Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

...a devestating array of terrible beats or when your opponents are consistently waking up with monsters from your position pushes (and of course you don't suck out). I personally think it is the ladder because it has me questioning my +EV pushes. Haven't seen a post on this...

Any comments?

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

i think it depends on the player. someone who's not rattled ever when they get their money in good clearly doesn't care if they get sucked out on. someone who gets their money in bad can be rattled by that, especially if they don't understand that it's possible that their play was correct anyway.

i find that personally the thing that comes closest to rattling me is a LONG string of losing coinflips. the beats, not so much for some reason.

citanul

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

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i find that personally the thing that comes closest to rattling me is a LONG string of losing coinflips. the beats, not so much for some reason.


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Yes!! coinflips are the devil

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

I dont have any good insight or anything witty to say, so i'll just give my answer.

Taking beats / losing races gets me frustrated.
Running into big hands at bad times, while it bums me out, i find easier to shrug off.

Dont know why, it just seems that way.

As an aside, i find it interesting how many many more posts about "running bad" revolve around beats, not having silver medal hands. They are both bad luck, and both are just random occurances. So i guess from that you can deduce that the beats bother most ppls more than the running into monsters.

Also, i have no beef with ladders. I mean, im not really a ladder-lover, im just lukewarm on ladders in general.
(yes i know you mean latter) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

For me, it's a long streak of finishing 3rd. I can handle bubbling a fair amount as long as I do it on good plays. But if I have a long run of 3rds, man, I go nuts.

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

Easily the first one. Not winning your fair share of hands can be very frustrating. If you run into better hands but win your fair share of the showdowns, thats fine. I would much rather run into five AA than lose ten straight coinflips.

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I kinda hate running into bad hands.

We're on the bubble, I'm stealing, having a ball, picking up blinds. Suddenly BB wakes up with a big hand, and all that stealing goes out the window. Two hands later I bust.

What was the point of stealing the blinds?

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

Neither. An obviously bad play on my part sends me in to a Lost Weekend type tailspin. You know the sort of thing, calling bets even though there's an Ace on the flop and you hold QQ or KK etc. The cat'll get a decent sized 'Johnny Wilkinson' after one of those.

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Neither. An obviously bad play on my part sends me in to a Lost Weekend type tailspin. You know the sort of thing, calling bets even though there's an Ace on the flop and you hold QQ or KK etc. The cat'll get a decent sized 'Johnny Wilkinson' after one of those.

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same, bad beats or running into AA hardly phases me. Knowing that I made a bad play really gets to me though.

Re: Which is more frustrating to the psyche of an SnGer......?
 

What bugs me is when some kid raises preflop, I pop him back with aces, and he calls. Then he check-raises me all-in on a queen high flop with jacks, catches a jack on the river. That's no biggie happens all the time. But then he says, "WOW. I'm sorry. I really. am"

I can't remember the last time I was sorry I won a pot.