I get it from one player and have tried the "thanks, but no thanks" approach which just doesn't sink in. Find it disrespectful when they encroach thereafter.
In my experience its the better than average player but not great player that does this. Good/very good players know when to shut up and just play given it hurts them long term by driving people away while changing the atmosphere of the game. It's probably an inferiority/ego thing that they need to paint themselves as the best player at the table. Not the type of people you wanna be stuck in an elevator with!
very good post, I agree with you, what I like to do if playing live when I find myself in this situation is to not say a word to the guy, then when I get up and leave as I am walking past him issue a gentle apple tart in his ear, if your lucky and kept the noise down he will never know its you.
Its the same type of player that has to show/shout what they folded in a live game just to prove how good they are, whereas the properly good player's cards are quietly mucked without any need for validation
Ours weren’t being mucked last night lol specially 27
As I recently wrote in my borderline-dormant diary:
Player A: Player C, you are so bad.
Player B: I agree. How are you even calling there? Terrible. Lol.
Player C: *silence*
Player A and Player B are both winning regulars at low stakes. They make money from players like Player C, players who sit down to try and enjoy the game and hopefully, sometimes, make a bit of money. If it wasn’t for Players like Player C (players who will make bad calls and do things that they perhaps shouldn’t do) then Players A and B would not make any money. Yet here they are openly criticising him for doing the exact thing that is profitable for them.
After the above exchange Player C clammed up and stopped playing hands. I imagine he didn’t feel like being attacked any more in the chatbox. Eventually the game fizzled out.
Is this the future of online poker? Recreational players being hounded out by the pros and semi-pros? It is certainly possible. According to a pro on a blog I was reading this week, “We couldn’t just win and shut up. We had to let our egos run rampant all over the casinos and the internet. How often do you go to the casino and see some young, arrogant kid blatantly telling (or modestly showing) the table how much better he is from everyone else or how bad they are. We have not only told and showed the fish that they are fish...we have rammed it down their throats.
Scant consolation, perhaps, but in my experience it's the weaker, less creative regs who get up to this sort of stuff. You could outplay them, report them (especially if the abuse gets nasty), humour them, ignore them, rise above it or some combination of the above. I've been abused a ton on here over the years and actually don't mind it/find it funny/find that it helps but the only time I've been tempted to report someone was when they were (pretty horribly) abusing someone else at the table. When I mentioned they were going to be reported, they replied along the lines of, "Oooh, your (sic) hard, going running to teacher..." etc etc which I actually didn't mind/found funny/ found that it helped.
Its the same type of player that has to show/shout what they folded in a live game just to prove how good they are, whereas the properly good player's cards are quietly mucked without any need for validation
Ours weren’t being mucked last night lol specially 27
that was a proper sick game surprised the wait list was not massive
Its the same type of player that has to show/shout what they folded in a live game just to prove how good they are, whereas the properly good player's cards are quietly mucked without any need for validation
Ours weren’t being mucked last night lol specially 27
that was a proper sick game surprised the wait list was not massive
Haha i know! Ill play another one of those saturday night. Im out drinking tonight to try and forget you stacking me two times lol. Run good tonight mate.
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Run good tonight mate.