What upset you the most when playing a tournament?

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Which of the followings upset you the most when playing a tournament?:-

a.Getting knocked out first hand AA vs KK.

b.Finished on 9th place instead of the coveted 1st place.

c.Unfortunate enough to become the 'Bubble Boy' after hours of playing.

d.Being dealt crappy hole card until the very last hand ie 27,49,38 etc.


What is your answer?:D
 
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When Poker Room receives dDos attack , and you've been at final table 5 K GTD
5 hours later u get some additional cash for that and some saying sorry letter from poker room , and thats it , rip the dream
 
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its B for me or to end at 10-15 place ,its very disappointing i will add something else that bothers me when you have great game having lots of chips but you have to be off line for any raison
 
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c.Unfortunate enough to become the 'Bubble Boy' after hours of playing.
 
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I hate bubbling especially if i bubble with the most ridiculous loses. Like AT vs TJ and i become the bubble.
 
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C is the worst you don't even get the nod for a min cash after seeing allot of idiots suck out or play garbage and triple up. Getting to the final 9 is a decent accomplishment in itself, you got it in good with aces vs kings, so can't be upset at making the correct play. Crappy cards is annoying but can be dealt with the exercising patience
 
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E. None of the above.

The only that upsets me when playing a tournament is when I don't make a move I should have made. I don't like regretting not making a play.

For example, lets say I'm on the BB with a hand like 710s and I have 10 BBs. There are 6 limpers before me and this is a perfect spot for me to jam it all-in and possibly pick up a nice sized pot, but for some reason, I decide to fold it. Maybe I had auto-fold on or whatever, but it's definitely a spot where I'd like to get my money in. Instead, I fold it and 2-3 orbits later, I'm regretting it as a much shorter stack.

It sounds silly, but I'd rather go out making a play I'm happy with than to not make the play and end up regretting it.
 
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The most depresses me when I have top pair on the flop and I count with a flush draw and flash closes.
 
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When getting bad cards for a long time. I hate this and need to play with trash hands...
 
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Yea def bubbles after hours of good play can be very frustrating. Although all of the above choices suck. Great question though.
 
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Which of the followings upset you the most when playing a tournament?:-

a.Getting knocked out first hand AA vs KK.

b.Finished on 9th place instead of the coveted 1st place.

c.Unfortunate enough to become the 'Bubble Boy' after hours of playing.

d.Being dealt crappy hole card until the very last hand ie 27,49,38 etc.


What is your answer?:D

Absolutely "C"

This happens less than it used to, for me personally, ever since I opened up my aggression in the middle stages of the tournament.
 
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d) Being dealt crappy hole card until the very last hand ie 27,49,38 etc for sure
 
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i vote for
c.Unfortunate enough to become the 'Bubble Boy' after hours of playing
 
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Getting trash cards hour after hour, finally getting a great hand and someone whose been playing loose as hell ends up winning with a k2.
 
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when sombodycalls with garbage and hits a one outter absoloutly kills me
 
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Satelliting for the tournament and then not making the money :(
 
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D (and C) ofcourse, the sadest thing is that I would have won those hands with 2 7 or 5 3 with full houses on the flop. That really is annoying. And when you try to hit those, there is always a flop like A K Q
 
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d.Being dealt crappy hole card until the very last hand ie 27,49,38 etc.

But, it all depends on what happens over the next few hands. I can't count the number of times I've come from absolute last position to win, or at least place in a long tournament. In fact, at one time I considered that to my precursor to success. Not that I'm superstitious or anything.

If you think about it though - taking huge pots (or parts of huge pots) at the end is FAR, FAR more profitable than taking smaller ones early on in a tourney. The only problem is that you HAVE to win those later hands, or you're toast.
 
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C I would despise getting KO-ed on the bubble. It hasn't really happened to me though.

What really upsets me is stupidity getting rewarded.
 
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None of the above. For me is when someone calls and calls and calls just because they have an A (any suit) and hit the A on the river or get for suited cards with the river to match their A crap.
 
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Which of the followings upset you the most when playing a tournament?:-

a.Getting knocked out first hand AA vs KK.

b.Finished on 9th place instead of the coveted 1st place.

c.Unfortunate enough to become the 'Bubble Boy' after hours of playing.

d.Being dealt crappy hole card until the very last hand ie 27,49,38 etc.


What is your answer?:D

Guy at the cut off going all in with AA and I am loosing with A10 with the board coming like 9 K 8 J 8. LOL
 
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Getting bubbled cuz youre so close to ITM and then you get KO!!!!!
 
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Smile:)

None of these upsets me. They are all natural. If you play a lot of games they must happen. Just smile :) you will have better luck next time:)
 
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A, B & D dont even bother me. It's bubbling out of a tournament by a worse hand. I can deal with my AQ vs AK knocking me out because math is doing its job. What really pisses me off is bubbling the FT when (true story) 99 vs 55 sees a 23466 board. I tend to play one tourney at a time so it infuriates me. A, B & D are just variance. So is C but it just irks me to make no mistakes and still lose. But that's poker and sometimes it makes me question karma/my existence.
 
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