The Thing that drive you most insane about playing poker

[rduckham]

The thing that dves me the most insane is when you have donks luck into a good handm without any skill.

Example AA in thge hole the donk, raises perflop, I call. 4 9 K on the flop a check, min bet from me, a donk call, 4 on the turn donk raise on the turn , I call, 9 on the river he calls I call. DONK WINS WITH 2 pair! YUCK!~

[CaliNaughti]

I have to agree with you...lets see though..what drives me insane the most? Getting distracted and missing good hands like AA or KK when I time out. LOL

[skippy76]

The thing that dves me the most insane is when you have donks luck into a good handm without any skill.

Example AA in thge hole the donk, raises perflop, I call. 4 9 K on the flop a check, min bet from me, a donk call, 4 on the turn donk raise on the turn , I call, 9 on the river he calls I call. DONK WINS WITH 2 pair! YUCK!~

your example here makesw no sense...there are no 2 cards he could hold that would allow him to beat AA with just having 2 pair.


back to the point of the post....what really annoys me is people who play AA poorly then refer the others as donkies when it was your own fault you didnt win with them

[Kat]

The only thing that really gets me steamed is when I'm playing cash games and some self-proclaimed expert starts berating a weak player who then leaves. I have to take an hour off after that.

Added in edit: This sort of goes without saying I guess, but when I make a dumb play I am furious with myself.

[PoorScouser]

Agree totally with you Kat, people can play as bad as they want around me, esp at cash. The number of times somebody who has proceeded to call every bet to the river 10 hands running, and one person gets drawn out on by them, berates them, and suddenly their no longer calling every bet. Sometimes I think these people don't like money and don't want to win it back.

I also tend to tilt when I make a bad play, and only then really. It takes me a good few hands to bounce back and I really need to work on that side of my game, among other areas. No-one plays perfectly but there in no sense in prolonging the agony by punishing yourself for making a bad play, as I seem to do on a regular basis.

Opponents drawing out, or more specifically playing badly just forces me to be nice to the person so they hang around long enough for me to win my cash back/their cash. If you see your opponents butchering a hand then drawing out it should convince you that it's a good game to be in, not deter you from playing it. It sounds ruthless I know but you need to have the killer instinct about these things to be a long term winner. If you make money at poker it is because of others playing badly, not in spite of them. With this in mind pleeeease, if you want to make money be nice to people who play bad, don't berate them.