Things I don't want to hear anymore
"Bad beat" stories which begin:
In addition, if your "bad beat" story contains any of the following, please tell it somewhere else:
Folks, if you find yourself continually peppering your "bad beat" stories with such utterings, you are not telling bad beat stories. You are telling "misplayed hand" stories. Your tales will not gain any sympathy from anyone who actually knows how to play the game, but you probably will get plenty of invitations to sit in their games.
In the examples above, you would be better served by aggressively raising or by folding. I would say which ones require which action, but actually you would be better off doing either for all of them, than you would by calling.
OK, I'm done ranting. Let's move on to ...
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"I had AA on the button. Five people limped in ahead of me, so I thought I would be tricky and just call ..."
"There were two raises in front of me and I looked down and saw king-jack offsuit, so I called ..."
"The flop came down 7-7-8 and there was a big raise, but I was four to a flush ..."
"I had 8-4 ..."
In addition, if your "bad beat" story contains any of the following, please tell it somewhere else:
"I didn't want to scare him off."
"I was trying to build the pot."
"I was waiting for the river to put in a big check-raise."
"I never win with ace-king, so I just called."
Folks, if you find yourself continually peppering your "bad beat" stories with such utterings, you are not telling bad beat stories. You are telling "misplayed hand" stories. Your tales will not gain any sympathy from anyone who actually knows how to play the game, but you probably will get plenty of invitations to sit in their games.
In the examples above, you would be better served by aggressively raising or by folding. I would say which ones require which action, but actually you would be better off doing either for all of them, than you would by calling.
OK, I'm done ranting. Let's move on to ...
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