things that make you go puke
Popular poker cover of the hit 80’s song ‘Things that make you go hmmm” by C and C Music Factory.
Lets be honest. As a human , and more so as a poker player, I am apt to blame my misfortune on outside agencies (not me.) In what instances am I justified? When am I warranted to do so? Let us examine such a case and you be the jury.
I recently started playing at Full Tilt Poker. I like the site. I think the tournament players are weak as shit from what I have seen. So much so I question whether some are not chip dumping, were it not for the fact that the tournament fields are so damn large it has to be next to impossible to land on the same table as someone you are in cahoots with to even try such a thing. Still, I have seen players on this site call all in with nothing. (oh by the way, I should qualify that I’m not talking about penny poker here, .. I’m talking $100 - $265 buy-ins.) Honestly I can’t wait to loot, I mean gosh-dang heavily ransack this place. At least I know what I’ll be doing if I ever happened to lose my job for some reason.
That said, they have hands down the worst betting slide bar that I have used out of the 10 or 12 sites I have played. In some cases I have been initially dissatisfied with slide bars, that simply take some time to adjust to. I don’t see that this will be the case with Full Tilt Poker’s slide bar.
Here is the dilemma in a nutshell: You cant smooth scroll amounts other than in multiples of the big blind. This is sometimes the case with other sites, but with Full Tilt, a) the slide bar does not reveal until it is your turn to act - meaning you don’t have the time of the players acting ahead of you to put your anticipated bet in ahead of your turn, and b) the time clock goes particularly fast, so that when hesitating for even a couple seconds while initially trying to figure out your bet can be a dead giveaway as to the strength of your hand.
Here are the notes I wrote immediately after the hand in question transpired:
I stepped on a land mine. raised preflop too light with pocket KK because of a dumb slider. (ridiculous for such a big poker site.)
Flop comes and this guy (in sb) bets out with mid pair and no kicker (J,4 off) again I raise too lite.
He catches ridiculous turn card, another Jack. What a bozo. Thank you full tilt slide bar.
makes me wanna puke.
Was it my fault in the end. Yes. I could have and should have easily gotten away from the hand on the turn when the second Jack fell. I would still have had enough chips to play (though I would have been weak.) But its annoying that the hand should never have gone down this way. I was trying to act quick enough so that I avoided a tell by prolonged hesitation when making the initial raise. Because of that and the difficulty of manipulating the slide bar I rushed my bet and bet too light allowing someone to splash around with shit. I also raised this guy’s preflop bet too light for roughly the same reason.
I should have layed the hand down but in a normal situation it would have never played out this way because this guy should not have made it as far as he did in the hand. And I do blame a piss poor slider for that. Its bizarre to me that some of the smaller sites seem to have the best software. I guess they don’t spend as much on marketing, whereas the bigger sites do and chince on software. hmmmm… er, puuukkkke.
Coincidentally I once owned this album as a kid.
