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TilterRick · Last edited by TilterRick on Thu May 08, 2008 3:01 pm; edited 2 times in total

The title says it all, and prizes awarded to my favorite 3 for originality. Good luck!

Honest_Rob · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

Fiction/Non-Fiction? Or either?

TilterRick · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

I can't prove them, so might as well make them fiction/non-fiction.

fire_eyes_2k · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:

I heard about this one guy - he played with John Juanda. He went allin with J8o and flopped trips, only for JJ to turn an ace to give him aces full. Then the river brought the case jack, and it was such an action hand, so amazing.

And if you want something amusing, can we cross post the JJProdigy "apology" from 2+2:

TilterRick · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

CompleteDonk · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject:

How about I post my poker career/life story, I think it's really interesting. Would anyone care to read it? It'd probably be long as hell.

Captain Japple · Royal Flush Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 577

Here�s an amazing hand.
BTW, I�m using the new Vince Van Patten hand converter.

Full Tilt Poker Game #xxxxxxxx: 6 max (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em � 11:22:45 ET - 2008/04/27
Seat 1: Phil Furgusen (1,500)
Seat 2: Daniel Hansen (1,500)
Seat 3: Gus Hellmuth (1,500)
Seat 4: Chris Neganeau (1500)
Seat 5: Howard Ivey (1,500)
Seat 6: Captain Japple (1,500)
Daniel Hansen posts the small blind of 15
Gus Helmuth posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Captain Japple [Weapons of Mass Destruction]
Dealer: Chris Neganeau raises to 1500, and is all in
Dealer: Howard Ivey calls 1,500, and is all in
Dealer: Captain Japple calls 1,500, and is all in
Dealer: Phil Furgusen calls 1,500, and is all in
Dealer: Daniel Hansen calls 1,500, and is all in
Dealer: Gus Hellmuth calls 1,500, and is all in
Dealer: Chris Neganeau shows [Sigfried and Roy]
Dealer: Howard Ivey shows [dinner for two]
Dealer: Captain Japple shows [American Airlines]
Dealer: Phil Furgusen shows [Flat Tire]
Dealer: Daniel Hansen shows [Motown]
Dealer: Gus Hellmuth shows [Woolworths]
Dealer: The flop is [Alabama Night Riders]
Dealer: The turn is [Bullet]
Dealer: The river is [Fishhook]
Dealer: Chris Neganeau shows three wise men visiting west Hollywood
Dealer: Howard Ivey shows three cowboys having game of blackjack
Dealer: Captain Japple wins the pot (9,000) with a boat of rockets fired at king kong
Dealer: Phil Furgusen shows gorillas full of Jay Birds
Dealer: Daniel Hansen shows Racist Johnnys
Dealer: Gus Helmuth shows Elvis triplets on a Jackass

skeeter1114 · Message Board Junkie Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 2496

I heard this somewhere, and if it was in this forum, sorry.

There was a guy who went into a casino and sat down at a Limit Cash game, say 10/20. Him and an older lady were going back and forth throughout the time at the table about style of play and just general rudeness. About 4 hours in, the guy picks up Kh-Kc. The flop comes Js-Qs-Kd. Each player bets until capped. Turn comes Qh. Again, each bet until it's capped. River brings the Ks. At this point, these are the only 2 remaining in the pot, so they can bet until their heart's content. The guy and old lady were sitting by each other. The guy bets with his quads. The pot is about $600-700, as there was at least one other in the hand until the turn. The old lady shows only him9s-10s, and mucks it. At this point, the guy is steaming. No one else at the table saw her hand.

Now, why would he be steaming? Because this casino has a bad beat jackpot of over $200,000. To qualify, your 4 of a kind (not sure if it was any 4 of a kind or had to be min. 4 eights) had to lose to win the jackpot. It was paid out where the person receiving the bad beat would get 50% of the jackpot, with the other half split up among the other participants at the table. The guy's berating of the old lady had cost him $100,000.

Not sure this is entirely accurate, but I think you get the idea.

UFO1947 · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

UFO1947 · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject:

Here it is:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=bluff_magazine&id=2316427

According to Ace Hunter, commander of Megaforce: "Life's like a wheel: it all comes around." And the poker table is the ideal venue for Commander Hunter's philosophy to play out, oftentimes with dire consequences.

While attending college at Arizona State University, I would often play poker at Casino Arizona, a good-sized card room with a wide variety of games. For those of you who haven't mixed it up in one of the Grand Canyon State's casinos, they are all Native American-owned, and the majority offer impressive perks and giveaways. But since poker is our primary concern, the only "perk" worth mentioning are the bad beat jackpots.

If you've never played in a poker room with a bad beat jackpot, the rules are simple: using both hole cards (for hold'em), if your high hand (normally aces full of 10s or better) is cracked by a higher hand (often quads or better), congratulations, you just netted yourself a hefty bonus. At most card clubs, the loser of the hand receives 50 percent of the jackpot, the winner gets 25 percent, and the other players seated at that table divide up the remaining 25 percent. What's more, most of AZ's bad beat jackpots are progressive -- increasing daily until they are hit. If memory serves me correctly, Fort McDowell Casino in Fountain Hills holds the record for the world's largest bad beat jackpot ever paid, somewhere in the neighborhood of $160,000.

While biding my time for a more lucrative $20/$40 limit hold'em game, I snagged an open seat in a $6/$12 game. Shortly after unracking my chips, I realized there was a significant amount of tension at the table, all of it between two players: the No. 3 seat, a young guy, mid-30s, stocky, with a crew cut, and the No. 9 seat, an older woman, possibly way north of the century mark. Had someone handed her a broom, I would've grabbed Dorothy and Toto and whisked them to safety.

Seated in the center of the table, the first few hands I played felt like a ping-pong match as Crew Cut continuously spouted muttered-but-audible off-color remarks, all directed at the Wicked Witch of the West, who had absolutely no qualms about issuing verbal retaliations. Being impartial, I nevertheless gave props to the elder combatant; her replies were much more creative: "The height of your hair is a direct reflection of your IQ," and other statements along those lines.

Eventually, curiosity got the better of me and I turned to my neighbor for enlightenment. Apparently, the bad blood began the way it usually begins at a poker table: he had a high pocket pair (in this case, queens) and she stayed in with a small pair (fours), and eventually snapped him off when she paired her kicker (an unsuited 7) on the river.

OK, it happens, let's move on. However, Crew Cut had no intention of letting the events of Bad Beats Past fade quietly into the night. Oh, no.

A few hands later, nearly the entire table stuck around to see the preraised flop (Casino Arizona is well known for ultra-live action, regardless of the game -- must be the desert sun!) of K-K-A. After a bet and a call, only two were left in the hunt: yup, you guessed it, Crew Cut and the Witch (sounds like the title of the next Harry Potter novel, doesn't it?).

Something irrelevant, an 8, I think, hit the turn and all hell broke loose. Because they were heads-up, there was no cap on raises, and the two kept coming over the top of one another as if they were playing leapfrog to the death.

The rest of us were amped by the furious action and we were all reasonably confident that a boatload of "found money" was about to land in each of our laps. Expecting to dole out some serious cash -- the jackpot was around $60,000 at the time -- two floormen raced over to watch the hand play out.

Crew Cut got it all-in first and the pot was now somewhere in the vicinity of $500, pretty decent for a $6/$12 game. With no betting action left, and only the river to come, Crew Cut proudly flipped over his hand, pocket rockets, giving him aces full of kings, the minimum qualifier for Casino Arizona's bad beat jackpot.

"Go ahead and beat it," Crew Cut said antagonistically. "Gimme a bad beat."

A rag on the river changed nothing and all eyes turned to the old hag, now nodding her head in the affirmative. "Okey-doke," she said, and turned over her pocket kings, giving her quads, the winning hand, and the small end of the bad beat jackpot.

Crew Cut threw up his hands in victory. "Boom!" he screamed, mentally spending his lion's share of the jackpot, right around $30,000.

But the drama wasn't finished yet. Before anyone could convince her otherwise, Witchy-Poo scooped up her pocket kings and held them out to her younger, wise-cracking nemesis.

"Here's your bad beat," she said with unflinching satisfaction and casually tossed her hand into the muck.

We were all dumbfounded -- the players, the dealer, the floormen, not to mention all the lookie-loos who always run to a table when a jackpot has been declared. A chorus of "Holy [expletive]" spread through the crowd.

As for Crew Cut, he turned more colors than a chameleon on a Twister board and collapsed heavily into his chair, mouth agape, his hands locked onto his near hairless scalp.

"Why would you do that?" he queried, mouth aquiver. "You were gonna get 15 grand."

"I don't need the money," she said with complete disdain, while racking up the remainder of her chips. "But knowing you did � " She stopped racking, stared at him and smiled wide, a grin so wide, it would give a fly the chills.

To say we were all pretty pissed was a major understatement, as we were just intentionally hosed out of our players' shares, a smidge over $2K each. But I gotta hand it to the old gal -- she definitely got the last laugh, and taught that kid a valuable lesson he'll never forget.

Ol' Ace wasn't kidding: Sooner or later, it all comes around.

skeeter1114 · Message Board Junkie Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 2496

Yep, that's it UFO.

I suggest that if this wins, any prize I were to win for that post be split with UFO.

mistaken69 · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

don't worry you won't. here's a story i read elsewhere but it was the best poker story i've read so i saved it and i'll post it here today.

"i was playing in a 10/20NL game at the bike about a year ago when it first started going, and i had been playing in the game with this guy for a couple of hours and i noticed that every time he bluffed the river and got called he would just muck his hand, EVERY time.

now when i get called after a bluff i proudly turn up my 5 high so everyone can see what a maniac i am and so i get to see what i got called by, however this guy would always just throw his cards right in the muck.
in addition to this he had a habit of just throwing out a ton of chips into the pot when he was bluffing rather then count out some number and bet that.
i wasn't as sure of the betting tell but it def. looked reliable.

so after a while i get tangled up in a big pot with him and end up with 6 high on the river after some retarded miss of a zillion outs.

on the river this guy comes out with some huge bet and i was about to insta-fold and **** about how bad i run yada yada yada, when i realized that the dude had just grabbed a handful of white chips and threw them in the pot.

i wasn't 100% of this read but after thinking about the hand for a second it occured to me that this bozo could easily have a busted flush draw.

so i was like WTF i call, and if he shows me a good hand i can just mutter under my breath about how donkey's always draw.

man was i so freaking stoked to see him just insta-muck his cards.

and no i did not show...god i wanted to so bad, but i didn't want him to catch on.

sure i could have let him keep eating those oreo's all night long but i didn't have time....oh wait no i did, it was friday i didn't have a job, and i didn't have [censored] to do...so i used every last bit of restraint and just quietly mucked my cards.

in retrospect it was the worst decision i ever made as i don't think i ever saw that guy again so i should have just showed my six high, whipped out my balls, put em on the table and started yelling in my best tony montana accent "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!"."

mistaken69 · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:31 am Post subject:

I have one more. It's not exactly a poker story but it was told to me at a poker table so i think it counts, and if not, who cares.

I heard this story from a guy who i'll call matt that ran an underground club for a few years around here.

"It was the late 90s and Ottawa (NHL) made the playoffs for the second straight year. The point is that everyones going a bit crazy for them. They had a tough matchup in the first round (NJ devils iirc) because they just snuck in the playoffs so it was an uphill batttle. The fact that ottawa squeezed in didn't really discourage much of ottawa. They split with NJ the first two games in NJ and came back to Ottawa tied leaving the city hopeful.

Matt, being the gambling man that he is decided to bet tengrand (to win 20) on the ottawa senators beating the devils that night. He got good seats far in advance and was right by the glass in the Ottawa end. He arrives just as the game is about to start with some money for food, his wife and a black puck in his back pocket.

The game is pretty entertaining and he and his wife are having a good time. The devils were down 2-0 but clawed back and it was 2-1 in the third. Late in the third period there was a big scramble and Ottawa couldn't clear the zone. Seeing his ten thousand at extreme risk matt reached into his back pocket, pulled out the puck, and threw it on the ice. Seeing two pucks on the ice, the referee blew the whistle. Matt gets kicked out of the game and walks back to his car to wait for his wife and to think about what he wants to spend his 20k on.

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