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Why are live poker players so rude?

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  1. CEHunt CEHunt is offline

    Louisville, KY
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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 6:28am) in reply to flipxpelon562

    Because they only see 30 hands an hour!
  2. deadeyed deadeyed is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 1:36pm) in reply to flipxpelon562

    sounds like you just had a bad experience, cant say i have ever had similar problems at all. Online, on the other hand, can get so bad i don't even have the chat tab open. I don't really want to see some random prick i have never met before telling me to DIAGF or that he hopes my family all die of cancer.

    very easy for some 17 yo moron to type in obscenities hiding behind their laptop screen when they wouldnt open their mouth to ppl face to face, that is when they have matured enough to be allowed into a casino.

    i enjoy live poker and would take it over online any day.
  3. TUCCI007 TUCCI007 is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 3:41pm) in reply to deadeyed

    "Go fuk urself u fukin donk, wat the fuk r u doin? Go fukin die" thats as polite as i get when taking a beat
     
  4. MYBLUEDOG MYBLUEDOG is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 4:34pm) in reply to TUCCI007

    Poker players that are rude don't know the games & think they are supposed to win when they bet. They are mentally ill & can't accept a lost. In their mind, they are god's gift to the poker world.

    I saw it online last night. LP player bet,bet,bet and lost on river to the nuts. (O8b)

    After the next hand was dealt, he says "I guess the donks don't know when to fold." I looked at HH and he was never in the lead: pre-flop to the river.
    The stationy guy had the nuts with a re-draw on Flop, Turn & river.
  5. ATrainBoston ATrainBoston is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 4:46pm) in reply to MYBLUEDOG

    Live players are usually not rude. Dumb, yes; rude, no.
     
  6. l3iRdMaN l3iRdMaN is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 5:43pm) in reply to ATrainBoston

    Edited By: l3iRdMaN Feb 7th, 2011 at 05:44 PM
     
  7. donkiman donkiman is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 7:23pm) in reply to l3iRdMaN

    lol probably because you can play for 6 hours and lose all of the profits in 1 hand. Whereas online you are playing so many tables simultaneously which allows you to absord a big hit. I get so angry when I bust to a monkey in a live tourney.
     
  8. R.J_Legit R.J_Legit is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 7:24pm) in reply to donkiman

    Who cares, 80 percent of them dont have a fuckin clue.
    That'd make me angry at life too.
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  9. thecomebackkid thecomebackkid is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 8:08pm) in reply to R.J_Legit

    every live game I have been in pretty much has been a good experience. I am from a smaller city so everyone knows everyone though when you walk in to the poker room it's like cheers. everyone knows your name and what you do for the most part. There have been a few instances where I have beat somoene out of alot of money though and they threaten to meet me in the parking lot. Nothing has ever happened though.
  10. titantom32 titantom32 is offline

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    Feb 7th, 2011 (2/7/2011 8:46pm) in reply to rocksolid124

     
    Originally Posted by rocksolid124 View Post

    lol online rudeness is a million times worse.

    i think it's true that losing a pot in a live game is much more embarassing, especially if you run out of money, or get busted from a tourney. You have to get up from the table, have everyone from the other tables look at your while you take the walk of shame down the hall and online you just get to x out the table and say F it.

    That being said, i dont see examples too often of people blowing up on other people live if the person who won the hand wasn't reacting to and stirring the other guy up and making him more mad. I know I tend to be a quieter player at the table and I don't instigate any kind of discrepancy or argument with other players because if someone is honestly mad enough at you over the way you played a poker hand to swear at you or try to start a fight, its just purely because they have extremely low self esteem (which in some cases is shown by supreme over-confidence). So they either get mad because poker is all they have to be positive about - as mentioned previously in the post - or they get mad because they think well this kid can't beat me in a pot because I'm way better than him etc etc. Another reason people get mad in live games, generally lower stakes live games in local casinos is because they simply don't understand poker well enough, either strategically or ethically. They don't know that someone has made a standard play and sucked out , or the more economic idea which is the fact that anyone is allowed to play their cards however they want to, poker decisions for winning players are based on long term edges, or they just don't know that poker is a card game and not a ufc match.

    i think it's easier and more convenient for online players to start fights* and so i think you see that much more often. People don't have to worry about their rudeness online because usually only the table and a couple observers can see the language theyre using and the things they are saying to be rude and only embarrass themselves. It's easier to live with yourself when one table knows how you are and can't see your face, as opposed to live where* a whole room of people could potentially see you, and youd have to show your face back in the casino if you ever want to play there again, possibly to a smaller group of regulars at that casino, where as online theres thousands of tournaments and millions of players. The actual reasons that people berate others online are very similar to those live, its just that you have the power of words without people seeing your face or how much of a degenerate you are.
      
  11. lockdownpokah lockdownpokah is offline

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    Feb 8th, 2011 (2/8/2011 12:43am) in reply to titantom32

    people are just naturally rude sometimes

    and its very common for ppl to 'team up' bc it makes them feel like less of a piece of shit when someone does it along with them

    i find poker players on the west coast are the rudest ive come across

    the south is much more friendly from my experiences although not everyone(obv)
     
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