If you haven't already read Jared Tendler Mental Game of Poker I'd highly recommend it as it sounds like a case of major entitlement tilt
Evidence below:
Remember you are there to make money, not have fun. That 9886 blowout probably cost several hours worth of EV in terms of work.
to hit on your points:
having them celebrate after they sucked out was frustrating
I mean, should I be happy to lose two big pots as a monster favorite to two guys who whoop and holler about it?
fortunately they suck so bad that I know I'll get it back in the long run
To me this is a statement of fact. These are guys who call off half their chips preflop with Q983 double suited and one called all-in (as the FOURTH player all-in pre) with Q976 one suit for $1,200. They indeed do suck bad, and are long-term donators in the game.
I didn't show my frustration at the table I was actually playing a bit more maniacal and surprising a lot of players today.
I came into the game playing more loose and maniacal than I usually do from the jump, not in response to the results of these hands which happened much later. Other players tend to view me as a nit and think I "only play Aces" and thus I was able to make some moves and I think I stole three pots with a naked Ace bluff, got a guy to fold a flush when I just had a set, etc.
I opened up my ranges, played more hands and was willing to accept variance more than I usually do.
I really didn't fucking care, let's gambool motherfucker!
people were blown away I wasn't in there with AAxx like they were expecting
You reference the 9886 hand as a "blowout" but I would disagree. The pot was straddled multiple times, it was also raised after everyone called the straddle. Given my image I was able to isolate the raiser (who is loose and aggressive) and get him all-in with a coordinated hand AND dead money in the pot. I don't recall his exact holding, but it wasn't super premium. But to give an idea of the equities against my holding:
Granted he could have hands that have me in much worse shape, but given his image I felt like I had decent equity against his range of holdings and with dead money felt it was an acceptable play, knowing that he runs it twice. I figured to escape with half the pot and chop up the dead money a reasonable amount of the time, get beat some of the time and scoop him some of the time.
Well, I did have fun. I got to turn up my aggression, play more pots, push more players out of pots, etc. LAGS have more fun, and it's a part of my game that can always use some refinement, since I'm generally very nitty, pot-controlling, patient and disciplined.
Also, why wouldn't I want to have some fun? Yes, I am there to make money. But money doesn't buy happiness. I made decent money at my last job, but I was miserable doing it.
I rarely straddle as well, letting the other players do it. But I jumped in today and did some straddles of $10, $20 and $40 and it got them hyped up and gambling more. I waited to put my straddles in when I was in late position, co, button, etc. The weaker players were the ones restraddling from OOP in the blinds, etc. There's a method to my madness. I made sure they were giving more action than I was, despite my giving the impression of being one of them joining in.
The guy who beat me in that 9886 hand was saying something afterwards, can't remember exactly what it was, but something about how he had been losing all day or something. And I responded "oh dry your tears with my chips........bitch!" He and I are on good terms though, play all the time together, so he and a bunch of other guys burst out laughing cause they were seeing this off-the-wall side of me rather than the guy who's constantly trapping them with double suited aces for stacks.
It kept the game jovial and light, and the chips flying. I was on my first buyin for the majority of the session, and it was swinging up and down and up and down. But they never knew where I was at in a hand anymore because I was making plays they had never see me make, so it threw them off how they approach playing against me.
I was willing to gamble it up with my first buyin and take more risks, cause I had two more full buyins behind it should I need them. Sometimes a nit needs to take a day off and put a little gambool in his step.
