Am I being arrogant/egotistical/hypocritical?

say good hand and move on, if there playing bad i want em to keep playing bad

well very good point u have there, most people leave there intelligents to the computor tec age now,for example driveing to a location they know useing there gps , the gps tells them to turn left when they know they should turn right.... they turn left because the gps said to they forget to use there own brain.... so u cant have a intelligent conversation with them I hope u like eating fish

My opinion is (hopefully I'm not repeating anyone's post, cause I didn't read them all...after the spelling fight I just skipped ahead) Unless the people you are arguing with are good friends of yours...just don't argue. Encourage them to think they're the greatest players in the world and take their money.

dwolfg said:

Why tap on the aquarium or help the fish to grow?

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^^^ This pretty much sums it up and says all one needs to know with regards to engaging poor players who think they actually know what they're doing, or that someone else doesn't.

Along these lines, I have a personality flaw that I've struggled with my whole life. I'm a somewhat OCD, detail-oriented freak who feels compelled to "educate" or correct people, not out of ego or the need to feel superior, but because I actually feel anxiety when witnessing blatant ignorance or stupidity. And no, not to the degree of being a spelling nazi (although I do cringe at some people's spelling/grammer, I manage to contain myself, and also remind myself that our typing fingers and keyboards don't always obey our brain).

Not arguing with the donks who obviously don't know what they're doing, but insist they do, was one of the harder things for me to resist when I started playing. Even when I didn't always know the right play either, I was studying enough to often recognize a bad play when I saw one. I couldn't help but to respond with explanations of my play, or of someone else's play, or to rebut the offending oaf's bragging with in-his-face results from sharkscope that proved he was not the player he thought he was (it was always a bit funny to catch those who had no idea that sites actually compiled stats on them).

I quickly learned the error of my ways, however, and today offer a "nh" and "gg" when I run afoul of a lucky donk. I want him to keep thinking he's got it going on, and that we can learn from him. On rare occasion (maybe once or twice at most) when someone is being overly abusive in chat, I have reported them. Otherwise I just ignore or mute them. I hesitate to disable chat completely because you can often read people by their chat, or sometimes a friendly banter develops that I enjoy.

Hmm I don't think I explained what I meant correctly. I don't berate them, I'm a calm peace loving guy. What I was trying to ask is how do you guys actually know that your line of thinking is correct when talking about hands? I'm not asking for the satisfaction of, "I'm right )

I found it ironic the other night with the KK discussion that we both believed we where right and wouldn't change our opinions; I was doing the exact same thing as he was really, just my line of thinking may be a little bit more educated. I realised that the monkey was beyond reason early so before it turned into some ego war I decided to just agree with him, which I think made him feel satisfied. I guess I should not even have in my mind the idea of discussing hands; but then again, it would be really cool to have some local rational poker fanatic who I can discuss the game with; this won't happen any time soon though

But anyway, I find that I'm starting to think that all the players are really.... stupid for a lack of a better word. When I say that I'm ultimately comparing them to someone, me.... I guess I think by playing with these guys I'm becoming arrogant and it's ironic because when discussing hands I'm doing the exact same thing as they are, going of preconceptions; I guess I consider what they say *shrug*


I'm probably not explaining myself very well

EDIT: Put in another way, I find it ironic that when discussing such things I "know" that I'm right and he "knows" the that he's right; I'm doing the same as he is, basing my judgments off of preconceptions

I usually just let them rant. When you chat it tells all unless you lie the whole time Lol