisted that it wasn't fair to have to post until after the flop. IF he would fold then see the flop, say "I would have played if I'd seen the flop". Also disagreed with burning cards. Of course, he played poker since he was 3 in casino's all over and we were all wrong.

Ace only counting as high in straights.

[rusty090]

If no one posts before the flop, why not just deal everyone their hole cards and the flop at the same time. In fact, at that point, why not just have it an automatic check to the turn and take out one of the key aspects of what makes poker, "poker".

My idea was to play it with Little League rules. No keeping score and everyone gets a t-shirt for a good sportsmenship

[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)