chess

[gwnn]

I hate chess, I've been going to this blitz club and I always lose like a moron, today I sacrificed my knight to promote my pawn it was really a very nice attack so I ended up with a rook up then I just moved my rook directly where his stupid knight could take it then it was still supposed to be a draw but I blundered again so I lost :) and the same 2 or 3 times again it is so bad :( there it feels better now.

[Fluffy]

I got a ***** load of badbeats in poker yesterday. I must be improving my game because I never bad beat the opponents, wich means I fold instead of going into hopeless spots. But the happy feeling of getting lucky never comes, only frustration for bad luck :/

[Lobowolf]

Chess is good, but bridge is better.

[cherdanno]

Chess is good, but bridge is better.

While that may be true, it is probably a matter of taste. Go, on the other hand, strictly dominates chess.

[JLOGIC]

I AM A PSYCHOPATH BUT MIKEH IS GIVING ME THE HELP I NEED

[Phil]

I got a ***** load of badbeats in poker yesterday. I must be improving my game because I never bad beat the opponents, wich means I fold instead of going into hopeless spots. But the happy feeling of getting lucky never comes, only frustration for bad luck :/

Took my son to play F2F poker on Saturday and we played low limit h/e. He quickly learned that AQ looking at a board of KQ3 with strong betting is not a great hand :D Hopefully he will carry that one with him :)

[Stephen Tu]

I must be improving my game because I never bad beat the opponents

 

Depending what sort of poker you are playing, really never may be a bad sign. E.g. if you are playing tournaments you may be breaking the shaundeeb rule, "if you aren't getting it in bad you aren't getting it in enough". The idea is that to be consistently successful, you have to be taking advantage of fold equity by stealing/bluffing/semi-bluffing. Some percentage of the time this is going to fail because the opponent wakes up with a very good hand for his range, but some fraction of this you will get lucky & bad beat him. If you aren't occasionally caught stealing & escape, probably you aren't taking enough advantage of the stealing when it would have worked.

 

This also applies to cash games, to a lesser degree.

 

Of course, don't take this too far, good player is supposed to receive a lot more bad beats than he dishes out.

[Lobowolf]

This also applies to cash games, to a lesser degree.

...and bridge! If you never go down in slam...

[Fluffy]

I got a ***** load of badbeats in poker yesterday. I must be improving my game because I never bad beat the opponents, wich means I fold instead of going into hopeless spots. But the happy feeling of getting lucky never comes, only frustration for bad luck :/

Took my son to play F2F poker on Saturday and we played low limit h/e. He quickly learned that AQ looking at a board of KQ3 with strong betting is not a great hand :P Hopefully he will carry that one with him :)

If the fishes didn't dry out when he gets the age he will get a lot of money :)