Bad Players = Hard to Beat????

[ohnonotthat]

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Of course you can win against them. That's why they're called terrible and not good.

However, the subtext might be that your buddy can't play a style of poker that is fun for him to play and still win against these guys. Maybe one of the reason he finds your home SnGs fun is that he can put moves on people and beat players he considers good. If that's the case, you might want to consider not bringing the guy back

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Which guy - the whiner or the guy [the whiner] can't beat ?

[chadplusplus]

I recently encountered the same thing. A loose passive friend won a local charity tournament, so wanting to cash in on his new found poker confidence, we invited him to our regular cash game. Well...

The guy took 2 of my buy ins. Why? Because I was retarded... no, not retarded, more like hard headed. I knew I needed to tighten up, isolate the guy, and only value bet, but I was too hard headed.

In my own defense, the situation was a little more complex as the other players to my left were loose preflop and very weak thereafter, so I wanted to see a lot of flops and then push the others off if I smelled any weakness. It worked for the most part and I was picking up small pots left and right. The problem arose when the calling station guy refused to fold with J high or bottom pair, etc... so it usually ended up being 5 to the flop and 2 to the turn. But then, once I got it heads up, I was too hard headed to drop the chirade and kept betting into the guy ("God! Just freaking fold already!") and he kept calling and I kept losing my money.

The point is, most of us know how to beat a lot of different types of players. But it is having the discipline to do it that is key.