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haha this thread is hilarious. Great tips OP. I read this right before I was going to post a quick story, so I decided to post it here.
First round of tourney, it's the second hand, here's what happens:
[I couldn't actually post the HH because I put it through the converter but I can't post links because I have less than 10 posts. he basically had nothing, and I had pocket 9s and the only thing he could have logically beat me with was a Jack]
Here's the dialogue, supergreat7 being MP3 (I started to change his name each time but then it got to be too time consuming). He had random rubbish, not even a pair.
MP3 said, "NICE HAND LUCKSTER"
at BK 88 said, "lol?"
at BK 88 said, "you wouldn't have played like that with a J..."
MP3 said, "YOU HAVE ME PUKING"
at BK 88 said, "you had nothing."
supergreat7 said, "WHATEVER"
at BK 88 said, "the probability of you having a pocket pair of TT through AA was minimal"
supergreat7 said, "WE' LL SEE IN THE END"
at BK 88 said, "and the way you played the turn made me think the 3 didn't help you"
at BK 88 said, "I'm just trying to defend myself"
supergreat7 said, "THATS COOL"
at BK 88 said, "okay. GL."
// So I start trying to help him, I begin in a dumb way by criticizing him, but my motives were pure. It ends well, though.
//This next hand he kept calling bets and again, had mid pair, sevens,and got beaten, of course.
supergreat7 said, "GIVE ME A BREAK"
at BK 88 said, "why were you in a hand with 47o?"
supergreat7 said, " DUNNO"
at BK 88 said, "I'll give you that it was a bad beat"
at BK 88 said, "but I wouldn't have been in the hand, personally"
supergreat7 said, "THATS YOU YOU KNOW"
at BK 88 said, "you had no straight or flush draws..."
supergreat7 said, "THIS IS ME"
at BK 88 said, "I'm just trying to help you"
supergreat7 said, "DON;T NEED ANY BUT THANKS"
at BK 88 said, "You've lost a lot of SnGs in a row, I think you do need help"
supergreat7 said, "I BLUFFED YOU YOU MADE A GOOD CALL"
at BK 88 said, "I'm not talking about that hand... I'm talking about your style of play in general, to help you stop losing money"
supergreat7 said, "I AM 253 SOLID MUSCLE I DON'T NEED YOUR FCKNG HELP BRO"
// Now I'm like, oh crap, I'd really like to diffuse this situation, I don't want to be making people mad (not that I couldn't hold my own against a 253 pounder, if that's even what he was saying)
at BK 88 said, "I lift quite a bit myself."
at BK 88 said, "So we have some common interests"
supergreat7 said, "I PLAYED PRO BALL BABY"
at BK 88 said, "that's why you're playing micro stakes poker....?"
supergreat7 said, "NEW TO THIS"
supergreat7 said, "I WILL GET BETTER THOUGH"
at BK 88 said, "check out flopturnriverdotcom if you want to get better"
at BK 88 said, "or _______dotcom"
// so I start critiquing my own play at times and he says "I DONT CARE" and I say "you should." Then this happens
supergreat7 said, "REALLY BRO YOUR GREAT CONGRATS SHT UP"
at BK 88 said, "I'm trying to help you, I don't know what your problem is"
supergreat7 said, "YOU FOREIGNERS ARE SO ANNYING"
at BK 88 said, "foreigners?"
at BK 88 said, "I live in our nations capital, thanks?"
supergreat7 said, "GREAT OBAMA"
supergreat7 said, "CONGRATS"
supergreat7 said, "I AM SURE YOU HAVE SEEN ME ON TV THEN"
//Then I ask him why he doesn't still play baseball, what he does now, etc, which went on for a few minutes.
Next I start talking to him about pot odds
at BK 88 said, "you played the pot odds well"
supergreat7 said, "THAT WAS LUCK AND A HALF"
at BK 88 said, "Well you had a 1 in 3 or so shot"
at BK 88 said, "and you bet a little less than one third of the pot"
at BK 88 said, "so it was a good play"
at BK 88 said, "if you had payed more than one third of the pot, then it wouldn't have been"
at BK 88 said, "so good job"
supergreat7 said, "PRECE"
// then later as he started to warm up to me more I talked about stack value...
at BK 88 said, "I probably shouldn't have been in that hand to begin with"
supergreat7 said, "AH HELL IT WORKED OUT"
at BK 88 said, "Yeah, it did, but I'm not in a great position; I'll have less than 10XBB next round of blinds"
supergreat7 said, "YEHA BUT MAY GET GREAT CARDS"
at BK 88 said, "hopefully"
// anyway, it continued and we chatted about a lot of different things until we happened to go out one hand apart from each other.
At the end I shamelessly promoted FTR again, and he actually said "thank you, really thanks a lot" or something (in all caps, of course).
It was really refreshing to see that I could have some sort of positive impact on someone that was acting like a jerk only a few hands before.
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