Mickflava888
Rock Star
Silver Level
Chat Box
i hate those who berate players who win a hand after a showdown to reveal a throw away hand when they have been allowed to limp in esp in position to do so, all of a sudden you are called a fish. so yeah i 'mostly' play without chat unless in home games. roles reversed if i would take a bad beat in a cash game i would likely congrats a nice play . in short chat plays a big part in my online etiquette . cheers all
i hate those who berate players who win a hand after a showdown to reveal a throw away hand when they have been allowed to limp in esp in position to do so, all of a sudden you are called a fish. so yeah i 'mostly' play without chat unless in home games. roles reversed if i would take a bad beat in a cash game i would likely congrats a nice play . in short chat plays a big part in my online etiquette . cheers all
malakata19
Visionary
Silver Level
One of the aspects that I understand is more important is the respect to the other players at your table not using bad words. I have seen that many players never speak in a tournament or at a table and I believe not only to be in more than one tournament but also to avoid being bothered or offended by other players. This will also depend on which game environment you are in since a home game in which you may be familiar with the players is totally different from a tournament where you hardly know anyone. As for the time I only use it when a player goes all in in each hand so I try to calm my anxiety against this player.
shanest
Legend
Platinum Level
I think if most people are being honest they have probably breached one of these rules at some point in time. I have definitely been guilty of breaching number 1 but I have learned that is a waste of energy and it only serves to hurt my game. I think #2 is the worst and it still occasionally happens in our FRC games.
mtl mile end
Legend
Bronze Level
#1 – Don’t tap the glass.
This usually isn’t a problem. The tilting jerks giving out the “lessons” are not really helping their opponent in any meaningful way, often because they don’t know WTF they’re doing either.
#2 – Don’t talk about a poker hand you're not in.
This is definitely annoying. Especially annoying when you’ve stolen the password to the tournament in the first place (this happened to me yesterday on a PS FR).
#3 – Do not be abusive or use profanities in the chat.
One hopes for this, but it cannot realistically be expected. People (I’m beginning to think the majority of people – at least online) are assholes. I miss the days of the “Contact Moderator” button on pokerstars. I never used it myself, but when someone became racist, vulgar, or otherwise abusive, a mod would always show up.
#4 – Do not give an indication of the hand you folded.
See #2 above. Jerk steals PW then announces that he folded JJ to an AI reraise that I have to decide whether to call or not.
#5 – Keep up with the action.
This is the one for me. I understand that there are reasons for playing at a very slow pace. If you would like to play at a faster pace, but there is a legitimate reason why you cannot, then just do your best. Some people obviously have no reason other than it being part of their game play. I have suffered through members on CC games that take the full time, every action, until they are sat out and folded or called, then immediately jump right back into active mode for the next (same if they called) action where they do exactly the same thing, again, and again. If they had been desperate to beat the bubble or ladder up, I would have understood, but they were not. The examples I’m thinking of were all at points in the tourney when it made no sense to stall, unless that’s just what you wanted to do. This is exceedingly rude. This is the opposite of good online poker etiquette.
This behaviour is however, surpassed in the rudeness scale (and the stupid scale) by the player I like to call the “Sadistic Staller”. They get peeved that someone is acting too slowly. They berate the person who is acting slowly. There is usually no response from the slow player. The Sadistic Staller then proceeds to take every available second to act (as I have described in the previous paragraph). They get all puffed up and say stuff like “THERE! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?!?!?”, completely ignoring the fact that their obtuse nature allows them to treat everyone at the table (usually a 7 innocent to 1 victim ratio) in the same manner that pissed them off in the first place. These people are reprehensible human beings. This is one of the times that I think “OMFG, this person may actually be a parent, raising children to be monsters just like them!”
#6 – Do not slowroll your opponent.
This is a little harder to do online than live. If the situation arises and it can be considered an “opportunity” then you’ve got a decision to make.
This usually isn’t a problem. The tilting jerks giving out the “lessons” are not really helping their opponent in any meaningful way, often because they don’t know WTF they’re doing either.
#2 – Don’t talk about a poker hand you're not in.
This is definitely annoying. Especially annoying when you’ve stolen the password to the tournament in the first place (this happened to me yesterday on a PS FR).
#3 – Do not be abusive or use profanities in the chat.
One hopes for this, but it cannot realistically be expected. People (I’m beginning to think the majority of people – at least online) are assholes. I miss the days of the “Contact Moderator” button on pokerstars. I never used it myself, but when someone became racist, vulgar, or otherwise abusive, a mod would always show up.
#4 – Do not give an indication of the hand you folded.
See #2 above. Jerk steals PW then announces that he folded JJ to an AI reraise that I have to decide whether to call or not.
#5 – Keep up with the action.
This is the one for me. I understand that there are reasons for playing at a very slow pace. If you would like to play at a faster pace, but there is a legitimate reason why you cannot, then just do your best. Some people obviously have no reason other than it being part of their game play. I have suffered through members on CC games that take the full time, every action, until they are sat out and folded or called, then immediately jump right back into active mode for the next (same if they called) action where they do exactly the same thing, again, and again. If they had been desperate to beat the bubble or ladder up, I would have understood, but they were not. The examples I’m thinking of were all at points in the tourney when it made no sense to stall, unless that’s just what you wanted to do. This is exceedingly rude. This is the opposite of good online poker etiquette.
This behaviour is however, surpassed in the rudeness scale (and the stupid scale) by the player I like to call the “Sadistic Staller”. They get peeved that someone is acting too slowly. They berate the person who is acting slowly. There is usually no response from the slow player. The Sadistic Staller then proceeds to take every available second to act (as I have described in the previous paragraph). They get all puffed up and say stuff like “THERE! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?!?!?”, completely ignoring the fact that their obtuse nature allows them to treat everyone at the table (usually a 7 innocent to 1 victim ratio) in the same manner that pissed them off in the first place. These people are reprehensible human beings. This is one of the times that I think “OMFG, this person may actually be a parent, raising children to be monsters just like them!”
#6 – Do not slowroll your opponent.
This is a little harder to do online than live. If the situation arises and it can be considered an “opportunity” then you’ve got a decision to make.
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wilywiles
Rock Star
Silver Level
the biggest agitator to me is discussing the hand while its in play. The other day when I was in a tournament at my local casino, a particularly bitter player put it upon himself to get involved in a hand he had already folded. A couple hands earlier I had put the talker all-in and he reluctantly let his hand go. Apparently he felt some type of way. Cuz here I am a couple hands later, I make a big bet on a player to his right, and he said " Boy looks like somebody's running super hot. Been in a lot of pots" and then " its funny how the worst player has the most chips" From what it seemed like to me he was definitely trying to entice the guy to call me. Little did he know I am a little more aware of the game than he may think because he would've ran into a set. Although thats besides the point, my point is discussing the hand in play when you are not in is really not cool
cazual88
Visionary
Silver Level
I agree with each of the 6 paragraphs of your article! I learned to control myself and hurt myself, it's not easy, but sometimes I sit at the same table with a provocateur for a long time, and the desire to finish the game with him can play a cruel joke. It can make me to do a mistake.
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Jimboskie
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I jumped into a MTT late with 10BBs and was playing a little aggro just to keep up. Maybe my play got on the guys nerves. So I was dealt KQss UTG or UTG+1 can't remember - so I jammed my 16BBs or whatever it was. Dude in the SB tanks out his entire timeclock before flipping over my favorite hand in no limit "AA". Slowrolled me bad... Would have loved to have connected with the board and doubled up. I didn't. It was a Drunken Donk freeroll - go figure. lol
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Jimboskie
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Just in case you all were wondering this translates as:
It would be nice if the poker rooms were occupied by players who use aggression in the form of words of violence!Often I come across difficult people in online games, even sometimes turns me on. But it is better to observe etiquette not only in the game, but in life.
MetaDon7577
Rock Star
Silver Level
Friend!
Thank you for your comment!
I do not speak English and therefore I use an interpreter. Apparently you did not understand me correctly, I apologize, I do not accept the aggression among the chat participants on the Internet
Thank you for your comment!
I do not speak English and therefore I use an interpreter. Apparently you did not understand me correctly, I apologize, I do not accept the aggression among the chat participants on the Internet
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titiduru
Visionary
Silver Level
In my opinion, the online poker is close to perfection when it comes to berating or being berated. Everyone has the option to chat with the other players, or not, unlike live poker where it's much harder to avoid verbal or nonverbal interaction. But if a player is interested in communicating with others, then he/she should be prepared to receive all kinds of statements from his opponents, positive, negative or neutral. Telling someone who plays very badly he is doing a good job is a condescendent lie, not etiquette. And giving undeserved praise to players making mistakes because you hope to make money off them is simply pathetic, like a traveling salesman trying to sell a guy a suit two sizes larger just to make the commission, but probably when you are enough of a gambler that seems like the right thing to do.
albosaltenio
Legend
Bronze Level
#1 the gamblers who win with weak projects are not necessarily bad players.and if I agree not to attack the other players unless it is a game that is established sometimes to deconcentrate and get it to pay your all in
#2 completely agree, it is very annoying when you think when you are in a heads up
#3 I do it against a player if he calls me to play that way, but only as a game strategy since I'm not interested in insulting someone I do not know. it is also not necessary to insult to provoke someone who is insulting.
#4 If you are not in the hand, do not speak
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#5 it would be one more tip for a cash game, since in a tournament it can be part of a strategy
#6 I do not agree with this advice since time is also part of the game and one can use the time he has as he wants
#2 completely agree, it is very annoying when you think when you are in a heads up
#3 I do it against a player if he calls me to play that way, but only as a game strategy since I'm not interested in insulting someone I do not know. it is also not necessary to insult to provoke someone who is insulting.
#4 If you are not in the hand, do not speak
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#5 it would be one more tip for a cash game, since in a tournament it can be part of a strategy
#6 I do not agree with this advice since time is also part of the game and one can use the time he has as he wants
moots
Min-cash specialist
Loyaler
A lot of things discussed in the article really bug me, but #6 Do not slowroll your opponent is something that I absolutely hate (when it happens to me). Any slowrolling is bad, but when people insta-call their gut shot draws all the way, then decide to timebank when they hit their draw and you've already put them in...it's such a scummy thing to do. Life-time ban for slowrollers please :viking:
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shdills
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Keep it moving!!
#5 is by far my biggest pet peeve! There are players that continuously run the clock down every hand. Then when one does it a lot it gets others to doing the same thing. this makes one hand last forever. I know some people do this to make others tilt. I have to keep myself in check for it not to make me tilt. I know it sounds horrible but, I have to smile to myself when a player like this looses. Just keep it going please
#5 is by far my biggest pet peeve! There are players that continuously run the clock down every hand. Then when one does it a lot it gets others to doing the same thing. this makes one hand last forever. I know some people do this to make others tilt. I have to keep myself in check for it not to make me tilt. I know it sounds horrible but, I have to smile to myself when a player like this looses. Just keep it going please
Spaceman
Legend
Silver Level
Im guilty of slow playing. Sometimes I take my time just to fold if im short stack and close in the money or do well in time tourneys. But someone could also just multitable as well.
Also when Im tilted by some donkey constantly going all in in every hand in heads up, I take my time and also reset my internet to take some more. I have to say it worked a couple of times!
Also when Im tilted by some donkey constantly going all in in every hand in heads up, I take my time and also reset my internet to take some more. I have to say it worked a couple of times!
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cwdignus
Carpe diem
Loyaler
the main lack of etiquette speak in a language other than English, to say that the opponent is donk when he makes a mistake in the play, I do not know what the purpose of it would be to unbalance the opponent or to alert him to start playing most concentrated way
charlie2013
Visionary
Silver Level
I used to do all the things when I started to play poker. Then I realize that stay angry with someone on the online table goes anywhere. But today, with ages playing poker, I dont do this things anymore! But nowdays, I can see the fresh meat playing like me before...time is always a good solution!!
Dejange
CC Delija
Loyaler
For long time I am trying to follow all of the rules mentioned in the article, and I think I am performing successfully 
However, one usual happening not mentioned within it - speaking in other than allowed language on the table! That happens frequently to me as other players recognizing my Serbian and Bulgarian notes (my flag is Bulgarian, but my avatar is a famous soccer club). So if someone on the table start to write me in Serbian or Bulgarian language - I am just exchanging couple of posts and than asking to switch to English - just in order to not make other players on the table angry.
In the past, I remember even for short conversations - other players used to report that to the poker room, and some of the administrators appeared on the table to make a warning! Guys and Gals - try to escape this :top:
However, one usual happening not mentioned within it - speaking in other than allowed language on the table! That happens frequently to me as other players recognizing my Serbian and Bulgarian notes (my flag is Bulgarian, but my avatar is a famous soccer club). So if someone on the table start to write me in Serbian or Bulgarian language - I am just exchanging couple of posts and than asking to switch to English - just in order to not make other players on the table angry.
In the past, I remember even for short conversations - other players used to report that to the poker room, and some of the administrators appeared on the table to make a warning! Guys and Gals - try to escape this :top:
aqqr
Rock Star
Silver Level
I never turn on the chat DD Slowroll is really terrible. In this there is no point, but only wasting time. Once the oponent did 3 bet, I made an instant push from AA and the opponent waited about 30 seconds and responded with KK. It was very funny, he punished himself.
DD Slowroll is really terrible. In this there is no point, but only wasting time. Once the oponent did 3 bet, I made an instant push from AA and the opponent waited about 30 seconds and responded with KK. It was very funny, he punished himself.