Not the beat, but the chatter....

[CrisBrown]

Hi All,

I did something yesterday that I hadn't done in quite awhile. I went on tilt. Uggh. Oh well. It happened.

Anyway, here's how:

I'm in a $2/4 game on Stars and holding my own, although nothing really noteworthy yet. I'm up about $80, when I get 87o in MP. I decide to change gears a bit -- I'd had a couple of big pairs earlier and hadn't played anything else since -- so I limp. LP limps. BB, with about $240, makes it $12. I figure he's got a big pair, which I like because if I hit my hand well, I can probably get his entire stack, and if I miss it I can get away cheaply. Besides, I don't limp with a hand if I'm won't be willing to call a standard open-raise. LP folds.

The flop is 2-8-7 ... perfect for me. He checks, and I bet the pot (~$32). He min-raises me, and now I'm sure he's on a high pair. I min-raise back, and sure enough, all of his chips end up in the middle.

Alas, the turn-river is 3-3, and he counterfeits two pair to take the pot with QQ. Oh well. I'd play that hand the same way again.

He said, "Ouch. Sorry."

I said, "No problem. I wanted that action, just not that outcome."

And someone else, who wasn't in the pot, chimes in: "Well, you got what you deserved, calling a raise with 87o."

I should have ignored the chirper. Instead, we proceeded to have an ongoing dialogue through the next two or three hands about why I was (or wasn't) an idiot to call a pre-flop raise with 87o. And that put me on tilt....

Anyway, it turned out to be an expensive day, but not too horrible. Certainly nothing I can't bounce back from. But I violated my own rule -- ignore poker advice given at the table -- and it cost me, and I was pretty upset with myself afterwards.

Cris

P.S. I left about a half-hour later after I made a big raise behind three limpers with KK, was called by UTG, pushed at a 5-6-7 flop with two spades, and he called me with 74s and hit an 8 for his straight. And what did the chirper say to that? "Good call. It was suited."