What I Love Most About Poker

[henrikrh]

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#1. Rolled up aces over kings.

#2. Check raising stupid tourists,and taking huge pots off 'em.

#3. Stacks and towers of Checks I can't see over

#4. Playing all night High-Limit Hold'Em at the Taj, where the sand turns to gold.

Well maybe not the high limit part, but everything else.

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Clear this up for me... what is a check? Stacks of checks, he means those plate things that are used to represent big denominations yeah?

[/ QUOTE ] Why must they be fools if you outplay them at the table? Can't they just be some regular folk who likes to gamble and have a good time?

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I play online. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think that most recreational gamblers play at casinos and other brick and mortar establishments. Most online players, in my opinion, believe that they either are or can be winning players.

So no, I don't think a poor poker player makes for a fool in general. Many people play poker poorly and are wildly succesful in other things. I think what makes for a fool is someone who thinks he can beat a game without putting a little effort into understanding it.

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Your post sounds more like venting, perhaps from some other frustrations in life. And you THINK you're successfully making up for that at the tables.

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Well, I won't argue. Every day that I'm not on vacation jeeping in the Rockies is a day of frustration for me. People frustrate me generally, and I don't particularly like or respect most that I meet.

Do I think I'm making up for this frustration by playing poker? No. It's just a bit of a safety valve. The only way I could "make up for it" is if I felt free to say exactly what was on my mind in every situation, every day of my life. But you know, job, societal niceties, the other sex and all that. Every f'n day you have to censor yourself. Maybe if I were Paul Phillips.....

The more I read about different personality types, the more I'm convinced that certain things are just hard-wired into you. I've worked a lot on my anger and frustration and have come a long way since my early twenties, but there's always going to be a small part of me that is itching to choke the sh*t out of some a$$hole because, well, just because he's being an a$$hole.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should continue loving and beating the game, but show some respect for your opponents. Trust me, they're not as dumb as you think.

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Well, I never berate someone in a chat box or exhibit otherwise rude online behavior, but at the low limits, yes, they are as dumb as I think. And I just can't help my petty, spiteful little self, but I cackle everytime I run circles around someone who doesn't understand how or why he's getting beaten like a rented mule. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[revots33]

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In today's America, the whiners, complainers and professional victims are coddled. In poker, there is no boss to report to, no office politics, no nepotism, no affirmative action.

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You convinced me, I'm going pro. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[RiverTheNuts]

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#1. Rolled up aces over kings.

#2. Check raising stupid tourists,and taking huge pots off 'em.

#3. Stacks and towers of Checks I can't see over

#4. Playing all night High-Limit Hold'Em at the Taj, where the sand turns to gold.

Well maybe not the high limit part, but everything else.

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Clear this up for me... what is a check? Stacks of checks, he means those plate things that are used to represent big denominations yeah?

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Chips = checks = plate thingies... they are all the same depending on where you play... in europe I think most places use plates exclusively

[onegymrat]

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I play online. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think that most recreational gamblers play at casinos and other brick and mortar establishments. Most online players, in my opinion, believe that they either are or can be winning players.


[/ QUOTE ]It's probably equal online and live. It just may seem that way. I would side for online having more recreational/beginners because it seems less threatening for them to just login and give it a go, anonymously, while live, they actually have to see people and fumble with their chips and such. That may just scare them away. [ QUOTE ]
I think what makes for a fool is someone who thinks he can beat a game without putting a little effort into understanding it.

[/ QUOTE ] If I misunderstood you, I apologize and stand corrected. I just get frustrated at all the negative talk by many players who think that just because they are great players (or think they are), they are better than their opponents in real life. I don't judge people's characters by their level of poker skills. [ QUOTE ]
People frustrate me generally, and I don't particularly like or respect most that I meet.

[/ QUOTE ] Now we're on the same page! I've been in sales all my life, and I have to talk to people all the time. It gets less and less interesting as time goes by. [ QUOTE ]
Well, I never berate someone in a chat box or exhibit otherwise rude online behavior, but at the low limits, yes, they are as dumb as I think. And I just can't help my petty, spiteful little self, but I cackle everytime I run circles around someone who doesn't understand how or why he's getting beaten like a rented mule.

[/ QUOTE ]They may or may not be, but if this game keeps your sanity between dragging your butt to work each day, keep up the good play! Just don't say (type) how you feel to them! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Good luck to you always.

The last thing I think I am is a great poker player. I'm only in the early stages of intermediate play.

I mean, how puffed up can someone get over beating the 11's? Maybe that's why I have such disdain for the people I'm beating. Geez, study for a few hours and you should be able to break even and still have some fun.

Anyway, thanks for your response. Funny that you're in sales and get sick of people. I always assumed that salesmen actually enjoyed their personal interactions.

Taking the Myers Briggs personality test helped me to understand my personality much better. Basically it breaks your personality down into binary choices in 4 categories, making a total of 16 personality types.

1. Where do you direct your energy? Introverted or Extroverted
2. How do you process information? Sensing or Intuition
3. How do you make decisions? Thinking or Feeling
4. How do you organize your life? Judging or Perception

After I took this test, the results showed me to be 100% in the "Thinking" category for decision making. I was also moderately expressed "Introverted" meaning my focus is usually inward.

These two expressions of my personality gave me tremendous insight towards why I generally prefer to not interact with others except on my own terms. First of all, little of my personal satisfaction is derived externally. Secondly, I have a very difficult time understanding or dealing with people who make emotion based decisions. I simply don't work that way.

Anyway, off on a tangent here, but this is the psychology forum, so what the hell.

[kyzerjose]

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Seriously though, I love hitting flush draws in big pots. My absolute favourite thing to do. Ohhhhhh yeaaaaa.

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It's nice but it's a whole lot more fun to have the nut flush draw hit, pairing the board, when I'm sitting on a nice little set.

[MaxPower]

OK Rush.

[aujoz]

i love making good folds - i find very few things as satisfying.

[lehighguy]

I feel poker is a lot more honest then what I did on wall street. We all play by the same rules in poker.