I may have been a little bit to harsh, but this is a learning poker post. In learning poker posts we talk about the right way to do things, not post misleading things to confuse players that may need a hand in learning the game. In my opinion such a post did not belong here, I asked how people play said hands, not there far out experiences playing them. The comment was just a very misleading thing to say for a player trying to learn the proper way to play the game. I also think it is very low of you to call me out for calling out a horrible misleading comment. You may think you were in the right to defend it, but I do not believe you were at all. Defending horrible posts in someones thread is not a great thing to do. I realize we are all here to learn and talk about poker in general but in such a thread his post did not belong. AA are lesser that 88, come on, that is just pure ridiculous talk. I probably should have addressed it better when seeing it, but it was just the first thing that came to my mind. I may have been slightly out of line but the comment you made was as well. Trying to school someone because they made a post about how they feel about another persons post should be above you and you should have probably just went along with your business instead of calling me out. I realize I was slightly out of line but I hope you realize that you were as well for calling me out and trying to defend such a post in a learning poker thread. Cheers to you and I wish you the best in all your future en devours, maybe we can both think a little before we post such things. Good day.
Dear friend, you misunderstood me. I did not "call you out" primarily for being too harsh with Rahatis. I was actually trying to explain you why you were wrong about thinking that his post didn't have a place in your thread.
You see, you are the one who in the name of something good is willing to do something bad, since in the name of a hypothetical beginner who might stumble upon your thread trying to learn if AA is a better hand than 88, you are willing to burn up the stake one of your very real Cardschat fellow members.
The primary reason people come to a
poker forum (besides the
freerolls) is to find out how other people in the real World think about poker. People like Rahatis are very real and present out there, at the poker tables, and he was a rare bird who was willing to be honest about it, hence adding great learning value to the thread. These people are vastly underrepresented on the forum already, mainly because of the berating and hate they receive from people like you, because you're not alone, my friend, there are many like you who are willing to offend others in the name of "correctness".
I have seen a case of a moderator being bullied into changing a thread's name and moving it from the learning section to the general poker because of complaints from strategy "purists".
People like Rahatis don't start playing or thinking differently because of the berating they receive, but they simply stop posting on the forum or they start saying what seems to be accepted by others instead of their true thoughts, so the forum instead of being a sample of reality becomes a make belief version where everyone seems to be playing "correctly", and where only worshipers of the Poker Book and Odds Calculator come to find comfort and complain about how unlucky they are when reality slaps them in the face.
poker books are an excellent guidance for everyone, but poker should not be treated like a cult where people who chose to ignore the general advise from books and articles are accused of blasphemy and berated into silence. Instead they should be valued for their contribution towards keeping the forum healthy and representative of the real World of poker.
Again, this is an exchange of ideas, and regardless of us being in agreement or not, I have only respect and consideration for you, as a fellow discussion partner.
