Dude Owns My Soul
I've been playing it for about 45 years and I've seen some ownership in both directions. This dude owns me for 2 years I've been playing with him. Then the last five hands were this (live play):
1. He beats my top set with 2-outer on river for higher trips after calling 500 on flop and 400 on turn all-in with nothing but a king draw. Comes a king.
2. Flop A-A-J ... I have A-K-J-8. He takes my stack with A-Q-Q-X.
3. Sickness: We both have Aces double-suited two pair hands (maybe the only time I've been in that situation in my life, don't really know of course). My hand is A-A-4-4 he is A-A-7-7. Flop is 2-5-9, my nut flush draw and my back door flush. Him nothing. He has one out ... the 7 of diamonds. And it came on the turn. After I check raise, again about 300 last bet and he just flips it in. Keeps me way covered. He sweeps.
4. I flop nut straight, trips, and straight flush draw on 6-8-9 flop. He flops nothing to his Q-Q-x-x. He calls flop bet of pot 125. Turn queen. River pairs board. He wins my stack.
5. Flop of 10-4-2, two clubs. Me 10-10-8-J. Him aces and king high clubs. Turn is super perfect catch for him, Ace of clubs. He's nut flush and top set now. Just sick. Pairs the deuce on river. Of course. Lose stack.
2-outer, 2-outer, 1-outer, 2-outer, perfect catch ... all perfect/perfect or something like that. That last hand making him the immortal hand of top set nut flush is just too perfect. Like the sickness peaked right there with perfection hand.
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Usually when someone says they’re getting owned they’re implying they’re constantly getting outplayed. Doesn’t seem to be the case here.
Maybe I'm a different psychological breed. But it's difficult for me to empathize with bad beat stories. Like, there's no chance I would devote so much memory and psychological energy to remembering hands and board runouts on routine decisions.
I beat myself up much more over bad plays. I remember tilting severely when I made a horrible fold that ended up saving me money.
Are you someone who enjoys non-strategic gambling (ie slots)? I feel like there's a correlation between people who focus on luck at poker and those wired to enjoy gambling.
Maybe I'm a different psychological breed. But it's difficult for me to empathize with bad beat stories. Like, there's no chance I would devote so much memory and psychological energy to remembering hands and board runouts on routine decisions.I beat myself up much more over bad plays. I remember tilting severely when I made a horrible fold that ended up saving me money.Are you
Yes it does represent a focus on a non-productive thing, and a non mathematical/strategic emphasis, to a fault. At the end of 900 sessions of death run you might be doing the same. Admittedly, I do have a propensity for that. Do read my experience of enantiodromia, never before covered in gambling literature until I did it. I went from being super red hot to impossibly cold. As soon as I sat the other night, it was a burst of nut flush draws, nut flushes, and top sets ... and everyone of them lost. AGAIN.
