Larry, this didn't happen in my case, and I've never seen it happen.

Has anyone ever asked to be paid the bubble after busting? I've never seen it happen.

Rexx, someone asking for the bubble to be paid has happened in every tournament I have I have ever played. This is not an uncommon occurance.

Good point! Thanks. I missed that part of her post initially.

It's obvious mlylt is way better than that jealous, anti-bubble pay lady at poker!

Sounds to me like anti-pay lady had established a really tight table image and was going to pull off a sick bluff anytime.

Mlylt,

Fwiw, Code3 is correct about those guys making fun of you and how you should act more appropriately in the future.

FYP

I was actually referring to the anti-bubble pay lady. I was erroneously making the assumption that if MLYLT could double up, so could anti-bubble pay lady. This was before MLYLT posted the additional (surprising) information that anti-bubble pay lady actually couldn't double up though, so the scenarios were different.

Fine, I was wrong for berating the guy after busting and playing it off as joking.

It was fine for code3 to tell me about to help correct my behavior, but not right after I bubbled two tournaments back to back in the same freaking day and was already upset, incredibly tired with a 3 hr drive home, in the car where I couldn't escape him, or for him to bring it up without saying anything positive at all to me the entire weekend. All he did was talk about how I played hands wrong and didn't act right.....just constant nagging about everything I was doing wrong. I made it deep in two tournaments in the same weekend, I was ****ing doing something right.

MLYLT,

Berating.

ETA: And that guy doesn't seem great for you, maybe you shouldn't be with him?

M,


Why do you think that?

Negative

M,

I'm not trying to be rude here but maybe poker isn't for you if bubbling out of tournaments is going to tilt you so badly. Or maybe stick to cash. I probably don't get the annoyance as playing multiple online tournaments at the same time I don't really get as caught up in bubbles etc. Way too busy with other tables to really let it get to me plus it's just a really bad mindset.

El D,

Because for the most part I played really well. I was making the right decisions chasing, choosing really good spots to bluff, picking out and exploiting the right players, being aggressive in the right spots and picking up chips, successfully trapping, just in general playing well.

A few guys complimented me during breaks on some moves I had made against some pretty good players in the big tournament as well.

Fabian,
Multiple therapists have been fired for negative talk like that.

No chance in hell you have any repore whatsoever with any woman with whom you've played poker.

Rexx,
Playing live is different. I don't get to do it that often, so it's something I've been waiting for for a couple of months. Also, I assume the buy ins and payouts are sustantially larger than what you are paying for multiple online tournaments at once. When you wait 2 months to play tournaments, travel, book rooms, ect. and play for 16hrs over 2 days, it's a little upsetting to bubble.

Paying out bubbles and talking chops often creates a really lame dynamic where groups of players collude against the dissenter(s), and imo, is LAME AF. TD's need to start doing silent voting more

You should post a hand you played well to shut the naysayers up

M,

What were the buy ins?

Also you did get paid out on one of them even though you got the bubble so you should be happy if anything.

Code is right telling you to play ABC... The worst thing you can do against players who are better than you is try to outplay them. You won't and even if you wanted to try you are fundamentally bad at poker, and therefore lack the thought processes necessary to do so. Against players who are better than you GTO is your friend. I'd recommend reading Kill Phil and then Kill Everyone. I've been outta the game for awhile, but Kill Everyone is the best tournament strategy book I have read.

Also your line as you busted tourney #1 you sound like a jackass. You made a very stupid play then berate someone for calling you with a better hand? Do you not understand how polarized your range is shoving 4x pot with that many draws on the board?

I agree with this.

MLYLT,

Ah, I see the confusion.

Originally when you mentioned getting paid, you explained it win a way where the timing seemed wrong.

The way you said this makes it seems like you first: lost in the bubble and then: convinced them to give you a little money.

M,

A mature reaction to these incidences would be "yeah, I shouldn't have said what I said. I was being crabby and let my emotions get the best of me, but I now know to not behave like that when I bust a poker tournament"

It would also behoof you to realize code3 is an asshat that isn't deserving of your time and emotion

Buy ins are between $125-$500, I don't play higher than that.

Despite getting my buy in+ for one tournament, I'm still not happy with not going deeper and cashing.

1. *effect

2. Can someone explain bolded to me? If everyone is paying the bubble $20, then each player's payout is effectively $20 less. So how does paying the bubble not affect the payout received?

Unless MLYLT is claiming that since the $20 is coming out of each player's wallet and not the prize pool, the payouts are technically unchanged. That seems like a pretty idiotic way to perceive the whole situation, so I'm hoping that maybe I'm just not understanding it correctly.

Lol. Ok I understand you don't play much online but it's pretty easy to have buy ins and bubble situations equivalent to this with online tournaments particularly when you consider people often play a huge volume of tournaments in a day. Obviously travel costs make it more expensive for you but surely it would be a good approach to consider the whole trip as entertainment and a nice break with your bf?