How Do You Handle Slowrolling
Oct 14, 2008 6:49 am
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I just came back from a home game I play in every week. I'm the youngest person in the group and they seem to tease and taunt me which I have no problem with. But something like this has never happen before. It's a sng format with winner takes all and there were 3 players out of 7 left. I got involved in a hand with a huge pot involving all 3 of us. I had Kx suited (spades) a king flopped on the board with one spade. One guy was all in and I bet into the sidepot with the other guy. The turn was a blank spade card giving me top pair and a king high flush draw. I bet again and the guy called. At this point the pot is huge and the river was another spade giving me a back-door king high flush. Over half of my chips are in the pot and I just hit second nuts 3 handed so I'm feeling good. I go all in and other guy thinks for a minute. He sits back in his chair and says perhaps joking "that asshole got lucky against me". Finally he calls and I show king high flush, he says "I knew you got lucky against me and goes on and on." most of which I don't remember. As I start to toss my cards and collect the pot he says "hold on I have an ace high flush and flips over his cards" Now I mostly play online poker so I don't have much experience with this kind of situation, but I have play in vegas and the caribbean and other home games. And no one has ever slow rolled me like this. You get the deck stacked in your favor with a brutal cooler 3 handed and then SLOWROLL. WTF. Does anybody else have any advice or stories dealing with the slowroll?
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Well really you cant do anything about others slowrolling other than just tell him how horrible and poor etiquette it is to do that to someone. Only thing I can say is that guy is a jerk obviously and should be hit in the face but thats just me thinking outloud.
-Sin
I have never been treated like that in live poker, and don't know exactly what I would do. I would probably AT LEAST call the guy an ass. I guess everybody has to deal with rude people, it just sucks to haave to deal with them at a poker table, much less when they actually beat you. I know many people that would have told him good game after they knocked him on his butt, but I really don't think that is appropriate. Don't go down to their level and keep your cool. Call it as you see it, but don't do overboard. Good job at the game, and keep up the good play!
Ncizzion
I have never been treated like that in live poker, and don't know exactly what I would do. I would probably AT LEAST call the guy an ass. I guess everybody has to deal with rude people, it just sucks to haave to deal with them at a poker table, much less when they actually beat you. I know many people that would have told him good game after they knocked him on his butt, but I really don't think that is appropriate. Don't go down to their level and keep your cool. Call it as you see it, but don't do overboard. Good job at the game, and keep up the good play!
Ncizzion
I have never been treated like that in live poker, and don't know exactly what I would do. I would probably AT LEAST call the guy an ass. I guess everybody has to deal with rude people, it just sucks to haave to deal with them at a poker table, much less when they actually beat you. I know many people that would have told him good game after they knocked him on his butt, but I really don't think that is appropriate. Don't go down to their level and keep your cool. Call it as you see it, but don't do overboard. Good job at the game, and keep up the good play!
Ncizzion
I have never been treated like that in live poker, and don't know exactly what I would do. I would probably AT LEAST call the guy an ass. I guess everybody has to deal with rude people, it just sucks to haave to deal with them at a poker table, much less when they actually beat you. I know many people that would have told him good game after they knocked him on his butt, but I really don't think that is appropriate. Don't go down to their level and keep your cool. Call it as you see it, but don't do overboard. Good job at the game, and keep up the good play!
Ncizzion
I have never been treated like that in live poker, and don't know exactly what I would do. I would probably AT LEAST call the guy an ass. I guess everybody has to deal with rude people, it just sucks to haave to deal with them at a poker table, much less when they actually beat you. I know many people that would have told him good game after they knocked him on his butt, but I really don't think that is appropriate. Don't go down to their level and keep your cool. Call it as you see it, but don't do overboard. Good job at the game, and keep up the good play!
Ncizzion
sorry bout the multiple comments. My computer was messin up and I didnt think I sent ya my comment.
Ncizzion
This sounds like one guy gors all in and another with suited A-rag decided to call and you did the same with suited K-rag. Well that was your first mistake to call an all in with K-rag. but then you bet into the side pot, and he smooth called you. He probably did this because you decided to bet when someone else was already all-in. However,at this point you should have put him on some kind of hand and just checked it down. But, you decided to put the rest of your chips in instead.
Here's what I think that guy did: He probably had a very good read on you and how you play. And, he felt confident about the range of hands you were probably playing. And, most of all, you probably gave him odds to call you down as well ( I can not be sure of this, because you didn't specify). Just learn from this experience, and remember that when you play against older players to ,make sure you play solid poker not too loose and also not too tight. But, you will be surprised exactly what tight means when you play against solid poker players. A tight player in internet might actually come off as a loose donkey in a game with some players. So, the next time you play them, make sure you don't drink, and start paying a great deal of attention to how they play, and make adjustments. Don't be content with calling others' play inferior instead search in your game for flaws and make yourself better by adjusting, and learn to read your opponent better. I truly believe in this case he just had a superior read on you, but you didn't bother to get a read on him. Best of luck, and next time kick their butt.
LOL Battery acid does wonders j/k well glad to hear you got it out!!!!
TC
Kimberly