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Relentless Draw Chasers

So the past two tournaments I’ve played in have landed me eliminated when I tried to chase off flush drawers offering them less than 1.5-1 odds to call, obviously players with no concept of pot odds. The first was at an annual tournament where I limped in late position with A-10 and the small blind called with 8-6 of diamonds. The flop comes Ad-Kd-8s… The girl with 8-6 bets minimum and the big blind folds. I figure she’s on a flush draw or has a lower ace so I reraise her minimum bet of 800 to 3000; pricing her out of the pot. She goes over the top all in for my last 2500 I believe and I call being pot committed and she spikes her diamond on the turn… Yes its poker and I induced a beautiful theoretical mistake and got punished for it but thats not the point, its a rant for you to enjoy…

The next one a few days later I have pocket kings and the flop comes 4h-2h-2d I believe the flop was. I had the king of hearts, I raised 3x big blind… I move all-in because I was relatively short-stacked and had two callers of my raise so the pot was big enough for me, I get called by the small blind who called my raise with 8-10 of hearts, figures… one of those players that calls any raise if they have any money invested in the pot… The idiot gets his heart on the turn and I’m gone, kings cracked by 8-10 suited, a hand I wouldn’t be that surprised to see in a limped pot, but in a raised pot at a table that doesn’t include Gus Hansen; I was unpleasantly surprised… I hate people who have no concept of starting hand requirements or cant fold their freaking crappy draws.

 That is all, I promise I won’t rant too much… I must provide insight also….

 Donkies and people who don’t know what the hell you’re doing, like the two people described above… visit http://www.mega-poker.net/startinghands.php to learn a thing or two…

-The M