Putting Fish to the Flame. Harmless fun, or education?

[Rococo]

Perfect example. Last night I played in a three handed 5-10 NLH game. Average player gets cracked when a poor player rivers a 2 outer. Average player goes on a five minute tirade about what a F-in tard, etc., the bad player is and how he is going to stack him in 10 minutes. Bad player leaves the table just because he knows it will infuriate the guy who just got cracked.

I lay into the table coach after the poor player leaves, and he says in response, "How was I supposed to know that he would leave?" Sweeeeeet move

[maybedinero]

Trying to put someone on tilt just doesn't work online--there's too many other tables for them to shift their asses to, and get away from the "[censored]" that's giving them sh!t. The ignore function on the chat is there for them as well if they think it's worth sticking around (perhaps you're the fish if you're concentrating more on typing smack into the chat than playing solid poker). If you really wanna do this, make a solid player or a rock your target, then if they leave you can be pleased about that too.

[Rococo]

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Trying to put someone on tilt just doesn't work online--there's too many other tables for them to shift their asses to, and get away from the "[censored]" that's giving them sh!t. The ignore function on the chat is there for them as well if they think it's worth sticking around (perhaps you're the fish if you're concentrating more on typing smack into the chat than playing solid poker). If you really wanna do this, make a solid player or a rock your target, then if they leave you can be pleased about that too.

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If you were replying to me, I have no idea wtf you are talking about. I was trying to give an example of the perils of talking smack to a fish.