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Am I right to be irritated by this...

darichdarich Member Posts: 969
edited October 2009 in Poker Chat
On the bubble in a sit ngo, and first to act I shove. The bb who has enough to put me on the ropes waits until the ticker is almost at zero and calls with aces. I had a go for slow rolling. My opponent clearly ignorant of the fact it's bad etiquette says they are his chips and he will call when and how he likes. Then some excuse that he was doing something else. 
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  • phil12ukphil12uk Member Posts: 2,856
    edited October 2009
    Yuk........completely pointless - hope one day it bites him back in some way
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  • darichdarich Member Posts: 969
    edited October 2009
    I let things like this get to me, and I suppose he could have been multi-tabling, but it was his complete ignorance of the fact slow-rolling was frowned upon that got me. I have no gripes about AA beating KJ but I always try and insta call with the nuts 
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  • loonytoonsloonytoons Member Posts: 4,270
    edited October 2009
    Yeh agree like when they have quads against full house and they take maximum time to call
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  • margatemafmargatemaf Member Posts: 849
    edited October 2009
    probably put my foot in it here, but isn't that slow playing and part of the game? or have i mis-understood?
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  • phil12ukphil12uk Member Posts: 2,856
    edited October 2009
    Slow playing and slow rolling are comletely different.....
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  • dav1964dav1964 Member Posts: 2,526
    edited October 2009
    In Response to Re: Am I right to be irritated by this...:
    Slow playing and slow rolling are comletely different.....
    Posted by phil12uk
    they certainly are
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  • darichdarich Member Posts: 969
    edited October 2009
    slow playing is fine. It's just when you call rather than raise/check as opoosed to bet. Usually when you're hand is so big, you want your opponent to catch a card.

    Slow rolling is when the last person to act has the nuts but waits until the ticker is down to virtually zero before calling (takes an age in live poker) - usually done to wind people up and very bad etiquette
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  • margatemafmargatemaf Member Posts: 849
    edited October 2009
    right understood, will make a note never to do that then, as i thought that was slow playing (doughnut!!) cheers for the heads up guys :)
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  • darichdarich Member Posts: 969
    edited October 2009
    no worries. I don't play live much, but I understand it's caused a few arguments
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  • FlashFlushFlashFlush Member Posts: 4,494
    edited October 2009
    Yeh basicly slow playing is trying to show you are weak when you are V.strong and to encourage people to bet at you again..... slow rolling you are the last to act on the river or vs 1 opponent who is all in therfore gaining nothing by playing slow... very much frowned upon.. ask Tikay about it... he got very Irate about it when some1 did it to him... Naughty stuff.. but generally done by accident
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  • darichdarich Member Posts: 969
    edited October 2009
    By the way Marg - nothing wrong with allowing the clock to go down to disguise your hand if there are others to act behind or further streets. Only really wrong when you're closing the action and you have the nuts. Had the guy had KK fair enough - he may pass - but to my mind there was no way with no real short stack that villain here was contemplating a fold 
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  • darichdarich Member Posts: 969
    edited October 2009
    and yes - agree with Flashflush - most of the time it isn't intended - players are either distracted or multi-tabling
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  • J-HartiganJ-Hartigan Member Posts: 2,756
    edited October 2009
    I'm pretty easy to tilt, but nothing tilts me more than a slow-roller!

    There would have been LOTS of asterisks in the chat box if that had happened to me, darich :-)
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  • loonytoonsloonytoons Member Posts: 4,270
    edited October 2009
    good, so now i know to slow roll Tikay and mr Hartigan lol
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  • nirvana29nirvana29 Member Posts: 489
    edited October 2009
    im findin it hard to follow, u mean he was wasting time so more people were leaving the game, i sort of do that some times, if its nessesary. but im not proud of it.
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  • KaidusKaidus Member Posts: 159
    edited October 2009
    Players name please so I can add to my list of people who deserve to be slowrolled ;-)
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  • phil12ukphil12uk Member Posts: 2,856
    edited October 2009
    In Response to Re: Am I right to be irritated by this...:
    im findin it hard to follow, u mean he was wasting time so more people were leaving the game, i sort of do that some times, if its nessesary. but im not proud of it.
    Posted by nirvana29
    If u look down at AA ur gonna insta call any all in. The problem is letting the time bar run all the way down as if its a tough decision to call or fold.
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  • KaidusKaidus Member Posts: 159
    edited October 2009
    Not only that, but its a SNG so nobody else can go out (I'm assuming 1 table)
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  • mike1975mike1975 Member Posts: 420
    edited October 2009
    slowrolling = bad, but it is hard to tell if you really got slowrolled online, it could be he was doing something, maybe has a slow connection, maybe his kids were jumping all over him,maybe he is a new poker player and does not know what slowrolling is, so many if's or but's. i would say there's no point getting yourself wound up about it, there's always another dym just a click away.
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  • namesb0ndnamesb0nd Member Posts: 402
    edited October 2009
    he was doing you a favour,someone else could have been knocked out in the time it took for him to call.
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