Berating or treating any player in a manner that inspires them to play a better game of poker is not only bad strategy, (because it is likely to diminish your bottom line in the long run) but it is also RUDE!

There is no need to be an [censored] at the poker table, online or otherwise in order to execute a successful poker playing stratgey.

These idiots like Mike Matusow and Phil Hellmuth are an embarrassment to the game.

If the DONKS in the editing room at ESPN and other networks would quit making their table antics the central focus of the edited for TV tournament footage that we have spoon-fed to us then they would eventually tone it down. Particularly if it resulted in them NOT being seated at tables featured on TV.

At the recently televised TOC event Hoyt Corkins distinguished himself as having so much more class than either of his two opponents that he should have won some sort of award just for that!

He consistently outplayed Hellmuth, demonstrating superior holdem skills as well as discipline and manners and when he finally got heads up with "the mouth" one unfortunate mis-step cost him the title. After enduring what he had to go through at the FT between Matusow and Hellmuth it is probably a wonder that he managed to take second.

For my money, I would REALLY like to see the tournament directors association institute some sort of code of conduct that must be strictly followed less the offending player face disqualification from the event in question.

No gawky, pimple-faced Swedish kid screeeming at the top of his lungs every time he flops a pair, no smelly, unbathed, disheveled Brit yelling and screeeming every time he is even involved in a pot. No pompous, arrogant self-absorbed, whiny-ass Phil Hellmuth berating every player at the table who dares to challenge him for a pot and no bloated, loud-mouthed, mullet haired, ex-con nick-named, "Mike the mouth" being allowed to denegrate every player who beats him out of a pot, even if they DO pull a two-outer from their ass on the river.