Chasing Chris Ferguson

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I wish I could have posted that but alas, when I made time to blog…I tried and lost it all, not once but twice. Yep, I am a donk!  In case I had any doubt that t I am a donk, it was pounded at me in the Sunday PokerStars $35k Guarantee tourney.

I am an idiot magnet, no doubt about it. And yes it bothers me, being the personality type I am I much prefer non-confrontation. That doesn’t mean when something is very wrong I don’t state my case sternly…I do. And yes I get real mad (that Irish thing again) but there is a time and place and REASON for anger. There is also ways to express said anger in a rational adult fashion and I really do try to live by that credo.

Let’s start with Friday night. The game is 2/4 Stud H/L with a nice mix of loose and average players.  One of the players, 1^st Magician is very nice and gracious. Any player who says NH when you beat them is  way cool in my book.  I noticed he lives in the Cascade Mountains by his avatar..and since I am in the lower Cascades, I asked him where he lived (Oregon) and we chatted a bit. This turned into a chatfest between 3 of us when Petrucci (not sure about the name here) joined in. During this chat I learned a lot about these two nice gents, and sadly that Petrucci is very ill. Turns out he doesn’t like much TV and he is housebound, so poker is his window on the world. 

While this chat was going on a beyond Rude jerk chimed in. I have seen many useless lifeforms in my day but this guy has to be the worst. I won’t even call him human, he doesn’t come close.  Humans, have a thing called a heart and a brain, this idiot UPSCOPE, has neither.  This was proven when after Petrucci said he was ill, etc. UPmoron said “no one cares or wants to hear your sob story.” He made many more idiotic comments, but that was the nicest one.  Of course he was told what a classless moron he was by other players and I asked him to keep his stupid remarks to himself as we were not talking to him, if he didn’t want to see it, block our chat. The end result was he completely ruined a real good game which pifft me off as it killed my chance of winning any more. It also killed his chance of getting even..so great going UPSCOPE  you screwed yourself too with your stupid comments.

Of course these idiots have no life and this is their way of getting attention. I have to wonder though what kind of people they are, serial killers? Cat burners? Ugh…what miserable hateful lowlifes they must be in person!  Which brings me to question why are the worst ones from Vegas?  Or do they just put Vegas as their hometown so players will think they are a big shot pro?  Who cares I hate them and hope UPjerkwad’s chat was revoked so he can’t inflict his hatefulness on anyone else.

Rude idiot 2 found me Sunday in the $3.30 rebuy tournament. I had been sitting mostly watching and sorry I have no clue what level we were at but we were up there as only about 100 players were left out of 3,257.

I watched as Rude #2 “StopNgoAA” made brilliant plays like opening for a raise with K-10 off suit. I never had anything I was tempted to play. I was not in a great mood as at the previous table I had a hiorrific beat. The kind where I didn’t believe it even when I saw it.

That hand went like this: I have pocket 10’s in 3^rd position and raise 4x the blind and get re-raised. I call and flop is 10-3-5 rainbow. I checked knowing the raiser would bet and he did, I raised him all-in, about 10k which was about the average chip stack at this point. He called with no hesitation and turned over A-K off suit. No draw, no pair…and the way my poker mind work, he had no outs at all. That is because my mind doesn’t fathom runner runner 2-4 for a wheel.  It should, it just didn’t.  That brilliant player said “I am the luckiest guy on earth” I said “yep you are, did ya think I was coming over the top on a bluff?”

Of course he didn’t say anything and I dropped it but I was fuming. So when I was at this table and in the top 100 I was just trying to pick my spots and hands as I was snakebit.  Ok, so Mr. perfect player “StopNgoAA” raises again UTG, I am on the BB with JJ and we would be heads up. He raised a fair amount and I just called totally expecting to run into AA or something (as my luck was running that way) and I hate being out of position with any hand, which I certainly was.  I wanted to see the flop before I committed all my chips, all-in preflop is almost always a kiss of death to me. The short story is, I call, flop is A-5-8 rainbow and I check.  He checks behind me and the turn is a J. I bet and he raises me all-in as he had me covered by a few thousand. I figure if he has AA then so be it. The river is a blank and he shows a set of 5’s, I take the pot and then the rant begins…

For 15 minutes he raved about what a horrible f*ing donk I was, I don’t deserve to win a dime, my stats suck…on and on and on and he hates my guts. Ok fine, whatever…my worst offense was I did not play the hand the way HE says I should have. I should have gone all-in preflop, anything less, I am a stupid worthless donkey.  I did not say much except “you let me get there on the turn for free….” My way of saying…YOU tried for a fancy play that backfired, play your hand and bet it and I wouldn’t have seen the turn..which is true I would have put him on an ace and folded.

The only other thing I said in self defense was… yea I am a donk loser, that is why I have a nice BR and have never deposited. This makes me laugh. These morons that try to throw your stats in your face? As far as I can tell those are Tournament stats.  Maybe there is a site that shows stats for all play? If so I never found it. So sure, I have no 4 figure wins in tourneys…so what? And better yet why should he care? Would he have been nicer if my stats showed I am 30k ahead for tourneys? No…he would have ranted about how lucky and stupid I am.  

I do feel very sorry for these angry life haters. If they have to spew venom over losing a hand….then they must need the money very bad, or maybe it is just their whole being is measured from hand to hand.

And for future reference? Do not email support about being harassed…use the Moderator button, so says this. Which means he got away with it…this time. But you are on my list “StopNgoAA” as being one of the most insane, miserable, stupid idiots I have ever come across. And IMO…you play like crap!!

From PokerStars:

I appreciate your vigilance at our tables, violations of our chat policies and standards ruin the enjoyment for everyone. However, we have introduced a Chat Moderator program on many PokerStars tables, and at this time, all Micro limit real money tables, low limit Sit & Go tournaments, as well as all open Play Money tables and tournaments are part of the Chat Moderator system. For these tables, as well as some freerolls which are moderated, we will not be handling chat complaints via email. Instead, we ask that you page a Chat Moderator. 

To page a Chat Moderator, click on the Dealer Chip Tray or “Options” button at the top of the table, and choose the “Call Moderator” button.  Enter a short description of the chat problem in the box, and click OK.As soon as a Chat Moderator is available, they will come to the table and check on the situation. 

Please remember that this button is only to be used for chat issues; the moderators cannot deal with any other problems. Please direct other issues to support@pokerstars.com. Also note that if your chat privilege is currently revoked, you will not be able to use the “Call Moderator” button. Players who have lost their chat privilege may still have a say in keeping the tables clean, by emailing chat complaints to chat@pokerstars.com during their revocation period.

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For what it is worth, I think they should have addressed the problem and told me all future chat issues had to be channeled to the Moderator.  Then ole’ brown eye would have silenced, which is what he deserves. On the funny side, he must hate a LOT of players if he hates everyone that beats him!

Next time the BR update and tournament results…

This entry was posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.