Posted Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:05 pm GMT by e42294
This was a bad beat, but I was the one handing out the beat rather than receiving the bad beat.
NL 3-table SNG. I am down to about 400 chips, only 2 tables left and the leader has over 3,000. The game was starting to look like it might take a little more time then I had left since I had somewhere to go so I get 55 and go all in before the flop. I get a call from another player with about 1,500 chips. I'm all in so cards show. He has AA.
Flop - nothing,
turn - nothing,
river - 5
I win the pot with a set of 5's and apologize. We both now have about 1,000 chips.
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Posted Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:21 pm GMT by Nut Flush
Why apologize? You had a very short stack and got dealt a pocket pair. You did nothing wrong, he just got unlucky.
Posted Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:12 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
The aim in poker is to take all of the other guys chips!
There is never a reason to apologise (unless you deliberately cheat someone, in which case sorry won't help)
I hear far too many people saying sorry when they catch a miracle card............. altho i have yet to believe any of them mean it 
Posted Sat Dec 18, 2004 5:54 pm GMT by davidianstyle
i agree with nut flush. you played your hand very nicely and respectfully given your situation with the low stack. just bad luck on your opponents part, that's all. 
Posted Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:01 pm GMT by Fat Tony
| Nut Flush wrote: | | Why apologize? You had a very short stack and got dealt a pocket pair. You did nothing wrong, he just got unlucky. |
this is 100% correct.
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