Cautionary Tale: How to Lose $40 in One Hand

[bothecorgi]

I was playing on a $50 buy-in NL table ($.25-$.50 blinds) on Pokerroom last night and increased my $50 buy-in to about $65 when "She who must be obeyed" (the wife) comes in and says she wants to play a hand with no influence from me.

Since she must be obeyed, I agreed and she sits down to QJ in the cut-off position. I think, that's a pretty good hand for her to try out. No one raises until it gets back to my wife and she raises to $2. Wow - kind of aggressive but everyone folds except 2 other players who call.

Flop comes KKQ. Oh crap! 1st player bets $5, second player calls and wife raises to $10. NO! Both players call. Turn comes 10. 1st player checks, 2nd player goes all in (about $10) and wife calls. NO!! 1st player then goes all in for about $18 more and wife again calls. NO!!!

River is a blank and 1st player shows KQ for a full house, 2nd player shows AJ for a straight and my wife has 2 pair. Wife asks what happened, I explain it to her and then she asks how much "I" lost. I tell her about $40 and she says sorry and goes to bed! WHY ME and why couldn't she have been dealt 72?

Lost another $20 that night trying to recoup the $40 and now I'm down $60 on Pokerroom trying to clear a bonus of $112. Only a few nights left to clear the bonus - hopefully I can keep the wife off until then. LOL.

[GeoffM]

LMFAO! Serves you right for trusting a woman with your hands . Seriously though, my gf tred to do that in a sit-n-go once, and she went from chip leader to out of the money, when there were only 4 players left . She knows better than to ask now so hopefully your wife is the same.

[Aequitas58]

Nice story.

Everytime my girlfriend watches me play poker I constantly get, "Why aren't you playing that?" It's always a shitty hand, and she doesn't understand that if you play shitty cards, you will lose money quickly.

[bothecorgi]

Wife's response after "I" lost the $40 - "I thought they were bluffing."

[Penguinfan]

My wife is the same way, "you'll never win if you keep folding AJ suited". Keep in mind there was a UTG all-in and a caller.

[bothecorgi]

Yeah - There were 2 all-ins that had both had her hand beat which I knew but she thought they were both bluffing! LOL

[GeoffM]

Women are just generally looser than guys in general, no pun intended.

My girlfriend will do the same thing. I can't stand it when she overplays a pair when overcards hit the board .

[badblood44]

Too funny.

Last Saturday at my NL $30 buy-in ring game, we only had 6 players. The wife is constantly checking my cards before I get them, and the people I'm playing with are going to pick up on her tells much easier than mine.

So I gave her $20 to sit down with just so I could play my own hands.

She lost her $20 - mostly to me - in about 15 minutes. Then she went to bed.

I think investing the $20 in her to stop standing behind me and nudging me every time I had a good hand was more than worth it.

[Penguinfan]

Another thing my wife is good for is constantly saying "they're bluffing" well that may very well be true, but I still can't call with 2 unders!

[bothecorgi]

Agreed - I probably should have jsut paid her $40 to leave me alone. Afterwards, she asked if I wanted her to give me the $40. I said sure as soon as you can figure out how to put it back into my account at Pokerroom. LOL

[junYUN]

OUCH man. this reinforces the reason i always give out a resounding no when the gf tries to play my hands.

[Chutups]

LOL, that sucks man. I never let my girlfriend play any hands in my money games.

[Jackass_man]

Ya they play like they're going to get their guts pounded later, no pun intended

[drewjax]

Anyone ever have wife/gf put the mush/jinx on you? Last year I was playing in a WSOP freeroll (I think pokerroom??) anyway, there were 5000 entrants so it took awhile. I told the wife, leave me alone, dont come in room, dont ask me how I'm doing etc etc etc. Things started great, busted a bunch of weak player, doubled thru a few times. then the cards went sour, i mean nothing. but I was a rock, fold fold fold. still doing well. down to 51 players, on button AKo. just as they are dealt, yep, here comes the wife. "hows it going honey" etc. Of course a raise in front of me, but someone who has me covered but i think i have a good read on. i reraise allin, get a call with ?? cant remember exactly, but it wastnt even a pp. Of course I get busted by runner runner. finish in 51st. I could have killed her. really. Of course i get ridiculed for even suggesting that she had anything to do with it. Couldnt leave me alone for like 5 hours in arow??????? unreal!!
any other mushes out there?

ps. anyone remember which room ran those freerolls last year. I have new cpu and cant remember which rooms i had downloaded. and will any have real freerolls this year. I'll post new thread on this some other time maybe

[jimmytheg]

yeah, sometimes i feel my lady friend can be a mush. It's happened a few times...she'll call as i have AA in my hand before it's my turn to act, someone moves all in before me with QQ....and they end up hitting a Q..

It's uncanny actually....she got me scratch tickets as a stocking stuffer...a bunch...and not one would hit....then i go to the store later that day, happen to buy one just to test the jinx, and win

Kind of a running joke to us actually

[drewjax]

its only a joke to my wife, lol
F'n mush!!

[rchamberlin]

Thank God my wife doesn't like gambling. She'd be just the type of person to try to do that too. When we were in Vegas last month for my wedding, a buddy and I were playing Roulette, and both of us were just playing red/black. After about two hours we were both up about $800 when she walked in to ask if I was losing. I didn't win once after that. As soon as I got back to my original $200 buy-in I went and hunted her down to tell her what happened. So she knows she's bad luck for me now and won't ask how I'm doing anymore.