Playing out of your bankroll

[Sunday8pm]

this is a well disguised bad beat story...

just playing at gutshot in the small games when i noticed a £1/2 pl omaha game going, there was a lot of money flying around and despite not being able to afford to be on that table i couldnt resist the temptation of the 'value'.

I sat with £300, which is all the cash i had available to me, i played tight, and got up to £550.

then this happened.

Andy Black is raising and re raising every pot, basically £30 to play every hand...i raise pot with  he calls. pot around £90

he bets the pot into me on a  flop, i fire the pot back at andy and he puts me all in for not much more to call. so on the flop we have £550 each in and im literally soiling myself. i think ive got the best hand, but i have the flush draw to boot so all is not lost £1100. mmmmmmmm


Andy to my relief flips over  .

turn 

river 


absolutly gutted. tarnished the fact i had a great result on laddies and im kinda gutted to say the least. never play out of your bankroll guys, it really hurts...

[Newmanseye]

You call that a bad beat. pfft

I was playing at the Cincinatti club in the £1 / £1 NLH game, I initially bought in for £20 and managed to work it up to £970 ot there abouts.

My last hand of the evening after 9 hours of hard work, I get  A well known fish bets in to me, I call and we have about £90 in the middle, I shoule let you know he has me covered by about £30.

The flop comes 

At this point I have a party going on in my head, its taking everythin i have not to do the hula and tell hime hes a mug, so I casually check  as one does with the NUTS on occassion.

He pushed all in for close to £1K Well naturally i beat him to the middle.

He flips over his    and says, " i was bluffing at it "

I flip my  and say " i was'nt"

Turn card 

River 

and thats the worst bad beat i ever had.

I was on tilt for a month after it.

That one puts hairs on yer chest!

[fergus8]

when was this, and who against billy

[Sark79]

I have a bad habit of doing this.  Not at as high a limits as you were playing( I play in $ ).  Last night, I undid all my good work for the last two and a half months in about 40 minutes playing a NL cash game on pokerstars.  I lost most of my bankroll playing a game I wasn't good enough to play and not funded to play.  I will have to move back down about four limits now and start again. 

I had a stomach churning moment of sheer pain when I looked at the cashier bit on stars soon after.

[Dewi_cool]

Sark, I do not believe for one moment that you did anything so reckless, your far too nice

[thetank]

It's always the quiet ones.

[Sark79]

lol.  I wish it was a dream that I could wake up from, but it is reality   .    Back to square one I am afraid.    I am going to try and build it up playing those $5 four man Heads-Up games. They are alot of fun, even though I am crap at Heads-Up. Time to learn I guess.

[redsimon]

lol.  I wish it was a dream that I could wake up from, but it is reality   .    Back to square one I am afraid.    I am going to try and build it up playing those $5 four man Heads-Up games. They are alot of fun, even though I am crap at Heads-Up. Time to learn I guess.

Wouldn't it be better to play at lower levels in the game you originally built your bankroll up on than a format you are "crap at"?

[Sark79]

Maybe, but it takes time.  I can see how people play H-U well, I just can't do it yet.  I want to learn it. Mix between ring games and H-U will be the method.

[WellChief]

Was that a dream Newmanseye?

[thetank]

Wasn't a bad beat. he had 10 oots on that river 

[BigTomatoes]

 Billy I think you want to have a look at who the dealer was cos this story is very hard to believe and if it did happen i think you got ripped by some grade A cheats

[thetank]

Live poker is rigged. 

[Nem]

Live poker is rigged. 

Where?

[thetank]

All of it, big scam.