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[QUOTE="Aleksei, post: 2152264, member: 94582"]
I never say nice play to donks.

I WILL say nh though if they suck out on me -- and mean it, too, with absolutely zero resentment. Here's why:

1) When a fish calls off 95o and hits 2p on the river, technically speaking that IS a nice hand because a hand is a completed 5-card hand, and 2-pairs is in fact a pretty nice hand.
2) when a fish calls down 2 streets with middle pair no kicker, 4 out of 5 times the unthreatening 5 river is genuinely unthreatening, and if they called 2 streets they'll usually call a 3rd anyway. Which means the hand was HUGELY +EV for me. I [I]want[/I] him to hit his sweet 2pair because he will pay me off all the other times he misses.
3) the cards are blind and ultimately even out. Getting a nice hand is something a player cannot control (the only thing they can control is relinquishing shitty ones), so ultimately saying "nice hand" [B]is not a genuine compliment[/B], because you aren't complimenting the player but the hand. If the player had played well he'd never had seen the river with that hand.

So nh is really a backhanded insult that everyone thinks is a compliment. I get to encourage the fish and lol at them all at the same time. Win-win. :D
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