My way of dealing with being on tilt
The Question to consider when reading this: "Can anyone actually coucil me that the way i played below can work as sound poker play on a consistent basis." ie. being a loose agressive bully, who taunts players.
I had suffered a few bad beats and decided to get off the online ring games. I decided to play in a $5 SNG and just play like a lunatic. Really pushing hard pre-flop with lesser hands and really just putting the table on tilt.
The stats at the bottom should give an indication of how loose i was playing. Although they don't show half the picture. Since for about three orbits i put myself on, away while on the chip lead. Then proceeded to play 27o on my first hand back and take down a pot, and showing it. Like i said just maniac play.
While it says i showed down and lost 15 hands, in reality most of those where once i was heads up for micro pots. I lost a total of 3 big size pots the whole time, but otherwise just bullied the table.
So in reality it's safe to say i looked at something like 65% of the flops in this game, when actually playing.
I realize that it's a strategy i won't normally use, but using it simply put most of the other players at the table on tilt, and really had them pushng back at me with crap also.
I just decided to be a total prick, and the table actually became scared.
twice in a row, the sb limped in and called my BB. both times i just pushed all-in and he folded. he was so scared that every remaining hand in the tourney folded to us, he folded to me period.
i usually don't bluff, but the scary thing is that becuase of the shear volume of play i was invovled with, bluffing was a huge part of my game in this SNG. problem for the other players was that i could cover them right from the first hand, and they were scared.
My play had no rythem and no pattern. ex. I called down another player, even not re-raising the river with a made full house from the flop and then taunting the other player: "careful buddy betting at me like that you'll go broke". while other times i would push all-in with the nuts and get people calling me figuring i was just being crazy.
now while i saw i was playing crazy: i mean I was willing and would basicly raise with any two cards pre-flop and i mean any two cards, but played decent poker from there on.
PokerStars Tournament #2849229, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2004/09/30 - 01:10:54 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2004/09/30 - 02:19:00 (ET)
1: chugs (Markham), $22.50 (50%)
2: LUCKY RJ (Vancouver), $13.50 (30%)
3: shorty111 (littlestown), $9.00 (20%)
4: jacksix (Lubbock),
5: parrty (oklahoma City),
6: shizz (vancouver),
7: klak (Merced),
8: Z_Bruno (Wheeling),
9: DonationDan (Madison Heights),
You finished in 1st place (eliminated at hand #731872975).
116 hands played and saw flop:
- 18 times out of 29 while in small blind (62%)
- 20 times out of 29 while in big blind (68%)
- 27 times out of 58 in other positions (46%)
- a total of 65 times out of 116 (56%)
Pots won at showdown - 15 out of 29 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 30
I had suffered a few bad beats and decided to get off the online ring games. I decided to play in a $5 SNG and just play like a lunatic. Really pushing hard pre-flop with lesser hands and really just putting the table on tilt.
The stats at the bottom should give an indication of how loose i was playing. Although they don't show half the picture. Since for about three orbits i put myself on, away while on the chip lead. Then proceeded to play 27o on my first hand back and take down a pot, and showing it. Like i said just maniac play.
While it says i showed down and lost 15 hands, in reality most of those where once i was heads up for micro pots. I lost a total of 3 big size pots the whole time, but otherwise just bullied the table.
So in reality it's safe to say i looked at something like 65% of the flops in this game, when actually playing.
I realize that it's a strategy i won't normally use, but using it simply put most of the other players at the table on tilt, and really had them pushng back at me with crap also.
I just decided to be a total prick, and the table actually became scared.
twice in a row, the sb limped in and called my BB. both times i just pushed all-in and he folded. he was so scared that every remaining hand in the tourney folded to us, he folded to me period.
i usually don't bluff, but the scary thing is that becuase of the shear volume of play i was invovled with, bluffing was a huge part of my game in this SNG. problem for the other players was that i could cover them right from the first hand, and they were scared.
My play had no rythem and no pattern. ex. I called down another player, even not re-raising the river with a made full house from the flop and then taunting the other player: "careful buddy betting at me like that you'll go broke". while other times i would push all-in with the nuts and get people calling me figuring i was just being crazy.
now while i saw i was playing crazy: i mean I was willing and would basicly raise with any two cards pre-flop and i mean any two cards, but played decent poker from there on.
PokerStars Tournament #2849229, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2004/09/30 - 01:10:54 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2004/09/30 - 02:19:00 (ET)
1: chugs (Markham), $22.50 (50%)
2: LUCKY RJ (Vancouver), $13.50 (30%)
3: shorty111 (littlestown), $9.00 (20%)
4: jacksix (Lubbock),
5: parrty (oklahoma City),
6: shizz (vancouver),
7: klak (Merced),
8: Z_Bruno (Wheeling),
9: DonationDan (Madison Heights),
You finished in 1st place (eliminated at hand #731872975).
116 hands played and saw flop:
- 18 times out of 29 while in small blind (62%)
- 20 times out of 29 while in big blind (68%)
- 27 times out of 58 in other positions (46%)
- a total of 65 times out of 116 (56%)
Pots won at showdown - 15 out of 29 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 30