What gets under your skin when playing a poker game? - Page 4

#31 08-12-2005, 11:29 PM

umm, two words: runner runner.. I don't mind bad beats on the river... because.. you will still lose 10% of the hands you dominate after the turn.. but runner runner just has me puzzled that people would stay in the hand that long

pokerrookie · #32 08-13-2005, 12:42 AM

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No matter how cool one may claim I think we all have a certain thing that really gets to us.

For me its the maniac (with 73s) reraising me just because (with his 3 outer) and then hitting his card on the end. That drives me nuts.

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I raise 5X BB with QQ. Get one caller. Flop comes T63. Caller pushes with 29o, I call. Turn 2, River 2.

flecks · #33 08-13-2005, 01:47 AM

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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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And then they giggle softly as the board unfolds...

SNOWBALL138 · #34 08-13-2005, 01:54 AM

I had to end my session after that incident with the mother.

Do you really believe that bad players would lose the same amount of money to eachother as they would to good players?

Obviously, if I quit poker this moment, that will have ~0 impact on the EV of bad players. However, good players as a whole drastically push the EV of bad players very deeply into the red.

Anyway, I'm not saying that I want to quit poker or that it is immoral. However, it gets under my skin once in a while.

Bartman387 · #35 08-13-2005, 02:26 AM

Also realize that these players probably/most likely have a gambling addiction, which means they have an addictive personality and probably a family history of such behaviors. So in all likelihood if gambling wasn't their addiction, it would be something else, alcohol, drugs, you name it they would just be dropping their money on something else. Them throwing their money away has nothing to do with you, its the rush they get from their chosen addictive behavior.

In their cases its not even whether they are a bad player or not (who knows maybe the mother is a good player), but her highs are too high and her lows are too low, causing her to then drop more money to get that high again. So its not that you are necessarily taking adavantage of a poor player who needs to start visiting 2+2, reading TOP, and looking over some hand histories. These people need help for their addictive behaviors and personality not their play.

One last thing. When you see people begging for money, remember Stu Ungar was a poker player always begging for money. He wasn't begging because he was a bad player, he was begging because he never got help for his problems and losing all the money in the world wouldn't wake him up to this fact, just like the begging mother won't get help because she lost her rent money. She will get help when she look at herself and realizes she needs help. Nothing you can do will change that.

Hope my rambling dissertation made some sense and helped put some perspective on the issue.

maybedinero · #36 08-13-2005, 08:12 AM

SNOWBALL: Try playing on a site which doesn't have avatars - it's clear you let them distract you from playing your A1 game for whatever reasons.

My peeve: (this only seems to happen live) - In an MTT,
being moved tables straight into the big blind, particularly immediately after I've just been through the blinds on my previous table.

Degen · #37 08-13-2005, 08:31 AM

nits calling my blind steals w/ huge pairs

bobbyi · #38 08-13-2005, 01:58 PM

A guy who slows the game down a ton: never knows when it is his turn to act and it takes the dealer a minute to get his attention every time, starts pointless disputes that force us to stop the game and call over the floor, etc. We all came to the casino because we want to play and this guy is ruining the fun for everybody.

RydenStoompala · #39 08-13-2005, 02:33 PM

If any of these things were to happen...

1) Disgrunlted old hag loses her grocery money on the slots, snaps and drives her car through the casnino, wounding my favorite drink girl.
2) Obnoxious table coach goes to the washroom, is followed by two Hells Angels enforcers, is found murdered and a really good game gets shut down while police investigate.
3) A guy dressed as Krusty the Clown runs into the cardroom and shoots me in the foot for no reason.
4) Someone slips acid into my beer and I spend five or six hours watching the dots crawl off my cards while folding big pairs and raising before the hands are dealt.

...I would be upset.

vexvelour · #40 08-13-2005, 02:45 PM

1. When someone is a Mr. Helpful. ("She wouldn't be a in preflop raised hand without something good, call her.")

2. When someone with a totally inferior hand draws out after an all-in and gets four of a kind.

3. When someone picks their nose then throws chips in a pot I know is mine. Ew.