ridiculing the fish

[hyde]

Why on God's green earth do people ridicule the fish?
Driving them away from the tables.
It completely baffles me.

Good post, Hyde. I play low limits and cheap SNGs and see this too often. Usually I let the first comment or two slide. But more than that, and I post something like "If you're so great, why aren't you playing 20-40 and trying to win some real money?" And if I get a reply to that, I post "If you were really a poker genius, you wouldn't be pissing on the people who are building the pots you're trying to win." The second comment usually gets the a-hole to leave the table.

[skipperbob]

I didn't vote because there is NO valid reason to critcize a bad player...I've been watching it happen (in B&M casinos) for 40 years....Bad News: the people who do it will never change [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Pudge714]

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I didn't vote because there is NO valid reason to critcize a bad player...I've been watching it happen (in B&M casinos) for 40 years....Bad News: the people who do it will never change [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Some people do change. When I started playing poker I figured that if anybody ever made a play and it ended up costing me it was my duty to remind him that. Since than I have learned to stop and rarely if ever use chat. The only time I ever get in arguements with people is as a joke where I make ridiculous statments, or occasionsly if I am on mega-tilt.

I have never understood why someone would want a fish to start playing better. Now that whole telling them about 2+2 thing aside (because I think its a stupid argument), why would you berate someone to play better?

[ilikeaces]

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I have never understood why someone would want a fish to start playing better. Now that whole telling them about 2+2 thing aside (because I think its a stupid argument), why would you berate someone to play better?

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Because sometimes they make mistakes on the bubble that cause you to lose Equity.

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Because sometimes they make mistakes on the bubble that cause you to lose Equity.

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You think this happens more often than mistakes that cause you to gain equity?

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I have never understood why someone would want a fish to start playing better. Now that whole telling them about 2+2 thing aside (because I think its a stupid argument), why would you berate someone to play better?

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Ever come across a post here that says something to the effect of: there are too many fish randomizing the $11s and messing my game up, I think I'd do better at the $33s where there are fewer donks?

People remember the times that a play they deem stupid costs them equity, but forget the stupid plays that help them out.

[splashpot]

Come'on. Everyone knows the real reason people make fun of the bad players is because all the cool kids are doing it. Cool kids = always right.

[bluefeet]

Seat 9: (1185 in chips)
Seat 2: (2740 in chips)
bluefeet (1430 in chips)
Seat 4: (2440 in chips)
Seat 5: (1415 in chips)
Seat 6: (3245 in chips)
dude (1045 in chips)

Seat 6: posts small blind 75
dude: posts big blind 150

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bluefeet [Td Ts]
2 fold
bluefeet: raises 1280 to 1430 and is all-in
4 folds
dude: calls 895 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jd 3c Qh]
*** TURN *** [Jd 3c Qh] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 3c Qh 6h] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dude: shows [9c Js] (a pair of Jacks)
bluefeet: shows [Td Ts] (a pair of Tens)
dude collected 2165 from pot
<font color="blue">bluefeet said, "nh"</font>
*** SUMMARY ***
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Dealt to bluefeet [3c 5c]
bluefeet: folds
<font color="red">dude said, "ty"</font>
2 folds
<font color="red">dude said, "u2 tho got lucky sry"</font>
1 fold
<font color="green">bluefeet thinks 'must...refrain...'</font>
<font color="blue">bluefeet said, "eh, u never know. good call"</font>
2 folds
<font color="red">dude said, "ty"</font>