[pokerswami]

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If anyone believes that by telling a poor poker player that he is playing poor makes any differnce to that player they are sadly mistaken. You cannot "wise-up" a poor poker player by chatting with him during an online poker game. You are suffering from "old pro's paranoia" that says don't wise up the poor player. Forget it. Online players are beyond help. They play bad and will always play bad regardless of what anyone tells them in a chat line. In fact by chatting with them, negatively or positively, they are more likely to stay in the game, which is where you want them to be. Twoplustwo folk should be more than happy to share their expertise with novice and recreational players. They are the reason we play poker.

Vince

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This is wrong.

We may know that some poker strategies win more than other strategies do.

In case you've forgotten, there are players who don't even have the concept in their minds that there may be a "superior" or "correct" way to play. Waking them up is strictly -EV.

I wasn't born knowing what I now know about poker. I certainly didn't learn much from years of playing poker with my, originally, high school friends. It took seeing poker books in bookstores to wake me out of my slumber. Waking up someone to the concept that they, themselves, could play with good poker strategy by alerting them in chat helps them and hurts the other players.