Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
I suppose it is now, isn't it? lol

I am new to poker though. I'm only playing since June. I've been doing really well though and BigSlick was kind of a joke. I had a few people over the house and I was playing in a $3.50 R/A Tournament and I kept stacking people with AKo and AKs. I just kept getting dealt the hand in shove spots. I wound up placing 3rd in the tournament and winning like $20 and for me, this early, that was a big win so I just went with BigSlick. "Baby" got added on at the end because after I stacked like the third guy with it, he was crying about a bad beat (it wasn't...he had garbage) and I just responded with "Big Slick Baby...".
Every poker player was new to the game at some point. tbh I can remember playing at the pub, calling aces bullets, 2's ducks, and having a "special hand" that I play because I like that hand and it's my hand. But after one or two million hands, the novelty has well and truly worn off. My "special hand" now is AA, because it wins me the most money, and they're just called aces.

As for bad beats, well I've learned that they basically don't exist. I prefer the term "statistical inevitability". When my KK runs into AA, I'm sighing at the rake I'm losing, not my stack. When some muppet chases 99 on Axx and binks river 2 outer, I make a note, and while smoking my calmdown bong I accept shit like that will happen sometimes in poker. It's not a bad beat, it's a bad player and I should be very happy they exist.