Flopped a set against two other players. I checked the flop and a guy bet and the other guy called. When it got back to me, I started cutting out raising chips and one of the other guys says to me, "I knew you were strong. Read you like a book."

I remember when I was a broke student, how I had put together $200 to go min buy in to one of the town loosey'est, juicy'est games. It was a 5/5 NL and the rake was capped at $20. But yet VERY BEATABLE. It was all drugs dealers and business owners playing with huge egos. I think this was in 2008 or 2009.

So anyways, I take the bus, the subway and then again, another bus (one that comes every 40 minutes) because the cardroom was in the middle of no where.

I turn that $200 into about $600 with no sweat. Well actually today it would be quite a sweat but back then AK was the nuts preflop.

So anyways, this one hand comes up against the biggest maniac in the building. I have A-7 and I'm the PF raiser (yes, A7 was a good hand back in the day).

The flop was A-9-6. I get called two way in a bloated pot and think I'm dead already. The turn was a 7, with two of the same suit. Heavy bet and get reraised BIG by the maniac, would commit me to the pot all in.

At this point all the worst possible scenarios ran through my head...

"Did he slow-play A9?"
"Does he have pocket 7's, he's crazy, he's capable of having pocket 7's" - "But I have A7, no way he has the last two sevens"
"Did he REALLY call that flop bet with 10-8? Surely he must know he only has 4 outs, I'm not raising PF and c-betting this into two without an ace.. one not good enough continue all the way"

But worst of all, my biggest fear was that he had two diamonds in his hands, or two diamonds with a pair or some sort of a combo draw. I was more afraid of losing to a 12 outter on the river than actually being beat. But being beat was a possibility also. I end up folding.

He says "Good fold" and shows:

1. Players showing me their cards during the hand---and getting upset when I don't react to them.

2. A player pushed cards at dealer saying, "Look at my hand and tell me how bad I missed the flop."

3. The notable sighs and groans when pre-flop folders see the flop.

4. Betting out of turn, repeatedly.

5. Someone already said eating at the table. I must repeat it. "What are the specials today?" when action is on player.

1. Nail clipping.

2. People acting like they're Mike Sexton and announcing something during a hand when they're not in it.

3. People on the phone (not talking, just surfing) instead of playing the game. Honestly, I've waited 30s for someone to act when the dealer has said, "Sir, action is on you" and then just gone to sleep.

4. Nail clipping. Who the **** does this? Screw you for clipping your nails and letting them hit me as you groom yourself.

5. People acting like they know a lot about poker when they don't. I don't like people knowing a lot about poke either, but at least know what you're talking about. Don't say a bunch of stupid **** like, "wow, he was a 12:1 dog on that flop but when he spiked that belly buster his equity drop shifted to a positive gain margin of 10%." What does that even mean? What are you trying to say?

6. Old men. I dunno why I'm so tilted by guys that have shaky hands that can't pitch their cards in the middle, because I'm gonna be them one day. But I just am enraged by them.

Trying to cash in my chips at the cage and finding the shortest line only to find out the person in front is doing a credit card advance... Change lines.. Rinse and repeat. There should be one line for cash advances and the rest normal cash outs.

Attempting to help a new player innocently and inciting a full out table war.

A standard 1/2 newbie @ Foxwoods sits down to a 2 am drunk table across from me in seat 9.

At least 5 hands in which he is involved, he literally is picking up the cards nervously, and bending them into a "C" shape, not quite folding them, but enough where I've seen basically every hand he's had.

The dealer hears the side bar conversation between myself and 2 other players about him not protecting his hand, and that he's bending the cards. Does nothing.

Between hands I politely say to him "Hey man, you're really bending those cards and there have been times when I've seen your cards." Silly Me. Should have just let a fish do fish things, but I decided to give him a tip since the dealer clearly is useless.

He immediately becomes aggressive and hostile, saying "OH YA WELL WHAT DID I HAVE THEN??" To which I respond "It's not a big deal, just trying to make you aware so you don't do it again." And he responds "This guy is saying I'm marking the cards??? What's his problem??"

Somehow 2-3 other drunk crazy fish start badgering me as well, and slowly I'm the ******* at the table accusing players of cheating.

Last time I try to help someone at a table

thank god i dont have to deal with such idiots at the table. should just be quiet and take these idiots money

Guy who 3 bets to 40 preflop. Flop comes J83, guy who called 3 bet goes in for like 18 more and 3 better ****ing tank calls with queens. Nothing tilts me more

lol the way he sounded so defensive
his drunk ass prob tried to mark the cards by bending them lol


whenever i play baccarat and make a big bet and some other douchenozzle bets against me

and he takes ages to pinch its the worst cause i know its a winner idk why they do this crap prob for attention or something

i usually flip over my cards and when its something low the other guy takes his sweet ass time like looks at it for 5+ mins and protects the hand like its the final table of the WSOP

these *******s who do this are basically slow rolling and it puts me in a rage induced tilt

once somebody pulled the nuts and laughed after he showed the me the 9
i was "" this close to punching his lights out but he was an old fart and i didnt want another casino ban

thats about the annoying thing someone can do to tilt me live

So on sunday, I got it all in trying to rep an overpair on a board of 6946 (8) with AK and villain calls me...

As soon as the river comes down, villain says, I have two pair and I am just about to muck but figure to see his hand first...

pause... literally 15-30 seconds.... I show AK.

I win pot after he says, oops, thought I had two pair.

MONKEY tilt if I had mucked.
I ended up taking another 2x buy ins off him for 3x buy ins total. :3

Show your goddamn hand, jees. If you don't want to show just say "I have ace high" and if he shows you can muck. If he then doesn't show just table your hand and force him to do the same.

Taking 30 seconds for this would have made me call the clock on you the second it's your turn to act in every hand on every street.

I did!
I told him I had Ace high as soon as he called because I knew I was going to have to open first...

He announced he had two pair to angle me....

Just table your hand and declare it in the strongest possible sense. Don't lie and say "full house", but throw it down like you've got a winner. Maybe he misreads the board and mucks a winner.

Well I wouldn't advice saying "ten high". Just table your hand as if you are ready to take the pot, there is a slight chance he misreads your hand and mucks.

I've had it happen to me once where I had jack high, my opponent studied the board for a few seconds and then mucked. Two seconds after that he realizes his mistake but his cards were gone.

Actually that put the whole table on tilt because I had been crushing them for a good amount and now this guy is just giving it away.

Good young reg in my regular 1/2 game can't stop talking. He's generally very chatty, but sometimes he just goes on poker strategy rants 30 minutes at a time to bad regs / rec players / fish that just have no idea what he's talking about.

Asking the 60 year old rec grandmother "if she'd float him with two overs?"

Commenting after folding to a 80 year old OMC 3% VPIP 7.5x open, "oh shoot I didn't realize we were deep enough to set mine there"

Generally he is a likeable guy but at some point in think Ive got to pull this guy aside and tell him to shut up. What do you guys think. Talk to him?

Yes. Speak to him.

I doubt he's doing too much to hurt the game with his poker talk. People aren't listening looking to make adjustments based on what he's saying. But they might find it "not fun". Keep the table talk light. Politics is bad, sports is good.

You may have to put up with him talking strategy to you off the table, or if you're sitting in near seats though. If he perceives you as a "poker friend" he could be hard to get rid of. But you can steer his thinking and his perception of *you* by those conversations.

I actually wouldn't mind having him as an ally. He's one of the only tough players in the room. And to tell you the truth I wouldn't mind some poker strategy talk with a guy who's game I respect.

People that ask what you want them to do every single time you make a bet against them deserve to get sucked out on every single pot they ever commit themselves to

Dealers that don't follow the action. Once checked around, or all bets matched and you see the dealer chattering with someone on the rail. That's when I lose my **** and tap the table HEY DEALER PAY ATTENTION.

Another example would be:

Player A checks, player B insta checks back. Dealer slowly turns over to Player B for action. At this point player B can change his action because the dealer didn't pay attention to his original action.

Middle-aged lady sitting down with less than half a buy-in, pretending not to know what she's doing. Nervously folding every single hand. Playing nothing but the absolute nuts (ie: Quads or better) and the ****ing fish at the table still paying her off every ****ing time. Then you see her with $900 in front of her, still pretending not to know how the game is played.

1. I absolutely hate hearing other players say "good luck, all in" when it's their last two bucks.
2. Guys on the 1/2 NL table telling everyone that they are just playing to pass the
time because they usually play 10/20.
3. Players who take a smoke break for 40 minutes.
4. Guys who haven't taken a bath in a month.
5. Cheap poker rings worn on the wrong finger.
6. Guys who wear those stupid leather cowboy hats with the tassels.

Engage in conversation with you and then get offended when you don't seem as excited.

The guys at the next table over deciding to have a farting contest...

When the dealer looks and the turn/river card - makes a weird expression before placing it down for everyone to see

When players sit all over the place and it's a lounge area for seats 1-6 and then 7-10 are squeezed in. I was in seat 10 and bumping into dealer unless I leaned to the right. I asked dealer if we can square table and players stare blankly back. "5 and 6 share the middle." Everyone keeps saying they are where they should be. No one moves and seat 9 continues to jam his knee into the side of my leg every three hands.

I sometimes play nine handed games. Concept of sitting between cup holders is completely lost. I am always trying to defend my space so I don't get squeezed over to a side.

Two options.

A) Shouler check the guy out of your space.

B) Reach under the tale, grab his knee and start rubbing, while maintaining eye contact, until he moves away.