Exactly Who Went On Tilt Here?

Exactly Who Went On Tilt Here?

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Yesterday I was playing in a sit and go on Full Tilt Poker. We were in the middle stages of the game and I had just had kings cracked by a flush on the river. I was not happy, moving from second in chips to dead last. My "M" was right around 6 and I was on life support. I woke up on the button with A-Q offsuit. I made a standard raise and was just called by the big blind and we were heads up. The turn came something like 2-T-J rainbow and the big blind made a min-bet of $100. This looked a lot like a probe bet to me. I had air but I was pretty certain that she did as well. At worst, I expected to have two overcards to her pair. If I bet out it would need to be substantial, the pot was a bit over $700 and all I had was $1500 behind. The big blind had me covered. I would need to bet at least the pot which would come close to making me pot committed so I decided to shove. If she only had a small pair she would most likely fold. If she had a jack or less I was okay with the race. It turned out that she had a pair of jacks giving her a set. I needed a king and a king only to make a straight or I was gone. Hardly the scenario I was looking for. As luck would have it I hit the king on the river and was revived.

I apologized for the suck-out and then another player offered a sarcastic nice hand. I responded with equal sarcasm that I had outs. I actually thought that was rather funny. Sure I had 4 outs, making me something like a 7:1 dog. But even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. Then it started.
The player I beat in this hand remarked that I had made a terrible all-in bet. I would argue that with her. Sure I wouldn't have made that play if I knew she had jacks. I probably would have folded to a standard continuation bet. Her probe bet, however, appeared to be so weak that, at the very worst, I expected to be in a race with a slight disadvantage. In the shape I was in my move was reasonable and I would make it again. With that said, another player, one Cap Bligh, or something like that, began to chat in some mysterious code over and over again berating my play. He carried on for several more hands until he went silent. But he was steadily moving from chip leader at the table to second, then third, and finally he held up the bottom.

Every time I was involved in a pot he chatted up a storm. I can only presume he was calling me an idiot or something like that. He wrote in this strange alpha-numeric code that seemed to translate into idiot or something like that. In the final analysis, he was spending so much time on me that he forgot to play poker. My chip count kept improving and his kept declining. In the end, I wanted to be the one to knock him out which I did.

There is a serious lesson to be learned from this. Everyone makes donk plays during the course of a tournament. When one takes a risk one also risks looking like the biggest idiot or the smartest player at the table. I don't like to suck-out on a player any more than I like being sucked-out on but I know that is part of the game. One makes moves that respond to the moves of other players, sometimes they are correct and sometimes they are not. They are, however, what they are. To lose one's composure over moves made by other players is, it seems to me, to be the biggest donkey move, bigger than taking a calculated risk during a game with incomplete information.
In this tournament, I wound up in second place while this Bligh character placed out of the money. Exactly who went on tilt here?

About the Author:
Roger Fischel began playing poker with his friends in high school. Seven Card Stud and Five Card Draw were the games of choice back then. Over the years, Roger turned to Texas Hold 'em as his game of choice. During a long career as a teacher, Roger learned the value of sharing what he knows with others as a way to give back to the community in which he shares, thus, Rags to the River Poker was born. Come visit us today.



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