My first major fcuk up

jimbling

I don't mean a bad play..... or miss-read etc... i mean an absolute disgrace...

I had been playing a few hours.. playing pretty well, I was up about $100 for the session. I was three tabling on the .25/.50 6 handed tables.

It was unreal... I was concentrating on another, very loose, table where I had picked up the pocket rockets...
I took one look at my hand and all I saw was

hand: Jh 10h

flop: 8h 9h 2d

turn: Qh


wow... straight flush... huge bets against me (a $15 raise and a $30 re-raise)... so I presumed the nut flush.. i re-raised all in... got a call... delighted...

what I lost... wtf is going on here.
Checked the hand history, and amazingly enough there was no 8h... it was a damn 7d... how the feck did that just happen. Lost $65 with a Q high.

Stopped playing immediately... but im just flabbergasted that this could happen... ever happen to anyone else??

and Im not counting the involvement of drink or drugs in the process
Just tiredness and lack of concentration......

Actually just to note... I don't know what the other guy had me on, cause he called with two pair? surely he must have thought I had hit a set or something...

Culchie

jimbling wrote:

I was three tabling on the .25/.50 6 handed tables.

hint hint

BigDragon

jimbling wrote:

I had been playing a few hours.. playing pretty well, I was up about $100 for the session. I was three tabling on the .25/.50 6 handed tables.

It's like driving a car....Tiredness Kills. Take a Break. It happens.

jimbling

Culchie wrote:

hint hint

whats the hint?

to not multitable? If that is the case I disagree. Although in this case it did cause a problem due to distraction, generally I find it much easier to make a profit when multitabling.... I think the pros outweigh the cons in this case. But it is a personal choice

biteme

don't worry about it too much, it happens to everyone. Just ensure it isn't happening too often. Whats worse is folding the top house in omaha when you should of made about 200 yoyo in the pot. I hate playing tired

Moral of the story if tired and it's even slightly effecting your game you should really finish up the session

Culchie

It's completely within your perrogative to disagree.

But I think it is a valid point, especially as you are starting out.

Ask yourself this question, would you thought you had a straight flush if you were playing on one table?

karlh

play with a 4 colour deck. it'll never happen again.

if you are comfortable multitabling then stick with it, just stop when you're tired.

Waylander

Do many people use the 4 coloured deck? I never do, my reasoning being that I would be concerned I would start to miss 3 suited cards on the board in a live game on occassion if I did.

jimbling

Culchie wrote:

It's completely within your perrogative to disagree.

But I think it is a valid point, especially as you are starting out.

Ask yourself this question, would you thought you had a straight flush if you were playing on one table?

Yes it is a valid point, and no I would not have made the mistake if I was playing on one table. But...of course there's a but I think this sort of freak mistake can't happen too often, and although there are also other disadvantages to multi-tabling, I have been finding it much easier to make a profit.

I am very knew to the game, and have only been playing the 6 handed NL for about two weeks, but have been doing very well at them. I put this down to multi-tabling (due to my lack of discipline when playing one table - although I will have to deal with this as it has serious implications on my live game) and playing the waiting game.... due to the constant changing of players etc... this seems to work very well.

It could also just be an upswing (or that new game buzz.....i think they call it beginners luck..lol) and I am about to fall flat on my face and be back to the $5 stts...... noooooooooooo

TimFoil

It takes all of my concentration and alertness to get a credible line on 10 players at my table, a feat I rarely accomplish to a major degree. You must have incredible powers of perception to follow 30 players habits, styles, personalities & weaknesses.

My hat off to you sir, you must have an enormous, throbbing brain.

Culchie

Phew, thanks TimFoil, was getting worried there for a second, it does appear that most fellahs multi-table though.

Running Bing

what sometimes happens to me is your multitabling and you get a trash hand like 39offsuit or something. then just as your about to hit fold another table where you have aa pops up and you hit fold there :mad: has happened to me on more than one occasion. :rolleyes: or the other way around ie your about to raise with aa and you raise with 39

Lafortezza

TimFoil wrote:

It takes all of my concentration and alertness to get a credible line on 10 players at my table, a feat I rarely accomplish to a major degree. You must have incredible powers of perception to follow 30 players habits, styles, personalities & weaknesses.

My hat off to you sir, you must have an enormous, throbbing brain.

Multitabling is different than a high stakes STT/cash game/MTT where you really need to concentrate on individual players and playing patterns.
If you are multitabling several lower stakes tables then you tend just to play your cards and take each decision at face value. There's no real time for any indepth analysis as the next table is beeping at you.

It can reduce your hourly earn at each individual table but the fact that you are playing 3 tables means you should be making it back, and more.
Some limit players play up to 8 or 10 tables at one, they only play AA-88, AK, AQs, they just don't play any other hands. They play the lower pairs for set value only. Not very enjoyable poker but if they play well/run well they must make a decent amount of cash.

Dub13

I have a story kind of like this one....A while ago I was playing two MTT both were rebuy,one was a $198 rebuy and the other was a $3 rebuy (I bet some of you know were this is going ).I was only playing the $3 tournament to practice Multitabling two Tournament's.

I decided to play the $198 tight,as you do...I think it was for a seat at the WSOP main event.And have abit of fun and a few rebuys in the $3 tournament (the slow people are Koping on now).3 rebuys,yes 3 rebuys later in the $198 game I see the light and find out I got the tables mixed up at some stage.

The alarm balls should have gone of when people started to say things like "fair play to you for playing this so aggressively"...I was thinking to myself...its only bloody $3 for a rebuy.

God I am tick sometimes....I had a head on me for about a week.Expensive mistake but I can tell you one thing...It will Never happen to me again.

Mark J

jimbling wrote:

what I lost... wtf is going on here.
Checked the hand history, and amazingly enough there was no 8h... it was a damn 7d... how the feck did that just happen. Lost $65 with a Q high.

Stopped playing immediately... but im just flabbergasted that this could happen... ever happen to anyone else??

playing heads-up home game, 2 weeks ago.

i was chip leader. hole cards - 4/8

i normally look at my cards once and don`t check again.

so after initial raise and i call, flop comes :

4/8/?

he does big raise and i call.

cut a long story short, i mis-took my "8" for the "7" i really had.

ah well.....

Culchie

Should have gone to specsavers .

Mark J

:cool:

Culchie wrote:

Should have gone to specsavers .

:cool:

already wear glasses, no need. :cool:








and headphones and a hat and......

Rnger

Something like that happend to me in a sit and go at the fitz.

I had 67 off, called whatever, no big bets. Flop comes K56 rainbow. Someone bets, one caller and i go all in thinking i can take it now and if not i have two pair 5's and 6's (which i DONT have, im too stuborn to check cards again if i give away info). Original bettor calls with Kings and a jack kicker (?).... and i hit a runner straight .

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

and of course there is the classic omaha situation of putting down three cards from your hand and saying to the table "read 'em and weep", and then running crying from the casino, and muttering to yourself for the next week; "two cards...two cards...two cards"!

RoundTower

I remember a hand in the Fitz where I had 78 of clubs. Flop comes down TT2, with 2 clubs, everyone checks to me and I bet the pot about €20. Someone check-raises me all in for €70 or so, I look and it's only €25 more to me so I call. The dealer then asks me for another €25 and I realise my mistake. But I'm not too unhappy here, as I still have a flush draw.

I look back at my hand and I have the 7 of spades and the 8 of clubs. Turn is a J and the river is a 9. He had T4 and I win the pot having been drawing more or less dead.