Ever Feel Like Punching A Guy At The Poker Table?

[Dratj 0]

Yesterday's home game. 1 2 nl. I have about $700. Villian $600. five handed table. I'm in the SB. Villian's on the button.I have JJ.utg raises to 12. He's LAG, open raises almost every hand to this amount. button calls, I repop to $40 total. Everyone folds to button who calls the raise. Flop comes down 9 5 2 rainbow. I bet $75, villian pops to $150. Now I'm worried he might have a set or less likely 2 pair. However, he tends to slowplay big hands so I'm guessing he has Ace 9 or something like that. I shove. He thinks and thinks for about five minutes and decides to call with J 9 off. Turn 9, River 9. Yes, BBFIDTS I know. But this is not about that.He jumps up and down celebrating and clapping his hands, jumps over to his wife showing off how he won the hand. I normally take beats like this pretty calmly as I know this kind of thing happens but the fact that he had to do a victory dance really pissed me off (He wasn't doing it as a joke either). This is also not the first time that he's done this and the other guys were in agreeance that he acted like a jack as s. I rarely give bad beats like that but when I do, I keep my mouth shut and sheepishly rake in the pot. This guy is just frigging annoying in general, if you knew him, you'd understand why I really wanted to punch him right there and then. I didn't but I was steaming.The hard part was playing my A game after that. I still ended up winning $325 but it would have been so much more satisfying to felt that jack as s. I'm proud that I didn't tilt after that hand. Anyways, end rant.

[ukwildcat09 0]

Would you rather have him fold that hand? No, you want him to call. 8% of the time he will win in that situation. 92% of the time you will win in that situation. You want your opponent to to put in money with the worst hand without sufficient pot odds. Suckouts are inevitable, just learn to manage them.

[MikeJohnson724 0]

Would you rather have him fold that hand? No, you want him to call. 8% of the time he will win in that situation. 92% of the time you will win in that situation. You want your opponent to to put in money with the worst hand without sufficient pot odds. Suckouts are inevitable, just learn to manage them.

LOL @ ^^. Drat you moron, you want to get your money in with the best hand, I agree with uk. SW obv. I hate when people act like that, good job not tilting, I don't know if I could have done that. Glad to hear you had a winning session after this ****** acted like that.

[LongLiveYorke 38]

Next time run it twice.

[Dratj 0]

Would you rather have him fold that hand? No, you want him to call. 8% of the time he will win in that situation. 92% of the time you will win in that situation. You want your opponent to to put in money with the worst hand without sufficient pot odds. Suckouts are inevitable, just learn to manage them.

You've missed my point entirely. it's not about the bad beat.

[DmsTips 0]

Would you rather have him fold that hand? No, you want him to call. 8% of the time he will win in that situation. 92% of the time you will win in that situation. You want your opponent to to put in money with the worst hand without sufficient pot odds. Suckouts are inevitable, just learn to manage them.

I hope you forgot your "SW", otherwise... idiot

[Roo6339 0]

Would you rather have him fold that hand? No, you want him to call. 8% of the time he will win in that situation. 92% of the time you will win in that situation. You want your opponent to to put in money with the worst hand without sufficient pot odds. Suckouts are inevitable, just learn to manage them.

I think he managed it quite well.Well done I say. That's a nasty beat, and the guy acted like a complete c**kface, but the fact you didn't react is great. As you said, these things happen. Majority of the time you'll come out on top, but when this happens it hurts. I woulda felt the need to at least say something, but it wouldn't be worth it, so well done. I'm impressed you came out winning in the end.

[chgocubs99 0]

Again, my normal procedure is to say nothing at the table under any circumstances.but I would have said something to this guy.

[grocery_mony 8]

maybe it was his first time with quads.

[Dratj 0]

maybe it was his first time with quads.

he started jumping when the first 9 hit.

[kidpkrJR 0]

you shoulda crane kicked him in the face

[finztotheleft 0]

What a schmuck.I'm glad you were able to restrain yourself

[Kuge 0]

Yeah, that crap annoys the heck out of me. I especially hate it when someone at the table says "I know I'm behind, I call" on someones all-in and they are dominated. They then suckout and celebrate like they deserve to win, it sickens me and punching always seems to be the most optimal play after ther river.So to answer your question, yes...sometimes.That sucks though, at least you still had a winning session, GJ.

[Hotel_Detect 0]

9/10 in this situation I punch the wife in the face

[silkyjonson 1]

9/10 in this situation I punch the wife in the face

hahahhha

[iloveplaypokr 0]

Well done for not saying or doing anything, Dratj. Yeah, man. I would have wanted to punch him in the face and then pee on him. That's how I roll.

[Mkind0516 0]

This reminds me of a hand I played in a $500 tourney at Turning Stone last month in which I wanted to turn the table over on the guy, but instead decided to mentally out fox him:Blinds 100/200, I have 4500 in BB. 3 MP limpers + sb come in. I have A8o in the BB. I have just been moved to this table but have seen frequent limps from these players and don't figure any of them for big hands. I pop it up to 1200. The 1st limper folds; the 2nd once looks at me weird and raises to 2700. In the midst of an argument. I started staring at the guy to see if I could get anything off of him. After about 20 seconds he says to me "You know I'm not much into the staring game....call the clock on him." The guy and I start getting into an argument about what a ****** he was. By his body language, I was pretty sure he was very uncomfortable about the situation. I used up the entire "timebank" before moving all-in (despite knowing he was pot committed). Sure, even if I'm right, I'm probably not that far ahead, but I did it b/c I didn't want to let this guy off scott free and I wanted to send him a message who the boss was. Sure enough, he was making a move w/ 79s, an A flopped, and I doubled up.

[sideSHOWbob 0]

This reminds me of a hand I played in a $500 tourney at Turning Stone last month in which I wanted to turn the table over on the guy, but instead decided to mentally out fox him:Blinds 100/200, I have 4500 in BB......

how is your story in any way similar to the OP, besides that you were both playing poker.

[fatman 1]

Yeah, man. I would have wanted to punch him in the face and then pee on him. That's how I roll.

[WowThats 0]

We use to have a player at our home game years ago that did the same jumping up and down and whined when he lost.... we stopped inviting him when he asked why he was being excluded we said... you're a poor looser and poorer winner.

[Pot Odds RAC 23]

You've missed my point entirely. it's not about the bad beat.

Of course it is.You wouldn't have been nearly as annoyed if he'd had the set or even an over pair....but this is all part of the TV Poker boom. People see this crap on TV and think it is "normal" - he thought he was on ESPN. Get used to it.

[thib82 0]

Good job on keeping your cool. I would have had to leave after that beat and dance like that, there was no way I was going to be any good the rest of the night.

[Socrates 0]

You get used to the dances. Low limit poker in casinos is a great promoter of this kind of action. Happens all the time. Anyone who knows anything about the game does two things - laughs at the guy doing it an realizes he a moron and if you don't react, they know you understand the game as well.It used to affect me when I first started playing a long time ago, but now I just move on to the next hand.

[Granite 0]

Sorry for getting off-topic...Socrates, do you play as Socrates7777 on PS? If so, I think we were sitting right beside each other at one point in the 4.40/180 this morning.

[Dratj 0]

Of course it is.You wouldn't have been nearly as annoyed if he'd had the set or even an over pair....but this is all part of the TV Poker boom. People see this crap on TV and think it is "normal" - he thought he was on ESPN. Get used to it.

I repeat, it's not about the bad beat. It's about his jacka ss behaviour. I've played poker long enough to not let the beats bother me that much. I've played in that home game for four years now and that's the first time I got pissed at a bad beat. I've gotten beaten much worse and didn't get mad. e.g. I flop 2 pair, donkey calls all in with one overcard. Hits runner trips. I didn't feel like punching him.