Don\'t scare the fish away.....please?
 

Time after time I see the same scenario:

Short tempered player opens for a raise--Fish calls x bets cold. Pot is HU after the flop, Fish catches ~4 outer. Short Tempered Player explodes in anger with a mountain of insults that I am sure you all have seen before. Fish stays for a couple more hands then leaves the table.

Now my question is, should I intervene? Is there anyway I can defuse this situation to make the fish stay and maybe silence the short tempered fellow? I could say the typical "nh" but I don't want to go as far as encourage the bad play.

How do you all handle this situation?

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Dealing with a table coach

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I've never been particularly good at this, but I think idea is to turn the Short Tempered Player's anger towards you, so that the fish don't feel so uneasy. Next time he starts berating the fish, start telling him that the fish played fine and that his play was horrible (bonus points if you can give the fish bad ideas at the same time). i.e. "xx played just fine - why were you raising AK UTG anyway? Don't you know its a drawing hand?" Chances are good that he'll forget all about the fish and will go crazy yelling at you because you dared to question his skills. Its still not a great atmosphere for the fish to lose money in, but hopefully they won't feel threatened anymore.

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You have to take into account that the short tempered player is a fish ~90% of the time too. So driving one away to keep the other is bad. Huge bonus points if you can defend the fish successfully, and anger the tilter and get him to blow chips the whole night running laps to the ATM.

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Haha this is the best posts i have read!!
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I jump to the fish's defense. I explain that those are the fish's chipa and cards and He/she can play them any way they want.

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"Are you his mother?"
"I think you want the high limit tables, this is where we play for fun"

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Good answer.