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Tell us about any kindness
Please tell us about any kindness you've witnessed, received or given on the poker tables.
A beautiful thing happened to me while playing an SnG online today. One of the other opponents took out another player and took down one player to 600 chips. The one with only 600 chips instantly left the game and became a ghost. I had 1200 chips and the others had well over 3,000 each and we were on the bubble. I thought, cool. That player just gave up. Didn't even want to try. But as often happens, at least I see it a lot, when the blinds ate him up the ghost kept winning until I was in danger of blinding out. With all my chips except for 35 in the 300 big blind, the player on the button called, the small blind folded, and me with my Q6s, actually the best hand I'd seen in awhile, went all in for another 35 chips. To my surprise the player on the button folded. I was shocked, knowing I had no fold equity in my raise. Then it dawned on me, he was doing me a kindness. He would rather someone who fights to the bitter end succeed, than let someone who gives up prevail. That's something I'd never seen before, and I pledged to do the same for others who I find in the same predicament that I was in because I respect those who never give up much more than those who quit.
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Don't always interpret this as kindness. It's often in the interest of a big stack to prolong bubble play because they can keep pushing the shorter stacks around and continue stealing the blinds from players who are trying to fold their way into the money.
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In aEvent #37 $800 NLHE Deepstack after about 6 hours of playing I was all-in. The dealer did not put my chips in a good stack when she counted them, they were really messy in the middle. I was struggling to count the stacks when a pro I have seen on TV with WPT events asked the dealer to stack up the chips so that I would be able to count them easily. Really nice of the pro to see the struggle and to step in at the right time on the table to make sure the game was managed well.
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Hi Propane Goat, I thought of that, but it makes no sense. We were on the bubble. Next one out would be the bubble boy. There were no short stacks to push around, just another player with the same size stack as him and two critical stacks. He saved my critical stack when for another 35 chips he could have tried to take me out. I've been playing for almost 40 years, and never saw anything like it.
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re: Poker & Tell us about any kindness
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I thought I had the coin when to my surprise the player who quit won two rounds of blinds while a ghost. We were both down to one blind bet each and my turn was coming up first. That player really threw me a lifeline. Then that player finally took the other player out on his blind. I disengage the chat while I play so I don't know if there could be ulterior motives for the player to do that. Regardless, I still perceive it as an act of kindness and have vowed to repeat the act whenever I can for others during play. May the poker gods favor your journey
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back when i was 19 years old, i was playing a $10 rebuy tournament at a live event at my local casino and i busted against a higher straight and one of the regulars gave me a rebuy so i could keep playing.
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nice to meet at the table geltelmen-they die out as a species!Nowadays, people who live not by money look like idiots, I want to believe that people will still change, although this is utopia
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Once i got repaid by a kind man gambling last money. Last time i played poker with intention to win money
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re: Poker & Tell us about any kindness
No collusion. Just a hand you played bad and let 2 players try to outdraw you.
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I don't remember the particulars, but in live poker at a casino, I have seen a player mistakenly muck the best hand, where they had lost their whole stack for like $200, and the winning player gave them back like a $100. They weren't friends, and it wasn't made known if the losing player was going to be able to rebuy or anything, it was just the winning player knowing he wouldn't have won that money otherwise, and handled it like a gentleman.
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Not sure if collusion or not, but I had a MTT online where I just wasn't getting much luck and was barely scraping by to the bubble. I was playing well and the table recognized it, so when I was in danger of being the bubble guy, the entire table used their time banks to let me get in the money. I appreciated the gesture.
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I had similar situations. I have to disappoint you, but this is not kindness, but an attempt to leave those players in the game against whom it is clear what actions to take. In other words, I myself allow, depending on the situation, to feed the tight players with small stack a bit or to provoke someone with an all-in to the dough raise, so that the other player calls. Thus, the prize zone comes faster and people left tournaments. Sometimes it’s more convenient to leave not tight players, but aggressive ones, because they play so badly that almost any pair hits them.
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I think that such kind actions are reasonable on the final table or after the final table. Dividing the bank at the final table also applies to these
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re: Poker & Tell us about any kindness
Today on table a girl just keep called someone, so I say to him to answer her, he just say "thankyou" I guess he didnt see her talking because she was not in the table.
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players constantly donate their stacks to me, they are far too kind
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