Tell me you're bad at poker without telling me you're bad at poker

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What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?

Let's start with when they lose a hand to that 1-out terrible river card (we all know that feeling) and then, instead of shrugging it off, they go off on a tilty rant about how poker is rigged or the winner is a horrible player for even being in the hand in the first place.

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nabmom said:
What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?

Let's start with when they lose a hand to that 1-out terrible river card (we all know that feeling) and then, instead of shrugging it off, they go off on a tilty rant about how poker is rigged or the winner is a horrible player for even being in the hand in the first place.

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I see such players every day. Every day I watch players who, with a better hand or a worse hand, it doesn't matter, lose, and at least in half of the cases they start talking about the fact that it's all falsification and so on. I think such people, such players simply cannot cope with their own emotions and this is their biggest problem that prevents them from developing and improving.
 
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Thinking that being dealt AA entitles them to win a huge pot, then going on rants about being cheated or rigged poker sites when they lose.

You have one pair - it only beats a high card and even if you're up against a lower pair and go all-in pre-flop, you're still going to lose 20% of the time.
 
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I have to move up in stakes because the idiots I play against call me with everything. They just don't know how to fold.
 
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Bad beat after bad beat...this site is rigged.
 
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nabmom said:
What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?
Saying "flash" instead of flush.
"Rigged" - yellers
 
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"My 7 4 would have won that hand if I didn't fold"
 
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nabmom said:
What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?
The truth is that no one likes to lose, so at the moment the player is frustrated and irritated for having lost to the villain on the river, and of course he will blame the website or the villain for having called until the river with a speculative hand. .

But he himself will never admit to having made mistakes and playing many times with a hand many times worse and having hit the third pair on the flop and thinking that his hand is the winner.
 
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"Its all about luck!"
 
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TheKAAHK said:
"My 7 4 would have won that hand if I didn't fold"
I say that all the time! But then follow it up with a reminder that it was the correct fold and I can’t be results oriented!
 
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Every site has players who play and at the same time whine because their hand should have won but since the world is unfair, the site is rigged and the beer is warm, they have failed unfairly.
 
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fold my 22 and preflop and see that my 22 wins the hand in the end.
 
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I have J4os, it's the first hand of the tourney, there's 20 chips in the pot,
I'm shoving allin!!!!!!👍
 
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nabmom said:
What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?

Let's start with when they lose a hand to that 1-out terrible river card (we all know that feeling) and then, instead of shrugging it off, they go off on a tilty rant about how poker is rigged or the winner is a horrible player for even being in the hand in the first place.
I can do this...

Does this make me new or a poor player, or both?

Does this make holder of seventeen world series of poker bracelets Phil Hellmuth new too? Or a bad player? ;)
 
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Gee, the tournament started 10 minutes ago, and I've only shoved 3 times. Better shove again ...
 
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I have one word:
Limp

To me the worst players are those who want to see every flop and rarely fold to any raise preflop. 🤓
 
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I'm going to limp with AA at UTG to receive a raise and go back all in :roleyes:
 
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Ogma said:
I can do this...

Does this make me new or a poor player, or both?

Does this make holder of seventeen World Series of Poker bracelets Phil Hellmuth new too? Or a bad player? ;)
No his tantrums make him a sore loser hence why he got the nickname pokerbrat. That and because of his success at a fairly young age
 
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Well they use the Emoticon “I am so great/good” at GG Poker when winning with 72o as preflop AI.
And to emphasise Andyreas "Limp".
But there are situations where Limp may be the better option, depending on some special player table images.
 
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Mart1194 said:
I'm going to limp with AA at UTG to receive a raise and go back all in :roleyes:
I've probably done this before too.

Everyone's a genius here! :rolleyes:
 
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"I hate pocket kings.. always an ace on the flop!"
 
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Damn it happens, to be honest, every time I see a bad river and lose to players I'm so lucky maybe I'm so unlucky at poker, I hope after this post I'll be lucky and I'll be able to win more coins than lose to AA KK I lose let my poker failure go to someone who doesn't believe in my failure:Roflmao:
 
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nabmom said:
What is something that only new or poor poker players say/do at the table?

Let's start with when they lose a hand to that 1-out terrible river card (we all know that feeling) and then, instead of shrugging it off, they go off on a tilty rant about how poker is rigged or the winner is a horrible player for even being in the hand in the first place.

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Poker is not chess. Therefore, a beginner can win against an experienced player. He has a 49% chance of winning.
 
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When I meet a player with a big stack at the table and he always wins, I always look to confront him: there is no way he can win everything! 😀
 
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Ha, I still look like these players. The main thing is not to lose heart!
 
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