Why we play poker...

El_Mogul

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
El_Mogul	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£11.98
Grevs08	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£4.32
	Your hole cards	A A
linkell69	Raise		£0.12	£0.18	£4.48
El_Mogul	Raise		£0.36	£0.54	£11.62
Grevs08	Call		£0.34	£0.88	£3.98
linkell69	Call		£0.26	£1.14	£4.22
Flop
		8 A Q
El_Mogul	Bet		£0.86	£2.00	£10.76
Grevs08	Fold
linkell69	Call		£0.86	£2.86	£3.36
Turn
		K
El_Mogul	Bet		£1.96	£4.82	£8.80
linkell69	Call		£1.96	£6.78	£1.40
River
		4
El_Mogul	All-in		£8.80	£15.58	£0.00
linkell69	All-in		£1.40	£16.98	£0.00
El_Mogul	Unmatched bet		£7.40	£9.58	£7.40
El_Mogul	Show	A A
linkell69	Show	5 6
linkell69	Win	Flush to the Ace	£8.86		£8.86

Just lost the above hand and found myself getting slightly annoyed. Then I thought for a second and realised that I shouldn't really be annoyed at this because in the long run these are the types of opponents that we will be making most of our money off of. The majority of of time our opponent isn't going to make the flush, the straight or whatever it is that they're chasing which will mean money for us. So to the people that always complain and rant about these types of opponents time and time again and wish that they were playing with just 'good' players just remember, these are the opponents that you want to play with and the opponents that will more often than not lose to us when they're chasing. So just shrug of the beat and as long as your playing good poker you will have nothing to worry about!

Mogul

JingleMa

Tru dat bro.

Dazler

Its the biggest thing to battle with in poker and once you get the bad beats by bad players out of your head, i think you become a decent player. No point going on tilt over it or you just end up being in the bracket of bad beat players mind set which is not good. Its always horrible but once you can say 'thats poker' and move on your a better player for it.

FlyingDagg

This is something I still have a bit of a problem with. I know that I want these type of loose players on my table as I'll win the majority of hands but when they hit with garbage say 4 2 off (yes it has happened, twice in fact after my allin) and it costs you your tournament life that's when it it hurts a bit. I just don't like to see bad play being rewarded.

profman15

Its true. Sometimes you'd like to be able to eradicate some hands from your opponents range("well, he wouldn't call with 54h would he?" etc) or know that an all-in in a DYM will not be called unless...etc. However, there are some 'off the cuff' players that we all come across that seem to cause problems for us, aren't there?
It's a bit like the usual rules don't apply. Maybe it just needs an adjustment in the future when you meet them. Doesn't help at the time though, eh?
There have been a few occasion when i'm saying to a monitor "Nooo, you're not supposed to do that!" and"Why???". Mind there's still no need to be abusive or whatever in chatbox imo.