Joined: Mar '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 62 (M)
Posts: 86
because i always get called by some a$$hole with off suit cards that ends up rivering me with a flush. e.g. invitational freeroll 1st level 3rd HAND LATE POS (players behind me sitting out #3) i limp me Kh Qd raise 4x+ 1bb limper calls flop:-9 10 J rainbow giving me nut straight! limper bets pot (230) raise to 920 limper goes all in ( pot commited nut straight gotta call) at worst i can only split limper calls limper has 5d 8d one d on board turn 2d river 7d god do i hate the flop nuts? no do i hate the river? no i get these breaks sometimes but it still annoys the hell out of me that people will call with absolutely nothing and win
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Chile
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1353
Welcome to the freerolls world. People don't care to lose as they don't put money on the tournamnet and sometimes (or very often) they appear doing this kind of horrible suckouts.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Well look on the bright side, it was eairly on and it cost you nothing and only 5 mins of your life. I was in a re-buy the outher day and the guy next to me was all in every hand, re-loading and was doing it untill the 1st break. I was thinking wounder how much this fool has lost, checkd his stats, and he had a s**t load of tourn wins??? cant complain myself tho, he got me around 25k chips b4 1st break wich then took me to take 8th in the tourn. Idiots can make or break you.
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 64 (M)
Posts: 735
Oh, I love those maniacs. Last night at PP, in stead of the usual 5 to 20% of players seeing a flop at 0,05 / 0,10, nearly all tables had 15 to 40 % !!! Cost me 4 buy-ins of $2 (MSS ) to crack it, but doubled my 8 bucks and went to bed with a smile on face
Oh, and on-topic, you will learn to love it once you learned to play proper poker
This is what usually happens in freeroll torunaments. The real danger in these tournaments is to find a players who doesn't care at all to be in or out and plays no sense, just to lokk for luck. When I play in a freeroll I try to avoid coinfllip and when I'm out of position sometimes I fold JJ or KK too
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 64 (M)
Posts: 735
Posted by palfco: please feel free to enlighten me as to how you would have played it?
Oh, I would've just gone all-in as you did, then wouldn't be as surprised about his hand as you did, and finally registered for the next FR as...... erm, did you?
Joined: Mar '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 62 (M)
Posts: 86
Oh, I would've just gone all-in as you did, then wouldn't be as surprised about his hand as you did, and finally registered for the next FR as...... erm, did you?
never said i was suprised just said hate flopping the nuts cos always lose . but no as i said it was invitational freeroll from a site not supported here yet.and their freerolls are few & far between ( canadian site apparently )
Well freerolls are absolutley notorious for their horrific play, your best strategy is playing ABC poker, if you flop nuts bet hard & hope you dont get sucked out on by the sucker who moved all in. Also if you want to play proper poker, where the players actually know how to play and aren't going to be making the same crazy calls,, then you should prob stop playing freerolls & instead put in a deposit & play Nl10/Nl25, its not that hard to build a run up a proper bankroll at those stakes. Gd luck.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Ireland
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 360
It's a freeroll, What do you expect? They're not worth the time and effort of playing properly so you're better off playing the way everyone else does and hope to get lucky.
Joined: Aug '08
Location: Canada
Age: 58 (F)
Posts: 2558
Posted by Joe_Average:
Posted by palfco: please feel free to enlighten me as to how you would have played it?
Oh, I would've just gone all-in as you did, then wouldn't be as surprised about his hand as you did, and finally registered for the next FR as...... erm, did you?
) to crack it, but doubled my 8 bucks and went to bed with a smile on face 
