Worst feeling in b and m poker

[Vehn]

When its 1 am and you're stuck greater than a dime and your game breaks.

Agree/disagree?

[Clarkmeister]

I vote for folding the best hand on the turn and watching a pot that is over a dime get pushed to someone other than yourself.

[slavic]

how about doing both in the same night?

[SinCityGuy]

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When its 1 am and you're stuck greater than a dime and your game breaks.

Agree/disagree?

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And then thinking to myself, "If I was playing two online tables, I might make this back in 30 minutes. In here, it will probably take many hours."

[lunchmeat]

I have this recurring nightmare that I'm taking a smash in the Foxwoods bathroom, and as I get up my entire bankroll falls out of my pocket into the auto-flushing toilets and gets sucked into the sewer.

This has never happened to me, so I can't say for sure that it is the worst feeling... but I should earn style points for the post's double usage of the term "B & M."

[MicroBob]

taking a smash???

[Vehn]

Good thing its impossible for me to have that problem.

[Vehn]

Yeah thats what I thought. 1.5 hours later of playing 3x 10/20 6 max tables I quit +$50. I run good.

[Gabe]

I always check to make sure they're open tomorrow.

Actually, if it breaks the game wasn't good and it's better to come back the next day.

[Ed Miller]

I vote for folding the best hand on the turn and watching a pot that is over a dime get pushed to someone other than yourself.

Dude, this is DEFINITELY the worst feeling. I could care less if I'm stuck and my game breaks, but when I fold the best hand in a big pot, I basically have to stop playing immediately because I freak out.

[Mike Gallo]

I vote for folding the best hand on the turn and watching a pot that is over a dime get pushed to someone other than yourself.

Dude,

I doubt you have done this more than once in your lifetime of playing poker.

[Softrock]

Disagree. I'm actually sort of relieved in this situation because I know it will prevent me from doing stupid things like playing all night trying to get even. I also know that in reality I have a much better chance of recovering my losses if I sstart fresh on another day. So, this sort of forces me to make the decision I should have the discipline to make on my own.

[Andy B]

Dear Sir,

You could easily have gotten your dime back in the $15/30 game if you had just stuck around. It was heads-up between a couple of certified monkeys for quite a while.

Sincerely,

Andy B

[EWillers]

When the clowns keep losing to everybody but you.

[LetsRock]

Yes, this is these are the worst sessions I experience, live or online. Very frustrating to know what they're doing and have no ammo, or get some ammo and they happen to have the goods when you make your move.

But being stuck and having the game break before you can get some of it back is a close second.

[youtalkfunny]

How about walking outside after you're finished playing, AND NOT HAVING A DOLLAR FOR THE BUS?

[CrackerZack]

I think Spirit Rock and dill pickle understand your pain while spicyf does not. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[sfer]

How about doing that a 6 am and thinking you've got to go to work in 3 hours as you walk home.

[Vehn]

Well I don't have to worry about that.

Not yet, at least.

[RiverMel]

I think he means getting a hand-job from one of the numerous male prostitutes that hang out in the bathroom at Foxwoods.

[Ulysses]

I think it's when you accidentally take a huge crap in your pants when you are tired but then you get dealt AA so you can't get up. And then after that hand your breakfast arrives so you have to stay there eating that. And everyone is looking at you all weird and stuff. That's always a downer.

[lunchmeat]

Indeed. And for only a couple green chips it's definitely worth it.

[CrazyEyez]

I'm actually sort of relieved in this situation because I know it will prevent me from doing stupid things like playing all night trying to get even.

Whoa whoa whoa. No one told me this was a stupid thing.

[Josh W]

It's all one session.

Learning to understand that makes poker a really easy game. It makes poker a much easier part to include in life, too.

Josh

[Abagadro]

Not the worst, but the most whiplash (happened 2 days ago, so its fresh):

Clueless guy calls you to showdown. You table your hand. He says, "Aw you win, I only have X" (and means it), only to turn over the absolute nuts that he has misread. You go from joy at winning the pot, to steam for losing the pot, to being gald you weren't raised in about .35 seconds.

[LetsRock]

I think most of us knows that it's all one session, but that doesn't make a losing "micro-session" any more fun.

I think it's pretty natural to "keep score" for each micro-session, even if it is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

I know it doesn't work this way, but it would be much more enjoyable to win a little bit every session than to win a bunch one day, then lose a little less the next. You're still up for this sample, but a big losing micro-session isn't fun regardless of how much you're up over the big session.

[MRBAA]

You know, when I'm losing even a little in a session I actually find it helps to remind myself of my current bankroll frequently.

[LetsRock]

I agree. This has helped me a lot for on-line play. I can take ugly sessions a little easier by just running a few reports from my database and see my BR.

Live, it's a little tougher for me because my "BR" (I don't really have a live BR) is pretty limited and an ugly session usually means I'm done for the night (or for the trip), so it's a little tougher to take with good humor.

[JasonM]

Flopping a jackpot in a tournament.

[Gahnia radula]

WTF?????

[tripdad]

disagree. the worst is when you are in a b&m tournament, you are absolutely in the zone, you are knocking over your chips every time you reach for your cards.

then you misread someone, make a bad play and watch the guy across from you knocking your chips over every time he reaches for his cards.

cheers!

[Nemesis]

dime = 100 or 1000?

[TomCollins]

10 cents. He was playing the microlimit .01/.02 NL agame there.

[Demian]

I seriously hurt myself laughing when i read this.

[SinCityGuy]

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I vote for folding the best hand on the turn and watching a pot that is over a dime get pushed to someone other than yourself.

Dude, this is DEFINITELY the worst feeling. I could care less if I'm stuck and my game breaks, but when I fold the best hand in a big pot, I basically have to stop playing immediately because I freak out.

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Ed and Clarkmeister,

Reading this really brought back a horrid memory. Last December, I folded AA on the turn (after it went to four bets) on a ten high rainbow board. At showdown, the winner had KT and the loser had QT. I had to rack up and leave after that one.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

A rare actual LOL, rather than the silly LOL thay gets typed in when someone says something not even close to funny.

[Easy E]

They're a bit..... different.

But now you know why no one wants to play at the same table as they are- it's the well-known "Playing with other 2+2'ers STINKS!" rule

[Andy B]

A dime is $1000. People who get worked up about being stuck a dime probably shouldn't play $30/60.