What gets under your skin when playing a poker game?

[bodie]

what gets me is making a "correct" decision to fold a hand, and then sitting and watching it turn into the nuts. I don't care how much you tell yourself it was the right thing to do, it hurts. I'm still trying to attain an attitude of "not caring".
Something like folding a J 4 offsuit and watching the board put down two J's on the flop, and another one the turn.
Happens all the time, I know, but that's what gets to me.

[Cyrus]

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They know they are gambling. Thats simple. If they can't play well and always lose then its their fault.

Just like.....

the person that overspends on their credit card.
the person that smokes every day wasting money.
the person who plays the lottery.
the person who does drugs
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Since "if you won't do it, someone else will do it" , would you

- try to sell more things than you know he needs to the person that overspends on his credit card,
- sell cigarettes to the person that smokes every day wasting money,
- sell lottery tickets to the person who plays the lottery,
- sell drugs to the person who does drugs ??

[jskills]

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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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Maniacs who actually make their 2-outers , gutshots, etc. on the river make me want to vomit. I agree it might be one of the most unnerving things at the table.

It's so much more rewarding when you sit to their left and isolate them preflop and mandhandle them post flop. It very often makes them play worse. When they start winning pots, it's pretty difficult to deal with them ...

[mosdef]

don't look at the flops/turns/rivers after you've folded. problem solved.

[jzpiano14]

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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.

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[Jorge10]

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THANK YOU!

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No Problem


Heres another one, I went to vegas for a week and I only played poker once, but I gathered these. I played Omaha High low at the Orleans.


1. When you in a table with a guy who is 103 who apparently hasnt heard they invented the hearing aid. The man could not hear 10-15 minutes per hand I swear.

2. When your getting the worst cards of your life in your first live session in months, argh combine that with the 103 year old and you can imagine the pain.

3. Old ladies who tell you to loosen up and play more hands and that you dont know how to play because you dont play every hand like they do.

4. Old ladies who give you advice and tell you that you dont know how to play when they are down even more than you with their play every hand they are dealt strategy.

[Phogster]

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Old ladies who give you advice and tell you that you dont know how to play when they are down even more than you with their play every hand they are dealt strategy.

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Yeah, I get that in home games a lot (except for the "old ladies" part)

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[mcozzy1]

Multitabling players who are too slow to mulitable.

Getting check-raised on the turn by a guy who's a huge underdog and losing.

Dealers who point out tells on players.

That bitchy waitress who might be spitting in people's food.

[jskills]

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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.

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Which leads to an addage I've come up with recently ...

"Beware the LAG who just check / calls".

This applies to true LAGs who are in many hands playing very aggressively. When you find yourself in a hand with one of these types and they suddenly start playing passively, it's usually time to worry.

Online, Villian notices chatch is seeing every flop (and playing very poorly postlop i might add), regardless of how many bets she has to pay. Villian points it out to chatch. chatch says: "i need 300 raked hands today to get my bonus."

after a few minutes, Villian: "You know you don't need to see the flop to have it count as a raked hand?"