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LeFou
Post Posted: Fri, 07 Jan 2005, 6:07pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I'm bumping this 'cause I thought of one that's getting worse and worse by the day:

People who WAY WAY overuse poker jargon.

Every time they open their mouths it's "Your pocket pair got beat by trips? Whew, that's enough to put you on tilt" or "man, mah cowboys keep gettin' cracked at the river, or I lose to pocket rockets"

Oh, and I want to call attention to this bit:

Les_worm wrote:
...I hate it when people will not let go of their small pocket pair. They will play that 66 all the way to the river with many overs because they 'might' get trips.


The best part is when they talk about it. "Man, I was looking for one more eight..."

LOL! In fact, when I hear this I have actually taken to laughing out loud. Really.

We KNOW you wanted another eight! Your hole cards were BOTH eights! We KNOW that three eights are better than two. The point is that YOU are a @#$%$ IMBECILE.and you are also STUPID and SO ON.
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Post Posted: Fri, 07 Jan 2005, 6:19pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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My biggest pet peeves are:

1) Having to shuffle the deck
2) People not paying attention when it's their turn to act
3) Having to explain the rules/bet/who's in the blind every round
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Post Posted: Fri, 07 Jan 2005, 8:18pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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My biggest pet peeves are:

1) Having to shuffle the deck
2) People not paying attention when it's their turn to act
3) Having to explain the rules/bet/who's in the blind every round


1) Then never play in a home game.
2) Then never play in a home game where there is drinking involved.
3) Then never play in a home game where there is drinking involved and new players.
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Jason
Post Posted: Fri, 07 Jan 2005, 8:23pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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DaNutsInYoEye wrote:

1) Then never play in a home game.
2) Then never play in a home game where there is drinking involved.
3) Then never play in a home game where there is drinking involved and new players.


Ooo, ooo, one more: don't respond to threads to which you have nothing to contribute Wink
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Post Posted: Sat, 08 Jan 2005, 7:27am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Actually i found nuts reply rather funny. I hate people (one person inparticular) who say you have pocket jacks if someone leads out UTG with a strong bet.
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Post Posted: Sat, 08 Jan 2005, 9:30am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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My friend pointed out one of his pet peeves, one that I had never came across until he mentioned it, and has now become one of mine.

In live games, home or tourney (where players themselves deal), dealing out the hole cards and immediatley after, before any betting occurs, burn a card, place the flop face down; burn a second card and place the turn card face down; burn a third card and place the river card face down.

I absolutely cannot stand when someone does this. Mad
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Post Posted: Sat, 08 Jan 2005, 5:08pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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One I forgot: Constant minbetting and minraising.
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LeFou
Post Posted: Sat, 08 Jan 2005, 6:38pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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michael1123 wrote:
One I forgot: Constant minbetting and minraising.


Wonder who that could be referring to...

michael1123 wrote:
Ban Lefou from playing!


oh

Wink
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Post Posted: Sun, 09 Jan 2005, 2:09pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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players who make a sucky play and end up taking u out of the tourney and then theyre all like i pwn you at this game, you totally suck Razz


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Post Posted: Sun, 09 Jan 2005, 5:18pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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People who tap the glass.

I tend to intentionally play a little stupidly and wait until I beat them on a small/medium pot where i am say a 33% underdog, this they consider to be a horrible bad beat.

Sit through their inevitable rave about my bad play, sometimes aggravating them intentionally, then change up a gear. After breaking them i always inquire mildly if that was how they wanted me to play?

Hopefully it teaches them not to be fish scarers.
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Post Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 9:24am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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People who say, "Well, you probably have me beat, but I'll call."

People who say, "I want to go home" and then go all-in.

String bets. Ooooh, how I loathe string bets.

People who bitch when they've made a string bet and you make them pull back the additional chips.

People who dig in the muck pile.

People who deal the flop face down and then flip them all at once, but aren't very good at it.

People who, it seems, simulataneously expect to win whenever they have AA in the hole, feel the need to slowplay AA when they get it because they "always lose", and then whine in genuine bewilderment and frustration about getting outdrawn after they checked the flop and the turn.

Did I mention string bets?


PS: I'm not sure what you mean by 'tapping the glass'. Is that an online poker thing?
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LeFou
Post Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 11:58am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Molinero wrote:
PS: I'm not sure what you mean by 'tapping the glass'. Is that an online poker thing?


Tapping the glass is behaving in such a manner that you scare fish away.
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Post Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 3:00pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Vaun21 wrote:
My friend pointed out one of his pet peeves, one that I had never came across until he mentioned it, and has now become one of mine.

In live games, home or tourney (where players themselves deal), dealing out the hole cards and immediatley after, before any betting occurs, burn a card, place the flop face down; burn a second card and place the turn card face down; burn a third card and place the river card face down.

I absolutely cannot stand when someone does this. Mad


The purpose of burning a card before the flop, turn and river is to prevent anyone from taking advantage of marked cards. Explain this to them ... hopefully they'll stop when they realize what they're doing is stupid.

mj
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Post Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 4:59pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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mjeffr0 wrote:
people that raise $.50 in late position so every one calls and it takes forever!

hypermegachi wrote:
nothing bothers me more than when someone takes 15 seconds every time action gets to him to make a decision

Getting both of these types on one table would get me a little irate. Evil or Very Mad

Personally, I hate players who start arguing over a crap play in the table chat which eventually becomes like some nursery school argument.
- "You pushed me first"
- "Well you stuck your tongue out first"
Shut the fuk up!
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Post Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2005, 5:27pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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There was a guy who acted right after me and would take 30 seconds on every one of my raises. But the two times he decided to call them, his call was nearly instant. OK, Phil Hellmuth. I know you're a rock and waiting punishes yourself as much as it does me.

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Post Posted: Thu, 13 Jan 2005, 3:18am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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LeFou wrote:
michael1123 wrote:
One I forgot: Constant minbetting and minraising.
Wonder who that could be referring to...


Not just you, by any means. There's players that do it in regular games I play in as well, although they're rather rare. Personally, I can't stand it. Its much less profitable than making larger bets (in my opinion), its hard to read (but its not the only way to be hard to read by any means - regularly betting 3xBB does the same thing without inviting too many calls), and I really really hate folding a big pot to a god damn minbet or minraise. Smile
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Post Posted: Thu, 13 Jan 2005, 4:13am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I played in a tourny today with some of my frat brothers, these guys cannot play poker if their life depending on it. Everyone min bet, and i wanted to claw my eyes out watching this because I wasn't getting any cards, and I knew I couldn't bluff them because they were calling stations. There was a 3 way all in with a board of something like K 10 9 5 A with 3 suited cards and KJ took out Q9 and K2 in a 3 way all in on the river!. Anyways I ended up taking second against my roommate (who mind you is a very good player). So ya people who min bet, stick on top pair no matter what the board or what their kicker is (well only because I can't make a play at them, but I love it when I have a monster) get on my nerves.
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Post Posted: Thu, 13 Jan 2005, 3:23pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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TheDoc wrote:
I played in a tourny today with some of my frat brothers, these guys cannot play poker if their life depending on it. Everyone min bet, and i wanted to claw my eyes out watching this because I wasn't getting any cards, and I knew I couldn't bluff them because they were calling stations. There was a 3 way all in with a board of something like K 10 9 5 A with 3 suited cards and KJ took out Q9 and K2 in a 3 way all in on the river!. Anyways I ended up taking second against my roommate (who mind you is a very good player). So ya people who min bet, stick on top pair no matter what the board or what their kicker is (well only because I can't make a play at them, but I love it when I have a monster) get on my nerves.


this is exactly my situation, although some of my friends are really good but most of them keep min betting and min raising, usually when i do bust is b/c they min bet and i come over the top but then they re raise again (min raise), so i know im eat and have to fold. The only time they play hard is when i play hard at them first, it works great when i have monsters but when i dont its always a tough call


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Post Posted: Thu, 13 Jan 2005, 3:30pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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My vote is for slowplay, and not the tactical kind. You know you're in for a long game when it takes forever to deal the first hand of an SNG preflop and nobody even raises.

I don't mind the occasional delay. There are hands that require more than a second to decide upon, but when it's constant, and by several players it can almost put you on tilt.
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The loud guy in my homegame who says "I would have won that hand" EVERY TIME he folds....

I wabbit hunt just for him. Twisted Evil

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Post Posted: Wed, 19 Jan 2005, 1:49pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Getting dealt pocket rockets on the big blind and having the table fold all the way around - picking up a gain of one SB. Especially in last rounds of a SNG.
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Post Posted: Thu, 20 Jan 2005, 10:10am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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rdqlus wrote:
Vaun21 wrote:
My friend pointed out one of his pet peeves, one that I had never came across until he mentioned it, and has now become one of mine.

In live games, home or tourney (where players themselves deal), dealing out the hole cards and immediatley after, before any betting occurs, burn a card, place the flop face down; burn a second card and place the turn card face down; burn a third card and place the river card face down.

I absolutely cannot stand when someone does this. Mad


The purpose of burning a card before the flop, turn and river is to prevent anyone from taking advantage of marked cards. Explain this to them ... hopefully they'll stop when they realize what they're doing is stupid.

mj



Thank You!

I played in my first live tourney(s) this week, and was suprised by some of the things I found. The worst was this pre-dealing the board. I've never seen it before, and at least one player at each table I was on did this. It caused several problems, including people mucking into the face-down board cards, and rampant rabbit hunting, "since they were out there anyway."

We were playing with old cards all-around, too. So now I have a response that I can give politely when someone does this, and maybe get it to stop. Thanks!

The other thing I noticed right away was that 4 or 5 out of 8 would see the flop every deal, despite raises. It wasn't always the same people, and it wasn't always with decent cards. Oh well, it's a "friendly" game, and I'll be playing at least twice a month, though the game is on every Monday night. I'll get 'em figured out soon enough. Wink

Don't get me wrong, I made my share of blunders (I hate when a card flips on the deal.) But I definitely didn't feel too out-classed. A little overwhelmed by everything going on, but not out-classed.
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Post Posted: Tue, 25 Jan 2005, 2:32pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The thing I hate the most is people who insist poker is a game of luck.
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