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the joy of slowrolling
mmmchips
Member Posts: 65
Isn't it nice to know you have the best hand, then all of a sudden your opponent goes all in?
So, naturally you make him sweat, you make him believe you have to think about your decision, and think hard at that.
So hard in fact that you let the time bar virtually go to its end. By now your opponent thinks you are going to fold and they will take a healthy pot down.
But wait, he's called and what's more he has the nuts!
The feeling you get when this happens is so satisfying, it's unreal, it's better than scoring a winning goal in the cup final, better than getting your favourite star's autogragh, better even than the one night stand you had last Friday.
I have now been slowrolled twice in successive tournaments, both times with KK, once against AA and then with a set against the flush.
What is the reason for their action, is it to show how clever they are or do they get off on the equally appalling feeling their opponent gets when he sees the call after such a long time of waiting?
This is possibly the worst piece of bad sportmanship you can get at the table and is totally un-necessary.
Isn't it enough to know you'll take the pot down and not to rub your opponent's face in it?
So, naturally you make him sweat, you make him believe you have to think about your decision, and think hard at that.
So hard in fact that you let the time bar virtually go to its end. By now your opponent thinks you are going to fold and they will take a healthy pot down.
But wait, he's called and what's more he has the nuts!
The feeling you get when this happens is so satisfying, it's unreal, it's better than scoring a winning goal in the cup final, better than getting your favourite star's autogragh, better even than the one night stand you had last Friday.
I have now been slowrolled twice in successive tournaments, both times with KK, once against AA and then with a set against the flush.
What is the reason for their action, is it to show how clever they are or do they get off on the equally appalling feeling their opponent gets when he sees the call after such a long time of waiting?
This is possibly the worst piece of bad sportmanship you can get at the table and is totally un-necessary.
Isn't it enough to know you'll take the pot down and not to rub your opponent's face in it?
Comments
The online one was on here in a heads up SnG (FH v Nut Quads). As the timer was going down the oppo was giving me "ty for the" & "wp" before calling. I instata clicked rematch and said a lot of things I was not proud of. I just completely lost it.
The second was live during a tourney. The player on my right was the vilian, we were at showdown and I flipped my cards over (had trips with Ace kicker). He flipped over one card to show trips and said something along the lines of (Bet you think you're good don't you, bet you don't want to see this, boom) and flipped over his FH card. I had never played him before so it wasn't friendly banter. I quietly asked him to not slowroll in the future, and as he was on my right I asked this while giving a little reinforcing friendly squeeze. It wasn't his knee though.
Unfortunately, it may be a problem with the Sky software and not them being a numpty so just make sure that its their fault before punching them squarely on the nose!!! lol
However maybe they were multi-tabling. Sometimes I ahve 6plus open so have been in a position where I have taken a while to call with the nuts.