Online Abuse, Giving it and Taking it

I emailed full tilt and asked them to take my chat away after an incident in a $55 PLHE heads-up game left me quite disgusted with my own crassness. I was playing a Finnish woman, her name escapes me but we have tangled a bit and she sucks nuts,

I looked down and found pocket tens on the button,
I raise the pot and she calls, pot about 300
flops comes a beautiful 10,4,2 rainbow,
She checks, I bet 300, she calls, pot 900
Turn comes Q spades, She Checks, I bet 900 effectively putting us both all in, she calls leaving me about 200 and her about 100 as I had a slight lead.
River come’s J spades. And I last 200 in and she calls and wins the pot having runner runnerd a spade flush with 9 5 of spades.

This set me off, because its hit so many of my buttons. I hate the call pre-flop with crap, raise yes, call no. I hate the flop call with no hand and no draw with no intention of stealing the pot, the flat call committing you both without pushing the rest over the line I really hate as she can’t fol he last 100 can she?

I was left with 100 but instead of playing I let it time out whilst I googled Finnish swear words, I came up with “Runkkari- Paska- Pillu” which is “wanker-shit-cunt”. I felt really ashamed afterwards and felt I might have reached my lowest ebb so have requested the ban myself and it will remain in place until I believe I am once again mature enough to be allowed to communicate with adults.

Online chat abuse is a curious animal; I sat at a table yesterday when one player started abusing another’s play when he had not even been involved in the hand. A quick Sharkscope of both players revealed one had a tremendous ROI and one was a proven loser, can you guess which one? I bet you can.

The play might have looked bad (shoving AK on a Q,10,X board) but it was a stop go with a three across against an opponent who had shown a lot of weakness. AK moves in final ½ his stack after the post flop action hits his J for the Broadway, his oppo had hit the X for a set but matey boy doesn’t know this and thinks he has three live cards as outs with half his stack in the pot, over used phrase but this is all pretty much standard and shows that the abuser really hadn’t understood the situation at all which explains why his doing his brains online.

Sometimes the abuse you receive is just plain curious and points to you abusers complete lack of understanding of the game. I was playing a $110 heads-up on full tilt and about three hands in I raise to 60 with J7 diamonds when on the button. Most people will agree this is a pretty standard play in heads-up poker.

My opponent flat calls and the flop come 10,9,7 rainbow, I bet 90 into 120 chip pot and my opponent calls making the pot about 300 with both of us having 1,200 or so behind. Turn comes 8 of hearts and it’s a very co-ordinated board with no flush draws possible. Having made the jack high straight with no flush draw fears I’m feeling pretty confident I have an unassailable lead in the hand so want to get some money in the pot but also don’t want to lose my customer.

I bet 150 into a 300 chip pot, this is to make the pot 600 on the river so I can bet a nice 300 and be sure of getting called and also to act as a weak lead so as to encourage my opponent into trying to push me off if his holding something like Q 10, top pair with the draw or two pair maybe.

Anyway my oppo re-raises all in and I have to contemplate he has the nuts with QJ, seems really unlikely though has with no draws on board its likely his going to try to play this for max value, saying that I’ve been undone by this kind of logic before and its dangerous to discount the pure greed and incompetence of an opponent.

Well I’m sure I must be ahead and call and sure enough I have the lead, but I was stunned at by oppo’s hand though. Pocket 66’s, he had flat called heads up a standard position raise, and then called a bet with three over cards to hit a gut shot to the idiot end of a straight and find himself drawing to three outs for a split. River bricks and oppo is left with 20 chips.

Oppo explodes in chat abuse, “What kind of idiot raises with J7? You’re an idiot; you’re a joke, an fcking moron, wanker, tard”. It’s quite funny as he goes on a tear wins the next four hand’s and still has a 27-1 deficit to make up! I kill him of with jacks but his reaction stays with me and I decide to look at the hand from his view point incase I have played the hand really badly. #

Oppo’s Point of View

Ok so I have pocket 66’s in heads-up match and my oppo makes a raise on the button.
Well I know I personally would have made a hefty re-raise as my oppo’s range is wider than Jodie Marshes legs, But my oppo flat calls, maybe trying to trap and win a big pot ? or maybe because his not sure of his hand value in this spot? both point to some naïve heads-up experience.

So the flop comes closely co-ordinated with three over cards, my oppo bets 90 into a 120 chip pot. Personally I would have re-raised this as it’s a very standard continuation bet and it’s the cheapest time to find out where I’m at. But oppo decides to flat call, now I don’t know if his calling to hit the 6 which makes his set but make’s a scary board of10,9,7,6 or the 8 which gives him the ignorant end of the straight. Either way neither’s a very good draw and at no point have I made an effort to test by opponents strength.

Well an 8 comes on the turn and this must have been the card my oppo is looking for as his reaction to a weak lead is to move all-in, a bet that’s actually only likely to get called by a J or QJ, which surprise, surprise is exactly what I call with.

I think analysis show’s its probable not possible to play this hand any worse, he optimised his incompetence and the played the hand Uber fishy and his lack of understanding of the game shines through. Maybe I’m the same, I just don’t see the logic yet of calling to playing crap hand passively calling to hit runner ,runner flushes regardless of pot odd’s etc and its me that’s the fool.