I love losing like this

[pirates831]

Just a $1.10 tourney at Carbon. I get AKo in BB. Button raises, SB calls, I push. Both callers. Button has 99. ... SB has A6o.

I was pretty decently stacked, probably 90 percent of the starting stack.

Flop comes K 7 3. I'm a huge favorite.

Only to lose to runner/runner 4 5. I'm rolling on the floor laughing.

[Whatsthepassword?]

You gotta laugh - or you'd cry.

[pakino]

That hurts.

[Killermanner]

I'm rolling on the floor laughing.

Me too after having read your post

[Terminal Frost]

Only to lose to runner/runner 4 5. I'm rolling on the floor laughing.

Laugh or cry is right. So sick of A rag players lucking out. Over time, they will lose with this strategy, and they rarely make the final table, but that doesn't help the players they put out along the way. And that's probably the most frustrating part about it.

So many times, I've been sucked out on when one of these idiots calls my all in or preflop raise.

Yesterday I have Aces up with AK after a hefty preflop raise and the A7o idiot calls my all in and goes runner runner FLUSH (with the 7 no less). Just love boards with 4 of a suit. I'm out and the idiot then donks his chips away and he's out.

He remembers the suck out and thinks he made the right move. That's what feeds them, the thrill of the suckout and the joy of redepositing.

[gav79]

I am so used to these kind of beats now it almost seems it has become part of poker, like you said it is better to laugh it off and move on to the next hand or you will only tilt and your whole game will be affected, as you said you had them well covered so it was a safe bet for you knowing the risks of AK and you can still walk away.

Keep it up and good luck at the tables

[Poker Orifice]

How many times do you get KO'd by bein' called down by a player who is completely clueless as to what range of hands would be considered even remotely +EV to call you with? I'm guessing ALOT!!
I was watching a guy play in a 6-player SNG last night, on the bubble. I was curious to see if he always played bad... or if the Sat. SNG he'd just donked me from was an exception for him, lol. (with 5 left, Top3 flat payout structure, two shortstacks left on the table, I'm sitting in 2nd, he's in 3rd. I get a big pr. UTG & shove ALLIN..... ICM says he supposed to fold KK here but does he know this?... of course not & I'm keeping that in mind.....and.. I have KK, lol. He snapcalls me with KTo and hits running T's.... BOOM.. now I join the shortstacks, lol. I triple up and am back up to a med. sized stack and once again I find myself UTG and another big pr. (JJ).with one shortstack on the table,.. I shove and he snapcalls with Q5s, hits his Q and BOOM... I am bubbleboy, LOL)
Back to his 6-plyr. bubble play. Out of curiousity I run their stats... oh wow.. calling guy has played over 550sngs and has an ROI of -50% (worst I've ever seen for that sample size). Med. Stack raises 4.5x at 100/200, and he flats in the BB with 9-3s, flop comes rags, he flops bottom pr. & backdoor flush draw...UTG shoves flop with an overpr. 'QQ' and he calls (leaving himself real short)... here comes the runner runner flush for the win!!!... great call mr. calling guy, lol... he is in the money!!!!

We can all relate.... no doubt.

[scrawnybob]

hi

I have to say I feel sorry for the guy with 99

he is on the button AND he has the stongest hand of you all

It he that should be moaning after all he got his money in good and made a preflop raise IN position which was re-raised out of position thus making IMHO ANY pocket pair above 88 a valid call

AK is missplayed / overplayed IMHO far too much - most of the time its really at best a marginal favourite of a coin flip - ie. much nearer 55/45 than people care to admit

there is no way I'd be feeling comfortable going into a late position raised hand with AK in early position ... IMHO the correct play would have been to call the button raise and then see the flop

AK HAS to improve every single time to actually have genuine value - so when the flop comes down with an ace or a king - you can genuinely raise

bluffing etc juts doesnt come into it preflop IMHO going all-in with AK preflop is just a plain gamble

just my 2p

cheers scrawnybob

[spowers454]

Im with bob on this one. The guy with 99 is the only one that seemed to play the hand right. I don't understand the all-in reraise. You said you were decent stacked so why push before you have a hand? No ace high is not a hand. Now no question the ace trash playing idiot winning sucks but had you just called preflop and then pushed on the flop if you really wanted to be all-in then you prob could have took down a decent pot.

Now a hand that sucks to lose is being short stacked (7 bb's left) getting 88 in late position 2 limpers I go all in and get called by both one with ace rag whos rag flopped a set and he called after the first limper called. But I guess some fish see an ace and think they see the nuts preflop.

[rgchan]

You just have to laugh it off or you will be always on TILT it seems.I,ve gotten to the point now where I can just laugh. Yes I bet the player with the pockets 99,s wasn,t happy when both players called the All In. He then must have knew he was probably up against at least 3 overcards then.
RG