LOL twopairaments

This was inspired by a session I had a couple of weeks ago.  I was playing at a $2/$5 table and there was this player who was especially bad.  I had played with him once before and I just remember him playing really poorly and than having to listen to him talk about how poor his luck was.  The thing that made this player especially epic was that after literally every hand he played, he gave his commentary on the hand.  In addition to this, he probably showed his cards roughly 60% of the time.  It was insane the amount of free information this guy gave out.

Aaaanyways, this guy plays a head up pot and basically the board runs out A76xx (turn and river were insignificant.)  He bets the flop, bets the turn, and check calls the river.  He turns over A7 for a flopped two pair, and his opponent turns over 76 for a flopped inferior two pair.  After the guy wins the hand he goes on and on and about how well he played the hand, he knew he was ahead, he was so smart to bet, blah blah blah blah.  I was sitting there listening and thinking, "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.  YOU FLOPPED TWO PAIR WHEN SOMEONE ELSE FLOPPED TWO PAIR.  YOU CANNOT MESS THAT HAND UP UNLESS YOU FOLD!"  Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately for me,) this kind of player simply looks as the result of the hand, decides he must have played it well, and that's where the thinking stops.  He didn't bother to say/think, "Man, it was lucky that I flopped a better two pair there.  After that, the hand really just played itself out."  In spots like that, I don't even bother to get excited.  This is where the poker road goes straight and I'm going to take a hard right.

This got me thinking about something else.  The wonderful thing about facebook is you can post whateeeeeeeever you want!  A guy I played ultimate with just got named Academic Player of the Week!  So cool!  On the other hand, a lot of people using facebook to express disapproval with how their life is going.  I know people to complain about friends, school, sports, and just life in general.  I know sometimes it just feels good to vent and put something out there, even if it's just a simple "Today really sucked."  However, what I don't understand is people who complain about the same things.  I have a couple of friends who seem to really struggle with how their friendships are going.  It's unfortunate because they're great people, but it reminds me of the guy in the poker hand.  You've gotten to the end of the hand and you're saying, "This is disappointing."  When I see people constantly expressing disapproval of the same thing, it makes me wonder, "What got you to that point?  How have the hands with this person been playing out?  Was this result inevitable like our friends who both flopped two pair, or could your disappointment have been avoided?" 

It can suck to look back and realize the conclusion that you disliked were actually caused by the steps you took to get you where you are, but it can be really eye opening.  Find better friends, a better job, and win more money.

I feel like this was really poorly written, so it'll be saved with the trailer to my favorite movie:

"It seemed like a lot of killing over a very small amount of money."