InternationalWhy I love the game
Let me set the stage. If you’ve followed my poker playing nightmare here, and read along as it unfolded, and you play poker, then you have been right where I’ve been. Never picking up a playable hand and when you do, you can’t win the pot, even if it’s a BIG DUKE (John Wayne type of hand), it gets shot down by some lesser crapball and you are once again shaking your head (typing swear words as you NOTE the player), and wondering if there’s something written in stone in a cave somewhere that would prevent you from ever winning a tournament…or even one stinking hand.
So this is how it goes. I’m in the PokerStars 200K Sunday Guaranteed - buy-in $10+1. At one point, during the $15-30 level, I posted my BB and UTG went all-in for over $4K in chips (how fucking ridiculous is that?) and got called, not by me but 
someone that had 10-10. UTG showed 4-5 offsuit. Nice play pal! He lost, but he had enough chips left that he stayed for awhile longer and did the chip roller coaster until he got knocked out.
At one point when I was BB, I looked at 4-3C and without a raise pre-flop from any of my table mates, I flopped a four flush and everyone checked. The turn brought a 4, I bet min amount and got one caller. The River gave me a flush - it’s probably the first flush I’ve made in 3 weeks - and I bet $120 or something small and got called by 7-4 offsuit. I won the pot. It gave me a few chips to make it to the $75-$150 blind level - perhaps I stole a few blinds along the way, who can remember? I’ve played so many hands/tournaments/games that I lose track of most of it. Don’t we all?
I never picked up a hand. Please don’t try to explain to me what a playable hand is, if I had picked up 10-9 suited I would have called or raised with the right action, I picked up absolutely nothing that fit together, looked like it came out of the same cyberdeck that others were playing with or anything. I have carpal finger from hitting fold. It sux.
I finally picked up J-10 off (which I’ve pitched a million times BTW) in the SB when I had 2760 left in chips. Everyone folded back to me and I raised it another $450 to a total of $600 and mjsa111 (BB) raised it $1255 more going all-in. I thought about it for a few seconds and did the ‘fug it’ thing and called. He turned over 9-9
*** FLOP *** [4s 5s As]
*** TURN *** [4s 5s As] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [4s 5s As Kh] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PokerWorks: shows [Jc Td] (a pair of Tens)
mjsa111: shows [9s 9d] (a flush, Ace high)
mjsa111 collected 3710 from pot
Regardless of what anyone thinks of my play of the hand, I don’t care. By the time I picked up J-10 off, it was like looking at A-A. I kid you not, that’s how dry the card run had been, in not only this tournament but the last 30 or so. And I already committed chips to the pot and I made the decision to play the hand. I have no problem with the outcome. I do have a problem with dipshit, braindead, dumbfuck, gotta tell you that you played bad after they beat you.
I still had around 900 in chips left so I got to stick around long enough to stir up a little shit myself. And I see no reason that I should sit quietly and not say anything when getting lippy to an asshole is one of the best parts of poker, not to mention a S-T-U-P-I-D asshole that doesn’t even get it.
The Chat Box***
mjsa111 said, “nice call”
PokerWorks said, “nice hand.”
PokerWorks said, “I love happy winners”
mjsa111 said, “lol u call all in with j10 of”
mjsa111 said, “thats bad over all”
Stoooooooned said, “i think he thought bluff”
PokerWorks said, “my day isn’t complete without reading what one player thinks of another”
Stoooooooned said, “cuz u know he didnt think he had the best hand”
PokerWorks said, “thank you for rating my play”
Bechstein001 said, “sigh”
PokerWorks said, “and I am NOT a HE”
Bechstein001 said, “lol”
Bechstein001 said, “well that explains a lot”
PokerWorks said, “but you are so wonderful to give me a break by telling me I played badly”
mjsa111 said, “lol iz just sick risk all his chips with nothing”
Stoooooooned said, “u r not a he”
PokerWorks said, “yes it does, a woman has more sense than to act like an idiot when they win a hand”
Stoooooooned said, “wat u doin after this?”
PokerWorks said, “looking for you baby”
Bechstein001 said, “uiiii”
Stoooooooned said, “haha”
PokerWorks said, “u woke up in the BB with 9-9, since you reraised me, I’m supposed to autopilot you onto a big hand?”
PokerWorks said, “how long have you been playing online tournaments?”
Bechstein001 said, “oh cmon now its over”
sag04j said, “that was bs tilt i had the best hand and it got disconnected”
Stoooooooned said, “i think pokerwork bad call”
Stoooooooned said, “u had ****”
PokerWorks said, “truthfully, I don’t care what any of you thought”
Bechstein001 said, “good then stop”
PokerWorks said, “It’s my $ and I’ll play the way I want”
Bechstein001 said, “anotther 10k to go for money”
Bechstein001 said, “5 hrs and u argue”
mjsa111 said, “lol guys its a 10$ donkament tourney, but j 10 ofsuit is a very bad call with this blinds over”
Bechstein001 said, “about 10j offsuit”
PokerWorks said, “thank you again mjsa, I have noted you too”
mjsa111 said, “what u noted??”
Bechstein001 said, “he calls allin pair”
PokerWorks said, “that you’re a poor winner that wants to give poker lessons”
mjsa111 said, “ok thats fine”
PokerWorks said, “hahahaaaa”
PokerWorks said, “thank you for approving my notes”
Bechstein001 said, “still not done?”
PokerWorks said, “not til Mr. Wonderful stuffs it”
I finally ended up with J-7D, with about 600 left in chips, and pushed when there were four other players in the hand. I ran into Aces. WTF? If I had Aces it would have come 3 diamonds. I left the table, honestly laughing my ass off at the fact that dimrod probably thought that’s what I wrote about him in my notes, and if I told him something negative, was he going to report me? Or get the Secret Note Scraper/Fairy to sneak in and change them after I logged out?
My BR runs between $25 and $50. I can’t seem to move up or do anything. Poker goes on and so do I!
And I need a favor, if anyone of you downloaded PokerStars from this blog and opened a real money account, please send me an email “geenen at pokerworks.com” because my two co-bloggers would really like to receive notice that someone read their work and did, in fact, get involved in the game from reading here. PLEASE! Do that for us.
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