[Guma]

A thread about someone accused of cheating reminded me of this story that I did not share on here. Instead of threadjacking I thought I would start this thread to see if anyone else has done anything similar.

Has anyone ever played a joke on a friend while playing poker?

[Guma]

To start us off, this is what we did to a friend of ours about two weeks ago. He is known to cry a little if he gets knocked out of a tourney by what he feels are crap cards. Now we play with quite a few newbies to the game, so this has happened a few times and of course we do not let him live it down, even weeks later. So we set him up for a huge fall on the first hand of a T5000 tourney.

This setup took everyone at the table knowing what was going to happen. After TD seated the players we had to set up two decks, one for the button and one for the hand. We kept the victim occupied with going out for a smoke and getting drinks for everyone so by the time he got to the table we dealt for the button and I was holding the deck for the hand. Funny thing happened I get the button and offer a cut which is tapped. Not out of the norm for offered cuts to be tapped at our tables.

Dealt to a newbie in the SB (to keep from being too obvious) was 85o, Victim QQ, and to me the button AKs. Victim raises, I reraise, SB calls, victim cold calls my reraise. Q85 on the flop, SB bets, victim raises, I do a little acting and finally throw my hand in the muck face up acting all disgusted that my AK didn't go anywhere. From here the SB reraises talking trash like who's going home first or who's gonna be beer winch for the night... blah blah SB reraises all in. Of course the victim calls and they flip their cards to show the two pair and a set of Q's. Everyone is buzzing and doing a good job and not giving away the joke. The turn brings a 5. Now I know this is a boat for both players but I play it up a little and say newbie has a boat. Victim jumps out of his chair and declares his larger boat. He just bit the hook, now to set it and reel him in. I am slowrolling the deck now because I want the agony to build. Lo and behold but the case 5 comes on the river to give the newbie Quads and knock our victim out of the tournament on the first hand. Hook line and sinker!

He could not get up from the table fast enough. Funny thing is that he was so distraught he did not go into his normal Matusow type tirade but was completely speechless. He could not believe he was done. We let it go for about one minute till I finally let him in on our little secret and he could not believe we had pulled it off on him. He had a great laugh and went on to win the tournament that night.

[pokertvstar]

happened to me (as the victim), but..... (as excerpted from my old blog)

When a Prank Goes Horribly Wrong
(Sept. 29 2006)

After putting in a couple of long days at work, I was able to take Thursday night off and sit in at my buddy Irish Jim's game. We all work together, so generally it is a friendly game with beers, and usually some horrid gas amongst friends. There were 3 others making the game 7 handed.

We assign seats, establish the button, and begin play. Here's the first hand of the night:

I get AA in the big blind. Nice start.

All fold toAdam, who limps in. Irish Jim limps. Kris in SB raises 75 (blinds were 25-25 to start). I pop it 200 more. Adam and Irish Jim fold.

Flop:
A-3-7 giving me top set.

Kris leads out for 100. I raise it another 300. Klownboxer reraises and I just say, "OK, I'm all in."

Kris looks at me and says "I know what you have...you have pocket 3's again." He calls the all in, as I say "No, I don't have pocket 3's," and show my AA. Klownboxer turns over 7-3 (for 2 pair)

Turn:
blank

River:
7

When the 7 hits, everyone at the table jumps and screams like "Wow, 7-3 called that big raise, and hit a full house. Holy cow!"

But I won the hand with Aces full of 7's.

As I am scooping the pot, Adam, Kris and Irish Jim (the guys I work with) are laughing uncontrollably, and I am wondering why?

Turns out, Irish Jim stacked the deck to give me pocket Aces, only to try and have me steamed up when the would lose to 7-3 off suit. It was a plan they put in during the day (while I was off). When I won the hand, their plan blew up in their face. I was then informed I would have to give the chips back, and we would start playing "for real."

Needless to say, I was unhappy about giving back half of my doubled up stack, but it didn't bother me much considering 1) their plan backfired, and 2) it was all in fun. If they had gotten it right, I would have gotten my chips back too, so in the end, it was a prank that simply blew up on them. It was pretty funny after all.

Turns out, I got the last laugh, going heads up with Kris. The HU lasted only a few hands, and I was able to sweat a 6-7-7 flop all in. Klownboxer made a play with 8-9 off suit, I had A-10. Luckily for me, the board washed out with 2 paints, and I was able to win it.

[MacGrad]

Ah, the joys of marked cards...

We have a friend who thinks he's the best poker player in our group -- trash talking, tries fancy "pro plays", tries to give advice, whines whenever he loses to (what he deems) an inferior hand or gets drawn out on...

Anyhow, one of his favorite things to do when someone starts giving him a hard time is to challenge them to a heads-up match for $100. We counted on this, and set the plan into motion: the next time he started whining, me and another friend started bugging him, telling him his play was so predictable and that he was probably the worst player we've seen. About 2 minutes elapsed before we got the "Oh yeah? Well, if you think you're so good and I'm so bad, let's play heads-up!"



My friends put each put $100 on the table, I got the marked deck, and I acted as dealer. During the hands, my buddy starts commenting on the sucker's plays, saying things like "Wow -- a $15 raise? You've probably got JT" or "You know, in this position, you usually bluff -- you're so predictable". Anyhow, my friend busts the sucker out in short order, at which point the sucker claims I was stacking the deck. I say "Fine -- we'll give you back your $100, we'll get a new dealer, and I'll play you for $100"... the sucker agrees, and we go through the scam again -- this time, I'm the one making the comments like "You know, there's no way you're betting here with an ace" or "You're betting a busted flush draw? Wow -- I thought you were good".

I beat him easily, and he just sat stunned for the rest of the night...

(Happy ending: a couple days later, the three of us went golfing, and we gave him his money back with the advice to ease off on the theatrics at the games.)

[pokertvstar]

Originally Posted by MacGrad

Ah, the joys of marked cards...

We have a friend who thinks he's the best poker player in our group -- trash talking, tries fancy "pro plays", tries to give advice, whines whenever he loses to (what he deems) an inferior hand or gets drawn out on...

Anyhow, one of his favorite things to do when someone starts giving him a hard time is to challenge them to a heads-up match for $100. We counted on this, and set the plan into motion: the next time he started whining, me and another friend started bugging him, telling him his play was so predictable and that he was probably the worst player we've seen. About 2 minutes elapsed before we got the "Oh yeah? Well, if you think you're so good and I'm so bad, let's play heads-up!"



My friends put each put $100 on the table, I got the marked deck, and I acted as dealer. During the hands, my buddy starts commenting on the sucker's plays, saying things like "Wow -- a $15 raise? You've probably got JT" or "You know, in this position, you usually bluff -- you're so predictable". Anyhow, my friend busts the sucker out in short order, at which point the sucker claims I was stacking the deck. I say "Fine -- we'll give you back your $100, we'll get a new dealer, and I'll play you for $100"... the sucker agrees, and we go through the scam again -- this time, I'm the one making the comments like "You know, there's no way you're betting here with an ace" or "You're betting a busted flush draw? Wow -- I thought you were good".

I beat him easily, and he just sat stunned for the rest of the night...

(Happy ending: a couple days later, the three of us went golfing, and we gave him his money back with the advice to ease off on the theatrics at the games.)

classic. well played.

[Captn_All_In]

Well one time I invited all the guys I coached football with...all of us have been playing for years, but never together. Anyways, I get 2 pinochle decks. After random seating with another deck, the cards start to fly. I am in MP and look down at 2 red kings....both the K of diamonds. UTG folds, +1 folds, +2 folds...1 limper then me, I raise, 1 fold, 1 caller, the SB AND BB fold....so know I say to myself...WTF? what happened to all the fireworks? anyways...the flop comes out, A A 9...a few murmurs and whispers...the limper checks I bet and the guy behind me folds...the other guy thinks for a sec and calls. Turn is another 9...more grumbles....then one guy says.."HEY I HAD THAT CARD!" he starts diggin in the muck and pulls it out....everyone looks around with this confused look and I start busting a gut!!!!!!! I turn over my 2 K's and yell "ITS A PINOCHLE DECK!" then everyone finally gets the joke and we all have a good laugh.

I wish I could use that joke again....but I haven't ever seen a plastic pinochle deck!! Everyone knows I won't play with paper, and if I got a paper deck out someone would probably realize what was going on because I have told that story a ton of times!