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SawViper
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I get more angrier with getting sucked out as I take those chances where I make mistakes and try to learn from them. Let's see I was overplaying with AK when I didn't hit a good flop and I get destroyed. I then look back to see how well the flop turn and river cards hit their range to see if I should have been trying to bluff them off certain hands. Also if i'm getting called I can see why they called and design better bluffs to get them to fold. Ex: 56S vs 98S Flop goes 5 2 9 giving me mid pair and them top pair. If I think they might have top pair I would make a bigger bet to try to blow them off the winning hand however if I think they have mid pair with higher kicker i can do a smaller bet.
skalibur
Rock Star
Silver Level
irritated
what makes me the most angry is when I have good cards and the guy next to the allin preflop and my cards come on the table and the guy had nothing there but I get angry.
IntenseHeat
Legend
Bronze Level
Between playing good and catching a bad beat and playing bad and making bad decisions, I think in the past I would have consistently said playing bad bothers me more. But the truth is that I may just be kidding myself about that. In the moment they both suck pretty equally. For most players, the prevalent logic goes that you can't do anything about luck, but how you play is within your own control. So most players would probably say they hate it more when they play bad.
But the truth is I don't think that I play bad all that often. I'm not saying that I play perfect and never make mistakes. But I'm not the type of player that jams my entire stack in or calls it off on a draw. I'm not going to bluff off 70x to try to win a pot with 18x in it. So if I put someone on a bluff, but turn out to be wrong, I can live with it. I don't really have to hard of a time shaking it off and moving on.
On the other hand, when I take a bad beat after getting sucked out on, I can often recall exactly how the hand played out for days afterwards. And I know I harp on this a lot, but with long late entry periods and unlimited re-entries, players tend to play differently. They are willing to take more chances knowing that they can re-enter a tourney. So those bad beats and suck outs seem to happen with greater frequency. In fact what might bother me as much as being sucked out on, or even more, is to get sucked out on by some with a high variance style of play and see them catapulted way up the leaderboard. And then, twenty minutes later, they've already blown off all of their chips and bought back in two more times.
But the truth is I don't think that I play bad all that often. I'm not saying that I play perfect and never make mistakes. But I'm not the type of player that jams my entire stack in or calls it off on a draw. I'm not going to bluff off 70x to try to win a pot with 18x in it. So if I put someone on a bluff, but turn out to be wrong, I can live with it. I don't really have to hard of a time shaking it off and moving on.
On the other hand, when I take a bad beat after getting sucked out on, I can often recall exactly how the hand played out for days afterwards. And I know I harp on this a lot, but with long late entry periods and unlimited re-entries, players tend to play differently. They are willing to take more chances knowing that they can re-enter a tourney. So those bad beats and suck outs seem to happen with greater frequency. In fact what might bother me as much as being sucked out on, or even more, is to get sucked out on by some with a high variance style of play and see them catapulted way up the leaderboard. And then, twenty minutes later, they've already blown off all of their chips and bought back in two more times.
Pokerpoet2
Legend
Loyaler
You cannot play good Poker with an Ego!
Ego's in, Ego's Broke!
A quote from a very good Professional Player, and it is so very true, If I ever get angry playing Poker on-line I would shut it down and play Solitaire for a while, or go do something else like taking a long walk so I could reflect on where I played wrong.
Because if you play with an Ego you will make some really Dumb Mistakes.
When the fun Stops, STOP!
Adi8877
Visionary
Silver Level
I don't bother much, if I play a hand bad, make a mistake, run out from patiance, as everybody do it. I can live with that. Part of the game, and I know, I am profitable on my level, so probably make less mistakes than the majority of the players. (Never would call myself good, as I am not, how most of those are not, who call themselves good. The profitable is enough.)
But I really get mad because of the unbelievable 'bad beats', even I think, they should call it somehow differently in online poker.
Examples are almost countless, like the days long river beats and relegations against 1-3 outs, when the backdoor straight, flush series going on, especially happens both with me deep in tourneys, so most of the times it is pre-flop allin or fold, can't do anything against it, even I choose the right situation, hand, and have 80-90% preflop chance to win the hand. Especially angry, when near to an end of day, session, after 8-10 hours playing, being deep in 3-6 tourneys within 5-10 minutes it happpens on all of the tables...
And it happens more often than the probability it has. Often I make my own mistakes in these times, after 3-4 fast relegation in situation like that, usually I do something stupid on the other tables, too.
The FT 'bad luck', suck with AA, or the heads-up insanities, even when I go in double or 4 times higher stack, and the opponent is in allin/fold, and he beats my nuts, 80-85% preflop win chance hands in a row 5-6 times... It is easy to count how big chance it has, and it still happens again and again...
And I could mention plenty more, days, weeks or sometimes months long crazy runs, makes me really angry, especially when it goes through for days without a bit pause...
But I really get mad because of the unbelievable 'bad beats', even I think, they should call it somehow differently in online poker.
Examples are almost countless, like the days long river beats and relegations against 1-3 outs, when the backdoor straight, flush series going on, especially happens both with me deep in tourneys, so most of the times it is pre-flop allin or fold, can't do anything against it, even I choose the right situation, hand, and have 80-90% preflop chance to win the hand. Especially angry, when near to an end of day, session, after 8-10 hours playing, being deep in 3-6 tourneys within 5-10 minutes it happpens on all of the tables...
And it happens more often than the probability it has. Often I make my own mistakes in these times, after 3-4 fast relegation in situation like that, usually I do something stupid on the other tables, too.
The FT 'bad luck', suck with AA, or the heads-up insanities, even when I go in double or 4 times higher stack, and the opponent is in allin/fold, and he beats my nuts, 80-85% preflop win chance hands in a row 5-6 times... It is easy to count how big chance it has, and it still happens again and again...
And I could mention plenty more, days, weeks or sometimes months long crazy runs, makes me really angry, especially when it goes through for days without a bit pause...
KristaK
Visionary
Silver Level
hi hi baldy!! :ciao:
after about 2 years play poker & get so upset when bad beaters
now no bother me
it all just poker, sometime i hit flush on river, sometime i get bad beating
can't get upset - that poker
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eagleaces
Rock Star
Silver Level
Playing
i hate it when you play bad and know it and still push the damn odds lol. i hate making mistakes on the table and in life. Mistakes that are my fault that are super obvious to avoid. i hate it when i deliberately tilt punt lol. or when you get drunk and blow your roll for now reason or recollection. hahahaha
i hate it when you play bad and know it and still push the damn odds lol. i hate making mistakes on the table and in life. Mistakes that are my fault that are super obvious to avoid. i hate it when i deliberately tilt punt lol. or when you get drunk and blow your roll for now reason or recollection. hahahaha