Now you've not only most likely lost $60 with a lousy pair of 9's (something you ordinarily wouldn't do in a 1/2 NL game), but you might end up playing for stacks against the guy with Kings. Say you call his shove with 99 and then another player wakes up with KK. I acknowledged that and in theory, at least if you're heads up, you should want to get all the money against him.Д«ut that's if your heads up. And there are a lot of hands that are better than 50/50 against a random hand. Yeah, it would be real nice to wake up with a premium hand against the him. Regarding the guy shoving blind, I've stated my case. But even if the money is not a big deal, most people enjoy the competition and even if it's not much money, they prefer to win than to lose. I think the guy who lost with pocket 4's might have actually enjoyed it and felt it was worth it. Regarding the 'nice hand,' I've made the joke here many times that 'nice hand' is really a polite way of saying 'f-you.' I suppose there are people who don't mind losing the money, and maybe they mean it. If they treat it as entertainment and aren't losing the rent money, it's just how it goes. It takes a very emotionally stable person to take a tough beat and 'truly' say nice hand. He got it in a huge favorite and lost, but he was 4 1/2 to 1 dog preflop so he got lucky as well. You had aces, it is a nice hand(arguably the best hand). Also some people truly say 'nice hand' and mean it. I think the only reason you say 'it's ruining the game' is that you didn't wake up with aces against this guy. Usually in this situation you are getting it in with a dominant hand. The guy with 44 gets it in on a flip, it's just like a flip with AK. I see this behavior sometimes and I don't understand how you can say it ruins a good game? How often do you get the opportunity to get it in waaayyy good against a random hand? Are you not there to make money? Opportunities to make money this easily don't come along often.

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