I played at my Live tourny last night.
I hadn’t played for a couple of weeks so I figured I would go over and play.
There were probably somewhere between 60-80 players there.
For some reason, my aggression factor is lower in live games than it is on line. I don’t know why, it just is. I think it may have something to do with the type of play at that live tourny. I have seen time and time again where there is an obvious hand on the board (3 suited cards on the flop, 3 connectors on the flop, A and 2 low cards) and the intial raiser would bet but 3 other people stay in the hand by just calling. You might be saying to yourself “just cause the flop looks bad, that doesn’t mean the initial raiser hit his hand”. Of course, that could possibly be the case but with three other “callers” someone probably hit something.
I guess the point I am trying to make is at that tourny, it can be quite difficult to get people off a hand so being aggressive has no advantage.
This happens on line too. When it does, I sit back an wait. I wait for the hand thats going to win me the big pot.
Eventually, the Chaser Monkeys will get taken out and hopefully you will have won a couple of pots to stay around and get down to the “real” game.
People talk about on line poker and how it must be rigged because of suck outs, bad river cards, etc.
Last night at my table we had a hand where one player had PP A’s, one had PP K’s, and one player had PP Q’s. The Q’s won cause a Q hit on the river.
Remember, this is live so the hands are dealt by real people, cards need to be shuffled, etc. so the number of hands per hour is a lot smaller than on line play.
So, when I got PP A’s and went all-in and had one caller, I was a little nervous. I felt better when the guy turned over PP K’s.
Then, I made a mistake. I told the guy “If you spike a King, I am going to come over there and kick your ass”. Flip over the river card and you guessed it, a King hit.
Larry (Dog) knows about this. Never say what you DON’T want to hit. Always say what you want to hit.
So, I went home in 20th place to comments like “That was sick”, and “That sucked”.
I didn’t get mad or go over and kick the guys ass. If I were him, I woulda called a all-in with K’s too so I don’t blame him for being in the hand. It sucks the K hit but if everything went the way of the odds, it wouldn’t be as fun, would it?
That’s why they call them odds. It isn’t for sure.
Well, hopefully this trend won’t continue. It will happen from time to time and I am willing to accept that, It just better not happen a lot!
See ya all later….
Good luck on the felt
