Re: Poker Player\'s Ego
OK I do admit my examples were poor, but I think you can get the point of what I meant.
My point is that many players that post here, in other sites (but none as good as 2+2) [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] or talk about poker always seam to be (at least in their minds)the best players in game "x" and it is a game filled with fishes and idiots.
Maybe I am just not good enough or I play in the wrong games. But a typical night of poker for me, whether at a friends house, a B&M or on-line is a game with good players and bad ones. Sometimes I feel like I can do no wrong and some others times I can’t read a player if he shows me his cards.
I have played tournaments where I have come in first and I have also been out on the second hand. I have lost with AA and I have also cracked them.
I have gone in with the best hand and with the worst. I don't win every coin flip nor do I lose them all.
And Bodhi,
What you describe is not ego-stroking, but a description of the facts. Some people think it's arrogant to point out the poor play of others, but if the description is factually correct, then the accusation is nonsense."
Yes I agree that my quotes are descriptions. But do you really believe that these posters are really playing with "really horrible players", "one of the worst player Hero has encountered at home, casino or online games" and "These were some of the most horrible players ive ever seen" or is it their subjective look at the game and their abilities that makes them THINK those statements are true?
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