Final table "bubble-fund"

[bearwiredpair]

My Middle name is "Bubble Boy".

Its just the level of play I am at right now. My combination of skill and luck always puts me on or just before the bubble.

So in the back of my mind I am saying "Great idea!"

Reallisticly I dont want your stinking handout [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. Being Bubble Boy makes me play and better and harder. It gives me hope and lets me know I am doing the right thing to get this far. If I know there is a booby prize it will change the dynamics of my play.

Another thing, at this point of my "poker career", when I play a tournament I have saved up my money to do so and there are very few times I actually have a spare ten dollar bill to caugh up.

It just changes the dyanamic of the game. If we all start doing it things will start to change and evolve and the next thing you know we will have webbed fingers and toes.

IMO
Bear

[NicksDad1970]

Give up the $10 ya cheapo. One day you'll be on the bubble hoping everyone is decent to you.

Also, there shouldn't be an agreement on this UNTIL you're down to the bubble. The reason is once you get to the bubble and do the $10 deal it speeds up action. Many times on the bubble noone wants to get in action until they make the money. once you get to the bubble and make the offer people are more at ease and the action begins again.

[CincyLady]

My point exactly, well said there Nicksdad!

[gobboboy]

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Give up the $10 ya cheapo. One day you'll be on the bubble hoping everyone is decent to you.

Also, there shouldn't be an agreement on this UNTIL you're down to the bubble. The reason is once you get to the bubble and do the $10 deal it speeds up action. Many times on the bubble noone wants to get in action until they make the money. once you get to the bubble and make the offer people are more at ease and the action begins again.

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That's ridiculous, I want them playing tight and badly. And I don't 'expect' people to be nice to me when I'm the bubble boy. I couldn't give a rat's ass about not making the money. You can sometimes double your stack by stealing the blinds in tournaments where everyone is shortstacked. If the bubble isn't there, now you have people calling allin with A3o because they don't care anymore, but they can be folding kings if they really want to cash.

[CincyLady]

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Give up the $10 ya cheapo. One day you'll be on the bubble hoping everyone is decent to you.

Also, there shouldn't be an agreement on this UNTIL you're down to the bubble. The reason is once you get to the bubble and do the $10 deal it speeds up action. Many times on the bubble noone wants to get in action until they make the money. once you get to the bubble and make the offer people are more at ease and the action begins again.

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That's ridiculous, I want them playing tight and badly. And I don't 'expect' people to be nice to me when I'm the bubble boy. I couldn't give a rat's ass about not making the money. You can sometimes double your stack by stealing the blinds in tournaments where everyone is shortstacked. If the bubble isn't there, now you have people calling allin with A3o because they don't care anymore, but they can be folding kings if they really want to cash.

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Um, what crack have YOU been smoking, hmm? I ask because I don't know any short stack that's going to fold a pocket pair preflop, period.

[IgorSmiles]

F Karma, and F the bubbleboy. If you want your lousy $100 buyin back so bad, go win it in the cash game like everyone else. Who's being the cheapo here? Play to win with a nutsack. Enough with these pussy deals. Deals in general are BS. The point of tournament poker is to be the last man standing. Not be one of the last five or six standing then chop.

[gobboboy]

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Give up the $10 ya cheapo. One day you'll be on the bubble hoping everyone is decent to you.

Also, there shouldn't be an agreement on this UNTIL you're down to the bubble. The reason is once you get to the bubble and do the $10 deal it speeds up action. Many times on the bubble noone wants to get in action until they make the money. once you get to the bubble and make the offer people are more at ease and the action begins again.

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That's ridiculous, I want them playing tight and badly. And I don't 'expect' people to be nice to me when I'm the bubble boy. I couldn't give a rat's ass about not making the money. You can sometimes double your stack by stealing the blinds in tournaments where everyone is shortstacked. If the bubble isn't there, now you have people calling allin with A3o because they don't care anymore, but they can be folding kings if they really want to cash.

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Um, what crack have YOU been smoking, hmm? I ask because I don't know any short stack that's going to fold a pocket pair preflop, period.

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Yeah, what do I know, not like I play many tournaments or anything.

[GreenSmoke85]

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Give up the $10 ya cheapo. One day you'll be on the bubble hoping everyone is decent to you.

Also, there shouldn't be an agreement on this UNTIL you're down to the bubble. The reason is once you get to the bubble and do the $10 deal it speeds up action. Many times on the bubble noone wants to get in action until they make the money. once you get to the bubble and make the offer people are more at ease and the action begins again.

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That's ridiculous, I want them playing tight and badly. And I don't 'expect' people to be nice to me when I'm the bubble boy. I couldn't give a rat's ass about not making the money. You can sometimes double your stack by stealing the blinds in tournaments where everyone is shortstacked. If the bubble isn't there, now you have people calling allin with A3o because they don't care anymore, but they can be folding kings if they really want to cash.

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Um, what crack have YOU been smoking, hmm? I ask because I don't know any short stack that's going to fold a pocket pair preflop, period.

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I've never met this group of shortstacks around the bubble.

[CincyLady]

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F Karma, and F the bubbleboy. If you want your lousy $100 buyin back so bad, go win it in the cash game like everyone else. Who's being the cheapo here? Play to win with a nutsack. Enough with these pussy deals. Deals in general are BS. The point of tournament poker is to be the last man standing. Not be one of the last five or six standing then chop.

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Sorry, being as I'm a woman, I don't have a nutsack (sorry, couldn't resist).

Seriously though, how about you stop being such a hard a*s about it, hmm?

Anyone who's been playing poker a long time, likes deals, simply because no one likes to play for 8 to 10 hrs and bust out with nothing to show for it.

With a cash game, you can pick your tables and your seat. If you're running bad, you can change tables/seats. Tournament, no such thing is allowed.

Give you time, you'll change your mind after being the bubble person a few more times.

[CincyLady]

Maybe you have (met them) and just didn't know it because I doubt very much they are going to show you what they are laying down.