Tilting

This is what you have to guard against when you take a few bad beats. You start just not wanting to be beat.


PokerStars Game #18730142035: Tournament #95246525, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/07/10 - 21:42:26 (ET)
Table '95246525 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: mrdrew34 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: Theire (1500 in chips)
Seat 3: goalbyrick (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: Tiagostuve (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Reb3186 (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: fgrthodds (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: garsand (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: alain97228 (1500 in chips)
Theire: posts small blind 10
goalbyrick: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Jd Js]
Tiagostuve: folds
Reb3186: folds
fgrthodds: folds
FR Vessant: raises 60 to 80

Standard raise with JJ early.

garsand: folds
alain97228: folds
mrdrew34: folds
Theire: calls 70
goalbyrick: folds
*** FLOP *** [6d 2h 4h]
Theire: checks
FR Vessant: bets 120
Theire: calls 120

I don't mind being called because he's pretty unlikely to have me beat here, and quite likely to have hit the flop in some way.

*** TURN *** [6d 2h 4h] [7h]

Not a good card for me obviously.

Theire: checks
FR Vessant: checks

I check behind for pot control.

*** RIVER *** [6d 2h 4h 7h] [3s]
Theire: bets 380
FR Vessant: calls 380

And should fold here. I'm obviously beaten. But I don't want to be.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Theire: shows [5h Ah] (a flush, Ace high)

Awful call preflop. Not so bad on the flop but he should raise mostly.

FR Vessant: mucks hand
Theire collected 1180 from pot

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Same player.

PokerStars Game #18730251657: Tournament #95246525, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/07/10 - 21:47:51 (ET)
Table '95246525 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: mrdrew34 (1810 in chips)
Seat 2: Theire (1930 in chips)
Seat 3: goalbyrick (1450 in chips)
Seat 4: Tiagostuve (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: Reb3186 (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: fgrthodds (1540 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (890 in chips)
Seat 8: garsand (1480 in chips)
Seat 9: alain97228 (1460 in chips)
garsand: posts small blind 10
alain97228: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As 3s]
mrdrew34: folds
Theire: calls 20
goalbyrick: folds
Tiagostuve: calls 20
Reb3186: folds
fgrthodds: folds
FR Vessant: calls 20
garsand: calls 10
alain97228: checks
*** FLOP *** [8c Ad Tc]
garsand: checks
alain97228: checks
Theire: checks
Tiagostuve: checks
FR Vessant: bets 80

Hope to take it down, but basically betting to protect my hand against the draws that are out there.

garsand: folds
alain97228: folds
Theire: calls 80

Fish can have anything though. His range includes tons of draws, so we'll see what turn brings.

Tiagostuve: folds
*** TURN *** [8c Ad Tc] [2d]

That's a pretty safe card.

Theire: bets 40

Oh dear. I'm probably behind whatever the fish is betting here. Maybe Ax?


FR Vessant: calls 40

But the odds are so good I have to call.

*** RIVER *** [8c Ad Tc 2d] [Qc]
Theire: checks
FR Vessant: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Theire: shows [Ac Ah] (three of a kind, Aces)

wat

Absolutely speechless.

***

PokerStars Game #18730206844: Tournament #95245976, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/07/10 - 21:45:38 (ET)
Table '95245976 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Yatimoviaz (2890 in chips)
Seat 2: PianoPro (1370 in chips)
Seat 3: duval76 (1450 in chips)
Seat 4: Purjus (1330 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (1450 in chips)
Seat 6: spideylives2 (1440 in chips)
Seat 8: gary319 (2110 in chips)
Seat 9: MagyarSHU (1460 in chips)
PianoPro: posts small blind 10
duval76: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qh Ac]
Purjus: calls 20
FR Vessant: calls 20

Purjus is reasonably tight, so I limp behind.

gary319 said, "figured"
spideylives2: raises 20 to 40

Retarded minraise. This guy sucks. I've played him before.

gary319: folds
MagyarSHU: folds
Yatimoviaz: calls 40
PianoPro: folds
duval76: folds
Purjus: calls 20
FR Vessant: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [Tc 2d 6h]

Not a great flop but unlikely to have hit retard.

Purjus: checks
FR Vessant: checks
spideylives2: bets 60

Looks like a cbet, so I'll float.

Yatimoviaz: folds
Purjus: folds
FR Vessant: calls 60
*** TURN *** [Tc 2d 6h] [3s]
FR Vessant: checks
spideylives2: bets 100

Still doesn't look like he has anything.

FR Vessant: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [Tc 2d 6h 3s] [2c]
FR Vessant: checks
spideylives2: bets 260

Erm. Maybe he does though?

FR Vessant: calls 260

Naaaaaaah.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
spideylives2: shows [Ah 2h] (three of a kind, Deuces)

I think that if you are going to minraise with that shit, the least the poker gods can do is have a Q come on the flop and let you bust yourself.

***

Luckily, bad players will always do their best to get you back into it:

PokerStars Game #18730380497: Tournament #95245976, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/07/10 - 21:54:11 (ET)
Table '95245976 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Yatimoviaz (2990 in chips)
Seat 2: PianoPro (1300 in chips)
Seat 3: duval76 (1460 in chips)
Seat 4: Purjus (1245 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (930 in chips)
Seat 6: spideylives2 (2355 in chips)
Seat 8: gary319 (2230 in chips)
Seat 9: MagyarSHU (990 in chips)
PianoPro: posts small blind 15
duval76: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ac Ad]
Purjus: calls 30
FR Vessant: raises 120 to 150

Not my standard raise but I want to deny Purjus setmining odds. I think it's okay anyway, because if they call 120, they won't fold for the other 30.

spideylives2: folds
gary319: folds
MagyarSHU: folds
Yatimoviaz: folds
PianoPro: folds
duval76: folds
Purjus: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [9s Kd 4d]
Purjus: bets 1095 and is all-in

Well, you can do one of two things here. He's a semitight, winning player (although marginally so), so he should have KK/99/44 here, and you could make a hero fold.

Or you can assume that the reason he's not winning all that much is that he makes completely retarded plays (like our friend duval), and snap it off.

Who am I kidding? I am never folding AA when it's an overpair, particularly not on a K high board (which he can have hit) and doubly not when there's a flush draw there. I snapcalled.

He shows 22.

Nice bluff, dude.

FR Vessant: calls 780 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (315) returned to Purjus
*** TURN *** [9s Kd 4d] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [9s Kd 4d Qd] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Purjus: shows [2s 2c] (a pair of Deuces)
FR Vessant: shows [Ac Ad] (a pair of Aces)
FR Vessant collected 1905 from pot