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Guys, we have a problem and its costing us all a fortune. More and more when I play at the tables I see people constantly berating others, be they fish, regs or just casual folks looking to have a good time. The saddest part of this is that the people who partake in this activity are the people who are most likely to depend on poker as their livelihood, or they at least take the game very seriously. This means the folks that frequent sites like this and two plus two. People just do not realize that the casual gamer does not want to be yelled at for making a mistake and they certainly dont want you to make their losses public. For the love of god stop quoting ROIs at people. When I first got into poker the idea of "not tapping the glass" was in a lot of poker literature and just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. Obviously I have been guilty of getting angry and saying a snide remark in the past, but we all need to make a conscious effort to stop this. Poker is going through a slower period atm, and most of the regs can easily see this in the strength of fields in even the lower buyin tournies. What we need is people to make a conscious effort to make poker fun for the casual player and not let them know that we are out to club them in an alley and take their money if they play stupid. YOU WANT THEM TO PLAY STUPID.
The added benefit to not berating players is taht you will feel better yourself. When you dont allow yourself to get angry enough to berate someone you will be less likely to tilt. Now I know that Im tapping on the glass right now and allowing you all a little insight into how to potentially control tilt... but its worth it to get people to change I think. Id normally just let people go on getting absurdly angry, but this is becoming ridiculous and taking money out of all our pockets. Lets all grow up a little and just stop.
Thanks for your time.
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How do you feel about slow rolling people?
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yeah well said, i agree. I sometimes get angry and tell em there donks but at the end of the day, just as you said we want the fish playing poker!!!! going to slap myself everytime i type donk, fish, twatard or pr**k in the chat from now on!! nice post, due for some1 to say this
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 Cuthroat187: | |
How do you feel about slow rolling people?
slow rolling is sick!!! hate some1 almost timing out only to slap u with AA!
makes me more angry than a bad beat!! sportsmanship
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im definately guilty of this and will make a conscious effort to not berate.
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Nope I won't....me berating in the chat box leads to me timing out on one of the many other tables which might decimate the opponent, or lead me to tilt copy/pasting into AIM like a dumbass, and therefore losing focus on another hand that donates chippies to a donk again. All a big cycle that works both ways :p
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shut up op.. fish love the attention.. i dont berate but its not as dramatic as u would like to believe
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This happens in every trny and it is a shame. If you hate money, then keep berating the fish.
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You called me a fish on more than one occasion...
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Most of us should self-ban our chat. Not all, but most.
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| stevem1267: | |
shut up op.. fish love the attention.. i dont berate but its not as dramatic as u would like to believe
Only fish that know their playing like big idiots like to be berated, random player def doesnt
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I agree that its bad for the game overall but i disagree that not berating others would make you feel better. going nuts in the chatbox relieves stress at the tables and calms me down way more than just trying to let the incident go.
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When was the last time you berated someone and they instantly started playing better? When was the last time you talked shit and they got up and left? If anything, when you start talking shit it encourages the people to keep doing what they are doing. I use to think it was stupid to "tap the glass", but I don't think it matters anymore. IMO, it makes them play the same esp. against the person thats berating, ie you, which in the long run is a good thing.
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