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1. Opponent Hitting runner runner cards to make a better hand over your top set on flops.
2. Opponent calling you a fish after he/she won a flip where you were the bigger dog.
3. Professor Howard Lederer & Jamie Gold calling you for their private home games for the 10th time in a row.

Here it comes……………………….wait, let me build up the exact scene (almost! Of course I will add/modify some details to make me look much cooler than what I actually was.)

Opponent buys in for Min buy-in HU 10-20 cents cash game.
You’re getting dead cards and he’s stealing your blinds like it was taking candy from a baby.
He’s reached up to your stack size.
He makes a brilliant call (or very questionable mis-click) with Ace high on the Flops against your flush draw for almost a 50-50 coin flip, He wins and He does Point no.2 mentioned in the above paragraph.
He keeps taunting you, You tilt so much that you buy in Max, making your stacks equal again.
His table talks steam you so much at the point you are beginning to beg for a particular card/s on turn/river………….. & at a point even for the flops……and at (later point) even for your hole cards!

And when your swings happen, He adds-on, Stacks are almost 1.5 of the max buy-in.

Then this happens, You are dealt AJ. You raise, He 3-bets, You call.
Flops are K-Q-6 (rainbow), He bets, You call. Turn is a blank 3. He bets big (pot size), You call…at this point, You are begging (literally at your laptop screen) for the ‘10’.

WOW! OMG! CHRISTMAS! NEW YEAR! DIWALI! HANNUKAH! TOM DWAN GLANCING AT YOUR DIRECTION AT THE AIRPORT!

A sweet ‘10’ with no Flush on the river!

Our friend on the other end of the table moves all-in, You lick your lips, You smile mischeviously, you feel sooo good, you have even forgiven the bully who tortured your primary school life for 3.5 consecutive years at that point….It’s sooooo sweet!

‘Click’ (on call)
???????
huh???
‘click’ ‘click’ ‘click’ (on call button)
No Action!

Your laptop perhaps got too excited with the river card that it forgot it was a laptop and was glued watching the action of the game.

You can guess what happened, my faithful Laptop had hung at that best moment possible! The feeling was indescribable, I think it must have felt like when Jerry yang hit his ‘6’ on the river to make the straight in WSOP 2007 ME finals….In the exact opposite way.

Working on my poker face for almost 2 days (refer to my last review) was a complete waste as I ran around the room saying really encouraging words and phrases. At last I sat down again and continued… saying that he probably had AJ too and it was a split! ATTA BOY Martin, That’s the spirit!