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Joined: Feb '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 1886
Which of these is guaranteed to leave your blood boiling? Get you to run screaming out of the room? Take a nearby heavy object and smash your computer until it can't hurt you anymore?
I expect to see a lot of the following emoticons in this thread:
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 6483
I played for a long time on satellite internet (awful) and then later had really good adsl2+ ruined by water affected ground lines.. I have to vote losing internet... I've lost 4 figure sums on numerous occasions due to poor internet. It really hurts.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Canada
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 1490
I'd have to say clock killers. They do nothing but hurt everyone at the table, themselves included. I'm not talking about those people who OCCASSIONALLY run the clock down to increase blinds when they are about to hit a short stack. That at least makes sense. What irritates me is those idiots that take their entire clock every single action they take. It's one thing if it's someone who's multi-tabling, that at least I can understand. It's entirely different when they just do it for the sake of wasting time.
Losing internet connection is a close second. Once upon a time I had unreliable internet, and it SUCKED because I always seemed to lose connection at the worst possible time (IE: on the bubble of my 9 mans).
hav to say the only one option that doesn't affect me adversely wud be the cancelled tournments. All the others depending on the day shud get some type of reaction from me. Not a violent person by nature so breaking anything is out...have been known to give my screen a good couple of fu's, wtf'"s, and not agains. Can't do much about freeroll invaders either. So here wud be what frosts me the most to least. Bad beats, really bad online support, collusion, losing internet connection, dealt with all of these in the past and up to this day. As for abusive players...I turn off the chat...some people use that tactic to throw one's game off. Seen a guy berate another so bad he dumped his stack and left. One other time this guy just plain wudn't stop harrassing the table, they sent a moderator to the table, he played at the table and the abuser lost his stack in about five hands. Then the moderator disappeared. One other comes to mind...getin donked by a big stack on or near the bubble...this one brings out my best nasty.
I don't remember ever feeling angry over any one of these options. It's not personal, is it? I think the closest one would be hard/software related (e.g. internet).
Joined: Oct '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 57 (M)
Posts: 667
Hi A Wood
I have voted for lost internet connection, although if there was another option for me it would be - being interrupted by phone calls from people who think it is fine to contact you when they know you are in and just get on your bleedin nerves.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Croatia
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 1738
I've kinda grown numb to bad beats already... it used to affect me a lot losing to some donk call with whatever 2 cards against my premium hand... now it only makes me shake my head and cough out a short ¨Bah... a**hole...¨
Losing internet got me really on the edge once but fortunately it was a one time event so far.
I'll have to say Abusive players then, those still get my blood boiling even thou i keep it to myself, but i do feel a difference on my game after so they do affect me. Thats why i stopped looking at the chat box. I just change it to the info tab and keep it like so till the end.
Joined: Nov '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 747
i hate abusive players, got no time or patience for sore losers, you know those people who say thngs like "i hope you die of cancer, you piece of s**t" which i believe i heard in a recent game. just because they lose a hand, intenet conection a second altough i have had AA foled out before with intenet problems only to see they would of been cracked
Joined: Oct '10
Location: Malta
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 44
Posted by Mysik86: I would like to vote for "donk players with 27 who will win" but you don't put this option
Not only that but call all in with this crap and win too. Other than that TIME WASTERS. As Retribution said it can make sense sometimes, but damn it drives me insane when it happens every single move
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Well on thing really wound me up at the weekend, a guy sneezing all over his chips, then wiping his noes with his hand, which then goes on the chips. I will put that down as abusive.
Joined: Oct '10
Location: Malta
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 44
Posted by B1gfoot: Well on thing really wound me up at the weekend, a guy sneezing all over his chips, then wiping his noes with his hand, which then goes on the chips. I will put that down as abusive.
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 3361
Well there's about three (3) of the things on your list that are about equal as far as I'm concerned, but if I have to choose one (1) I'm going to go with "Really Bad On-Line support". I would have went with "Bad Beats", but I've learned after several months of on-line play that this is going to happen. Everyone that plays has to learn to deal with this and there's not much one can do.
As for the "Bad On-Line Support"! Until the recent issues with Carbon and their depositing software discrepancies this wouldn't have been an issue either. I am so pizzed about using a credit card for months then, all of a sudden Carbon can't accept it. I contacted their support at least 50 to 75 times receiving feedback that everythings been cleared, repaired, okay, acceptable. Yet, for a month I got jerked around and with there not being a lot of choices for me as a U.S. citizen I was crazy for while. People at work thought I was have marital problems and my wife was ready to crack me with a fryin pan. Could not get over carbon's neglect to address the root cause which was in their software. Probably bored with reading all this by now, but as you can tell that's the one!
Joined: Nov '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 67 (M)
Posts: 3361
i hate the time wasters especially if you are nowhere near the bubble,i can understand it if you are 2 or 3 places away from cashing but to do it regularly for no good reason is a total mind f**k.
that's worse than Tony G 
