oldpinkdog

I sympathize with you Foose, and regardless of the way you played the hand, you got very unlucky. I have been on the losing side of these bad draw outs lately too, only I don't play NL online at those levels because there are too many fish out there. You can get on a bad streak like that and lose your whole bankroll by playing every hand perfectly, just because some players do not know when to fold. It is the same or worse in limit too, but you can limit your losses to these clowns easier. I just keep my NL play live, so I can actually look at the fish in the face, and make my decisions a lit

". . . when you have a Pair of Aces and a single Ace flops (giving you a set of trips) . . . there'll always be the possiblity that the next card off could make someone a Straight"Doyle Brunson, Super SystemI would never slow play a set of aces , even if it looks unlikely he's got a straight draw. He got lucky, you played it right. That's poker, at least he had an open straight draw.However, I would have made a bigger raise pre-flop, for exactly that reason. I'd rather face the raiser calling my big raise with 9,9 than a limper trying to see a cheap flop with suited connectors. I would have b

I'm down $200 in 2 weeks due to a recorded unbelievable string of bad beats, but the purpose of this post is to put up my definition of a bad beat, because alot of what I have read on here are just beats, not bad ones. A bad beat to me is a hand where you lose with a strong hand to a guy who calls with a weak hand with low potential, that is, very few outs in the deck to help him, and he outdraws you on the turn or river for a big pot, usually in a cash game or a crucial point in a tournament for you. I wouldn't consider marginal pre-flop calls catching great flops to neccessarily be bad beats

How about this for a bad beat:Chip leader in local NL tournament is up against a mid-size stack who makes a huge bet on the flop of AA9. Chip leader calls his bet. The turn comes another 9. The bettor looks at the pot, his stack, then goes all in. Aces full of 9s right? You bet, this guy is not a jackal, and everyone left in it, as well as all the onlookers, knew he had it. Even the chip leader knew he had it. He says to him "I know you have the ace." then CALLS him!he turns over the underfull with one out in the deck. 45 to 1 against, and the loss would probably cripple him. When the bettor

I suggest playing a cash game, not a tournament, most of the time, and playing Pot limit, increasing the blinds at a regular interval, but only 3 or 4 times a night, so players playing light, don't feel picked on.

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I find that most players you play against don't notice very often that you are reading them, or even looking at them. They are too caught up in looking at the cards, and thinking about what to do with them. ( I try to always be the best player at the table, or one of the best, to maximize my profit. Why play against players who are as good as you and will share the money you will take from the weaker players.) Since the weaker players notice only seldom, and tend to exhibit more "acting" tells when they do notice, I don't wear sunglasses to hide the fact that I'm looking at them. It often is b