Sunday, October 28, 2007
Why is it only my family members put me on tilt?
So I'm sitting here watching the Vikings get beat. I turned it from watching my favorite team the Colts kicking the Panthers butt. I was thinking the Vikes might be able to come back and win here, but I doubt it.
So Thursday night we had our weekly tournament game here at the house. The first game it came down to Dan and I to see who had the Bounty on his. Dan would end up having it on him. I'll talk about that in a minute. So I'm playing very well taking down some good hands and end up as the chip leader. The play is really good, in fact all players are still around when the blinds are $50/$100. As a couple players have been knocked out I'm in the small blind with AK suited. The big blind will be going all-in this hand and everyone folds to the button who raises it big time, I think up to $600 with blinds at $75/$150. I look now and see my hand. Why such a big raise? The big blind doesn't have that much, we know he is going all-in with whatever 2 cards. So I call wanted to see the flop, it comes up garbage and the button, who is my uncle goes all-in. So my thought process pre-flop is he has queeens or jacks. I fold now and he show A3 suited. He has nothing, he loses the hand, that I would have would have won because a king hit the turn. The big blind who hit a small pair is still in the game and I lost my chip lead. I'm on tilt for at least 30 minutes. In live games I've only gone on tilt 3 times ever, once this last Saturday, once against the same uncle's wife, and one hand against my wife. I should say the uncle and aunt are on my wife's side of the family. Other than those 3 times no matter what the bad beat I took I have never tilted in a live game. I have tilted plenty of times on line, but that is in private in my living room where maybe only my wife and kids witness that.
After about 30 minutes I calmed downed and started playing poker again. The key thing was I stayed out of hands while I calmed down so I wouldn't make any wreckless moves. Ernie my uncle would end up going out in third place, I would take second, and Dan, who had the Bounty on his head would end up winning the game taking home $128.
The second game that night I would take out Ernie when he made a big bet under the gun, which was a little over a bet at the time of the game should be made. I looked at AQ suited and I said not again and went all-in. Now the key thing to this hand was me stating "Not again". Because Chris who was next to me on my left folded AQ suited thinking I had AK again. Ernie called with some garbage hand and a queen hit the flop and it was game over for Ernie. This game I would end up in 3rd place, I should have taken 2nd place but the big stack at the table was playing to tight when he had a chance to knock out Jeremy who ended up in second.
Well the Vikes lost like I thought. Now if I can make some sort of mircle and have my fantasy team win. Need Ahman Green to score, that has been a fantasy all season.
As for my online play I'm on UB now trying to turn $50 into $250 like I did so far on PokerStars. I'm down $3 now, but it seems like more, and it's been a grind there. Much tighter play on UB than PokerStars. I even took a break to write this after taking 4th in a sit-n-go which put me on tilt a little bit. I thought I had a chance of winning it when I had the chip lead but I lost that and the other guys were all sitting back to make the money. Well back to the tables.
So Thursday night we had our weekly tournament game here at the house. The first game it came down to Dan and I to see who had the Bounty on his. Dan would end up having it on him. I'll talk about that in a minute. So I'm playing very well taking down some good hands and end up as the chip leader. The play is really good, in fact all players are still around when the blinds are $50/$100. As a couple players have been knocked out I'm in the small blind with AK suited. The big blind will be going all-in this hand and everyone folds to the button who raises it big time, I think up to $600 with blinds at $75/$150. I look now and see my hand. Why such a big raise? The big blind doesn't have that much, we know he is going all-in with whatever 2 cards. So I call wanted to see the flop, it comes up garbage and the button, who is my uncle goes all-in. So my thought process pre-flop is he has queeens or jacks. I fold now and he show A3 suited. He has nothing, he loses the hand, that I would have would have won because a king hit the turn. The big blind who hit a small pair is still in the game and I lost my chip lead. I'm on tilt for at least 30 minutes. In live games I've only gone on tilt 3 times ever, once this last Saturday, once against the same uncle's wife, and one hand against my wife. I should say the uncle and aunt are on my wife's side of the family. Other than those 3 times no matter what the bad beat I took I have never tilted in a live game. I have tilted plenty of times on line, but that is in private in my living room where maybe only my wife and kids witness that.
After about 30 minutes I calmed downed and started playing poker again. The key thing was I stayed out of hands while I calmed down so I wouldn't make any wreckless moves. Ernie my uncle would end up going out in third place, I would take second, and Dan, who had the Bounty on his head would end up winning the game taking home $128.
The second game that night I would take out Ernie when he made a big bet under the gun, which was a little over a bet at the time of the game should be made. I looked at AQ suited and I said not again and went all-in. Now the key thing to this hand was me stating "Not again". Because Chris who was next to me on my left folded AQ suited thinking I had AK again. Ernie called with some garbage hand and a queen hit the flop and it was game over for Ernie. This game I would end up in 3rd place, I should have taken 2nd place but the big stack at the table was playing to tight when he had a chance to knock out Jeremy who ended up in second.
Well the Vikes lost like I thought. Now if I can make some sort of mircle and have my fantasy team win. Need Ahman Green to score, that has been a fantasy all season.
As for my online play I'm on UB now trying to turn $50 into $250 like I did so far on PokerStars. I'm down $3 now, but it seems like more, and it's been a grind there. Much tighter play on UB than PokerStars. I even took a break to write this after taking 4th in a sit-n-go which put me on tilt a little bit. I thought I had a chance of winning it when I had the chip lead but I lost that and the other guys were all sitting back to make the money. Well back to the tables.
// posted by Harthon @ 1:44 PM 
