dmorris68
Legend
Loyaler
More of an observation than a vent so I put it here instead of BBV...
Anybody else notice how 50NL on FT is becoming infested with mouthy jerks who enjoy criticizing others' play lately? I mean more so than the usual whining after a bad beat.
I've been playing daily there now for about a month or so, 4-6 tabling the Deep tables for an hour or so each evening. In the past week or two there's been a bunch of mouthy players who just have to go off in chat about how bad others are playing. The funny (and not so surprising) thing is, when you look up their stats, these are losing players and the ones they criticize are usually winning players. For example, last night this guy goes all Helmuth on me for 3-betting him off a flop after I pfr+cbet (I had AQ and flopped AQx), saying crap like "I swear, will these idiots never learn" and "it's always the same s*** with these idiot players." I don't usually get into chat but was curious what his problem was with my play, so I replied "lol, ok, please educate me." To which he replied "why should I help the dead money?" LOL.
In between hands I turn around to my laptop to look him up on PTR, and he's -$1600 over 267K hands, plus a -76% tourney ROI. I don't have nearly that number of hands on FT, having just started playing 50NL there (before I had only played MTT/SnG's on FT), but despite a rough start (had a hard time adjusting to ring on FTP for some reason) and a recent downswing, I've still managed to maintain 2.61 BB/100 and a modest profit after 8K hands. You'd think with so many hands under his belt, he would have more of a clue, both about how to play, as well as how the regs most likely know a thing or two about stats and how to look people up who draw attention to themselves.
After I pointed out how funny it was that the mouthy ones lately are losing players, and noting his total hand count, he didn't responded or never said another word after that.
That's the 3rd or 4th time in about a week that a similar thing has happened, all with different players mouthing off and then being called out on their stats, after which they shut up. I now make it a point to keep PTR up on the laptop behind me just so I can quickly scope these jerks out. So far, with all but one exception, they've been overwhelming losers. Normally I usually keep this info to myself to use against them during play, but when they become overly obnoxious and berate everybody else at the table, I find it hard to keep my own mouth shut.
Do these yahoos not even realize there are sites that compile stats on players??? You'd think someone with 260K hands would have some sort of clue, not to mention some degree of skill and an ability to lose gracefully. I know Helmuth doesn't often lose gracefully but at least he has some degree of skill, however narrow it may be according to many.
Anybody else notice how 50NL on FT is becoming infested with mouthy jerks who enjoy criticizing others' play lately? I mean more so than the usual whining after a bad beat.
I've been playing daily there now for about a month or so, 4-6 tabling the Deep tables for an hour or so each evening. In the past week or two there's been a bunch of mouthy players who just have to go off in chat about how bad others are playing. The funny (and not so surprising) thing is, when you look up their stats, these are losing players and the ones they criticize are usually winning players. For example, last night this guy goes all Helmuth on me for 3-betting him off a flop after I pfr+cbet (I had AQ and flopped AQx), saying crap like "I swear, will these idiots never learn" and "it's always the same s*** with these idiot players." I don't usually get into chat but was curious what his problem was with my play, so I replied "lol, ok, please educate me." To which he replied "why should I help the dead money?" LOL.
In between hands I turn around to my laptop to look him up on PTR, and he's -$1600 over 267K hands, plus a -76% tourney ROI. I don't have nearly that number of hands on FT, having just started playing 50NL there (before I had only played MTT/SnG's on FT), but despite a rough start (had a hard time adjusting to ring on FTP for some reason) and a recent downswing, I've still managed to maintain 2.61 BB/100 and a modest profit after 8K hands. You'd think with so many hands under his belt, he would have more of a clue, both about how to play, as well as how the regs most likely know a thing or two about stats and how to look people up who draw attention to themselves.
After I pointed out how funny it was that the mouthy ones lately are losing players, and noting his total hand count, he didn't responded or never said another word after that.
That's the 3rd or 4th time in about a week that a similar thing has happened, all with different players mouthing off and then being called out on their stats, after which they shut up. I now make it a point to keep PTR up on the laptop behind me just so I can quickly scope these jerks out. So far, with all but one exception, they've been overwhelming losers. Normally I usually keep this info to myself to use against them during play, but when they become overly obnoxious and berate everybody else at the table, I find it hard to keep my own mouth shut.
Do these yahoos not even realize there are sites that compile stats on players??? You'd think someone with 260K hands would have some sort of clue, not to mention some degree of skill and an ability to lose gracefully. I know Helmuth doesn't often lose gracefully but at least he has some degree of skill, however narrow it may be according to many.
