What gets under your skin when playing a poker game? [Archive]

rgschackelford

08-12-2005, 01:44 AM

You hit the nail on the head. The suckout is exactly that, IT SUCKS! But it's even worse when someone hits their crazy three-outer with crap cards to begin with (maybe they were suited, and that's the stupid rationalization). That is pretty bad. But it's even worse, when they make it look like it was their "awesome skill", and brag about it, while having that damned smug look on thier face, thinking that they're the [censored] and brr be brr. Oh, now that's the worst.

Furthermore, it's awful when an LAG plays AK passively. This one time I had AQo, and I flopped an ace. I was the only one showing strength preflop. I bet out, and am called. Turn, I bet and am called. River, I bet and am raised. I call, and the guy shows down AK. It's a sick and twisted way of being "outplayed" by someone who really isn't technically "outplaying" people. Oh well. Stand up, take a breath, get a drink of water, and chill.

Rusty G.

Guernica4000

08-12-2005, 02:20 AM

In home games:

1) When players insist on betting their smallest chips... "I'll raise 3,000...10,20,30,40..."

2) A dealer that flips the turn or river card in slow motion taken a peak at it and making some stupid comment before the rest of the table see it.

In a B&M:

1) The player that thinks he knows it all and can't wait to tell the table what move he just did and where he learned it.

2) The player that has seen to many WPT or WSOP tourneys on TV and will stare at you for 5 minutes during the second hand of a $40 buy in tournament.

3) Players with headphones that can’t hear if the pot is been raised, called, checked or if it is their turn to act.

Online:

1) The idiot that uses the chat box to insults or teaches bad players how to play. "You called a raise with J2 you moron, blah blah" usually resulting in the donk playing tighter or leaving the table.

Aside from the above I love poker :-)

Jorge10

08-12-2005, 02:35 AM

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1) The idiot that uses the chat box to insults or teaches bad players how to play. "You called a raise with J2 you moron, blah blah" usually resulting in the donk playing tighter or leaving the table.

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Agreed, table coaches ruin online poker, damn them!

Heres a weird one, old people who bash young people and tell them they dont know nothing. I played omaha high low at my local casino and only old people played, I was bashed 24/7.

People with sunglasses at the casino, that has got the be the ultimate pet peeve, I could understand if it was for an important part of a tourney like say final table or a big cash game, but when its the start of a 30 dollar NL tourney, just do the world a favor and go put a bullet in your head.

mike4bmp

08-12-2005, 03:04 AM

1. The inconsiderate smoker who can't blow his/her smoke in a direction other than the table.
2.The bad tempered guy who berates other players...I mean I hate a suck out myself but it is inappropriate to belittle someone in public.
3.(I think everyone's said this one....)The perpetual poker commentor/announcer/Pro-hand reader/Knows everything about everything.
4.Impolite dealers...they make the fish go away sometimes.
5.Braggers and story tellers....you know the guy who is telling you stories about playing in the WSOP....If you played in the WSOP and you're sooo good then why the HELL are sitting in a 3/6 hold em game nest to me at the Crazy Moose card room...

Mike...out

SNOWBALL138

08-12-2005, 03:24 AM

Once in a while, a player who loses will ask me or the table for some of his money back. This bothers me so much it makes me want to leave the table. Actually, thinking about it makes me want to not play poker.

08-12-2005, 03:24 AM

1. To be very very close to win big. Just close enough to know your chances are huge, to almost start celebrating inside and then have it all teared down.

Like yesterday, 3 ppl all in (150$ on 50$NL) before the flopp. Me with AA, them with lower pp's. If they hit the flop, then I tell me that happens. If they hit the turn, then I get upset. If they hit the river, I just stare straight ahead and dont move for the next 30 minutes.

imported_anacardo

08-12-2005, 03:43 AM

Just tell him to forget it. Why do you find this so affecting?

winky51

08-12-2005, 11:51 AM

Some of these cracked me up.

Well now I know how to get under the skin of TAGs.

Didnt expect this post to get so many replies.

Mikey

08-12-2005, 11:59 AM

the thing that gets under my skin more than anything is when I'm playing a game and I feel that I'm not the best in the game because there is another tight agressive, level-headed soft-spoken player in the game.

i welcome all that other crap you guys are talking about.

SNOWBALL138

08-12-2005, 12:41 PM

Have you ever played at Hollywood Park in LA? The people are so pathetic. Its like a Charles Dickens book. This seventy year old african american guy was chatting me up while I was enjoying a smoke in the game room. He tells me how he lost 400 playing 2/4 stud that night...
I didn't even know that it was possible to lose 100BB playing at ~20 hands/hr in a single night. He drones on about how he doesn't have any money for the rest of the month and how he has to wait for his next social security check. A few hours later he sees me cashing out, and he tries to get me to buy him some coffee. Its like these people think the casino is their home.

I see this horrible player lose ~200 in four hours or so playing 3/6. After he goes broke, he just stays there in his seat, complaining to the table, and trying to hustle the floorman for comps. After he's disabused of his notion that he is a high-rolling v.i.p. he starts soliciting donations from the table. So, I refuse to give him any money, and he gets angry and barks at me "Yeah, I expected that from you."

I'm playing on absolute poker, and I take ~150 off this guy playing 2/4. At the end of the night, after he's made multiple rebuys, he just sits there w/ no money. I'm staring at his avatar, which is a picture of him and his baby girl, and he asks if he can have some of his money back...

Stuff like this really wants to make me get a real job. It messes with my head to think about how people are ruining their lives and I am taking their money.

Actually, I'm probably going to have to take a few days off now. I've had too many experiences like this lately. The other day at absolute poker, I was murdering this mother who had a picture of her daughter as her avatar. She rebought over and over. By the end of my session, I felt so conflicted about taking her money, that I folded a 4 flush on the turn against her when I was getting > breakeven odds on my draw...

Stuff like this gets under my skin a lot more than getting beat by four 2-3 outers in a row.

jb9

08-12-2005, 12:42 PM

I know this is dumb since I save money every time it happens, but when someone who has been just calling hits his hand (straight, set, etc.) on the river and doesn't bet or raise it really annoys me (especially when they have the nuts).

I don't understand why this gets to me so much. It just feels so blasphemous...

cadillac1234

08-12-2005, 12:44 PM

A long string of cruddy hole cards coupled with someone raising everytime I'm in the blinds with crap. Blinding away my stack drives me nuts.

I think that's why I loved no ante seven card stud so much...

SNOWBALL138

08-12-2005, 12:49 PM

Once in a while, I'll raise behind a limper with my aces only to see everyone fold, including the limper, even though its only one bet to them. That always weirds me out a little.

intheflatfield

08-12-2005, 02:42 PM

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When people, that are friends, play at the same live game are in a hand with only one another and decide that they'd like to check it through, face up after preflop.

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This absoulutely drives me banana's. Especially after I've been raised out of the pot to make it h/u between the two.

Jorge10

08-12-2005, 02:48 PM

On the Table Coach thing since people are telling stories I got one. I went to the casino to play omaha high low and if you have played high low lately only very old people play I was the only one under 80 at the table because everyone else plays holdem. Anyway I was playing tight because it was 3/6 and I was barely starting to play and also because its common knowledge that tight aggressive is the only way to play limit.

So after about 1 hour of me not playing much since I aint getting much I get one or two hands and an old guy snaps, hes telling the whole table, hes got A/2(one of the best hands in high low) every time I call. He also starts telling the whole table, kind of yelling, dont give him action hes got a big hand, he never plays anything. Everytime he folded he would say "I had the second best hand, but he has the best one, dont give him action." He did this for the rest of the session which was about 4 hours. Now that got under my skin.

FouTight

08-12-2005, 03:08 PM

I don't see anyone mention this guy.

3 way, short stack all in vs 2 large stacks, with no side pot yet, and one big stack makes a bet on the flop, second big stack fold, and then first big stack turns over a bluff then loses to the all in short stack.

HATE YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!

joda mas

08-12-2005, 03:27 PM

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When people, that are friends, play at the same live game are in a hand with only one another and decide that they'd like to check it through, face up after preflop.

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This absoulutely drives me banana's. Especially after I've been raised out of the pot to make it h/u between the two.

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Yeah, this really sucks! Especially when the winner tries to throw the loser his last bet back, which is actually your last bet.

Bartman387

08-12-2005, 07:08 PM

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I don't see anyone mention this guy.

3 way, short stack all in vs 2 large stacks, with no side pot yet, and one big stack makes a bet on the flop, second big stack fold, and then first big stack turns over a bluff then loses to the all in short stack.

HATE YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!

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I've seen this so often in SnG's recently that it just blows my mind. It keeps every ounce of my strength to stop myself from berating the player.

I especially hate it when a few hands later the small stack, who survived only because the other big stack pushed you out and is a moran, sucks out on you knocking you out on the bubble /images/graemlins/mad.gif

winky51

08-12-2005, 10:03 PM

My god, part of me feels for them... but they know they are gambling. Thats simple. If they can't play well and always lose then its their fault.

Just like.....

the person that overspends on their credit card.
the person that smokes every day wasting money.
the person who plays the lottery.
the person who does drugs
and so on. THeir own fault.

People dig their own grave. Feel for those people that Enron screwed, that AT&T screwed. Feel for those that big companies ask the government to relocate families so they can build casinos and resorts because its better for the community, according to them. Paying these families nothing close to the value of their home and giving them no choice. Feel for those stay at home moms that lose their husband at 911 and those charities kept so much of what was donated for themselves.

I feel for those that are taken advantage of not those that know what they are doing.

When I started playing poker I had the discipline never play poker again if I lost $500 while learning. I would figure I just didnt have what it took. Fortunately I do.

Maybe this was a bit extreme but people play and people lose. They know what they are getting into.

goofball

08-12-2005, 10:50 PM

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Have you ever played at Hollywood Park in LA? The people are so pathetic. Its like a Charles Dickens book. This seventy year old african american guy was chatting me up while I was enjoying a smoke in the game room. He tells me how he lost 400 playing 2/4 stud that night...
I didn't even know that it was possible to lose 100BB playing at ~20 hands/hr in a single night. He drones on about how he doesn't have any money for the rest of the month and how he has to wait for his next social security check. A few hours later he sees me cashing out, and he tries to get me to buy him some coffee. Its like these people think the casino is their home.

I see this horrible player lose ~200 in four hours or so playing 3/6. After he goes broke, he just stays there in his seat, complaining to the table, and trying to hustle the floorman for comps. After he's disabused of his notion that he is a high-rolling v.i.p. he starts soliciting donations from the table. So, I refuse to give him any money, and he gets angry and barks at me "Yeah, I expected that from you."

I'm playing on absolute poker, and I take ~150 off this guy playing 2/4. At the end of the night, after he's made multiple rebuys, he just sits there w/ no money. I'm staring at his avatar, which is a picture of him and his baby girl, and he asks if he can have some of his money back...

Stuff like this really wants to make me get a real job. It messes with my head to think about how people are ruining their lives and I am taking their money.

Actually, I'm probably going to have to take a few days off now. I've had too many experiences like this lately. The other day at absolute poker, I was murdering this mother who had a picture of her daughter as her avatar. She rebought over and over. By the end of my session, I felt so conflicted about taking her money, that I folded a 4 flush on the turn against her when I was getting > breakeven odds on my draw...

Stuff like this gets under my skin a lot more than getting beat by four 2-3 outers in a row.

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Well, this bugs me occaisonally too. Remember though, that if they don't lose it to you they will very likely lose it to someone.

Really though, if it makes you that uncomfortable playing against an opponent it's best to just get up.

08-12-2005, 11:29 PM

umm, two words: runner runner.. I don't mind bad beats on the river... because.. you will still lose 10% of the hands you dominate after the turn.. but runner runner just has me puzzled that people would stay in the hand that long

pokerrookie

08-13-2005, 12:42 AM

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No matter how cool one may claim I think we all have a certain thing that really gets to us.

For me its the maniac (with 73s) reraising me just because (with his 3 outer) and then hitting his card on the end. That drives me nuts.

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I raise 5X BB with QQ. Get one caller. Flop comes T63. Caller pushes with 29o, I call. Turn 2, River 2.

flecks

08-13-2005, 01:47 AM

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When people, that are friends, play at the same live game are in a hand with only one another and decide that they'd like to check it through, face up after preflop.

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And then they giggle softly as the board unfolds...

SNOWBALL138

08-13-2005, 01:54 AM

I had to end my session after that incident with the mother.

Do you really believe that bad players would lose the same amount of money to eachother as they would to good players?

Obviously, if I quit poker this moment, that will have ~0 impact on the EV of bad players. However, good players as a whole drastically push the EV of bad players very deeply into the red.

Anyway, I'm not saying that I want to quit poker or that it is immoral. However, it gets under my skin once in a while.

Bartman387

08-13-2005, 02:26 AM

Also realize that these players probably/most likely have a gambling addiction, which means they have an addictive personality and probably a family history of such behaviors. So in all likelihood if gambling wasn't their addiction, it would be something else, alcohol, drugs, you name it they would just be dropping their money on something else. Them throwing their money away has nothing to do with you, its the rush they get from their chosen addictive behavior.

In their cases its not even whether they are a bad player or not (who knows maybe the mother is a good player), but her highs are too high and her lows are too low, causing her to then drop more money to get that high again. So its not that you are necessarily taking adavantage of a poor player who needs to start visiting 2+2, reading TOP, and looking over some hand histories. These people need help for their addictive behaviors and personality not their play.

One last thing. When you see people begging for money, remember Stu Ungar was a poker player always begging for money. He wasn't begging because he was a bad player, he was begging because he never got help for his problems and losing all the money in the world wouldn't wake him up to this fact, just like the begging mother won't get help because she lost her rent money. She will get help when she look at herself and realizes she needs help. Nothing you can do will change that.

Hope my rambling dissertation made some sense and helped put some perspective on the issue.

maybedinero

08-13-2005, 08:12 AM

SNOWBALL: Try playing on a site which doesn't have avatars - it's clear you let them distract you from playing your A1 game for whatever reasons.

My peeve: (this only seems to happen live) - In an MTT,
being moved tables straight into the big blind, particularly immediately after I've just been through the blinds on my previous table.

Degen

08-13-2005, 08:31 AM

nits calling my blind steals w/ huge pairs

bobbyi

08-13-2005, 01:58 PM

A guy who slows the game down a ton: never knows when it is his turn to act and it takes the dealer a minute to get his attention every time, starts pointless disputes that force us to stop the game and call over the floor, etc. We all came to the casino because we want to play and this guy is ruining the fun for everybody.

RydenStoompala

08-13-2005, 02:33 PM

If any of these things were to happen...

1) Disgrunlted old hag loses her grocery money on the slots, snaps and drives her car through the casnino, wounding my favorite drink girl.
2) Obnoxious table coach goes to the washroom, is followed by two Hells Angels enforcers, is found murdered and a really good game gets shut down while police investigate.
3) A guy dressed as Krusty the Clown runs into the cardroom and shoots me in the foot for no reason.
4) Someone slips acid into my beer and I spend five or six hours watching the dots crawl off my cards while folding big pairs and raising before the hands are dealt.

...I would be upset.

vexvelour

08-13-2005, 02:45 PM

1. When someone is a Mr. Helpful. ("She wouldn't be a in preflop raised hand without something good, call her.")

2. When someone with a totally inferior hand draws out after an all-in and gets four of a kind.

3. When someone picks their nose then throws chips in a pot I know is mine. Ew.

08-13-2005, 03:09 PM

By far, a 3 way pot, u have a set on a 4 to flsh board,riv is the flsh, draw guy bets out, u call, idiot behind u raises with pp, then another reraise from first guy etc...

08-13-2005, 03:12 PM

Oh yeah , and of course online, when there is a split pot with sam hole cards, the "lol nh"

maybedinero

08-13-2005, 03:27 PM

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Oh yeah , and of course online, when there is a split pot with sam hole cards, the "lol nh"

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OK, I plead guilty to this one. What's wrong with a bit of light humour on a po-faced online hold em table. There's just something mildly funny about two people showing down the same hand on the end.

mosdef

08-13-2005, 03:38 PM

when i get a mcchicken from mcd's, and i bite into it and there's no mcchicken sauce to be found.

then i look at the back of it, and there's a huge 2 inch wide sphere of sauce sitting right on the edge of the burger.

FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST F*CKING SPREAD THE SAUCE OUT EVENLY ACROSS THE F*CKING BURGER IT CAN'T BE THAT F*CKING HARD.

oh, and for argument's sake let's assume that this is happening to me while at a poker table, so it's not off topic.

vexvelour

08-13-2005, 03:45 PM

lmao mosdef.

Apparently it's difficult to point a thing of sauce at a bun because my McDonalds does the same thing.

Guernica4000

08-13-2005, 05:05 PM

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In home games:

1) When players insist on betting their smallest chips... "I'll raise 3,000...10,20,30,40..."

2) A dealer that flips the turn or river card in slow motion taken a peak at it and making some stupid comment before the rest of the table see it.

In a B&M:

1) The player that thinks he knows it all and can't wait to tell the table what move he just did and where he learned it.

2) The player that has seen to many WPT or WSOP tourneys on TV and will stare at you for 5 minutes during the second hand of a $40 buy in tournament.

3) Players with headphones that can’t hear if the pot is been raised, called, checked or if it is their turn to act.

Online:

1) The idiot that uses the chat box to insults or teaches bad players how to play. "You called a raise with J2 you moron, blah blah" usually resulting in the donk playing tighter or leaving the table.

Aside from the above I love poker :-)

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Here are some more:

Home Game:

3) The player/dealer that starts telling a story during his deal and flops cards before all the raising/calling/checking is done or on the flip side the one that has the whole table waiting for a flop because he is in the middle of his story.

4) Players who think that because it is a home game rules like playing in turn or "ONE PLAYER PER HAND" don't apply"
When told they answer: "It is not like we are in a casino"

On-line:

2) The small chip stack near the bubble who stalls every hand to make it to the money and players that don't understand that this is a waste of time when we are hand for hand.

08-13-2005, 07:59 PM

Online, the gay ass pause-bet, like it's really going to make a difference.

08-13-2005, 08:36 PM

Somebody moves all-in in a tournament, and gets two callers. Then those two battle it out for the side pot, and one of them bluffs at it, making the one who would have won the whole pot fold, and keeps the player who was all-in the game. I see this more in online games, but it isn't absent from live games.

Reef

08-13-2005, 09:33 PM

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Oh yeah , and of course online, when there is a split pot with sam hole cards, the "lol nh"

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I usually curse when this happens and I/we have a good hand

Lawrence Ng

08-14-2005, 08:48 PM

What gets under my skin is when I'm in the 5 seat, and this super hot chick with a nice set of boobs in the 7 seat and this big fat guy is in the 6 seat and he's constantly leaning forward so I can't see the chick's boobs.

Lawrence

RydenStoompala

08-15-2005, 07:38 AM

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he's constantly leaning forward so I can't see the chick's boobs.

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So true. A real piss-off. I then ask for a move to the 10 so that I can get the angle. I have really powerful eyeglasses that I move to the end of my nose (ala Devilfish) and they make the boobs even more huge, but I need that 10 seat for full boob-o-vision results.

angst

08-15-2005, 07:42 AM

Lose.

08-24-2005, 01:34 AM

The guy who brings in $30k to a 10-20

bkholdem

08-24-2005, 09:38 AM

I hate it when some old dude tries to grab my ass at the table.

Dave H.

08-24-2005, 01:21 PM

I raise preflop with K /images/graemlins/heart.gifQ /images/graemlins/heart.gif and knocking everyone out except one cold caller.

Flop comes T /images/graemlins/heart.gif 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif

I bet, he calls.
Turn is K /images/graemlins/spade.gif...I bet, he calls

River is 3 /images/graemlins/heart.gif...I bet, he raises, I reraise, he caps.

He turns over A /images/graemlins/heart.gif 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif and my king high flush is beaten...GRRRR!

Then he types in the chat box: LOL

KingCon

08-24-2005, 02:40 PM

I hate players who use terms that thye obviously have heard others use without really knowing the meaning of them, or trying to act hip by using the terms...example Donkey,Fish, Pot Odds,etc.

I really hate wannabes.

bernie

08-24-2005, 03:32 PM

People who complain about getting sucked out on by crap. Implying that they want to play against 'better' players because somehow they talk themselves into thinking that that would be an easier game.

Actually, this doesn't bother me as it tells me about their thought process and skill level when I'm in a game with them. Their thoughts are so ingrained with just winning the pot they forget where the money is made during the hand.

Rudeness is it for me. I just watched a player snap at a dealer the other day over something real petty, telling her she should do her job better when she was doing her job just fine. Even in regards to the incident in question. Right along the lines with the berating table coach. However, I do get a little joy at watching these types tilt and flail as their chips drain from their stacks. Reminds me of the wicked witch in wizard of oz melting into the water. Themselves screeching while being sucked down to the realization that they really aren't as good as they think they are.

But for the most part: What a whiny thread.

b

Cheshire

08-24-2005, 05:11 PM

This is the funniest thing I have read all day.

Cheshire

08-24-2005, 05:19 PM

Seeing how I just wasted 30 min I should have been studying during I have to post. What gets me is the Badass at the $5 buying home game who only check-raises, but never enough to force anyone out of the pot.

johnc

08-24-2005, 05:27 PM

4-8 live, really loud, obnoxious woman raises on the button, myself and a couple others fold. Flop is 86K rainbow. Old rock bets, she raises. Turn was blank, Old rock checks and calls her bet. HU to the river, check,bet, call. Old rock shows a pair of kings - ok, sounds reasonable given the betting. The woman turns over 86o for two pair! A few of the people start questioning her why she would possibly raise 86o pf. She says "I wanted to get some other people out of the hand". She then procedes to get even louder and boasts about her play and how "good she is" and on and on, blah,blah,blah. She annoyed me so much that I found myself getting more and more pissed (sitting next her didn't help) as the night wore on.

bodie

08-25-2005, 01:29 AM

what gets me is making a "correct" decision to fold a hand, and then sitting and watching it turn into the nuts. I don't care how much you tell yourself it was the right thing to do, it hurts. I'm still trying to attain an attitude of "not caring".
Something like folding a J 4 offsuit and watching the board put down two J's on the flop, and another one the turn.
Happens all the time, I know, but that's what gets to me.

Cyrus

08-25-2005, 07:32 AM

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They know they are gambling. Thats simple. If they can't play well and always lose then its their fault.

Just like.....

the person that overspends on their credit card.
the person that smokes every day wasting money.
the person who plays the lottery.
the person who does drugs
and so on.

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Since "if you won't do it, someone else will do it" , would you

- try to sell more things than you know he needs to the person that overspends on his credit card,
- sell cigarettes to the person that smokes every day wasting money,
- sell lottery tickets to the person who plays the lottery,
- sell drugs to the person who does drugs ??

jskills

08-25-2005, 09:55 AM

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No matter how cool one may claim I think we all have a certain thing that really gets to us.

For me its the maniac (with 73s) reraising me just because (with his 3 outer) and then hitting his card on the end. That drives me nuts.

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Maniacs who actually make their 2-outers , gutshots, etc. on the river make me want to vomit. I agree it might be one of the most unnerving things at the table.

It's so much more rewarding when you sit to their left and isolate them preflop and mandhandle them post flop. It very often makes them play worse. When they start winning pots, it's pretty difficult to deal with them ...

mosdef

08-25-2005, 01:01 PM

don't look at the flops/turns/rivers after you've folded. problem solved.

jzpiano14

08-25-2005, 07:31 PM

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People with sunglasses at the casino, that has got the be the ultimate pet peeve, I could understand if it was for an important part of a tourney like say final table or a big cash game, but when its the start of a 30 dollar NL tourney, just do the world a favor and go put a bullet in your head.

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THANK YOU! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Jorge10

08-25-2005, 07:59 PM

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THANK YOU!

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No Problem

Heres another one, I went to vegas for a week and I only played poker once, but I gathered these. I played Omaha High low at the Orleans.

1. When you in a table with a guy who is 103 who apparently hasnt heard they invented the hearing aid. The man could not hear 10-15 minutes per hand I swear.

2. When your getting the worst cards of your life in your first live session in months, argh combine that with the 103 year old and you can imagine the pain.

3. Old ladies who tell you to loosen up and play more hands and that you dont know how to play because you dont play every hand like they do.

4. Old ladies who give you advice and tell you that you dont know how to play when they are down even more than you with their play every hand they are dealt strategy.

Phogster

08-25-2005, 08:54 PM

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Old ladies who give you advice and tell you that you dont know how to play when they are down even more than you with their play every hand they are dealt strategy.

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Yeah, I get that in home games a lot (except for the "old ladies" part)

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mcozzy1

08-25-2005, 10:14 PM

Multitabling players who are too slow to mulitable.

Getting check-raised on the turn by a guy who's a huge underdog and losing.

Dealers who point out tells on players.

That bitchy waitress who might be spitting in people's food.

jskills

08-26-2005, 09:59 AM

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Furthermore, it's awful when an LAG plays AK passively. This one time I had AQo, and I flopped an ace. I was the only one showing strength preflop. I bet out, and am called. Turn, I bet and am called. River, I bet and am raised. I call, and the guy shows down AK. It's a sick and twisted way of being "outplayed" by someone who really isn't technically "outplaying" people. Oh well. Stand up, take a breath, get a drink of water, and chill.

Rusty G.

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Which leads to an addage I've come up with recently ...

"Beware the LAG who just check / calls".

This applies to true LAGs who are in many hands playing very aggressively. When you find yourself in a hand with one of these types and they suddenly start playing passively, it's usually time to worry.

08-26-2005, 12:56 PM

Online, Villian notices chatch is seeing every flop (and playing very poorly postlop i might add), regardless of how many bets she has to pay. Villian points it out to chatch. chatch says: "i need 300 raked hands today to get my bonus."

after a few minutes, Villian: "You know you don't need to see the flop to have it count as a raked hand?"

VarlosZ

08-26-2005, 08:11 PM

People who berate, coach, or make snide remarks to the bad players.

Rudeness in general.

That's about it. Oh, an throw in players who multi-table and don't care if they slow down the game. Yes, I'm at three of your tables, and I see that you're in the middle of big hand on this one. That doesn't mean you have to take 30 seconds to fold your 84o on the other one.

Jorge10

08-27-2005, 10:38 PM

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People who berate, coach, or make snide remarks to the bad players.

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Along this quote I got a good one, this guy hits a 1 outer to beat me, yes a 1 outer, so anyway I dont say a word I figure whatever it happens. Some other guy hits a monster draw on him some sort of straight flush draw type of thing, and he snaps at him, hes like "omg you stupid fish, you dont even know what your doing etc..."

The most annoying opponent in the history of poker, a fish that gets lucky and hits 1 and later hit me with a 2 outer, and then yells at the other fish and tells them they suck, now that annoyed me.

08-28-2005, 02:10 AM

Happened just today: some maniac zaps in, plays almost every hand for about 20 minutes, stacks up a huge gain by cracking AA and KK a few times with rivered straights and trip deuces (calling down raises and 3-bets the whole way), then flees like a little girl before I can take advantage of his eventual regression to the mean.

Mind you, I DO immediately add him to my buddy list, but still...

I can deal with the suckouts, but you just know that's the kind of player who brags to everyone about how well he does at poker.

nervous

08-28-2005, 06:40 AM

People who complain about people staying in and hitting basic draws.

Last time I played live, some young 18ish kid loses to an older guy who had just hit his flush and check/raised him on the river. The kid starts verbally berating the old man for staying in with a flush draw. The saddest part was this was at 2-5 spread limit.

After I hit my flush draw today, the chatbox reads:

riverloser: XXXXXX lucky XXXXX

Flush draws are like 2 outers, right?