when the fish wins

[koolromeo 0]

when a good player gets sucked out on by that miracle runner runner by the worst palyer at the table, the good player consoles himself by the thought that the fish will lose in the long run. in a live game i dont mind it as much, but online, you can kiss your money goodbye because the fish leave the table with your money. sure they are going to lose it, but not to you. most of my disastrous online sessions, i'll get sucked out on numerous times, only to watch my chips leave the table with the fish that sucked out on me. in a live game or casino, the fish usually stay at the table, so u have a shot at redemtion. i really think that this hit and run is a major cause of dwindling online bankrolls. now im not saying this is the only reason i lose so don't jump down my throat. i just think this is a contributing factor to many players losing online overall. what do u think?

[smurdogg 0]

Are you suggesting that every time a fish leaves your table he cashes out? Your chances of making money against a fish is gonna be the same, just with different fish. I dont see how one fish leaving is relavent.

[koolromeo 0]

no im saying that when u play in person against a really bad player, they are almost forced to stay at the table if the want to continue to play because there are limited options availible to him. online people seem to jump around so much that if you take a few bad beats from a really bad player, they can quit or switch tables in seconds. this isnt an excuse. i'm just saying that i see it happen alot online. in person these idiots usually go broke. online when they lose a little, they often quit or leave. don't get me wrong, i love playing agianst idiots.

[bdluss 0]

Here is a suggestion, buddy list the fish and follow them to the games. I know UB has this feature as does stars.

[Suited_Up 2]

Here is a suggestion, buddy list the fish and follow them to the games. I know UB has this feature as does stars.

Party too, and I have done just that.

[Guest]

Don't think of it in terms of losing money to THAT fish, think of it as losing money to fish in general. If you take the loss personally and try to gun down the player trying to take "your" money back, then you're just going to lose more money. Just shrug and know that you took one for the team, giving fish everywhere a reason to keep playing. Odds are, another fish will take his place at the table and you can get to work making sure that HE doesn't have a profitable session.

[pokerloser 0]

Maybe, Just maybe. "your" the fish.I am always interested in the comments written by people that get beat most of the time by the "fish", yet still think "they" are the best player at the table? I don't win alot, I don't lose alot, but mostly, I don't call "the other guy" the fish, i don't call him great either. I take my wins AND my losses with the same grace, and get my money back from someone else.Stop complaining about suckouts, I am sure you have given as many as you have got.

[koolromeo 0]

Maybe, Just maybe. "your" the fish.I am always interested in the comments written by people that get beat most of the time by the "fish", yet still think "they" are the best player at the table? I don't win alot, I don't lose alot, but mostly, I don't call "the other guy" the fish, i don't call him great either. I take my wins AND my losses with the same grace, and get my money back from someone else.Stop complaining about suckouts, I am sure you have given as many as you have got.

[jayboogie 0]

thats probably one of the things that puts me on tilt a bit is when I play shorthanded or headsup and a fish wins a big pot and just gets up and leaves. Usually it's on 1 of the 2 or 3 outter suckouts on the river and they get up and leave and your just sitting there with no chance to win it back from that person. Like today I had my rockets and kings cracked by 63 offsuit and 94 suited both capped pre-flop, both hands hit 2 pair on the river. Now, I don't mind this happening once in a while, but when it happens a couple times and each time this idiot gets up and leaves with my winnings, that's a piss off. When your running bad, this just frustrates you some more and it's been happening as of late very frequently. Long term, of course you'll make money off them, but in the short run, these hit and runs kill your bankroll especially when your running bad.

[Tr1ps 0]

You play on Doyle's Room Romeo?

[koolromeo 0]

i play on ub and party. i didn't intend this to be a bad beat story, or make it sound like i'm complaining, i'm not. i like people that play something like 10-3 or something. this is just something i see a lot. i realy think that having youre money leave the table contributes to losing sessions online. in person, they usually give it back as quickly as they got it.

[braminc 0]

i think this concept romeos got would hold true if there were LESS fish online. however, simply because there are so many of them, they kinda fit into a collective demographic and to worry about them leaving with "your" money is a waste of time. theres always a table full around the corner. if there were few fish and this happened frequently, then there would be a problem, cause like u said, they can get away very easily online, whereas not so easily in person. but, theres just too many fish for us to be concerned wit this. treat them all as one person, who takes money occassionally and gives moeny often

[MrConceit 0]

If it was a crazy-nice fish, then sure, I'm always sorry to see him go. But in my experience most true fish don't leave the table right after they win. They try to "ride the wave" of their luck some. In my online experience usually fish leave for 2 reasons, 3 if you count table starting to break. The two reasons are 1) they bust out and don't rebuy, a very sad thing; 2) someone yells and whines and tells them how horrible a player they are after they suck out.Most fish I see are happy as hell to keep playing when they get suckouts, they're obviously running HOT!

[dms26 3]

Does it really matter who you win money from? I mean sure, you'd like to get it back from the guy who hit runner runner on you. But if he leaves who cares, you have plenty of other fish to pick apart. Bottom line, if your an overall loser online you have leaks in your game. And if you piss away money after a bad beat that's a leak.

[KramitDaToad 0]

If it was a crazy-nice fish, then sure, I'm always sorry to see him go.  But in my experience most true fish don't leave the table right after they win.  They try to "ride the wave" of their luck some.  In my online experience usually fish leave for 2 reasons, 3 if you count table starting to break.  The two reasons are 1) they bust out and don't rebuy, a very sad thing;  2) someone yells and whines and tells them how horrible a player they are after they suck out.Most fish I see are happy as hell to keep playing when they get suckouts, they're obviously running HOT!

The flip side is that no matter what the reason is that the fish swims away, with sites like Party there's always a queue to take their place...One thing though about having a fish nail you with that 23-1 shot on the river is the danger of targeting them to get 'your' money back. By concentrating on one bad player, who is likely to give the chips back to the table anyway, is the height of stupidity. You're just giving the other eight players less of your concentration and thus giving all of them and egde :shock: