Weirdest session ever?

Went to my local casino to play tonight and had one of the weirdest sessions I have ever had. I was basically card dead with the exception of two hands I will describe below..


Hand #1.. How can my hand be good?
There is a very aggressive player that sometimes comes to play at my local casino. He isnt a horrible player but he likes to make big bets and calls.. Its a limped pot and I have 74 hearts in the small blind and check as the blinds are 5 5 and I have around 450-475 at the start of the hand.. flop comes

7 4 9 with two clubs.. I check with the intention of check raising. Aggressive player goes ahead and bets 45 into the pot.. Guy to his left calls and guy to my right calls and now I go ahead and make a big reraise to $225.. after this call I am perfectly happy to get it all in. Aggressive player just calls my bet and the other two fold.. I decide that no matter what comes on the turn I will check to the aggressive player to balance his range and get him to bluff . If he hits his hand I am not folding getting these odds.. Turn

2 clubs.. so not the card I was looking for but it is a good card for him to bluff at if he on another draw so I go ahead and check and he immediately goes all in. I call off my last $225 or so and the

9 clubs comes on the river. I am sure I am beat and flip over my 74 and he taps the table and I double up. apparently he had 8 10 and was on a oesd. chock a lucky one up..

I proceed to get pretty much nothing other than cards to call with but pretty much flop nothing and blind down to around $650 when the really weird hand comes..

Hand #2.. winning with 3 high..
Agressive player only raises this time to 20 and I am on the button and call with 23 clubs.. I like calling in position and feel I can outplay most players post flop.. 5 callers and the flop comes..

K 4 5 two clubs..

I flop an oesd with a bad flush draw.. I know mr aggressive loves to cbet after he raises and true to form he bets $175. Given my stack and my draw I decide to just go all in. There is a very good chance he will fold as he knows I am a tight player and quite frankly he could be betting with A high..

A player in ep thinks for a very long time and calls off his whole stack of $450 and I think he must have either a better flush draw or a weak K. I think I am in trouble.. but he is very upset when the Aggressive player folds and so I ask him if he has a flush draw and he says "I have an oesd" so he has 7 high and the board runs out..

10 10 and I hesitate a moment and then as I am flipping over my 3 high he mucks his hand and I win the pot. yep I win an almost $1400 pot with 3 high. lol. he thought for sure I had him beat and so he didnt want to turn his cards over. This is why I like having a tight image.. I got the guy with the best hand to fold pre and got the guy with the best hand on the river to fold as well.

I dont get another hand for almost 3 hours and give up and leave.. up over $700..

Why the idiot called off his stack with just an oesd with the flush out there is just beyond me but I guess that is why I play. I remember this guy from a few weeks ago when he bet his draw when I had KK and I won a big pot then too.. He just never thought he was good..

gg me.. :-)

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That is weird, but I don't think it tops what Todd and I saw in Atlantic City last night. Let's see what people think.

How often have you seen the following at a poker table:

A black man unintentionally refering to a white man a "cracker" after another player got to spin a price wheel for losing with A-A.

Someone calling clock on a player at a $1/$1 NLHE cash game

The old man who had the clock called on him, calling the clock back on the other guy a little while later, when he wasn't in the hand anymore

A man responding to a comment that he was wearing gang colors that "it's legal in New York now"

Multiple weiners on the table, while other players waited for their owners to act

It's hard to get a read on a guy when he's playing with his weiner.

You forgot the slowroller.
Oh, and the funny thing with the old guy getting the clock called on him was that he needed it explained and after it was explained to him he commented - "Oh. So now I can wait till the (floor) guy comes over before I have to do anything?" I'm fairly certain he would have acted quicker had the clock been called. Then again, after he finally called the first players shove, the player after him overshoved and he took another several minutes to decide what to do. He was quite proud of his (horrible) decision making after the hand and his (equally horrible) reasoning.

The revenge clock calling I guess benefited me as I won about a 180 BB pot in that hand.

Live players are very peculiar about not showing their hands. I saw also one person fold a chop, when his ace would have tied for top kicker of a two pair board. He didn't realize his other card wouldn't play. I think it's weird, also, in an all in pot, neither player shows. Shouldn't the person called go ahead and show? What's the benefit of not showing? I guess it worked for hammah, though.

So I take it "cracker" referred to an ace cracker? Priceless.

At my casino in LA when there is no action on the river the obligation to show first is on the player first to act going clockwise. Since I was in the sb I was to act first. But since I hesitated and already knew he only had an oesd he just assumed my hand was good and mucked..

He did throw his cards down on the table... that said they did not actually hit the muck until after I said "he mucked" and the dealer grabbed them..

always nice to an assist from the dealer team!

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