Egos are a detriment to a players capabilities. In tournament whenever you make a certain player fold, he will stare you down to the likes of "beware I am gonna get you next time, even with a marginal hand, you won't run me over". It won't matter that you played your near-nut hand and WANTED him to call.

But it's a tournament and you don't want to hurt his ego. You DON'T want to be called by JTs when you re-shove your AK 8 orbits deep. You show him the nuts or the TP card every time you make him fold. Talk about how you only play your cards. Always show the good (to him and to others while making sure he is paying attention), all while running him over and giving him the occasional walk. Everytime he folds to you he is feeling smarter, like, "I made a good fold! He's a nit and I read him! I folded my second pair and saved money" - "I will fold my AT/KQ to his re-shove because I know he has AK or at least Jacks/better". Your reshove could be a standard re-steal with a hand like J9s or a small pair.

When you introduce yourself to a hot cocktail waitress and she shows interest

When you go with your friends who's opinion of your poker ability matters so much to you because youre pathetic with low self esteem. When hes crushing 2/5 NL and im 3 max buyins down in an hr at 1/2. he asks me how im doing and I told him im up 650 taking a break to get a sandwich and he believes me and tells me "great job, impressive"

When you hear 'you're good' immediately after making a tough call in a big pot on a wet board with one pair

Nice.

Also it's incredible how often this happens;

Board is
A K Q T 2

Villain 1: bets the pot
Villain 2: *tanks*.....Calls
Villain 1: "I just have the Ten" (shows T3)
Villain 2: "DAMMIT!" /slams cards face down on table

This is pretty much 90% of the hands at my local and it is always nice to watch.

Wow I really can't wait till I turn 21 next year

when the titantic song by celine dion comes on during play

When you get heads up for an MTT, your opponent has a 2-1 chip lead but you reject all his deal offers and just come back and beat him.

When your aipf gets called and you're ahead (ie AK v AT) and flop comes T high and you river a king

Today an old OMC nit-shark was running over everyone by simply playing strong hands and getting paid. But he was also always probe betting on position and raising his BTN often. He called my shove twice with a better hand and I cracked him. He also ran into my AA once. On the forth time (after losing some chips), I do a 3bet shove move with KJo (standard in tournament against chronic positional opener). He calls me with 87o!! I tilted an OMC into stacking off with 87o lol.

When you're feeling down getting it aipf with AA, sure you're gonna get outflopped, and;

1) Your opponent flips over Q4s
2) You flop a set

This actually happened to me last night. Yes he had Q4s.

Hand went:
Q4: limp UTG
Hero: Raise to 7bb
OMC: Reraise to 25bb
Q4: Call 25bb
Hero: Shoves for ~130bb
OMC: Tank/folds (KK)
Q4: Calls (!!!!!)

the ensuing silence after stacking a bracelet winner.

When you get all the action you want PF with AA.
Eg: raise, reraise, you ship, original raiser snaps and the 3bettor goes "ok let's gamble" and calls..

As your opponent 'out get removed every street.

They have: AKdd and 7-7.

Flop T94d. All backdoored alive. As you expect the 8d to hit the turn...

Turn: the offsuit 4. The AK sinks and the 7's have 2 outs.

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In a tourney, knocking out someone on the bubble or FT bubble.

Making that reshove with a marginal hand on the bubble and getting a fold while your opponent was getting tremendous odds to call with ATC, +33%'ing up your stack in the process.

The jealous gazes as you exchange numbers with the hot girl at the table

Running like **** and losing 5 BI within minutes at the limit you're rolled for.

Firing up tables you're way underolled for, hitting and running ending the session up $ and feeling like you committed a crime and got away with it.

When a fish catches you bluffing, and then you stack him with 1 pair a few hands later.

when "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston comes on during play

When you have a combo draw and that offsuit gutshot straight card falls giving you the absolute nuts, and a wide value-target range in your opponent's hands.

When your set evolves into quads on the turn and there's a bet and a raise before you.

flopping a set
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Interesting thing to note about human psychology:

When you get reraised PF and hold AA, it's all fireworks and rainbows in your head.

When you turn over a set on the turn playing for stacks and your opponent shows a FD, you **** your pants.

In both situations you are 81.8%. In fact, more of a favorite in the latter if some of your opponent's suits pairs the board.

i'm the aggro-fool raising that turn w zipddooda. yw

Probably because generally when you have a set on the turn all in the other guy is dead or near to, so a FD is pretty much the last hand you want to see (other than higher set/made straight/flush).

But when we see that made straight/flush, we are thinking pair the board. That is why sets are so powerful, you either have them drawing dead, or you yourself are drawing to a boat. But when it is only when you're ahead against a FD, SD combo draw that you **** your pants. Math goes out the window.

It's like when your sports teams is 99.9% to win but all of a sudden the other team makes a rally and Vegas is giving your team an 87% chance to win, you have this feeling that you lost already. You went from 1 in 1000 likely to lose, to just 1 in 12. The odds of what just happened was already 83 to 1 against, and now a 12 to 1 shot at losing.

Quite the opposite on the other side. You can go from 1% to 15% and suddenly feel like it's a flip.

Being "the kid" and running up a huge stack in the big game. Nothing better than everyone eyeing your big black stack. Especially when it's the Sexy baccarat dealer.

Also, tilting someone by absolutely bombing the river when they clearly wanted a cheap showdown.