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Originally Posted by Paisting
And now we come to the part what is their main point to sit there and why they are ruining my sessions. They force me to play lots of all ins against them that increase variance. For them it's nothing because they don't care but if I have made 20 dollars at tables when they are not sitting there and then losing 20 dollars and more to coinflips and suckouts it's really hurting my game really bad. These people are just trash.
This is the first post you've made where I actually felt somewhat bad for you because I've been in a similar situation. Many years ago before ZOOM was introduced, I remember a certain reg made it his mission to "ruin my sessions", as you would say. He would join every table I was on and just start 3betting me extremely wide. He would make clearly -EV plays like squeezing 24o in a pot where I raised from CO and a whale who never folded pre called from BTN. Basically, he just played in a way where he didn't care if he lost, as long as he made my life at the tables miserable.
I'm not going to lie, this tilted the **** out of me since he actively targeted me and because I wasn't very good at defending vs. 3bets at the time. The difference is, instead of massively overadjusting and shoving 500bb with 93o against him, I took time away from the tables and came up with some reasonable adjustments I could make against that specific opponent. Once he realized I stopped tilting and started playing back appropriately he just gave up even started leaving tables he was already playing at if I sat down.
Point is, poker is a predatory game by nature and people will hunt you down if they sense you're a weak player they can take advantage of in one way or another. However, you really bring it on yourself by openly advertising you're the biggest loser ever in online poker with the emotional control of a 5 year old who missed nap time. You can do so many things to avoid getting bumhunted by regs looking to "ruin your session". For example: stop using the same SN for the tables and 2+2, play ZOOM, play on anonymous tables, stop using the chat box, etc. 888 is pretty much the worst site for you to play on given they allow lobby bumhunting and give close to 0% rakeback.