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09-21-2005, 11:08 AM
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This week's topic was: Table Etiquette - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
ENTRY #1
When I saw the topic for the week, a couple of questions came to mind. I can only imagine the answers. The first question is: would a person actually come to a live casino poker room without showering, stinking to high heaven, and acting obnoxious with abusive verbal outburst towards other players trying to gain an edge of some kind? Then I though: What kind of edge would that person gain by doing this?
Well, the only thing I could come up with for an answer was everyone at the table would want to bust him or her so he or she would leave, therefore, possibly calling or putting the obnoxious person all-in with a moderate hand.
I am a betting man and I'd bet that there are people out there who actually do this but I can only imagine. Obnoxious people do affect my game personally, but there are many players who are not phased by these actions. I would like to know what other players think so please respond.
~pokerviper3
ENTRY #2
These %^**#$#**#! players that t%$!F' at other players, should keep their blanky-d-blank mouths to their #&*, S; selves. And that’s all I got to say on the 66EX5??? subject.
~Chip (:-^)
ENTRY #3
Did you every notice how 52 flat, paper like objects can turn loving, caring, gentle individuals into raving lunatics or, how seemly harmless, friendly cartoon like characters can change from images on a computer screen into hostile enemies battling it out on the front line? If you don’t know what I am speaking of then you obviously never played online poker.
Like the popularity of poker, poor sportsmanship has spread like the plague. And although I am ashamed to admit it, I have not been immune to this pesky epidemic. I think everyone who has parked themselves in front of their computer to play a few rounds of poker has found themselves face to face with their evil twin.
Paranoia, judgment and ridicule all sneak their ugly heads out when things don’t go according to plan at the poker table. We’ve all been there. The cards just don’t seem to come some nights and we feel persecuted. Or we are out played by a check raise and feel victimized by our opponent as if they have some personal vendetta against us. And then it starts: the name-calling. It doesn’t take long to realize that at the poker table, it only takes one thing to make some one a moron, and that is your chips in their stack!
One night, after a string of bad beats and the expansion of my vocabulary to include an inordinate amount of adjectives, I recognized it was time to take a step back. And then it hit me! I only get to play my cards! Wow! Really? Was it really that simple? Yes! From that night forward, I really started to enjoy poker and the people that I play with. I can’t say that I have never again felt a little steam rising after someone chased down their winning hand, but it is then I fall back on what my mother taught me a long time ago – “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!”
~ dw0101
ENTRY #4
Over the past few years of watching televised poker, we have all seen many examples of table etiquette; good, bad, and ugly.
We've seen Phill Hellmuth whine. Mike "the mouth" blow up and the infamous Tony G and his memorable appearance in the Paris WPT event. Some of the promoters have said that they don't mind as it is good for ratings, but is it good for poker?
It must make some of the legends of poker a little sad to see the showboating "end-zone dance" and shrieking celebrations by some of the younger players after knocking out another player or winning a tourney. Now granted, sitting down at a poker table is not supposed to be tea with the queen, but I hate seeing it reduced to the level of a WWF match. Can you see Tony G. getting up into Doyle Brunsons or T.Js face like that? If it were ever to happen, I would like to see someone like T.J. follow him out to the parking lot for a little "Poker Etiquette 101". Then, if he had actually won a trophy, he would have to pull it back out of his a$$ before putting it up on the mantle.
I have played online at several sites, and met a lot of good people, who can compete for money and be civil at the same time. Thankfully, I can mute the chat from the rest of the jerks. Life is too short to be pissed all of the time. I would much rather enjoy my time at the poker table, win or lose.
See you at the tables,
~the zonker
This week's topic was: Table Etiquette - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
ENTRY #1
When I saw the topic for the week, a couple of questions came to mind. I can only imagine the answers. The first question is: would a person actually come to a live casino poker room without showering, stinking to high heaven, and acting obnoxious with abusive verbal outburst towards other players trying to gain an edge of some kind? Then I though: What kind of edge would that person gain by doing this?
Well, the only thing I could come up with for an answer was everyone at the table would want to bust him or her so he or she would leave, therefore, possibly calling or putting the obnoxious person all-in with a moderate hand.
I am a betting man and I'd bet that there are people out there who actually do this but I can only imagine. Obnoxious people do affect my game personally, but there are many players who are not phased by these actions. I would like to know what other players think so please respond.
~pokerviper3
ENTRY #2
These %^**#$#**#! players that t%$!F' at other players, should keep their blanky-d-blank mouths to their #&*, S; selves. And that’s all I got to say on the 66EX5??? subject.
~Chip (:-^)
ENTRY #3
Did you every notice how 52 flat, paper like objects can turn loving, caring, gentle individuals into raving lunatics or, how seemly harmless, friendly cartoon like characters can change from images on a computer screen into hostile enemies battling it out on the front line? If you don’t know what I am speaking of then you obviously never played online poker.
Like the popularity of poker, poor sportsmanship has spread like the plague. And although I am ashamed to admit it, I have not been immune to this pesky epidemic. I think everyone who has parked themselves in front of their computer to play a few rounds of poker has found themselves face to face with their evil twin.
Paranoia, judgment and ridicule all sneak their ugly heads out when things don’t go according to plan at the poker table. We’ve all been there. The cards just don’t seem to come some nights and we feel persecuted. Or we are out played by a check raise and feel victimized by our opponent as if they have some personal vendetta against us. And then it starts: the name-calling. It doesn’t take long to realize that at the poker table, it only takes one thing to make some one a moron, and that is your chips in their stack!
One night, after a string of bad beats and the expansion of my vocabulary to include an inordinate amount of adjectives, I recognized it was time to take a step back. And then it hit me! I only get to play my cards! Wow! Really? Was it really that simple? Yes! From that night forward, I really started to enjoy poker and the people that I play with. I can’t say that I have never again felt a little steam rising after someone chased down their winning hand, but it is then I fall back on what my mother taught me a long time ago – “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!”
~ dw0101
ENTRY #4
Over the past few years of watching televised poker, we have all seen many examples of table etiquette; good, bad, and ugly.
We've seen Phill Hellmuth whine. Mike "the mouth" blow up and the infamous Tony G and his memorable appearance in the Paris WPT event. Some of the promoters have said that they don't mind as it is good for ratings, but is it good for poker?
It must make some of the legends of poker a little sad to see the showboating "end-zone dance" and shrieking celebrations by some of the younger players after knocking out another player or winning a tourney. Now granted, sitting down at a poker table is not supposed to be tea with the queen, but I hate seeing it reduced to the level of a WWF match. Can you see Tony G. getting up into Doyle Brunsons or T.Js face like that? If it were ever to happen, I would like to see someone like T.J. follow him out to the parking lot for a little "Poker Etiquette 101". Then, if he had actually won a trophy, he would have to pull it back out of his a$$ before putting it up on the mantle.
I have played online at several sites, and met a lot of good people, who can compete for money and be civil at the same time. Thankfully, I can mute the chat from the rest of the jerks. Life is too short to be pissed all of the time. I would much rather enjoy my time at the poker table, win or lose.
See you at the tables,
~the zonker