Maniacs/Dumb players getting rewarded online?

[mdeck]

I wonder why people think other players want to hear them whine about beats...

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So, you hate money and you're also awful at poker? Good combination there.

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[lehighguy]

You just have to learn to play better. Learning how to deal with maniacs is part of being a good poker player. They can be your best source of funds.

My guess is your a weak-tight ABC poker player and you haven't learned to adapt.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

I've read two of your threads, and both are the kind seen from new players and bad players alike.

If you want to win at poker, start reading here. Read a lot. Search the archives for silliness like this before starting such a thread. Post a few hands for discussion in the Micro forum, but NO BAD BEAT STORIES.

[bpb]

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I personally avoid tables where players often go All-In with a massive stack on just top pair, Ace-high preflop, any PP preflop, flush/straight draws on flop of even rags.


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As long as making money isn't one of your prime motivations for playing poker, this is perfectly reasonable.

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It does in fact take the Nuts to take down such player.

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This is really one of the silliest statements of "fact" I have ever read on this site. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[tdarko]

now i really hate the canucks.

you play on UB dont you?

[Dov]

I can't believe I'm actually responding to this, but I'm a little bored so here goes:

First of all, we really don't care about bad beat stories as has been mentioned already by others in this thread.

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It is said that a hyper-aggressive maniac will eventually go down but he will take down a lot of people with him. Like when you raise preflop with your Aces and get re-raised by the maniac, you reraise him and he calls.

Flop is A93. You make a tiny bet, and as you wished, he comes out swinging, you reraise him all in and he calls with his Q2 and wins.

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Why are you making a tiny bet on the flop? For that matter, why weren't you all in preflop?

:shakes head: [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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And just as you think you caught the maniac with a bad bet, in a similar hand, he would catch his K/Q on the river and call you an idiot for calling.

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Why do you care what a maniac thinks of your play other than to take more money off of him?

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It does in fact take the Nuts to take down such player.

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Like A6o as demonstrated later in this post.

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But by the time this is done, his stack is so big that he only loses a fraction of his stack and repeats his process.

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What do you care? Even if this were true, and it's not, let the maniac get everyone else's chips, then you take them from him. Where's the problem?

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I get laughed at for going all in with A6o but what about him??? 47s?

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He's not the one claiming to be the poker expert now is he? Why compare your lousy play with his? They both suck.

BTW, this isn't even a bad beat, really:

pokenum -h 7h 4h - as 6c
Holdem Hi: 1712304 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
7h 4h 719029 41.99 985831 57.57 7444 0.43 0.422
As 6c 985831 57.57 719029 41.99 7444 0.43 0.578

I think I'm done with this for the moment.