What gets under your skin when playing a poker game?

[rgschackelford]

You hit the nail on the head. The suckout is exactly that, IT SUCKS! But it's even worse when someone hits their crazy three-outer with crap cards to begin with (maybe they were suited, and that's the stupid rationalization). That is pretty bad. But it's even worse, when they make it look like it was their "awesome skill", and brag about it, while having that damned smug look on thier face, thinking that they're the [censored] and brr be brr. Oh, now that's the worst.

Furthermore, it's awful when an LAG plays AK passively. This one time I had AQo, and I flopped an ace. I was the only one showing strength preflop. I bet out, and am called. Turn, I bet and am called. River, I bet and am raised. I call, and the guy shows down AK. It's a sick and twisted way of being "outplayed" by someone who really isn't technically "outplaying" people. Oh well. Stand up, take a breath, get a drink of water, and chill.

Rusty G.

[Guernica4000]

In home games:

1) When players insist on betting their smallest chips... "I'll raise 3,000...10,20,30,40..."

2) A dealer that flips the turn or river card in slow motion taken a peak at it and making some stupid comment before the rest of the table see it.


In a B&M:

1) The player that thinks he knows it all and can't wait to tell the table what move he just did and where he learned it.

2) The player that has seen to many WPT or WSOP tourneys on TV and will stare at you for 5 minutes during the second hand of a $40 buy in tournament.

3) Players with headphones that can’t hear if the pot is been raised, called, checked or if it is their turn to act.

Online:

1) The idiot that uses the chat box to insults or teaches bad players how to play. "You called a raise with J2 you moron, blah blah" usually resulting in the donk playing tighter or leaving the table.


Aside from the above I love poker :-)

[Jorge10]

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1) The idiot that uses the chat box to insults or teaches bad players how to play. "You called a raise with J2 you moron, blah blah" usually resulting in the donk playing tighter or leaving the table.


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Agreed, table coaches ruin online poker, damn them!

Heres a weird one, old people who bash young people and tell them they dont know nothing. I played omaha high low at my local casino and only old people played, I was bashed 24/7.

People with sunglasses at the casino, that has got the be the ultimate pet peeve, I could understand if it was for an important part of a tourney like say final table or a big cash game, but when its the start of a 30 dollar NL tourney, just do the world a favor and go put a bullet in your head.

[mike4bmp]

1. The inconsiderate smoker who can't blow his/her smoke in a direction other than the table.
2.The bad tempered guy who berates other players...I mean I hate a suck out myself but it is inappropriate to belittle someone in public.
3.(I think everyone's said this one....)The perpetual poker commentor/announcer/Pro-hand reader/Knows everything about everything.
4.Impolite dealers...they make the fish go away sometimes.
5.Braggers and story tellers....you know the guy who is telling you stories about playing in the WSOP....If you played in the WSOP and you're sooo good then why the HELL are sitting in a 3/6 hold em game nest to me at the Crazy Moose card room...

Mike...out

[SNOWBALL138]

Once in a while, a player who loses will ask me or the table for some of his money back. This bothers me so much it makes me want to leave the table. Actually, thinking about it makes me want to not play poker.

1. To be very very close to win big. Just close enough to know your chances are huge, to almost start celebrating inside and then have it all teared down.

Like yesterday, 3 ppl all in (150$ on 50$NL) before the flopp. Me with AA, them with lower pp's. If they hit the flop, then I tell me that happens. If they hit the turn, then I get upset. If they hit the river, I just stare straight ahead and dont move for the next 30 minutes.

[imported_anacardo]

Just tell him to forget it. Why do you find this so affecting?

[winky51]

Some of these cracked me up.

Well now I know how to get under the skin of TAGs.

Didnt expect this post to get so many replies.

[Mikey]

the thing that gets under my skin more than anything is when I'm playing a game and I feel that I'm not the best in the game because there is another tight agressive, level-headed soft-spoken player in the game.

i welcome all that other crap you guys are talking about.

[SNOWBALL138]

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.