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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...

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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...

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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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.

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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.