My friend sent me an AIM this past weekend with the following HH. I had no idea why he was playing this limit.
He explained to me, that he had been playing $5/$10NL and kept getting bad beat. He was on major tilt, and sat down with his whole bankroll in this $50/$100 NL HU cash game.
( I have changed the name for confidential reasons. My friend is BB)
Full Tilt Poker Game #3785867137:
Table Janell (heads up) - $50/$100 - No Limit Hold'em -
17:45:23 ET - 2007/10/07
Seat 1: luvtheWNBA ($45,334)
Seat 2: BB ($18,795)
BB posts the small blind of $50
luvtheWNBA posts the big blind of $100
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BB [As Ah]
BB raises to $300
luvtheWNBA raises $1000
BB raises $3333
luvtheWNBA calls $2333
*** FLOP ***
[4s Ad Td]
luvtheWNBA has 15 seconds left to act
luvtheWNBA checks
BB has 15 seconds left to act
BB bets $3000
luvtheWNBA calls $3000
*** TURN ***
[4s Ad Td] [4c]
luvtheWNBA checks
BB checks
*** RIVER ***
[4s Ad Td 4c] [Qd]
luvtheWNBA checks
BB has 15 seconds left to act
BB bets $12,462, and is all in
luvtheWNBA calls $12,462
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BB shows [As Ah] a full house, Aces full of Fours
luvtheWNBA shows [Jd Kd] a Royal Flush
luvtheWNBA wins the pot ($37,590) with a Royal Flush
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $37,590 Rake $0.50Board: [4s Ad Td 4c Qd]
Seat 1: luvtheWNBA (small blind) showed [Jd Kd] and won ($37,589.50) with a Royal Flush
Seat 2: BB (big blind) showed [As Ah] and lost with Aces full of Fours
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I don't know what shocked me more...the fact that he lost with AAA full of 44s...or the fact that he had put his whole bankroll at risk.
This hand is so ridiculous, there are no words for it.
My friend has learned a very important lesson, the hard, hard, hard way.
Part of the allure of online poker is its convenience.
You can sit there in your PJs, in front of your TV, with the music blaring...
a plate of nachos on your lap, a soda pop in one hand, and a mouse in the other.
But the convenience it provides can be a deadlier bite.
It almost doesn't register that this is real money.
My friend would have never stormed out of a casino, went to the closest bank, withdrawn all his savings, and dumped it on a High Limit Cash game.
But online, it takes less than a minute to sit down in a game that is well beyond one's reach.
And it takes less than one minute for all the hard work to disappear.
It is so very important to have a plan for when you find yourself on tilt.
Do not keep pushing.
If a player is HOT, then get out of the game.
If you are playing bad, then get out of the game.
If you are on tilt, and are losing money, then drop down to the lowest stakes and shove all in every hand.
Donate to the microdonks, not the rich flounders or sharks who sit there waiting to catch players who are off their games and outside of their comfort zone.
If you are about to dump all your money in HU cash or SNGS, then call a friend and tell them what you are about to do...click on the gambling ban all the sites offer...keep a few hundred dollar bills near your computer to remind you of what you are throwing away....just get up and go outside...look up at the sky...do something...anything other than risking it all...anything other than digging a deeper hole....anything other than what BB did.
Please do not Tilt...
Poker is one long session. What you lose today, matters little compared to how much you lose in the long run.
(I have not been playing much at the tables over the last 10 days or so because one of my family members has been in the hospital. He is stable and recovering from a cardiac condition, but I have been spending a lot of time at my parents place near the hospital, and poker has been far from my mind. I will be back at the tables soon though and blogging more regularly again also. Hope your personal grinds are going well. xxx)
