Comments on: You Can’t Shoot Someone Online

By: marc

marc — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:16:06 +0000

When someone is playing poker face to face, they act much different then if they are online. True colors come out when people feel safe behind their computer. I found an interesting article about online poker that is worth a read.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:45:12 +0000

This was just an ordinary non-tournament table. The person was an idiot. When I make a ridiculous call and win, I am a genius, on the other hand. Because I planned to be lucky.

But yeah, with tournament poker online, what you describe is starting to become a big issue. Lots of satellites for the WSOP are afflicted with tons and tons of players who just go all-in on every hand from the outset, who treat the opening 3-4 hands as if they’re Powerball rather than poker (e.g., if they get wildly lucky against the odds when someone calls them with a much better preflop hand, then they’ve got a big stack and can sit back and really start to play. If not, there’s always another satellite.) It makes a certain kind of sense but it drives the more experienced players absolutely insane, because there’s no relationship between the all-in and what they’ve actually got to go all-in on.

By: louisa

louisa — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:29:54 +0000

i’m sure no one wants to hear this, but there is an outside reason this person isn’t an absolute jackass whose money, if there is a Just God ™, will soon be taken off her rube-some self. she might just be evil.

if she was big stack at the table, and playing smart (and like an &^*$, really \ the same thing in poker), she can and should afford to stay in on the flop, even with the second worst hand in all of hold em, on the chance she gets lucky on the flop.

and if her stack significantly outstrips yours, even after such a lackluster flop for her, she has vested interest to stay in (especially with no competition) to bust you out at relatively little cost to herself. and then this all just becomes another bad beat story. sucks, but happens.

moral: big stacks are evil. and God hates you. I’m sure there’s some sociology paper being written on this topic as we speak, extra points given for any mention of either Tilly or the Big Grab.

please disregard this message if it wasn’t tournament style play (i only play live poker) or the person really was just an idiot.

By: ebehren1

ebehren1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:10:32 +0000

There is, very rarely, a reason for this…if you’re tremendously short-stacked, and you’re down to a chip and a prayer. I’m assuming this person was just a *&^!

By: ben wolfson

ben wolfson — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 04:07:29 +0000

The return of the abominable fancy.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:35:25 +0000

Only if God promises me a cut of the action.

By: Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:56:27 +0000

But Tim, someday that idiot — emboldened by his success against you — will pull the same stunt when playing for a lot of money, and will lose his shirt. Thus the justice of God will be accomplished. Such justice may be slow, but it is sure. And this just God has allowed you to be a part of His plan — isn’t that special?

By: back40

back40 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:06:04 +0000

The devil made him do it.