PLO, Variance and Profitability vs Furthering NLHE Game

Please don't think of banning Ribbo. I have learned a lot from his posts and hand histories. I personally don't see why everyone gets so spun up about him. His advive is usually very good, if you just don't like the style, then ask yourself if you are here to learn and share or to get your egos stroked. Good poker players as a segment of society would seem to be well-equipped to handle abrasive characters without taking it personally. The last thing we would want is a forum stocked with polite yet uninsightful posts (although, I'll admit that politeness and insightfulness need not be mutually exclusive).

I'll go back to lurking and sponging up everyone's good points.

[Ribbo]

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Do you really want me babysitting this forum and treating you all like a bunch of kids that I have to watch all the time, deleting your posts because you can't stop whining at each other?

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Well, you could end it all by just banning Ribbo. That's probably easier.

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Why on earth would you do that?? He gives very good PLO8 advice.

Are you here to play kissy face or learn how to play poker better?

Let him have his confrontational fun and consider it entertainment, who cares.

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If people actually paid attention to when I am abrasive they would see it's straight after someone says something that is really terrible advice. I see this as the equivalent of stealing someone elses money, straight out of their wallet. When you say something that is clearly bad advice, you are costing people money, especially those who will listen to that advice and take it in.
As for those other two special people, they just think i'm on an offensive to spam my website ( www.ribbo.com that's www.ribbo.com for those who didn't see it first time ) to all and sundry, which is simply for showing the hand histories to people (i should point out in the year it's been going, even though i donate all profits (after the £50 a year hosting fees) to charity, nobody has ever clicked through a party poker banner)

[FeliciaLee]

No one is getting banned. Abrasive or not abrasive, things would definitely go through an escalation process first. I'm not going around randomly picking on people just because someone else doesn't like the method in which they present their advice.

Heck, I didn't even get mad at Winter for posting a porno pic. I almost liked it, we're just not the right forum for that [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Thanks, Felicia.

Oh, and can you post the link to that pic?

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[Big Dave D]

Ribbo,

I just think u are (mildly) offensive...I dont mind you promoting your site at all? Assuming I was one of the other two, that is...if not I will go back to STFU.

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[Big Dave D]

Kid,

Ribbo is a goldmine if you are new to plo8b. He writes about the game almost exclusively and nearly everything he says is correct for the levels he says.

However not just newbies come to forums. More experienced players come to share ideas around more complex situations. However a lot of people with confrontational styles do not accept being wrong, or even in doubt. In fact they don't want to have conversations like that, period. They just turn to flaming. I'm speaking generally here, not about Ribbo in particular. And then these sometimes amusing clashes draw in others who just like seeing forum blood being spilt. So in the end the more experienced players leave. Not because they are thin skinned, but because they came to talk about things not get caught in flame wars or groupthink. It happened on rgp, it happened on a UK forum called THM and it happened, mostly, here. The stuff of just a year ago on this forum was of a much higher quality. Lastly, there will always be more disagreement about how to play on PLO forums simply becuase there are so many different winning styles in that game. PLO8b is much more rote.

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[Ribbo]

No, you weren't