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| Do you go on tilt on the hands you COULD have won Maybe this is a stupid question, but it is a such an issue for me. Her I mean I have 10-9 off on the button, early in a freeroll. I have 2800 chips Flop comes J 9 10. I'm cautiously optimistic b/c of the obv. straight possibilities. I guy with 800 goes allin. I was prepared to call, because I could afford the gamble. A second guy calls, so I decide to let the two of them fight it out. First guy has the nuts with q 8 the other guys on a draw with k10 The turn come k, the river a 9 I would have had a full house! That stuff gets to me. I know it sounds silly, but it does. On really bad hands, it can even put me on tilt a little. Am I alone in my obseesion? Does it get to anybody else? |
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Bodog: constant shuffle, so it's ever changing Stars: Set deck, once it's decided it's decided no matter what you do Not sure about others and someone please correct me if I'm wrong. As for the OP, probably depends on other instances. If I keep calling with strong hands, but flopping junk; then fold junk and flop the nuts... it can get old after a while. If I'm having a good session then it usually doesn't effect me much. With that said, "you should never look at what could've been"... blah blah blah and all that stuff everyone will probably say |
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| Ok... Have to comment again. Hindsight is USELESS in poker unless you are reexamining the way you made a decision at a certain POINT in a hand. To frequently fixate on "If i had KNOWN the river and turn would both be ACES I would have played this one differently" is not only meaningless, but it is a symptom of a deeper thought process problem that we must conquer. The seeds of tilt are watered by the imagination of "what could have been". We all deal with that. Those who deal with it more quickly, will lose less. I don't begrudge someone their choice of favored RNG system... but what really are we taking comfort in? You are gonna take the same bad beats either way. ANY time you spend mourning a proper decision AFTER you have more information is time spent skipping down the path to "ONLINE POKER IS RIGGED" land. Don't go there. JMHO. cAPS |
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| i call this kind of tilt the scott lazar effect. if you remember, scott lazar final tabled the 2005 WSOP main event. there was a hand where he folded some A-rag shorthanded in a sort of marginal spot where he could have possibly chosen to play it but made an entirely reasonable decision to let it go preflop. the board came out and it turns out he would have made quad aces. not only that, but it appeared he would've gotten some action. this simple could-have-been snapped something in scott lazar's brain and he went on a complete meltdown, spewing chips with terribly gambly calls and probably costing himself hundreds of thousands (millions?) in equity don't be a scott lazar |
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| re: Do you go on tilt on the hands you COULD have won poker As others have said, forget hindsight. If you made the correct decision at the time, based on the information you had at the time, you made the correct play. Poker is about making correct decisions, even if, due to luck, they turn out to be incorrect in their result. |
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| I don't really tilt from it. It makes me laugh or smile. But you can't play the what if game. I folded a hand the other day that would have made the bad beat. Straight flush to quads. Nothing you can do, no reason to break over it. |
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| re: Do you go on tilt on the hands you COULD have won poker The only time it bothers me is if I was fighting about whether to call ornot. Sitting with a pair of sevens and deciding to fold and a seven comes out it usually puts me on tilt. By this I mean I use my ability to lay down hands I know I should. I've said this many times but it is oh so true: "The flop is always better when you fold." |
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