Last night I was playing some 2/4 Limit poker at the Seneca Casino in Niagara Falls, NY. Anyone who has ever played 2/4 limit at a casino knows that its not really poker at all. It’s often referred to as “no fold’em, hold’em”. So bad play is the rule not the exception, however, last night a man at the table took it up a notch. This guy not only played every hand but if he had any piece of the board (even bottom pair) he would raise and reraise. The craziest part is in the span of an hour, he rivered a 1- 3 outer about 10 times. The first few times it happened he heard some groins and saw some eye rolling, but by the time he did it the fifth or sixth time people were talking smack. In one of the hands where he hit a 2 on the river to turn his pocket deuces into a full house, a guy asked him “how can you still be in the hand with deuces with four over cards, a possible straight, possible flush, and possible full house on board?”. The guy just looked back with a puzzled look on this face. Then the other player said “you only have 2 outs at the most, and even those 2 outs could be no good, you’re probably drawing dead”. Of course the guy looked even more confused. The other player then went on to give him the odds and the percentages and that it was lead to the funniest and craziest thing I’ve ever heard at a poker table. The guy looked at the player who was explaining the math to him and said “how do you know that?” the guy said “its simple math”, then the guy asked “well,how do you know its right?” , the other player was amazed and “said because its math, its in every math text there is” and the crazy guy said “but who wrote the book?”. Not everyone at the table heard it but those of who did started howling and then it was shared with the rest of the table. This guy wasn’t joking, he believed that the odds in a poker game were just a theory made up by some guy who wrote a book. Like maybe odds are some just crazy idea made up by Stephen King or Charles Dickens. I played at the same table for about another 3 hours and the topic of conversation rarely moved from this idea. Luckily my hands held up a few times and I made $175 profit but that pales to the value of that conversation.
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