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Ok, so we didn't want a bad beat section, but what about one of those hands where you can't quite believe where that moment of madness came from - that 5 minutes where all those brain cells and books abandoned you for a one way ticket out of that tourney/cash game and you still grind your teeth and whimper as you relive it.

We all do it (some more than others), but let's celebrate our fantastic dearth of logic hands you have played in the last 7 days..

If you do something monumentally stupid outside of the world of poker, then you are welcome in here as well :)

We are all allowed to be a little dense for a little bit of time you know :)

Makes us shine brighter the other 98% of the time :)

Heid
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I was sitting in a cash game at the Gutshot at 4am on Sunday morning....

Robert HM is sitting opposite me


The flop is KK9 or summat and I represent the K twice in position and then RHM checks the river....Green Light...bet again, to face the immortal line from my lawyerly friend

"I bet the pot"

£140 invested, I pass


Owned.  :-[

Well if you had  9d 4d you would of been ok and he would of passed his trip Kings  ;D ;D

Mine isn't a specific, it's just this terrible self-destruct button I have.

Sometimes when on a hand, I just know I am gonna do something stupid, and it's usually a biggie, and I just do it, even though I can pretty much tell that I am on the losing end of it all.

It's part boredom, part "fuck it", and part wishing for a stroke of luck cause it's gonna be a good pot.

I think it's down to discipline, but I usually have that so I don't know how to combat it really :(

Perhaps I am just rubbish :)

Heid
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SPOOKY :o

i have that wee voice at the back of your head that tells you "your beat he has the k, a, flush, quads" and yet your hands and mouth tell you to call.

and they dont listen to the wee voice that tells you..he re raised you its not a bluuuff! >:?

have taken to sitting on my hands and using my nose to press buttons or count to 10 before opening gob...it even works sometimes

of course, on another hand if you had  ac 3s, you would have been....... ;D

Mine is easily beating the low limit tables for a ridiculous ammount then taking a bad beat in a couple of big tourneys and instead of going back to small limits I play the bigger n/l tables and smash my remaining bankroll in (on tilt). Has happened a few times and every time I say its the last time I will do that  ;)

Been there, done that (repeatedly   :() - I call it my 10 second tilt.

Slowly getting away from doing it. Or at least the stupid mistake isn't as bad (ie going from trying to bluff the big chip leader, who is playing like a rock, and going all in after he sees my first big raise  >:? has now turned to represtenting the flush (which I hadn't hit) - then CHECKING on the river - again  >:? but not as bad as the first one... I think).

Try this as a self dicipline method

Imagine that you are a poker guru and you are teaching a keen novice, you really like this novice player and want to teach him/her well

Before you do anything, explain to the imaginary pupil why you think it's the right thing to do

I promise your game will improve

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

I would like to confess to drinking too much at the weekend, Tried to compete with kev O'connell ...gave that up after about 20 minutes .... the cheeseburger and sumo fries at the Gutshot was bloody delicious... I had a fabulous few days at the Vic & the Gutshot, great to see so many Blondeites... Simon "Chubbs" Nowab winning a seat to the Aussie millions on Betfair was brilliant.  Heres to the next trip :)   im on the coffee's next time though ;)

Didn't you sample the Steak Sarnny Kivvy ?

No steak sarnie,  i saw a gorgeous lady eating a cheeseburger and i instantly fell in love ....(with the burger)

Waitresses at the gutshot are very very nice  ;)   

Only 2 negs about the place are The lack of air conditioning, and the state of that fish pond type thing downstairs, that was a bloody disgrace.  but as far as the atmosphere and friendly staff, the place was spot on.

kiv... agree there on all you said ..obviously .. I dont fancy the waitresses..... well....  ... no.. we wont go there ...but them poor fish aye...hope they don't come up for air too often..or they'll be dissapointed ..

But yes ... great place ...

Sorry, part 1

Sorry, part 2

Remember the chap in Seat 1 saying "how could he do that to a friend?!", that made me think a bit but I know you wouldn't have accepted softplay either way.

I wouldn't RHM, And nor would any Blondeite methinks. Well played.

the check raise on the river requires some sophistication and a knowledge that one's opponent is going to bet...serves me right for contributing to strategy posts!!

Thats the spirit guys, well said both

Just go for the throat (or wallet in this case)

fortunately the rest of the game was soft!

(except for M3Boy, who is probably the most aggressive player to hit the £50 game at the Gutshot since it opened...student after student sat down with their £50 and £100...only to disappear muttering within the hour!!)

OK I'll let you into a secret, before that night the biggest cash game I had been involved in was at the same place, the £50 PLHE, the blinds being 25p/50p and a max of £50 being allowed to be brought in. When I came to the £100 pound table the other night I nealry didn't play when I was told that £100 was the MIN. I thought I was going to get away with the £40 worth of chips I had burning a hole in my pocket from an earlier night. I thought I would look a wuss if I legged it so chucked some notes in and got on with it, I watched you and M3Boy play and got a grip of what was happening and just rocked up and walloped in if I hit. You were both aggressive and flaming scarey so I just tried to follow the Masters. It was a hot sweaty, smelly, night but the worst place you could find night was in my Y-fronts!

a) you're a good player

b) if you were nervous, it didn't show...too much practice in front of the bench probably!

c) these compliments are not on legal aid, I expect payment by return

p.s M3 did bluff you off one hand with  5d 2d on a board resembling  jc kh 7c ts 3h  ;D

Nothing like naked fear to sharpen the senses

Well played Rob

Read a good one for you today robert.
What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 40......your honour (tickled me and I'm not even a brief)

bugger!

Thanks for the comments guys, I can't wait to hit those table again with what I've learned.

lol @ ariston

I think Kev's "the fish pond downstairs" is a bit near the knuckle. There were some tidy players there.

And "I'm a novice" Robert was on fire. I wander across to see him involved in this flop.......

 9s  9h 3c

He "mouths" to me "Ive got trips", & bets, gets a caller.

After the turn, it looks like this..... 8s 9h 3c 3d

Hmm, I think, he's got the boat now. Check, Geezer behind him bets, he smooth calls.

And on the river, it was.....

 9s 9h 3c 3d ah

Robert bets the pot, Geezer dwells, then calls with his A, Robert shows, amazingly,  9d asp, what a beautiful river THAT was!, & he takes down another £300. The man's an animal.

By now, of course, Kiv had disappared, The Vic bound, never to be seen again until 0200 Monday at the Vic upstairs Bar. He did not look at ALL well, & had his y-fronts on the OUTSIDE of his trousers, but he had not noticed. Tired & emotional, as they say.

tikay, M3Boy was the caller with A3..He had a boat on the turn and a bigger boat on the river too...how he didn't reraise and set Robert all in I'll never know!!

Rob

Remember the board that had K on it, but the river bought a 3rd club ?!?!

"Pot" - ;)

Now why would i re raise his pot bet here? I only have the 2nd nuts, and am only getting called if he had the 9 - which he did :(

I knew you would do well Tikay, I think i set it up for you when the bloke on the dodgy P.A. system excitedly announced that the sponsors had added 10k to the comp, i announced that they had in fact donated 10,500, cos they paid for you to enter and that was dead money :)  Those other blokes paid you off all the time ...the usual fee by way of reward can be sent to my account ;)

I must say, you did seem a lot happier and relaxed knowing that you didnt have to do the updates  ... big up to Heid for such a sterling effort, and for Robert for buying me my first drink of the evening :)

 I arrived back in Colchester at about 5.30pm, came straight on here to try and catch up, then sat on my sofa for 10 mins before i unpack my bags ......woke up about 5 minutes ago, and bag is still full and in the hallway lol....I loved every minute of the trip and despite the "Jet Lag" type symptoms ....I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE :)

To this poor fella on UB cash last week:

Seated in SB when it's my BB. Three consecutive times he tries to nick my BB after the whole table passes to us.

First time I reraise with KK.

Second time I reraise with AA and I take his $200 stack. He had TT.

Third time I have the boots again (he had QQ) and after doing $200 more he's off.

Whoever you are.... sorry pal.

OK

It was the last hand i was going to play at the gutshot, it was 7am!!

I had suited Jc something (a 5c i think) and I decided to raise pot from late position as I had been all night.

Got one caller.

Flop comes Ac Qs 2c

The guy bets the pot, he was relatively quiet so i put him on AQ minimum.

Anyway I called his pot bet

Turn came Js

He again bets the pot and I again call

River comes Jd

This time he checks and i ask "how much do you have left" he replies £120

"OK" i said " Ill set u all in"

He calls and shows his AQ

I flip over my J 5

 ;D

FISH!!!!!

OK, so this wasn't poker related, but it was very stupid :)

I was washing up last night - just got in from work, and had a particularly dirty glass that I was trying to get clean, stuck the cloth in the glass and stuck me hand in after it - glass broke, and spent the next few hours at casualty, and now have stitches in me pinky of my right hand!

Moral of the story? get a fecking dishwasher you tight cow :)

Heid
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I was, back in the days I was married, rushing around like a blue bottomed fly trying to get ready to take the family on a winter holiday to Wengen in Switzerland

You know how it is, get the kids ready, padlocks on the luggage, check passports etc

ten minutes before the taxi arrives I'm carrying my daughter downstairs when...OUCH! I step on an upturned plug, with only my socks on

No time to go to casualty, bandage it up, limp onto the plane, limp off the plane, foot swells up, trip to Swiss casualty, costs a fortune, foot immobilised....family go off skiing every day while I sit there, waiting for them to come back

Doh!

Moral of the story.....put your hoover away when you've finished using it!!!

Out on a field, on my own, kicking a football around. Day before new season starts for local pub team. Have a kick at the ball, catch the earth, twist knee and follow through, hyper-extending knee. Spend next two years limping, having two operations and various scans and physio. Wake up every morning wondering if my knee will be hurting today (7 years later) find that is, as it aches every fecking day. Can run but can't play football anymore. Cycling actually hurts more than running now. Put on 4 stone.
Moral of the story - don't kick footballs (or the earth directly beneath them!)

If we are going down the accident route I have about 500 as I was accident prone when I was younger. Funniest is probably argueing with an ambulance crew cutting me out of a stock car- they were convinced I had broken my left leg (in fact an old injury) and wouldn't be told is was my right foot/ankle that was actually broken. In front of a large crowd I wouldn't allow them to put left leg in a splint and was kicking it around in the air from on a stretcher to show it was alright  ;D

Isn't that like the knight in monty python?! lol

as we are going down that route my other bad one was at school 15 years old, sitting on the floor in a drama 'lesson'. I had my arms behind my body supporting myself (you know legs out, bum on the floor arms behind and elbows locked) a couple of my friends were pissing about in front of me and one of them was pushed onto my chest full force. As my elbow was behind my body, straight and 'locked' it had to give and bent backwards 90 degrees. Elbow was broken and as you can imagine the joint was basically fecked. It hurt so much I fainted afterwards! 4 weeks in plaster then 6 months getting full extension back again (at 15 and it being my right arm, my love life took a bit of a dive ;D)

during a sports day at school i threw a javelin and hit a pal in the leg, i know it wasn't funny for him but i was p***ing myself seeing him lying on the field with it sticking out of his thig, he made a full recovery.

Brilliant  ;D

Another thread goes off at a tangent but OK heres another one from my chilhood files.
Best pal was forced to do housework before we went out (we were both about 13) and had to hoover. He hoovered upstairs then down the stairs and we were done, now the hoover they had was one with a poweful recoil on it so he pressed the button to wind the wire in (we were in too much of a rush to go upstairs and unplug it), the wire pulled tight the plug unplugged its self took two bounces on the stairs and hit my pal straight in the face. He staggered back with the three prongs surrounding his eye and the hoover literally reeling him in- as above could have been serious but I was obviously pissing myself laughing.

2 bad ones - both of which will upset the blokes......

When I was a kid I bird-nested (ie collected eggs) - one time, my mate & I were after woodpigeon eggs in a forestry wood - they grow pines & spruces really close together so they grow straight & with minimal side branches. So to climb to the nest needed a 'move one limb only' rule - ie always have 3 branches either under foot - or being clung on to - otherwise they'd break.... anyway - my mate got quite high up & put his hand over the edge of the nest, and the pigeon was still in it. It flew up, he panicked & waved both hands at it, the branches below his feet both broke & he fell about 15-20 feet, stripping all lower branches of the tree with his groin & inner-thighs  :o - it wasn't a pretty sight - we carried him to the edge of the woods then ran to get help - he walked like John Wayne for weeks. We were scared at the time but it didn't stop us taking the piss out of him after  ;D

The other one was in a barn, climbing about the rafters looking for swallows nests. One guy decided to jump into the big pile of hay - soon we're all doing it - until one guy landed & screamed - he'd kebabed his happy-sack on one tine of a pitchfork :'( - another run for help one that one.

PS _ I know bird-nesting isn't a good thing - which is why we grew out of it very quickly - BUT we learned more about the countryside than almost any kid nowadays!!

I'd rather kids today were bird nesting than hanging around the streets/shops or 'happy slapping'.
Little hood-rat b'stds

Thats why i love having you on my cash tables!!

A3 on a 9933A board! 2nd nuts!!

Suppose Quad 9's 9's full of A's 9's full of 3's. Which of those 2 does 3's full of A's beat?!

You missed A's full of 9's  :o

quad 3's?

9999A
3333A
999AA
99933
333AA
So 5th nuts then

AAA99
AAA33

He held a 3 so he couldn't be up against quad 3s

lol yes i go cobnfused with writing all the 9's full of 3's and 3's full of 9's

And as Robert says, hard to be against Quad 3's when you hold 1!

i was just listing the hands, forgot what it was all about lol

eak so as he held A3 on a board of 9933A he had the 6th nuts -
9999A
AAA99
AAA33
999AA
99933
33399
If thats not right i give up and will lose tonight playing the 6th nuts.

I remember someone earlier stating the ace helped his hand because it gave him a bigger full house- agreed it beats another 3s full hand but it was quite obvious there was a very good chance he was up against 9s full. The ace shouldn't have changed anything really. I am not saying he has to pass he probably calls this 9 times out of 10 but the ace shouldn't make him contemplate raising IMO as it changes very little.

Its still wrong, lol, 33399 doesnt beat 333AA

long day.
Like I said, I'm going home to lose! lol

I thought we were talking about on the turn ... so that limits the possible "Nuts"  i make it 4th nuts ;)

I was sitting at the bloody table with them, and now you've got me confused

Headache. Stop.

It's driving me nuts.

 :-\

I don't care, still counting

 ;D

your nuts?

 :o Have you got a steering wheel on ya willy ??

Kiv, I haven't seen it for years, I'll get a mirror

I went to the doctor and told him that i couldnt see my willy...... he said "Diet" .... I said "What bloody colour" :)

Jesus!!

All those  9c 9d 9h 9s and  3h 3h 3h 3h has given me a headache!!

No, the ace didnt change much, i was only ever going to call - not raise.