What one thing gets under your skin about poker?

[blueday]

Playing poker is such an exciting game.  You never know what your next hand will be, whether you will play it, win, lose or fold.

What annoys me more than anything about playing poker is when hand after hand after hand is absolute rubbish.  Just sitting there throwing away your blinds, not being able to play just waiting for a decent hand to come before you are "all blinded out" of the game.    Plus the fact that the other players think you are an easy target to steal blinds from, makes it thoroughly aggravating.  In the end, you have to bluff just to keep your blinds.

What gets under your skin about poker.

blue

[Rosebud]

I agree with you blue and another thing that gets to me is the person that goes all-in all the time!!

[dabigdog]

i cant stand the person who catches trips on the river after repeatedly calling with the worse hand and then they think they played the hand well and then talk crap.....stooges is the phrase i use

[blueday]

I agree with you blue and another thing that gets to me is the person that goes all-in all the time!!

Oh yes - they get right up my nose.  I do enjoy a bit of a challenge though.  When I come across players like that I generally tell them "it's just a matter of time" and when they do eventually get knocked out (and they do more often than not), I just say "told ya" and hopefully it was me that did the deed.

i cant stand the person who catches trips on the river after repeatedly calling with the worse hand and then they think they played the hand well and then talk crap.....stooges is the phrase i use

The fish!  Very frustrating that is dabigdog.  How do they manage to do it so many times?  I just don't get it.  I would mention the RNG but I'm not going to.

blue

[medtrans]

all of the above and........... the ones that take the whole time clock to bet or fold.  Makes me crazy!  I'm yelling "Bet or fold" at my computer screen.

I know it is a tactic players use, but it just drives me nuts.  I like a fast game in anything I play.

medtrans

[timwilcob]

i really can't stand all in'ers ... i for one play this way : i bet i call my hand at the level of the play round and expect a good game of chipping in the level each card if you stand behind your hand of course if not fold or bluff with the pot but for goodness sake .. maybe i am just originally weird , but i enjoy a good solid flowing game.

[LhasaLover]

I hate the bullies - the players who overbet every hand to intimidate everyone.  I love nothing more than getting a good hand and sucking them into it, then BAM!, I nail their asses!     

[kattboots]

I have to agree with all of your aggravations with the game! I think you have hit all of the worst... I can add though that the fish that hold crap and win on the river and then get on the chat and call the other player stupid or worse, showing by that they are really the stupid ones.

I had to laugh at one guy though... The hand got down to a head-to-head and they were betting big and when the hand was over they both showed equal hands and split the pot. So, one of them hits chat and tells the other he was an idiot for betting like that with his hand, that he should not have stayed in because it was stupid.... The other guy does not respond for a moment and then simply says, "perhaps you should review that hand." Other guy starts again on him and another player says, "Dude, your hands were equal all the way." I am thinking Mr. Chat Attack was pretty embarrassed. He did make a lopsided apology a little later, so I guess he did review the hand...

katt

[Mission146]

I love the fish, because it's only a matter of time until they sink their jaws straight into my hook.  The River often runs shallow, and when it does, the water will not even be deep enough for their gills to breathe when they called my bet of ten times the blind after the turn to see an inside straight draw that never came to be.

I call it the, "House Advantage," the same way as the casino has the house advantage and will ALWAYS win in the long run with their own slot machines.  I talk those guys all the way up, I congratulate them on the hand, in a genuine sounding way.  I tell them how great of a play they made and how, "Gutsy," I think they are for standing up to me and staying in with that kind of draw.  I tell them all about how I wish my stones were that big, but I'm just too tight of a player to call that kind of money on a draw.

Do everything you can to make those guys feel good, because when you are the one WINNING the hands, you never notice it is that same guy who called your bet after the Turn with absolutely nothing and ened up with absolutely nothing after the River, because he folds before the show-down.

8/10 or 9/10 times that Draw doesn't go his way.  That's what I call my, "House Edge," he's going to continue to make that play forever and ever and ever and will continue to give me money 80-90% of the time.  I only have to pay him out at 10-20%!  If a casino's slots only paid out 10-20% of the time, nobody would play, this guy is eager to play with me for that 10-20% payout!!!

You don't see the hands he folds after the River comes, and he folds a great many.  You only ever see the Hands where the fish sucks out on the River on an abyssmal play and beats you.  He'll give you more money in one session (on average) than you'll give him in five.  Embrace him, encourage him, and always have the patience to understand that he will beat you sometimes, but not nearly as much as you will beat him.

There's no better player to have at the table, and there's no better player to get Heads-Up.

[Mission146]

i really can't stand all in'ers ... i for one play this way : i bet i call my hand at the level of the play round and expect a good game of chipping in the level each card if you stand behind your hand of course if not fold or bluff with the pot but for goodness sake .. maybe i am just originally weird , but i enjoy a good solid flowing game.

I agree with that completely.  I can't stand going all-in pre-flop, but there are some people that absolutely insist on doing that every single hand.  I don't even like going all-in pre-flop with Pocket Rockets, you have to, there's no other play to even possibly make, but I don't like it.

I'm perfectly happy if people want to go all-in before the turn, though.  I believe that, after the flop, I can compute the odds on my made hand v. my best theoretical hand and the best theoretical hand possible well-enough to make an educated guess as to whether or not I should call.

I also like to protect hands like two pair if I flop them by going all-in, especially if I see that there could be a straight or flush possibility out there somewhere.  That's only in No Limit, though, if it was Limit with a likely Flush/Straight Draw out there against my Two Pair, I'd Check-Call post-flop.

[Mission146]

all of the above and........... the ones that take the whole time clock to bet or fold.  Makes me crazy!  I'm yelling "Bet or fold" at my computer screen.

I know it is a tactic players use, but it just drives me nuts.  I like a fast game in anything I play.

medtrans

With all due respect, high mathematics takesa few seconds, particularly when you are doing it mentally.

[lipstick_xoxos]

I don't think there is any other game on earth that can raise your blood pressure like Texas Hold'em. I don't know what is more gratifying to hit a Royal Flush or knock some jerk who has been dominating the table with crap hands and is having tremendous streak of good luck.

I think what gets me the most is when everyone at the table waits for a solid hand to go up against the wanker. Ya hope and pray you get decent hand to stop this poker thief from robbing us blind (literally) and you can't get a decent hand to save your life.

Then someone at the table decides to go up against his all-in with a decent hand and you are thrilled to death thinking this could be the magic moment to knock him out. You hope and pray again with baited breath to the river and the #$%& wins with a hand most of us would fold. He is on a rush and knocks out half the table of good players with his dumb luck.

That's when i ask myself.....how on earth can i enjoy poker so much when i am ready to throw my laptop out the front window!

Lips

[blueday]

Great replies everyone.  Thanks very much.  If I had a box with "all of the above" next to it, I would definitelyl tick it!

blue

[medtrans]

 
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With all due respect, high mathematics takesa few seconds, particularly when you are doing it mentally.
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Hi Mission,

I am talking about folding or calling on the first 2 cards in your hand.  It is pretty easy to tell if you will call or fold.  I know where I am sitting and I know how many players follow me to bet.  After the flop, yes I can see taking time to make a decision.  But on the first 2 cards I know pretty fast if I am going to call or fold.

JMO,

medtrans

[Mission146]

Hi Mission,

I am talking about folding or calling on the first 2 cards in your hand.  It is pretty easy to tell if you will call or fold.  I know where I am sitting and I know how many players follow me to bet.  After the flop, yes I can see taking time to make a decision.  But on the first 2 cards I know pretty fast if I am going to call or fold.

JMO,

medtrans

I would apologize for misunderstanding your statement, I thought you were referring to taking your sweet time throughout the whole course of a hand.

I would say that I agree with you on the pre-flop.  If I know I am folding, I do it immediately, but, if I know I am going to stay in, I always five-count and then act when it comes to me so as not to give anything away by acting faster or more slowly.