On NOT Complaining in Online Poker Chat
So you’re playing poker online and some guy, or gal, just cracked your flopped set of aces with a runner gut-shot. And they capped the whole way! Unreal! They must be taught a lesson! They must pay for their transgressions! You’ll show them … in chat!
Oh, come on, no you won’t. Or you shouldn’t, anyhow. I know it can be VERY tempting to unleash your razored wit on some outdrawing idiot, but methinks you should pass, and here are some reasons why.
1) It just looks lame. Think about how you feel when someone else goes off in chat. They seem like a bit of a loser, don’t they?
2) It reveals too much about you as a player - it’s often the tight players who get upset about losing because they are so rarely in a hand that, when they are, they expect to win.
3) It educates a bad player. In the long run [and this is admittedly little comfort at the time] YOU WANT and, more to the point, NEED those calls. Don’t make a bad player better. That’s just one more person that’s going to be harder to beat next time.
4) It will make people think you’re an ass and, quite possibly, result in their playing that much harder to beat you. No one likes an ass, and most people like beating one.
5) It doesn’t REALLY make you feel any better and may make you play worse.
Try to have something near the computer that you can punch instead of complaining. You know, like a window, or a cat.
Kidding, kidding. Windows are too expensive for that.
