More Table Coaching

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Get your arse kicked one day, so what do you do? Get right back on the horse and give it another go:

Poker Syndicate $2/4 LHE: 75 hands, $71 profit
Poker Stars $2/4 LHE: 43 hands, $31 profit
Paradise Poker $2/4 LHE: 119 hands, $8 profit

Overall a $109 profit for 241 hands since my last post. Sure makes yesterday's bloodletting at Poker Syndicate a distant memory.

The most recent Poker Syndicate session was "this close" to being near a $260 profit. I got involved in a massive pot with AdKd where preflop, the flop and the turn all got capped 5-way. Unfortunately, my attempt at a nut flush came up short on a board of Qd-8d-6s-Jh-As. A set of Eights won a pot of $184. Yes, a $184 pot at $2/4 LHE!

If you aren't playing at Poker Syndicate, you should be (see a link to the right for why you should play there and a link to sign up). It is truly mind-boggling how soft the games are there.

More Table Coaching
During my latest sit at Paradise, I had yet another run-in with a table coach. This time a poor player took down a huge pot from the coach and it started up case number 1,356 of a table coach running off a fish.

The big pot wasn't what ran the table coach off. I was sitting in the BB with pocket 88 when two players, including the coach, limped in. I completed from the SB and the fish raised from the SB. On a flop of 9h-8c-2d, the fish bet, the coach called, the fourth player folded, I check-raised, the fish and the coach called. The turn was the Kd, I bet, the fish raised, the coach folded, I 3-bet and the fish called. The river was the 3d, I bet, the fish called and I took down a nice pot against his AK. Then the coach started up the all to familiar line:

Coach: You damn idiot, betting his hand for him. If it wasn't for you, I would have been able to take a free card on the turn.

(Comment: Huh, free card?)

Fish: I'm new here and learning how to play.

Coach: You are an idiot and you cost me money.

Me: C'mon, let him play his game.

Coach: I don't like idiots.

Me: Do you think whining is going to get your money back for you?

Coach: No.

Me: Do you want him to play better?

Coach: No.

Me: Then shut up.

Coach: #*&% you, idiot fish.

Fish: I'm leaving, this isn't worth it.

(Comment: Yes, the fish did get up and leave)

Nice work, Coach. Chase away an easy mark.

It really amazes me how many poker players need to have their egos soothed or puffed up by berating a fish or just flat out telling a fish that he/she played a hand badly. Isn't winning their money the ultimate revenge (if that's what you need)?

For some poker players, I guess not.



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