Is everyone good?

In this age EVERYONE playing poker online seems to think they are an expert. With all the poker books and forums available there is a tremendous amount of information easily within reach of any player. Are the games harder now than they were 5-6 years ago? Of course.. Are they still beatable at every level by anyone with decent bankroll management? Of course… How is that possible if everyone is reading the same books and the same forums?? Well the obvious answer is just because you read a book on how to play poker doesn’t mean you will play just the way it told you to. You might “think” you do..but in reality you are far from it. That doesn’t mean you aren’t an expert though and just full of knowledge you like to impart upon other players during a game…LOL.

A few tidbits of late…

First one.. Micro buy-in tourney with 90 runners. I am at the final table and since we have been at the final table the guy on my right has raised my blind EVERY SINGLE time. I had horrid cards the first few times and I let it go, but after 3 or 4 orbits it was obvious what he was doing to me. We were down to 5 people left already and he did his normal over the top raise on me. I had K-10 suited so I went all in and he called w/ A-7. I ended up with a boat and he was crippled to just a blind or two left. He starts going off on me about what a horrible push that was and that he was ahead and I should have never called. LOL… WTF… what did he expect when he raised me EVERY SINGLE time I was in the blind?? Did he not think I would push back?? We were 5 handed too!! I wasn’t much of a dog to begin with and when I pushed I was almost positive I was ahead anyways. He spent his last few minutes of the tournament just hammering me on my horrible call before he crashed out.

Second one.. Micro double or nothing tourney. We are down to 8 people already and the blinds are going up with antes so it’s worth it to just pick those up. I am in middle position and have A-K and push. The guy to my left thinks a second and calls for almost all his chips with 6-6. I get an ace and win. He comments “I never win races”. Well this is about my 4th or 5th tourney for the night and I had seen this person at 2 or 3 of my previous tables and he liked to “comment” about his play or other people’s play. I figured I could piss him off pretty easily so I typed “why call at this point for almost all your chips with just 6-6? You had to know you were a coin flip AT BEST and could be crushed by several over pairs!”. Yep…that’s all it took. He starts typing like crazy in caps..”I at least had a pair..you called with nothing” “ I was ahead”. LOL… yeah.. that was easy!! I typed back “I pushed…YOU called…you made the bad play not me” Then he scopes me and comes back with a “your biggest cash is $45 and you are giving me advice?” LOL… oh boy… so I scope him and he has 2 big tourney cashes for nearly $1K and has proceeded to bleed it away REALLY quick in both MTT & SNG’s over two months. He looks like he is almost broke because he’s in a $1 tourney and you can see his buy-in’s keep dropping over the past 2 months as he blew through his bankroll. So I typed “so you luck boxed 2 tourneys..now you have donated everything back”.. he goes off about how big his cashes were and he’s the best. I typed “looks like you are about ready to deposit again huh?” and then just kept typing “donator” after each of his spews until he crashed out of the tourney. LOL… that always puts a smile on my face and puts me in a good mood!! I tried chasing him around to some other SNG’s but they fill up so fast at that level that by the time I found him they were always full.

This is a rare occasion for me.. I normally never type in the chatbox and tend to mind my own business. But…on occasion I will stir the pot some. LOL..

On a side note..what is it with donk calls? I know these are micro stakes but come on… I ran pretty deep in a $2.20 MTT with 4,000 runners.. we were almost to the money and a big stack at my table is being aggressive and raising a lot of pots. I get K-K and he does his normal 4X blind raise and I push all in. It folds around to him and he insta calls for over ½ his stack…with…3-2 offsuit??? Well that hand is the one that boosted me towards the top chip counts at the time so I was happy but WTF?? This is over 2 hours into the tourney. How in the world did this guy survive that long to begin with? I see this crap every time I play early on in a tourney..but usually not after a few hours.

Well that’s enough spewing for one post…Until next time..
Dave