I Wanted To Do A Helmuth

[SLATEmosphere]

I play online poker on Pokerstars with real money and I'm up a grand. Started with 200$!. I don't even touch fake money poker because the play couldnt be more polar opposite. When your playing 75$ buy ins the intelligence of players suddenly goes up. I love it.

I've gotten some absolute terrible beats that made me throw my chair against the wall. Went straight though the wall.LOL

I played a heads up tourny with 100$ on the line. My hand was dealt Ace of diamonds and King of Diamonds. I bet.He raises. I call. Flop comes up 7 of Diamonds, 5 of Diamonds and 9 of Spades. I'm feeling good with my possible nut flush. He bets. I raise.He calls. Turn card comes up 2 of Diamonds. Got my nut Flush on the turn!!. I bet high. He raises. I go all in.He calls. The computer shows me that his cards are 7 of Clubs and 2 of hearts.

River comes up 2 of Clubs. He hit 2 consecutive 2's. Full House. Beats my nut Flush. I couldn't play for a week after that.

 

[Doomsday]

Two of the worse bad beats Ive ever taken both happened in the same day.

One was playing Omaha. I had 7789 on a flop of 456 vs a guy with AK66. I flopped the absolute nuts, but he had outs the turn was a 7, making as big of a favorite as you can be. I still had the nut straight but now I also I had over set to his 3 6s. Of coarse the river was another 6 and I went broke.

About 2 hours later I had JJ in hold'em and was playing heads up vs a guy with 99. The flop came J23. I bet out and called. The turn was a 9 we both ended up all-in and wouldnt you know it the river is another 9. I lost to one outers twice in one session, pretty sickening when you consider he had like .1% chance on winning the hand on the flop.

 

[Temo]

I play online poker on Pokerstars with real money and I'm up a grand. Started with 200$!. I don't even touch fake money poker because the play couldnt be more polar opposite. When your playing 75$ buy ins the intelligence of players suddenly goes up. I love it.

I've gotten some absolute terrible beats that made me throw my chair against the wall. Went straight though the wall.LOL

I played a heads up tourny with 100$ on the line. My hand was dealt Ace of diamonds and King of Diamonds. I bet.He raises. I call. Flop comes up 7 of Diamonds, 5 of Diamonds and 9 of Spades. I'm feeling good with my possible nut flush. He bets. I raise.He calls. Turn card comes up 2 of Diamonds. Got my nut Flush on the turn!!. I bet high. He raises. I go all in.He calls. The computer shows me that his cards are 7 of Clubs and 2 of hearts.

River comes up 2 of Clubs. He hit 2 consecutive 2's. Full House. Beats my nut Flush. I couldn't play for a week after that.

I hate to say this without knowing the pot/implied odds the whole way, but his play appears to be perfectly fine.

 

[FloridaRob]

I used to think it was just the limit but I have seen one outers in No Limit games that kill me inside but I have learned to control my emotions now. I play a lot of no limit poker and have lost $2000 on one hand on a one outer.

At the time you want the call. You don't want them to fold. I had to learn that if I have no problem taking their money when they make a stupid play and lose, I can't pull a Helmuth when they win one.

Also, I will never play online poker again. Too many wierd things happen consistently online that rarely happens in real games. Set over set over set happens a lot online. It rarely happesn in a real game.

 

[Dawgs0916]

I used to think it was just the limit but I have seen one outers in No Limit games that kill me inside but I have learned to control my emotions now. I play a lot of no limit poker and have lost $2000 on one hand on a one outer.

At the time you want the call. You don't want them to fold. I had to learn that if I have no problem taking their money when they make a stupid play and lose, I can't pull a Helmuth when they win one.

Also, I will never play online poker again. Too many wierd things happen consistently online that rarely happens in real games. Set over set over set happens a lot online. It rarely happesn in a real game.

Welcome to my world. I kept reading Full Tilt had a good flop rate, and was the most legit site there was.

I lost 270 dollars, throughout the whole summer. I know thats nothing to you, but to me that is half a month's rent for me.

Never go on a poker binge after getting dumped lmao.

 

[FloridaRob]

Two of the worse bad beats Ive ever taken both happened in the same day.

One was playing Omaha. I had 7789 on a flop of 456 vs a guy with AK66. I flopped the absolute nuts, but he had outs the turn was a 7, making as big of a favorite as you can be. I still had the nut straight but now I also I had over set to his 3 6s. Of coarse the river was another 6 and I went broke.

About 2 hours later I had JJ in hold'em and was playing heads up vs a guy with 99. The flop came J23. I bet out and called. The turn was a 9 we both ended up all-in and wouldnt you know it the river is another 9. I lost to one outers twice in one session, pretty sickening when you consider he had like .1% chance on winning the hand on the flop.

those are not bad beats, those are just horrible luck. If either of those happened to me I would kindly get up from the table and live to play another day. Some days, whatever card you need to get there will get there and you sense it and know it. Other days you know that the one card to get to beat you will get there too. Those are the days you have to minimize your losses.

 

[Doomsday]

those are not bad beats, those are just horrible luck. If either of those happened to me I would kindly get up from the table and live to play another day. Some days, whatever card you need to get there will get there and you sense it and know it. Other days you know that the one card to get to beat you will get there too. Those are the days you have to minimize your losses.

No argument there, sometimes those days turn into weeks. I took me a while to figure it out but eventually I learned that there are going to be big swings, you just have to be able to stay focused and keep making good decisions. It was a hard lesson to learn though. My worse streak was losing 8 times in a row with AA vs either KK, QQ or JJ when I was getting people allin preflop. Eventually you realize the odds are going to even out and you might win the next 20 of those situations. Still frustrating!

 

[FloridaRob]

doomsday, I know it goes in circles but it seems my bad luck has a much bigger loop. One suck out I did have was a few months ago, I have pocket AA with about $1200 in front of me. The guy behind me at the button has me covered. It is a 2-5 no limit so I raise it to $70. He smooth calls. I am real leary of him but his calling lets me know he has a good hand. I figured if he had KK he might have reraised but he just calls. Guy under the Gun calls too so already building s big pot. The guy under the gun has about $600 in front of him.

the flop comes K-6-3. Guy under the gun bets $200.00, I raise to $600 to put the guy all in and the guy behind me hesitates for a second then says all in. It is all my chips. I hesitate for about 10 seconds and talked my self into the fact he has A-K so I should still be in the lead. I call. Everybody turns up their cards. the guy in 1st position has pocket 6 flopped middle set, the guy behind me did not have A_K but had pocket Kings. I felt sick. There was only one Ace in teh deck left. Turn is a brick and the river is tada- the case Ace. They heard me yahoo across the casino. Over $3000 in the pot was mine. The guy that lost threw his chips at me and cursed me like there was no tomorrow. I did not care. It was one time I crapped out on somebody for a good size pot.

winning a pot like that the way I won it is almost better than Sex. Well at my age, I think it might even be better.

 

[Doomsday]

Good story, not sure why the guy with KK is pissed at you. Hard to play your hand any differently, he did a good job trapping with his KK and got unlucky. I always hate people who get mad when both people play the hand correctly and one guy happens to get lucky.

I think we all feel like our loop is bigger, that is what makes it so hard to just keep making tough decisions. It is hard to block out the losses and not let them influence your decision making, I struggle with that every time I play.

 

[Hostile]

Good story, not sure why the guy with KK is pissed at you. Hard to play your hand any differently, he did a good job trapping with his KK and got unlucky. I always hate people who get mad when both people play the hand correctly and one guy happens to get lucky.

I think we all feel like our loop is bigger, that is what makes it so hard to just keep making tough decisions. It is hard to block out the losses and not let them influence your decision making, I struggle with that every time I play.

I agree with every word here.

We should set up a small league to play with some members from this thread as the only invitees sometime. be fun to play and shoot the crap.

 

[Doomsday]

I agree with every word here.

We should set up a small league to play with some members from this thread as the only invitees sometime. be fun to play and shoot the crap.

I would be down for doing something like that.