I need to vent. One of my best friends plays poker on a regular basis as I do. Well, everytime he takes a bad beat or what he perceives as a bad beat, I get the priviledge of hearing every frickin detail of how "impossible" it was or how he's the unluckiest person in the world. I usually feel obligated to give him the "man, that sucks" in a less than enthusiastic tone. At times, I don't comment at all because I'm so sick of hearing about it. I'll be the first to admit that I'm guilty of bitching about a bad beat at times but a lot less than I used to...I didn't realize how annoying it can be. We were in Vegas this past weekend and he lost to a two outter and a four outter within about five minutes, which sucks but fuck if I didn't hear about it the whole weekend and continue to hear about how well he would have done if he had won those hands. It's cool to have a friend that plays poker, someone you can discuss hands and strategy with, but sometimes I wish I never introduced him to the game. I don't really think there's much I can do about it, it's in his nature to whine and I can accept that since I've known him most of my whole life but I just needed to vent.

Something completely unrelated but we played with TUP in 2/5 NL at the MGM. I didn't know it was him at the time though.

Someone I know that has been playing poker for several years came up with the idea of charging people to listen to their bad beat stories.