A Few Recent May Highlights from r/Poker Reddit

The Micro-Stakes in a Tent Lifestyle

Apparently, one player decided to fully "optimize" their living expenses. Just a man, a tent, and some online $0.05/$0.10 cash games.

The author didn't elaborate at first, but it wasn't long before readers asked for more details.

JohnWad: "Did I miss a previous post?"

So I was once a drug addict dealing with depression. Then one day I realized drugs were bad mmkay. Decided to quit everything cold turkey. Went through some crazy withdrawals. Lost about 30 pounds in like 3 weeks.

Things started getting better (health-wise) and I started applying for jobs. Started working. Got myself a place. Been here for almost a year. Lease agreement renewal coming up. Have almost nothing in my savings. My health is deteriorating due to the heavy drug usage from my past. I can barely eat food. Probably organs shutting down.

So if I’m gonna go out, I don’t want to be slaving away flipping burgers for $18/hr. How ashamed I would be if I saw my dead body in a kitchen. I rather die on my own terms doing things I want to do.

Now obviously living in a tent isn’t what I want to be doing if I had a better choice, but this is the only option I have that allows me to have some control over my life.

On the flip side: if I somehow achieve half of everything I want to achieve, I’ll have one helluva story

TLDR: don’t do drugs. Read the Bible.

One commenter wisely told him to at least buy a car by working at a temp agency or a fast food chain.

The OP is probably out there right now, running an extension cable out to his tent and multi-tabling under the stars.

He mentioned that he plays on US sites, possibly ACR or WPT.

The Nastiest Bluffs Reddit Has Witnessed

A classic topic. This one got plenty of stories, some more believable than others.

tpain2017: "I bluffed $17 on the river in a $750 pot with 9 high and got the fold."

planetmarsupial: "Not really the sickest bluff I’ve seen/made, but the funniest: I potted turn thinking I’d be all in, but in reality I had like three chips behind.
River came a total blank, and I whiffed all my draws, but I tossed them in anyway. Opponent sighs and says he missed, so he mucks his hand. The game was PLO4, I didn’t have a pair, and the highest card in my hand wasn’t even a face card."

Manaqueer: "At Mandalay Bay I accidently bet 200$ instead of 201$. My intention was all in. I check flop and turn, river comes I bet 1$ and two people fucking fold. I had Jack high."

SnooWords7933: "Funniest would have to be a hand I played against a rec at 4am with .
At this point in the night, players will only open limp, so I iso’d to $25 over 4 limpers on the button and only get called by the rec in the BB.
flop, he checks, I pot it, and he calls.
Turn . I barreled %125 pot he and he tanks but calls.
River . I rip it for around $400 he tanks for a good couple minutes before the dealer announces call. I say nothing and table my 7 high proudly. In a split second, I tabled. The guy looked at my hand, and says, ‘haha, oh wow man. nice flush’ and quickly throws his cards deep into the muck before the dealer or anyone else can correct him. Floor ruled he mucked his hand, and I stacked him with 72 high."

Best Poker-Themed License Plate Ever?

There's nothing to love about Honda Pilots, but this license plate must get a smile from every poker player that sees it.

Dealer Caught on Camera Shuffling "Oddly"

A redditor took a video of a poker dealer in his local Texas casino. At best, its a dreadful shuffle. At worst, its a dealer sloppily rigging the deck.

UPDATE. Went again today. Management took seriously the issue, they checked footage with timestamps and corroborated false shuffle and cuts multiple times. Employee moved to BJ tables, pending further sanction.

Vortex_Analyst: "No expert but that was 100% a false cut o shit."

chicagoharry: "During my 20s held a deck in my hand every day. Also owned a magic shop at 6 flags Great America. Def looks like he is using a Zarrow Shuffle with a variation of a push through shuffle. Also looks like he maintained that stack of cards he culled and then made sure to cut them to the top. He is kinda sloppy."

Outrageous_Term3923: "Caught a hanger, sarge!"

Now the question is, who would he be cheating for? The house, or his friends?

A Legendary Fold Was Made

Forget long-term EV for a moment, and think about how great the hero in this fold must have been.

Hero bets the flop, which is .

Another player calls, and villain min-clicks.

Turn is a .

Villain bets. Hero folds.

Just like that. No huge 200BB shove, no 4-bets, just a fold to a turn bet.

And he was right.

The top comment wasn't even about the quality of the fold!

CLSmith15: "And then wasted money to reveal cards to farm aura on Reddit."

Impressive GGPoker Micro-Stakes Graph

Poker is all about big scores and million-dollar pots these days, but we still need to salute the little guys.

This one's impressive, regardless of the total.

svelcan: "Insane that you almost made a profit from every position, even from the big blind. Could I ask your username if it isn't too revealing for you to answer? We probably played together."

"I'm still playing so it's not a good idea to kill the action🤣 It would be even better if I didn't make so many calls on bb/sb to see how players played from different positions😬"

thank_U_based_God: "Nice graph, but why didnt you move up in stakes a long time ago?"

"Because I don't need it😄I just play it for fun😁"

Assumedusernam: "Game/stakes?"

"0.01/0.02 PLO5/PLO6- was a challenge/250k hands"

Roxerz: "How many hours did it take to do the 250k hands? Giraffe indeed nice."

"3 months/8 tables"