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Message: [QUOTE="Swanny, post: 548018, member: 20752"] This is something I think about alot. How much information people give away just by the things they say at the table. Whether it's live or online it just confounds me every time I see someone berate a bad player. Interestingly enough though, it's usually a bad player that does the berating... Bah! What can you do? At times I come across a catch 22 when I see someone berating a player. Especially when the berator is a seemingly solid player. How do you tell that person (especially online) that what he is doing is giving away information. Let the player play badly, etc... You all know what I mean. I try to just ignore it but by nature, I have always stood up for people I feel are being wronged and when I see this stuff happening I will speak up. I know I need to just shut the hell up but it just bugs the hell out of me! So when I do speak up and tell that person to stop being an ass in doing so I am giving away information to ALL the bad players at the table. Not to mention the fact that it's just wrong to berate people in general. A good rule of thumb for everyone is [B]if you wouldn't say it to someone at a live table, you definitely shouldn't say it online[/B]. Another thing that happened to me a few months back was while playing a live 3/6 limit game at my local casino I was seated in seat 5 and there was a girl struggling at seat 7 with a player that seemed fairly solid in seat 8 giving her advice. Not only was he giving her advice, he was giving her BAD advice. I desperately wanted to say something to point out he's wrong and is actually hurting her, but I caught myself in time. I just recommended a couple of books to her. But, doing so gave away information. A couple people heard me an both spoke up. One had read the books so he knew my play style from that point on and announced it. The other was just a moron who gave the old "uh oh he read a book" crap. But still it changed my game for the rest of the night. Bah! Just shut the hell up! So please people, stop trying to show off how much you know. Stop being an ass. Put your ego aside and just shut the hell up! I know we all get steamed at times and will let something slip but if we all keep this in mind we won't do it as often... [/QUOTE]

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