{"id":5042,"date":"2010-06-11T11:43:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:12:11","slug":"dragan-galic-more-fun-and-less-stress-at-the-poker-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/dragan-galic-more-fun-and-less-stress-at-the-poker-tables.html","title":{"rendered":"Dragan Galic: More fun and less stress at the poker tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5162 size-full\" title=\"Dragan Galic WSOP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dragan-galic-wsop.jpg\" alt=\"Dragan Galic\" width=\"300\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dragan-galic-wsop.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dragan-galic-wsop-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Please, I expect more competence!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/ept-san-remo-4-suck-outs-in-a-row-by-the-same-guy.html\">never-ending suckouts<\/a> in the past months, just one example&#8230; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wpt-spanish-championship-welcome-party.html\">WPT Barcelona<\/a> I lost with my Aces against JJ and the &#8220;One-Eye-Jack&#8221; (one Outer) on the river, this is annoying but acceptable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But I also played the Eastsee Baltic Poker Championships, with unclear rules.\u00a0Since it was not clarified, if a player could fold after the river was dealt, without showing his cards, it came to some excitement.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dealer took them out of the muck and opened them<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In detail: I was playing a hand with <a title=\"Check-call\" href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/how-to-play\">Check-Call<\/a> on the river and when I saw that I was beaten, I threw my cards into the muck without showing. But the dealer took them out of the muck and opened them&#8230; of course I was not amused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some hands later, heads-up, both players threw the cards into the muck without showing, then the second of the two &#8220;muckers&#8221; won the pot without even showing the winning hand&#8230; I don\u00b4t have to tell you that we had the next trouble!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is in the nature of the game, that a player wants and has to bluff and if you then have to show each time your cards to the others, it distorts your complete game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was loudly criticized by me and after some &#8220;battle&#8221;, then changed to my satisfaction after the dinner break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O.K., but why not from the start?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wish you more fun and less stress at the tables of this world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, I expect more competence! After my never-ending suckouts in the past months, just one example&#8230; at WPT Barcelona I lost with my Aces against JJ and the &#8220;One-Eye-Jack&#8221; (one Outer) on the river, this is annoying but acceptable&#8230; But I also played the Eastsee Baltic Poker Championships, with unclear rules.\u00a0Since it was not clarified,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/dragan-galic-more-fun-and-less-stress-at-the-poker-tables.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72334,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/72334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}