Retarded calls

[AJ]

I simply don't have words for the level of stupidity that some people display in double or nothing games. Seen a few recently, but felt compelled to post this They sensibly check it to the river, and then get into a betting frenzy; fair enough for Polo he has the nuts and should play, but there are all manner of hands that are beating Vickypieter here. second bottom set is no hand to hang yourself on. Key point is dollar has 255 chips after posting the ante, around 1 x BB and he's coming up to the blinds. They are almost 100% certain to cash, but Vicky throws away the money. Had this happen to me yesterday when I cashed with 400 chips after two big stacks went all in preflop at the end. :lol Standard in these games is worse then before I reckon.

*********** # 1 ************** PokerStars Game #32862717898: Tournament #195587771, $5.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/09/15 5:09:33 ET Table '195587771 1' 10-max Seat #6 is the button Seat 3: Rustambul (5835 in chips) Seat 4: Polo181279 (2175 in chips) Seat 6: dollar5784 (275 in chips) Seat 8: asjohnstone (3255 in chips) Seat 9: vickypieter (2005 in chips) Seat 10: zhouzhongjie (1455 in chips) Rustambul: posts the ante 20 Polo181279: posts the ante 20 dollar5784: posts the ante 20 asjohnstone: posts the ante 20 vickypieter: posts the ante 20 zhouzhongjie: posts the ante 20 asjohnstone: posts small blind 100 vickypieter: posts big blind 200 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to asjohnstone [5d 8s] zhouzhongjie: folds Rustambul: folds Polo181279: calls 200 dollar5784: folds asjohnstone: folds vickypieter: checks *** FLOP *** [2h Th 4d] vickypieter: checks Polo181279: checks *** TURN *** [2h Th 4d] [Ac] vickypieter: checks Polo181279: checks *** RIVER *** [2h Th 4d Ac] [Kd] vickypieter: bets 200 Polo181279: raises 200 to 400 vickypieter: raises 200 to 600 Polo181279: raises 1355 to 1955 and is all-in vickypieter: calls 1185 and is all-in Uncalled bet (170) returned to Polo181279 *** SHOW DOWN *** Polo181279: shows [Jc Qs] (a straight, Ten to Ace) vickypieter: shows [4c 4s] (three of a kind, Fours) Polo181279 collected 4190 from pot

[RuleBritannia]

Re: Retarded calls Would you not have bet the flop, just to see where you were? Unlikely to be behind at that stage and more likely to fall behind with each card turned over.