Bad Beats in Poker

[DanS]

Basically taking money from beginners?

[KrazyHorse]

I don't consider myself an expert

[KrazyHorse]

And I don't know about you, but for me calling a 2$ raise is a serious financial decision.

[David Floyd]

Basically taking money from beginners?

Hey this isn't about a challenge or sportsmanship, this is about winning

[Ming]

As most poker experts will tell you, one of the secrets of poker is having the most money at the table, and playing at a stakes level that is serious for the other players, but not for you. This allows you to play power poker, which in most cases, will win you money in the long term

While playing at a stakes level that makes things REALLY exciting is fun, it's not the best way to make money...

[KrazyHorse]

My goal is to play poker and ignore the stakes. I try to think about raises in terms of the big blind and pot size, not in absolutes.

[Guynemer]

I'll be available to play sometime next week.

[KrazyHorse]

Holy ****. Played a couple of hours earlier and was up 110

Played for an hour from 2-3 am and lost 140$ (was so ****ing pissed at a lot of the beats; most of them were 4 outers or worse on the river after a raise and a reraise on the turn). Then played from 3-3:20 am and made back 150$

Karma, I suppose.

[KrazyHorse]

I was ****ing pissing my pants though. It seemed like everybody was ****ing rivering me. Mother****ers.

[KrazyHorse]

One of them I had the nut flush and the other dude had 2 ****ing low pair. He raised me at the turn with 3 flush cards showing. I reraised him and then so did the guy sitting between me and him (pretty sure that dude had a lower flush than me). He ****ing calls two reraises with a flush possibility showing while sitting on two pair.

So he was calling 4$ with 20$ in the pot on a 4/46 shot of hitting his ****ing two or five ****ing moron.

[KrazyHorse]

Same thing as I mentioned last time too. People then congratulate him on having played a nice hand.

[David Floyd]

Well, I played a home game tonight, won $152 (walked with $192, but the buy in was $40). That makes me +$835 for the week.

I think I'll play a bit online - we'll see what happens.

[David Floyd]

Damn, I'm on a wild fluctuation. I went down $150, now I'm back up to +$30 ($180 chip count). Weird.

[David Floyd]

I'll be available to play sometime next week.

What should we play for? I suggest $40 buy in, that's my usual for friendly games...

[David Floyd]

****, bad beat story. I had A7, flop came A-A-10. Got raised $10, I of course called. Turn was a 3. Someone went all in for $100, I of course called. He had A3. Oh well, had to pay that one off.