taking crap at the table (saturday night brantford 20/40)

[stinkypete]

are we young kids always met with so much hostility in this game? i've never taken so much crap while attempting to have a good time at the poker table.

#1:
some 30-something guy (who had been drinking) asked to see one of my hands on the river that i would have preferred to muck. i looked up to see who wanted to see my cards and the guy started going off, telling me that i had an attitude problem and shouldn't be so damn cocky, etc. (i certainly didn't give him a dirty look, though i probably wasn't smiling either.) i attempted to explain that it's generally considered rude to ask to see mucked cards unless you suspect somebody of collusion, which was obviously a mistake, as it triggered him to go off on me for another couple of minutes. he told me i should go to vegas and play in the low-limit games and that i should play heads up against the gentleman in the white shirt next to me. i'm not sure what point he was trying to make, but i got that he was trying to tell me that i'm a terrible poker player. he kept making comments about how retarded i was for being so aggressive. every time i open raised some smartass comment was made.

#2: some old lawyer guy decided to berate me to the entire table for taking my AK to the river in a heads up pot. (i called a 5-bet preflop, 1 bet on the flop and turn before hitting my king on the river against a predictable opponent who didn't bluff but overplayed a ton of hands.) "he can't lay down a hand, maybe i should try not laying anything down". his smartass comments continued for the rest of the night. earlier in the night i had attempted to make a joke about how he was too confident when he said "raise" during a blind steal so the big blind and i in the small blind were scared off. he went off about me being an "expert" or something, basically implying that i was a complete moron.

#3: the "professional". i kindly informed the player to my right when i was dealt my first big blind that i don't chop in the blinds, and of course he asks me, so that the whole table can hear, "are you professional?" in a joking way. i didn't really mind this, and got a good laugh at the irony at the time. some of the other players caught on, and i was referred to as "the professional" for much of the night. eventually it got extremely sarcastic and hostile, and it got old pretty quick. i'm not really sure what was supposedly so funny about it.


do these players have issues with people that don't chop the blinds? (it's not a raked game, for the record.) do they just not like aggression? or do they just hate us young world poker tour wannabe punks? they certainly don't seem to have any problems with the "real pros" who don't chop in the blinds.

generally, the really bad players are welcomed. if i'm such a terrible poker player, why do they give me so much crap?

i don't really mind being thought of us a retard, but i'll only be able to take a some finite amount of crap before i go off on these jerks.

do you young guys out there take a lot of crap when you play in "the big game"? how do you deal with it?