Bertrand Grospellier became well known as one of the best players of the game Starcraft. He in fact travelled the world playing the game with his biggest success coming in Korea where gaming is massively popular. Huge crowds would show up to watch the best players and Grospellier would eventually move to Korea in order to play professionally where he would quickly establish himself as the games best player of all time.

It was while he was playing Starcraft that Grospellier got into poker, mainly as a way to kill time while he was on the road. He played mainly with the other gamers and not surprisingly in a group that competitive things got pretty serious. Most of the players turned out to be pretty good as gaming is a good training for poker. Grospellier however was able to win on a regular basis so he started to take the game more seriously and move on to playing online. Initially it was just for small amounts but as he kept winning he kept playing for larger stakes. It wasn’t long before he was playing for very high stakes.

With the success that he was having playing in online cash games Grospellier decided that it would be a good idea for him to start entering online tournaments. This proved to be a good decision as he has won several online tournaments and millions of dollars. He is now widely regarded as being the best online player in the world. Unfortunately this success has not yet translated to live games. He qualified to play in the World Series of Poker because of one of his online wins but this did not go particularly well and he finished out of the money.

After his try at the World series of Poker Bertrand Grospellier has entered a few other live tournaments and the results have not been much better. Clearly he knows how to play poker so it is mainly just a matter of mastering the differences between the online game and the live one. This is something that he will surely figure out in time if he continues to play in live tournaments. Of course given the huge success that he has had online it is entirely possible that he will stick to just these games.

Aside from bad beats, a long stretch of poor hands can make anyone frustrated and start being impatient and eventually get frustrated and play any card. You might also be ticked off by you being fooled by your opponent’s bluff.

There are several degrees and kinds of tilting in poker. It is not always just going all in with every hand but there are also subtler ways of showing a tilt. You might also single out on an opponent and think that you can out maneuver him or her but you will be risking losing your chips this way.

The most common mistake of someone who is going on tilt is to chase draws. Here you call on a hand even though the odds do not favor you. With these situations, someone who is going on tilt still call even though their usual call would be to fold.

A poker player who is tilting tries to recover the money that has been lost by chasing for potential rake ins. The tendency is to play riskier and put in more money and in the long run mismanage your bankroll. You will be playing on higher stakes which you really cannot afford and you will be putting yourself into losing a lot of money.

A good poker player knows how to manage a tilt and how to offset it, so at the end of the day, they will still end up with some take home money.

Softest poker cash games

It will be a bit difficult to pinpoint where the softest poker games are in Las Vegas but going to the following places might help:

• Mandalay Bay – This is a good place to make some money. There are a lot of bad and drunk poker players here.
• MGM Grand –  The casino at MGM Grand is a magnet to tourists because of its proximity to the nightclubs. It is also a good place to play cash games.
• Imperial Palace – There are high rollers here, but go late and you will find intoxicated poker players. You can clean up their stack if you want.

Affordable poker tournaments

If you want to find out how you play in the real world of poker tournaments, you can first try at best value poker tournaments in these places:

• Mirage – They have a twenty table cardroom that runs an 11am and a 7 pm tournament. The best thing will be their Friday evening poker tournaments which you can get into for $150 giving you 7,500 chips.
• Orleans –  Poker players know that the Orleans has one of the best card rooms in Las Vegas. There are also daily tournaments which you can join for as low as $75.
• CityCenter – Their early afternoon tournament has a buy in of $120 where you get 8,000 chips. This may be the best buy in all of Vegas.

There is nothing that you can do. Bad beats really come in poker but what is important is how you go over the top of your frustration so that you play your next hand well.

Don’t bite the bait and try to recover the money you unjustly lost by doing stupid moves. You need to keep your head working. You have to get rid of they-win-rags-then-can-win-some-too attitude. You will just end up losing money. Lucky if you lose a few dollars but I got a friend who wasted $10,000 in a matter of six hours because of bad beats and he ended up chasing the money through the session.

How to overcome a bad beat?

There are just two solutions that we know off that really makes sense.

1. Take some break

This is the best way to get hold of your thoughts and over come a series of bad beats. You can take a few moments off or if you need several days to get it out of your system then that is what you should do. Taking a break will save you a lot of hard earned money.

Leaving the game does not mean you will not be able to recover the chips that you threw away. Cooling down will help you go back to your rational frame of thoughts. There will be another game after a few minutes, or maybe after a day or two, or maybe a week. You don’t have to hurry.

1. Setting Expectations

There are odds calculator that you can use so you know what pot equity you have. Let us say you are holding an Ace-Ace and then the pre-flop shows A-K, then you have a 90% chance of winning the hand. You also have to consider the 10% that you may lose the pot.

Bad beats will be there. Most of the time. Winners in the long stretch will really have to be familiar with them. I am pretty sure you will learn how to look bad beat on the eye. Give him that annoying smirk and make him run away.

OMG ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME HOW CAN THIS DONKEY PLAY THIS SO BAD WHAT A DONKEY OMG I WANTED TO SLAP HIM IN THE FACE BUT THE VENETIAN POKER ROOM STAFF DOESNT LIKE VIOLENCE THEY ARE PUSSIES.

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Everyone checks to me and I bet out, $20. One Belgian guy who I later found has a poker blog called Sven’s Tight Poker Tips calls my bet and we see the turn which comes a seven. Still no draws out there, and Sven checks to me. I bet out $55 into a $67 pot, and get called again. The pot is now up to $177 which was good for me as I wanted to be able to move about $120 at the end anyway.

The river hits another seven, a great card for me — especially when all of a sudden Sven bets out $180. Beautiful, right? I shove after him, and he instacalls flipping over A7.

WHAAT? Nigga I was cruising, and he hit running sevens to beat my boat. Sickness. He was all apologetic afterwards, but wtf I’m so sure the dealer was in on this…….. SICKNESS.

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Full Tilt Poker – No Limit Hold’em Cash Game – $1/$2 Blinds – 9 Players

SB: $239.50
BB: $280.15
Hero (UTG): $200.00
UTG+1: $38.00
MP1: $164.30
MP2: $282.30
MP3: $194.05
CO: $220.40
BTN: $239.05

Preflop: Hero is dealt A Q (9 Players)
Hero raises to $8.00, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls $8.00, MP2 calls $8.00, 4 folds, BB calls $6.00

Flop: ($33) 2 A A (4 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $26.00, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $26.00, BB folds

Turn: ($85) 2 (2 Players)
Hero bets $62.00, MP2 calls $62.00

River: ($209) A (2 Players)
Hero bets all-in for $104.00, MP2 calls $104.00

Pot Size: $417.00 ($3 Rake)

MP2 had 2.2 (four of a kind, Twos) and LOST (-$200.00)
Hero had A.Q (four of a kind, Aces) and WON (+$215.00)

What a joke. Online Poker is RIGGED.

Full Tilt Poker Game #10344305412: $27,500 Guarantee (78111918), Table 18 – 12000/24000 Ante 3000 – No Limit Hold’em – 20:17:02 ET – 2009/01/30
Seat 1: westcoast fish (1,868,836)
Seat 2: QueenV (303,864)
Seat 6: jonna10 (1,134,072)
Seat 9: Gucci1979 (887,228)
westcoast fish antes 3,000
QueenV antes 3,000
jonna10 antes 3,000
Gucci1979 antes 3,000
jonna10 posts the small blind of 12,000
Gucci1979 posts the big blind of 24,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
westcoast fish folds
QueenV folds
jonna10 calls 12,000
Gucci1979 checks
*** FLOP *** [Qc 4d 5s]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 bets 60,000
jonna10 calls 60,000
*** TURN *** [Qc 4d 5s] [5c]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 bets 180,000
jonna10 calls 180,000
*** RIVER *** [Qc 4d 5s 5c] [8s]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gucci1979 shows [4s 3d] two pair, Fives and Fours
jonna10 shows [8c Ah] two pair, Eights and Fives
jonna10 wins the pot (540,000) with two pair, Eights and Fives
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 540,000 | Rake 0
Board: [Qc 4d 5s 5c 8s]
Seat 1: westcoast fish folded before the Flop
Seat 2: QueenV (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: jonna10 (small blind) showed [8c Ah] and won (540,000) with two pair, Eights and Fives
Seat 9: Gucci1979 (big blind) showed [4s 3d] and lost with two pair, Fives and Fours

Railing this hand I felt like these two must have both been complete donkaments. HOW COME I’M NOT IN THERE FFS.