rewt75
09-29-2004, 05:09 PM
Last night I was playing .25/.50 on pokerroom.com. FYI, I'm a noob - only been playing for about a month or so but have read SSHE and feel like I have a somewhat decent handle on what I'm doing.
I joined a table that had about 8 people playing it(currently had two other tables going). There were two guys at the table sitting next to each other each with well over $20K bankrolls. From the two hands I saw immediately after sitting in, they were capping every single street regardless of the cards they had and were being obnoxious in the chat window. I realized this was probably not a table I wanted to be sitting at, but as soon as I decide to bail, I get dealt pocket aces. They might as well have put glue on my seat.
So here we go...capped preflop, the flop looked good and was capped, as was the turn and then I rivered an ace. The pot was over $30 at this point, no obvious hand that would beat me(not that I would've been able to tell since they were capping regardless of their cards), and one of the guys was doing his usual "let the timer run down to the last second before capping the river all while talking smack" move and it was all I could do not to type "just cap it and give me your money, a-holes." He turned over a jack-ten offsuit for a straight and then he and his buddy berated me over and over talking about how much of an idiot I am and all sorts of messages about tilt.
Before I can click Sit Out, I'm dealt Ace Jack suited. I'm unable to leave the table again. So I decide to take the capped pre-flop and see the flop. I get an ace on an uncoordinated board, so I stay in and get a Jack on the turn. So I'm unable to get away from this hand again and one of the guys rivered a backdoor flush. They went nuts on me with the verbal lashings as expected, and I'm out $12 and leave the table. In the back of my mind I don't feel too bad because I at least had two solid shots at turning $6 into over $30.
So I'm not complaining about the beats, but rather wondering how often you see people essentially raiding a micro-limit table with huge bank rolls and blindly capping every street. Like I said, I've only been playing a month so this may be a regular occurrence for all I know.
I joined a table that had about 8 people playing it(currently had two other tables going). There were two guys at the table sitting next to each other each with well over $20K bankrolls. From the two hands I saw immediately after sitting in, they were capping every single street regardless of the cards they had and were being obnoxious in the chat window. I realized this was probably not a table I wanted to be sitting at, but as soon as I decide to bail, I get dealt pocket aces. They might as well have put glue on my seat.
So here we go...capped preflop, the flop looked good and was capped, as was the turn and then I rivered an ace. The pot was over $30 at this point, no obvious hand that would beat me(not that I would've been able to tell since they were capping regardless of their cards), and one of the guys was doing his usual "let the timer run down to the last second before capping the river all while talking smack" move and it was all I could do not to type "just cap it and give me your money, a-holes." He turned over a jack-ten offsuit for a straight and then he and his buddy berated me over and over talking about how much of an idiot I am and all sorts of messages about tilt.
Before I can click Sit Out, I'm dealt Ace Jack suited. I'm unable to leave the table again. So I decide to take the capped pre-flop and see the flop. I get an ace on an uncoordinated board, so I stay in and get a Jack on the turn. So I'm unable to get away from this hand again and one of the guys rivered a backdoor flush. They went nuts on me with the verbal lashings as expected, and I'm out $12 and leave the table. In the back of my mind I don't feel too bad because I at least had two solid shots at turning $6 into over $30.
So I'm not complaining about the beats, but rather wondering how often you see people essentially raiding a micro-limit table with huge bank rolls and blindly capping every street. Like I said, I've only been playing a month so this may be a regular occurrence for all I know.