Things I Hate and Love In Poker
Things I Hate In a Hellmuthian manner, you set up the perfect trap over maybe hours of play, you've totally nailed how your opponent plays and now you've set the trap and are about to reap the rewards, but no, they've hit their 3 outer and knocked you out the game. Games that you simply cannot win. Sometimes you play games and you watch hands play out that you would have won if you hadn't folded, others would have gone differently if you'd won that flip but some games you sit in despair because even if you played EVERY hand, you still wouldn't hit a goddam thing. And as soon as you do get it all in, you're out. Player dealt tournaments. I cannot believe this is a thing. I cannot believe people stand for it. It's probably acceptable for a £5 game down the pub, but in a casino? A scheduled tournament with a £40+ buyin? Fuck right off. And as far as I can tell, it only happens in Scotland, I've played a fair few tournaments in England, not a thing ther...