OMG! Was I ever really that bad?

Four Dogs

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I came across a hand this morning while reviewing some scenarios in Poker Tracker and I was shocked at how badly I played the hand. So shocked that I'm convinced it has to be a mistake. It's from 2005, very early on in my poker career, but still, it's hard for me to imagine that I could have ever been this pathetic. Maybe my wife was playing on my account, that happened alot, or maybe I was drunk, but I've never been that drunk. But there's another possibility, maybe the way I played the hand made perfect sense to me based on where I was in terms of skill and experience at that time in my poker career. Scary to think about but that's most likely the case. It's hard for me to imagine that I ever went through the "oh, look at the pretty suited cards" phase but I guess I did. Here's the hand.

Full Tilt - $0.10 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $2.50
Hero (SB): $5.75
BB: $2.40
UTG: $4.00

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10, UTG posts DB $0.10

Pre Flop: ($0.25) Hero has K:club: J:club:

UTG checks, BTN calls $0.10, Hero calls $0.05, BB checks

Flop: ($0.40, 4 players) 4:heart: A:club: 6:spade:
Hero bets $0.10, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.70, Hero calls $0.60

Turn: ($1.80, 2 players) 3:club:
Hero bets $0.10, BTN raises to $0.20, Hero calls $0.10

River: ($2.20, 2 players) T:spade:
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.50 and is all-in, Hero calls $1.50

BTN shows Q:spade: A:spade: (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 61%, Flop 93%, Turn 80%)
Hero mucks K:club: J:club: (High Card, Ace) (Pre 39%, Flop 7%, Turn 20%)
BTN wins $4.95

I come across opponents all the time who do things at the table that I struggle to understand. I'm always polite to them but in my mind I'm calling them Donks, and Fish and Morons. It's easy to forget that I was ever at that level. Beginners are often dismissed as having no talent or aptitude for the game and it's easy for the beginning players themselves to accept this as true, especially when they hear it from someone who seems like they've been around the block.

Advanced poker concepts do not come naturally but rather require a lot of time and effort to master, years in fact. Few of us remember a time when we could not read, but we all understand that there was a time when that was the case. The same level of patience needs to be extended to the beginning player as is given children learning their ABC's. Next time you shake your head in wonder at a player who donks off half his stack chasing a back door flush draw and then calls the river even after he bricks remember, we all have hands in our databases we'd rather forget. Okay, maybe not that bad
 
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lmao I know I was that bad, before I came here I thought nlhe was a drawing game.
I lost alot and got swore at often when I hit, now I know why.
 
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I dont mind the preflop call, dont know what you were thinking after flop the turn did give u some outs but the call on river was redonkulous must of thought he was bluffing.
 
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Nice reading :D. You should add at what level are you playing now. That + this hand could be inspirational
BTW, this is the worst hand history I've ever read. :D
 
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misread maybe? thought one of the spades was a club?
 
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We've all been there...at one point or another. Practice makes perfect ;)
 
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I've seen plays like that. Don't take it too hard on yourself. After all it was 5 years ago :)
 
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You trying to convince us you are any better these days?????:eek:
 
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You trying to convince us you are any better these days?????:eek:
How would you even be able to tell?

I've reviewed the first online tournament I played (a couple times) & was some real funny stuff in there (ie. calling a river shove, final table bubble with pocket 22). When asked by others in chat "wow, how did you make that call"... my response (obv), "I didn't think he had it!" (< had what? ffs I beat nothing, lol). Went on to take 2nd (1,000 player field, $1 donkament). I'll admit.... I too was a 'flush master', lol. "sooooooooted.... I wanna see a flop, I Callzz!!!"
 
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it was the nuts or nothing!
 
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I watched lots of poker videos on youtube and read books before actually playing so I was never this bad lol.
 
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I am shocked at how bad I am every game...but I swear the worse I play the better I do, whats with that????(tournament donk!)
 
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I am shocked at how bad I am every game...but I swear the worse I play the better I do, whats with that????(tournament donk!)
Ya i bet i run into guys like you everyday,seems to be the way onlile tourny play and the worst they are the more they get rewarded.Gotta love it:banghead: :banghead:
 
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I watched lots of poker videos on youtube and read books before actually playing so I was never this bad lol.
That's what I thought too. I still can't figure out wtf I was trying to do here. It seems like a different person.
 
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Should have min bet the river as well
 
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I think most of us were / still are, that bad.

I started playing and seemed I was almost always the first one out in most tournies. Then I got into a game and wasn't able to play in it, sat out the whole game and it was my best finish ever. Think I may have to resort back to that strategy sometimes.
 
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