a lesson learned

I play in a regular game with some very poor players, i am a winner 80% of the paying sessions, if it wasn't for such low stakes it would be a gold mine.


Anyways i like the people i am playing with, and i actually feel a little guilty, and i don't know how long they will keep playing before they figure out that i am taking all their money - so i have started to give advice. Such as "you don't have to be in every hand, its ok to fold before the flop" and "if you have a big pair you can't let the drawing hands play for free, raise"


What a mistake, not only because i am making my opponents smarter, but i've made them resent me for being a "know it all". Now the game is less fun and less profitable. I just couldn't keep biting my lip.


It reminds me of all the big mouths i see in the casinos giving advice and shaking their heads at poor plays. Just shut your big trap! no one cares how smart you are! When some one misses on a bad play don't tell them that they screwed up, tell them they'll have better luck next time.


Giving advice isn't going to make them respect you or like you or change their play or make you money or anything you want to happen!


If you want to be smart, act stupid

If you want to be stupid, act smart

move up limits and youll learn a whole new buncha lessons....

i agree....move yourself up a couple limits and you'll be the one that will want the lessons....but it is true that it is sometimes almost painful to watch people play the way they do at the lower limits.....i play medium/high limits but i love sitting in 4-8 and 3-6 and just watch the amount of trash-talking, celebrating, and general ignorance of the players down there.....a breath of fresh air compared to the higher limit players who usually have egos the size of Texas, regardless of how well they play....

Thanks for the compliment to us low limit players.

afm171:

remember, you don't have to take their last dollar everytime. players like to pay of someone they like.