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Originally Posted by DesertCat
Live tournaments are full of donks. Last friday three out of towners showed up in the morning tournament and shoved every hand that was folded to them while everyone was still 50bbs deep. I immediately bought in and caught the biggest donk pushing with 67o when I had AJo, Flop K85, turn T, river 4...
Standard. And that is why I have been forced to conclude after five years of daily play that tournament poker is an utterly silly and stupid hobby.
Yeah I know "it all evens out" in the long run. Right. I'm only alive for another 15 years or so that "long run" better hurry the F up!
I've never won an online MTT. Closest I ever got was Stars $3 rebuy, 7200+ runners.. I played solid for 11 hours and get to HU with 35M-6M chip lead. I try to close it out quickly but we soon end up tied at 20M apiece. Villian shoves all 20M pre w/A6o. Stupid or not, I call w/A7o. The 6 on the turn costs me $3K as I take 6K for second and villian get 9K for first. FML.
Yeah, I'm sure that 3K in lost profit will "even out in the long run". I will never regain that much EVER at the stakes I play.
Now you see why I'm all for chopping. Variance sucks, and somehow I seem to have a knack for ending up on the wrong end of it.
Anyhow... welcome back from your self-ban, DC. I think I need to self-ban myself from poker for my own sanity and find a less aggravating, less frustrating, less luck-filled hobby.