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Can we try to stop this please
Doubleme
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So today playing on sky I witnessed on more then one occasion profitable players calling other players idiots and the like for apparent weak/bad plays. The thing is this was in pots they won the weak players didnt suck out the strong players won the pot and they still berated/insulted the weak players.
I get it if you have a series of bad beats, and just let rip some steam in chat once in a while. If you get bad luck at a crucial point say bubble of a final table or if someone has been clashing with you a lot like following you into every pot and then you own them you might want to brag. All of that is fine perfectly understandable and natural. Also if they get mouthy or make silly accusations its also fine to poke fun once in a while. I get all that I would be a total hypergrite if I said none of that was okay.
But to outright insult people for just poor play when you win the pot because they are bad players why do this? I know of two separate people who were weak players who quit sky poker for this very reason. It really does not help our ecology. I am obviously not saying people should face penalties for doing this that would be silly we are all adults not children. I am just saying this really is not in anyone's interest.
I get it if you have a series of bad beats, and just let rip some steam in chat once in a while. If you get bad luck at a crucial point say bubble of a final table or if someone has been clashing with you a lot like following you into every pot and then you own them you might want to brag. All of that is fine perfectly understandable and natural. Also if they get mouthy or make silly accusations its also fine to poke fun once in a while. I get all that I would be a total hypergrite if I said none of that was okay.
But to outright insult people for just poor play when you win the pot because they are bad players why do this? I know of two separate people who were weak players who quit sky poker for this very reason. It really does not help our ecology. I am obviously not saying people should face penalties for doing this that would be silly we are all adults not children. I am just saying this really is not in anyone's interest.
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I cringe when a better player berates bad play at the tables.
The dynamics at the table can change dramatically.
I often see the berated player either clear off , sometimes tighten up or fight their corner.
Either way life's never the same.
Even if you want to take out the slightly cynical point of stating that chasing away poor players or encouraging them to get better really doesn't help any of us to win you could just go for the very old-fashioned argument that being mean to people online is just not a very nice thing to do and if you ever find yourself doing it and later reflect on your behaviour you ought to feel slightly sad that you haven't managed to be a better person.
If all the weaker players, and I count myself as one, stopped playing, then the better players have a more difficult task making any money.
Enut you make an interesting point regarding banter between regs but I don't think it's a valid one for this conversation, which is specifically regarding dialogue between winning players towards losing players.
At the end of the day, winning players wouldn't exist if there weren't fun players on the site so it would be lovely if we could all lose & win with grace and not project our insecurities onto the poorer players of the game!