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 The perils of online play - a bit of bad luck, MozMan, 21. Jul 2003 12:18 | ||
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| Saturday night, I was playing at a 3-6 table at UB, and found a real crazy fish on my left. He played every single hand he was dealt, and raised without rhyme or reason. He was raising every suited hand he got (even 72s) and raised every bet into him. He's sucked out big time several times on some of the people at the table. So I think, ok here's an opportunity to practice some patience and see if I can find the opportunity to beat this guy up a little. I play extremely tight, waiting for the right moment to make my move. Finally, I look down at my hand to see QQ. I'd be happier with AA, but figure, here's my chance. So I raise the blind into him, of course, he reraises. Everyone else folds, and I cap it. He calls. Flop comes, (Miracle of Miracles!) QQ5. I immediately bet into him, knowing he will raise with nothing. Just as I see the chips appear in front of me... my power goes out. The whole friggin' neighborhood was out for two hours! I got intouch with UB yesterday morning, and they sent me the hand history. Luckily enough, my last bet registered just before my power went out, and sure enough, he raised... but as I was disconnected, I was treated as all-in and his raise was returned. He showed down 85o and had raised on the pair of 5s. Of course, I won the pot... but I'm certain I could have gotten him to cap every betting round if I had been there till the end. Oh, well. c'est la vie, right? :) -Moz "May your chips never fall from a cow." | ||
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| Re: The perils of online play - a bit of bad luck, Slate, 21. Jul 2003 12:54 | ||
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| Wow that was close. 4 Queens is awesome. I dream of flopping a hand like that in no-limit and pulling everyone in. Get a UPS power backup and plug your modem and computer in it. Your monitor will be too much for it but at least you will get 2-5 minutes with it and you can finish your hand, etc. The cable company has their own power backup so your cable connection should still be on pending you cable modem is powered up. If you use DSL or Phone then its powered up. I Upgraded my servers (www.ravensdesigns.com and www.lunchvoter.com) to a $5000 240 Volt UPS and I took the old ones and hooked them up to my home PC and Cable Modem. Here is Arizona Monsoons knock the power out nightly when they hit and the UPS is a lifesaver. Wise Man Once Say... "Pocket 2,7 off-suit is still better than Pocket Pool" | ||
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| Re: The perils of online play - a bit of bad luck, Wren, 21. Jul 2003 13:23 | ||
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| Damn, that sucks, Moz. Just be glad you had an all-in protection remaining! Otherwise, you wouldn't have gotten anything :( | ||
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| Re: The perils of online play - a bit of bad luck, stdioh, 21. Jul 2003 14:15 | ||
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| UB is pretty sympathetic. If it was anything that had been their fault in disconnecting you, I would be surprised if they wouldn't pop a credit into your account. But since your power went out, looks like you just got unlucky there and there's nothing anybody can or will do. I consider that to be a risk of playing online. Things like that happen and you have to amortise the cost of that into your formula. For instance yesterday I was dumbly playing a sit-and-go, a cheap PLO8 game, and a stud8 game simultaneously. The dreaded thing happened whereinwhich I was playing a hand at all three tables at once. The omaha hand I had was great, but I was playing on a silly 0.01-0.02 table and my entire stack was $2. I dealt with the stud hand, dealt with the tourney hand, and by the time I got to it (and couldn't find the . key in the dark dammit) I got folded off my very much winning omaha hand. Probably cost me $4 at most. Can I afford to do that all the time for no good reason? No. Does that sort of thing happen from time to time? Yup. So far I've been lucky in never having a critical machine crash or power outage, but these things happen and I'm prepared for them. | ||
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| Re: The perils of online play - a bit of bad luck, DRich, 21. Jul 2003 14:54 | ||
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| Moz, That was you? Obviously you just didn't understand the complex strategy I was using. The way I see it if I bet and raise at every opportunity just think how big the pot will be when I win. People tend to understimate the strength of 85o. DRich | ||
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