I've heard of schadenfreude. It's not that when you see that old man playing with his pension, losing buy-in after buy-in, having an invisible tear on his face and then shoving on that KJxA turn into 4 players in a PFR pot with pocket 5's, and getting snapped off by the pro who had A2off.

I think Poker pros and semi pros and pro wannabee are like the "bankers" of the poker world. Ie: They contribute NOTHING to society. They in fact detriment social well being.

If the world came to an apocalypse and civilization was set back a few centuries, bankers or poker players would produce NOTHING that would be of beneficial to society. You have your engineers, doctors, construction workers, brick layers, hunters, cooks,... all that produce something useful to society.

If you look up on YouTube on how bankers were founded, how they lent wealth that never existed out of thin air, and hoarded wealth, those kinds of people would instantly get kicked out of the tribe. Bankers don't compete against nature to survive, they compete against other human beings and their well being.

Last week there was a complete drunk at the table playing hyper-LAG, winning and losing big pots. Every time he would enter the pot with one of the two young regulars (who happened to be the only ones not to say a word and just concentrate on paying attention), the drunk would shut off the action, or would have it. He'd occasionally throw out a comment like "you're just waiting to take my money aren't you? I know you are" with a smirk on his face. The drunk wanted to have fun. He liked action. But even in his drunken state, he knew that the pro was not going to give back any action. The pro's plays were calculated and his bets meant something. Better to just give him the $17 blinds and straddles to his position raise then to build a pot for him, just in case he has it. The drunk was cheerful and toast his glass of scotch with everyone except the two regs.

What u just said,is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in ur rambling incoherent post were u close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read that. I award u no points and may god have mercy on ur sole

+1

WP sir

+1

His soul has been downgraded to a sole as well.

I did this recently (Late stage of a MTT) the board was a straight flush and everybody was like wtf.Then I went allin and the guy folded LOL.

No rake involved and still got a fold *facepalm* I think he had me covered too not sure.

Ill say live poker, 5/10, winning a hand that is a multiway pot so at least 3 players all in total, with all the the players deepstacked and then stacking a massive pile of chips.

Seeing Aces in the blinds in any Turbo tournament is a refreshing feeling. It's not even as much about the money as you're risking survival every hand, every orbit and every player needs to steal at least once per orbit to stay afloat.

When you make a bet with the nuts and your opponent reaches for chips of a superior denomination.

When you check your set or the nuts OOP into a multi-way pot, and the guy to your immediate left starts betting, usually a pot-sized bet because he doesn't know any other bet size.

Nothing better than winning a kick ass puppy

Whats wrong with this thread? Why do people write so many words and read each others posts? Weird mother****ers...

Doesn't beat a good slowroll

Chopping a $500 MTT 3-way for just over $14K in LV. With the wife watching the last 2-3 hours. Knowing it will be a very long time I will ever be a net loser in poker, although it probably will never happen.

Real hard for her to complain about me playing poker.

Fold 72 suited preflop.

1) Praying to the great gods of poker at a $1/$2 table for a hand that will felt an obnoxious tool (who had even gone as far as getting nasty with the female dealer) and send him home whimpering... then looking down to see AA on the button.

OT (Obnoxious Tool) raises to $15 UTG.
Two callers.
I then 3 bet to $45.
OT swivels his head and gives me the "you must be 6 kinds of stupid" look and shoves his $300 or so all in.
The player to his left shoves all in.
One player folds.
I have OT and his shove-mate covered.
They each flip over pocket kings. I flip over my aces.
They both start groaning.
Flop comes rainbow 5-6-7
Turn is an 8
They both start loudly asking for a straight for the chop
The dealer slowly turns over the the river card..
It's an A just for "na-na-na-na-na" message from the poker gods.

2) Those times when someone shoves their entire stack at you on the river (which you have covered) and you have the nuts, like:

My hole cards: 3,3
Flop 3, 10, 3
Turn 2
river 8



I bet each street and on the river my opponent shoves over my river bet with his stack $300+.. I snap call and he arrogantly says "I flopped a boat"... I shrug and say "oh, that's okay, I flopped quads".

Dear lord. #1 is a poker dream of mine. Can't wait for it to happen. It doesn't even need to be against an obnoxious tool.

Good stuff

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not satisfying unless...

Flop: 5-4-3. I know my opponents won't fold any one-pair unless they need to put their mothers on the table and pimp out their sisters, even then they might just call, putting you on a draw.

So I check and the drooler bets pot. Everyone folds (surprisingly). I reshove all in for $500 and he calls after lots of agony.

Board runs out 4 and 8. He slams his J-4os on the table and goes "MY FAVORITE DEALER". I'm like you f**king called me $500 with f**king J4off suit? He's like "I thought you were drawing".

Me:

I love flopping the nuts and just firing away and getting played back at

So true. Love seeing the nitty, tight wad, don't tip the waitresses, socially ******ed, no conversation having monkeys get felted by fish. Makes me tingly in my pants.

Great feeling.

once got AA vs KK vs QQ vs TT all in pre at 1/2. I had AA and this was back when i was playing 1/2 off something like a 700 roll. like $900 in the pot board just totally bricked out. something like 22467. just so beautiful.

Just live poker in general. Online doesn't even come close

Getting a lottery email saying you have won $1mil+ whilst you are in a 500bb pot with a naked flush draw.