Poker guilt?
 

Anyone ever have a moment of poker guilt? I've only had one...

Several months ago playing in a local freeroll NL tourney, we're a good ways in and this old man (probably 65'ish) is at my table and he hasn't played a hand in awhile. I had like a JTs and limped in UTG and he actually calls from the cutoff. Flop is something like KK6. I make this ridiculously huge bet and he thinks for a bit and then folds. As I was pulling in the pot I just had this flash through my mind...

"He has been sitting there waiting for a hand to play for along time and I just tricked this old man into folding..."

Kinda felt guilty [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: Poker guilt?
 

When I bad beat someone who out played me in my home game, it doesn't happen often, and I get bad beated atleast 10 times as much as I give it out. But when I do hit that straight or flush on the river when I've got myself into bad shape, I feel guilty for having played badly.

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Waiting is old peoples' specialty.

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Is that sentence grammatically correct?

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Waiting is the specialty of old people.

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hell no. besides, its free roll so its not as if you're stealing his pension. wp [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I agree, if your in the game you had better tolerate the game.

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I guess you'll really have a problem when you're taking money from addicts. Welcome to poker.

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If you played the hand well then you should not have any 'poker guilt'

I enjoy taking money from drunks and lawyers, even more so when they are horrible players.

I do sometimes get poker guilt, but I try not to let it affect my play. For example, sometimes I will attack a player that is getting pounded, just because it seems that they can't win a pot no matter what. When I push and draw out on the river I sometimes feel bad about it.

But I seem to get over it OK. I have not yet cried at the table.