Speaker 1: So you want to be up those stage question Yeah,
from the blinds, to deliver, stay smooth, stay subtle, stack chips,
stack skills, Let the fuse get muted. Welcome to this show.
Speaker 2: Today's episode isn't going to be an episode about strategy,
but it is a bonus episode, so it's not one
of your first Sunday of the month strategy episodes. I'm
throwing it in here for free for extra as a
bonus because I think it's important. I play anywhere from
depending on the month, I will play between one hundred
and two hundred hours of poker a month. I play
somewhere between fifteen hundred and two thousand hours of poker
a year. I spend a lot of time at a
poker table. Poker's my passion. Poker's the way I enjoy myself.
Poker is an escape for me mentally and emotionally. Obviously
I make a little bit of money doing it as well.
I also help teach people how to play and coach
people and have you know, training Patreon and stuff like.
I just love poker. That is where I'm at in
my life. Don't know how long that'll last, but the
concept of poker etiquette is something that I think gets
overlooked and all the poker content out there, and I've
talked a little bit about poker rules and what to
expect it poker for beginners. It's probably been a couple
of years ago now. If you're interested in that, if
you're an absolute new player, you can go back and
search the archives. But I don't think I've ever just
done an episode strictly on poker etiquette. So that's what
you're going to get in today's episode. If you want
training and learn how to crush the game and all that,
stick around to the end of the podcast episode. We'll
talk about that a little bit. So poker etiquette basics. Look,
always respect the game. Game. They used to call it,
you know, the gentlemen's game, but you know women play
it as well, So it's a respectable person's game. That's
the way we would like to keep it. And so
there's just some things you shouldn't do. We'll name a
fewel them. Slow rolling, for example, you shouldn't slow roll
people you don't know. Now, I have friends that I
play a lot of poker with and we like give
and take, jib and jab, that kind of thing. I
may slow roll one of them and they will probably
laugh at it and tell me they'll get me back.
But as a general rule, don't slow roll people. Just
flip your hand over this obsession with even if it's accidental,
like I see people accidentally slow roll somebody. Just flip
your hand over this obsession with not revealing your hand
because you think you're gonna reveal some grand strategy to
everybody at the table and they're gonna use it against you.
Nobody at your one, two, one three game is using
anything against you, So just flip your handover instead of
slow rolling fast role. Like I almost always fast roll,
not always. There are times I will, you know, if
I don't have to show first and there's a pro
or a person I don't know, et cetera, something like
that in a hand, I will wait to see them
show their cards because that's the rule, they have to
go first. But you know, other than you know, spots
like that, just you know, table your hand. Don't talk
about your hand while there's live action. Now, this rule
will vary a little bit from room to in most
poker rooms, not tournaments, by the way, tournaments are completely different.
You can't talk about your hand at all. In a tournament,
But in cash games and a lot of poker rooms,
you cannot discuss the hand. You can't discuss the board,
you can't discuss the turn, you can't discuss the pot size,
you can't discuss the guy's bet side. Like, you can't
discuss anything about the hand that's going on unless you
are heads up with one other player. If it's just
you and one other player heads up, now my home
poker room, like, you can just turn your cards over
and show them to the other player in the hand
if your head's up. Other poker rooms won't let you
do that, but they will let you talk back and forth.
You can use deception, you can joke around, you can
try to talk somebody to folding. But when there's more
than check with your room. As with everything, check with
your room and see what the rule is. But either
you can only talk about what's going on in a
hand when it's you and one other person heads up,
or you can't talk about it at all. It will
depend on what room you're in. Try your best to
not expose your cards, like, especially intentionally. I see people
they hate their card and they've been talking about what
bad cards they're getting, and they just want to show
the table prove to them how bad the cards are.
So there'll be like a call and it'll get to
them and they'll just flip their cards over they see
how bad my cars are. Well, that exposes an enormous
amount of information to everybody who's in the game who
hasn't acted yet. Let's say that there's somebody in there
with you know, seven eight of spades, and you folded
the six of spades or you folded a seven or
you folded an eight. That may go from them deciding
to play that hand to not playing that hand because
their ability to make big hands is diminished on the flop.
Don't ever intentionally show your hand early, and try your
best to not do it accidentally. As well, accidents happened,
but try very hard to be careful and don't be
doing end zone dances in somebody face after you win
a pot. I was surprised not too long ago, there's
probably been two or three months ago. Now, there was
this guy in a hand with me. He's a relatively
quiet player and kind of reserved and kind of on
the conservative side, that he'd beat me in a hand,
and he just stood up and did an all out
end zone dends. It was very disrespectful, very disrespectful. Look,
if it's a friend of yours. Again, if you're in
a hand with a friend somebody that you have a
poker history with, you guys take jabs at each other. Look,
you can celebrate in your friend's face, right, because that's
the thing you do. But other than that, just be respectful. Likewise,
when you lose a hand, we all lose, are cool
from time to time and say comments like wow, I
did you know. They can be from as innocent sounding
as wow, I didn't expect you to have that there.
That's an insult, but it's a kind of a polite insult, right, Like,
it's not over the top. But then people just take
it further and go, wow, you're the worst player ever,
or how are you even in his hand? Or you
don't even know how to spell poker, and it'll just
get worse and worse and worse. Like, try to be
respectful in polight when you lose hands, even if it's
a bad beat. Don't blame the dealer for your cards.
The dealer can't control your cards. Ugh. I know three
or four people in my home boger room that constantly
are just up the dealer about uh, I knew you
were gonna give me that. You always give me that.
You always just give me the word, you know. Now.
I joke with the dealers about it. I'm never serious.
Like you can ask any of my homeroom dealers. They
will tell you right off the bat. I will joke
with them about you just kill me. You're killing me
at this table. But I'm always kind of joking about it.
I continue to tip them, I continue to be polite
to them. They know that I don't actually think that
they're the problem, right, But some people do. Make your
stack size visible to all and keep your largest ship
denomination up front. This is a This is a rule
that I guess pretty much every room I've ever played in. So,
if you have green chips and red chips, your green
chips should be upfront. In other words, they should be
in front of your red chips so at the table
can easily see them on top of your stack of red.
So let's say you have three stacks of red or whatever,
and you got like four green chips. You can either
put them on top of your stack of red so
they're up high and visible, or you need to put
them out in front of your red chip so everybody
can see them. And then you need to keep your
cards visible and protect them. Not long ago, this gentleman
who kind of keeps his hands over his cards, so
it's kind of hard to tell if he's got a
hand or not. I mean, he was in a hand
and somebody else bet, and the dealer looked around and
didn't see cards and pushed the pot to the player
who made the bet and then was mucking the you know,
mucked his hand and mucked the board and all this,
and then the other player goes, hey, I'm still in
the hand. I got cards. Well, you know, nobody could
see your cards. Nobody could see your cards, so keep
your cards visible, always protect them. Protecting your hand is
on you. If you don't want the dealer to accidentally
muck your hand, you need to protect your hand, and
a lot of people do this putting a chip protect
your card protector, like a chip or something on top
of it. But even that's not enough. Like I've still
seen hands mugged when they had a chip on top
of them. The best way to protect your hand is
just leave your hands on your cards. But I don't
mean covering your cards completely. Just leave a finger or
two on top of your cards or something, leaving where
they can be seen. Have respect for other players at
the game in every way you can, Like, don't be
coaching up bad players at the table, don't be braiding
bad players at the table. Don't be braiding good players
at the table. Don't mock how somebody plays. Don't get
a strategy debate with people at the table that you
don't know, you know, try to let people enjoy the game,
and especially if they're playing badly, Like, what do you
want them to start playing better? This is something I've
never understood, launching into a tie rade about how somebody's
playing horribly and what a horrible player they are. It's
the dumbest thing ever. You want that person to keep
playing horribly? What do you want them to play good?
Just try to be polite. Look, do I ever get
out of line and maybe make an off comment here
or a sninde comment there? Of course, from time to
time I will. But I think you can ask anybody
that plays with me in these two hundred hours a month,
I play like ninety nine percent of the time, I
either won't say nothing, or I'll say nice hand or
you know, I just try not. I try not to
be rude to other people. And then finally in this topic,
keep the game moving right. Always know when it's your turn.
I hate people that never know when it's on them.
They're just sitting there. They never ever know it's their turn.
They don't know when they're the big blind, they don't
know when they're the small blind. They don't know when
they're next to act. Look, pay attention to what's going
on the game, man, act in a reasonable amount of time.
Don't sit there tanking forever. Like you know, I see
people tanking over ten dollar bets and five dollar bets
and stuff. Look if it's a you know, if it's
a four hundred dollars pot and then the other guy
goes all in for two hundred or three hundred or
four hundred on them river or whatever, that's a big decision.
And I don't mind you sitting there and trying to
work it out. You know, take a minute, take a
minute and a half. I mean, I guess even up
to around two minutes. I can kind of be on
board with. But don't be crazy, man. But especially for
these small amounts, A couple of months ago. I saw
this guy. The pot is like, I don't know, three
hundred dollars or something, and the guy only has like
thirty dollars behind For whatever reason why it didn't go
all in the turn, I don't know, not for me
to talk about. It's literally thirty dollars into like a
three hundred something dollar pot and heat tanks for like
two minutes and me and the guy next to me,
he's talking about, we're gonna call the floor, and I
didn't call the floor, but the guy next to me did,
and I was fine with it because it was ridiculous.
It's thirty dollars. Like, you know, if you're putting thirty
dollars in you, we're not in the in the final
table of the World series of Poker Man. Let's let's
be realistic. Uh, try to make your bets and stuff
pretty clear, and it always helps if you want to
verbalize your action like you don't have to, but it
will save you a lot of trouble if you will
verbalize it. A lot of issues. Uh, let's talk about
angle shooting first fall, don't angle shoot, don't be an
angle shooter. Nobody likes an angle shooter is it cheating.
The reason we have a different word for it is
because technically it's not cheating, but sometimes it can be cheating.
There is a fine line sometimes between angle shooting and cheating.
So and there's also some you know, ethical I think
there's some ethical angle shoots as well. I have an
angle shoot that I do that I don't think is
all that unethical. Some people will start putting chips in
immediately when they see you grab it. In other words,
let's say we're on the turn and uh, let's say
it's one hundred dollars pot, and I'm reaching for my
chip stack to pull off like fifty dollars to move
to the middle. So I'm moving back, grabbing like grabbing
half of a one hundred stack, half of a red stack,
which you know around fifty, and I'm gonna move it
forward and bet fifty or whatever. The other player in
motion will with me, will be grabbing their chips, and
they will be moving them forward even even sometimes ahead
of me, like their hand will be over the line
out in the middle, even ahead of my hand sometimes. Now,
if you're gonna do this, if you're gonna expose yourself
and leave yourself exposed, like this when I'm bluffing, right,
because sometimes I'm gonna be bluffing on the turn. So
I may have reached back and grabbed like seventy five
dollars of chips in my hand, because I mean I
can put up to like a full stack in my hand,
like most people with averageized hands can do this. But
you know, let's say it's not even a hundred Let's
say I reach and grab grab a five dollars stack,
and I go deep enough to snag like seventy five
or eighty dollars and grab them, and I'm moving forward
to bet, and I see this guy is already moving
a stack of chips out in sync with me, or
slightly ahead of me or something he's gonna call. If
I'm buffing, I'm just gonna drop five dollars on the map.
Because you know, again, this is gonna depend on your
poker room. Some poker rooms have a hard betting line
some people. Some rooms don't. If it's a hard betting line,
if you have chips in your hand, once those chips
go over the line, everything your hand stays in the middle.
Bugar rooms who don't have a hard betting line. It's
you can move, you know, like you can move seventy
five dollars in red chips out front. You can drop
twenty five, you know, five of them, which is twenty
five dollars on the felt. Pick your hand up, move
to the right, drop another twenty five. Pick your hand up,
move to the right, drop another twenty five down. That's
considered okay. So when rooms like that where I'm gonna
bluff on the turn and then I see this guy's
just gonna snap call me and he's beat me into
the middle of the table with a stack of hip
I'm just gonna drop five dollars because I'm buffing. On
the other hand, if I have the nuts, I'm just
gonna block. You know, I might have been thinking about
betting fifty. But now that I see that he's gonna
call them on a why I just dropped the whole
seventy five out there. To me, that is an ethical
angle shoot because the other person is angle shooting themselves.
They're acting in a way that is exposing them and
causing them to be vulnerable to be exploited. Unethical angle
shoots are lying about your bet size, pretending you you know,
meant to just call when you raise. Like I've seen people,
you know, they'll drop like twenty dollars out there and
then go, oh, I only meant to call or whatever
when they just got aces and they're trying to give
the illusion that they just meant to call. And you know,
is this ethical? I don't really think that's ethical. I
had a guy one night that I was bluffing on
the river and I go all in, and I have
I have a ton of chips, like I have a
big stack of green which is five hundred dollars, and
then I probably have like another six or seven hundred
dollars in red stacks. And he only had like one
hundred and forty dollars left behind him. That's all. He had,
like one hundred and forty dollars. So I announce all in,
and to make things easier, I just grab that stack
of green chips and just move them to the middle.
I say, all in. I grab a stack of green
chips and move them to the middle. He says, call,
turns over his hand. He has the best hand. He
grabs my entire stack of green chips and pulls them
towards him into his stack, causing them to get all mixed.
Up and washed up and confused, and I immediately go, whoaa,
I don't know him five hundred dollars The man only
had like one hundred and twenty or a hundred and
thirty or a hundred four at most in front of him,
and he took my entire every every green chip that
I slid out in the middle, he took it. You know.
The floor had to go watch the cameras. They closely
estimated what he had. They might have been off five
or ten dollars. Anyway, it got resolved. But that's it.
That is an unethical angle. Shoot. So I think some
angles can be clever and ethical, and I think some
of them are unethical. Uh, don't lose your cool too
much over it. Like try if it happens to you,
try to call the floor. If you feel like it's
something that's unethical, and especially if it cost you money,
like in the example of the hand I just talked about,
you can ask the dealer about it or whatever. Just
don't get crazy, don't get violent, don't get angry at
that type stuff. Let's talk about dealing with versially abusive
players at the table like this happens quite a bit,
so a couple of different things can happen at the table, right,
Like there's a there's friendly banter, right, and you you
can you can do what's you know, like friendly banner
and and you know trash talking that isn't abusive, Like
you can trash talk somebody, you know, it's like in sports,
people kind of trash talk each other and it's kind
of accepted and it's okay, so you know, that's kind
of fine. But then there's there's players that are just
verbally abusive, just verbally abusive. And oftentimes it's somebody who
just wants a reaction for whatever reason. Either they have
a horrible life, they're a miserable person, they get some
weird kick out of it, they're sad, lonely and depressed.
I don't know what their reasons are, but they're just
verbally abusive. They also could just be spoiled people who
just think they're always supposed to get their way, and
when they're losing or whatever, they're not getting their way,
and so now they just become verbally abusive. You should
mostly stay calm in these situations. You know, if usually
if you just let it go, they'll stop. If it's
just relentless. You can call a floor, You could ask
the dealer or say, hey, just tell this guy to
stop getting in my face. But again, don't react in
a loud verbal way again, because you're just gonna escalate
it and it's just gonna get out of hand. So
you know, ignore it up to the point that you can,
and then once it crosses a line, you know, speak up,
call for a floor, ask the dealer to step in.
You know, try to keep the game as least violent
as possible. There's this guy that plays poker in my homeroom.
I still not sure what he is. I don't know
if he's the most evil person that ever walked the
planet or if he's the most internally miserable person that
walk the planet. So he has a quote unquote friend
that I don't think that person really is his friend,
but he just gets along with everybody. And he told
me one day, he said, that guy is just miserable
on the inside, and that's how he deals with it.
You know, miserable people are miserable to other people. Pity him,
don't get mad at him, just pity him, and I
did for a while, but I don't think that's his problem.
And I think he just genuinely gets joy from messing
with people. And we had an occasion where I just
generally annoyed, you know, would ignore him, or sometimes I
just laugh at him because he's so ridiculous. The things
he says are so stupid, Like he is the dumbest
sounding person ever. He thinks he sounds intelligent, but he's
really dumb. He says some of those insane things. Ever,
he's also the tightest player that's ever played the game,
but he will often call other people at the table
tight or talk about how tight the game is. Meanwhile,
he hasn't played a hand in three hours. Its matter
of fact. I played with him maybe three two or
three weekends ago, and he made a comment at the table.
I raised and he folded his and he made a
comment like I'm gonna fold to the tightest player at
the table, and I just busted out laughing, and I
told the guy next to him, Look, everybody in the
room knows he's one of the top three tightest people
in the room. Everybody in the room knows it. He's
not fooling anybody, but he just likes the says stuff
like that, So most of it doesn't bother me, but
he comes after me most more than others. I think
the reason is because I lost my cool one night
with him several years ago. So this was COVID. This
was the COVID year. I lost nine people to COVID.
I don't want to get political. You believe whatever you
want about COVID. I don't think you can believe everything
you want to be right, but it's your right as
an American to believe whatever you want. I personally believe
there are sets of facts that are verifiable by science. Nevertheless,
I digress. Believe whatever you want. When people have lost
people to a disease, that is not the time to
be the jerk. This guy is so on this particular night,
I hadn't lost all nine people that I eventually lost
to COVID. I'd only lost a few people, maybe three
or four. But on this particular week, I lost one
of the just best people I ever knew. I wouldn't
say like I love them a ton, but there's you know,
good friend, good person, or respected them a ton, and
I had gone and buried them that day. I buried
them that day, went to their funeral, all this kind
of stuff, and then I was just going to go
play poker that night, poker the next night, and stay
in a hotel because the funeral of another person was Sunday.
And the person in that funeral on Sunday was a
woman that I loved as much or more than any
woman I've ever loved, short of my mom. And my
mom had passed. As a matter of fact, this person
that I'm talking about that died from COVID, she was
one of two people in the room with me at
two o'clock in the morning when my mom passed. The
three women that were in that room that night were
the three women that I loved the most in this world,
and they were ants. We were the only people in
the room that night. My mom died at whatever time
it was two in the morning or whatever. But so
she was one of them, and she's been special to
me since I was a young kid. She named me. Look,
I don't want to go on and on about it,
but I was burying her that Sunday and it was
a very stressful time. This guy is going off about
COVID and hoaxes and stuff, and I made a comment
to him of some sort which really ignited him on
fire and he just launched into He launched into all
kinds of stuff about COVID. He launched into my game
as a player and me being a losing player, And
I mean, he was launching into everything I was. So
I was in such a bad emotional place that night,
because it was an emotional week, like I've already lost
a few people to COVID, and I buried one person
that day, and I'm burying the woman I love most
that's still alive that Sunday, and it was not the
time to be messing with me. My mind was not right.
I was an enormous amount of stress and grief, and
I almost left that table and went to the parking
lot and waited for to see him exit the building,
to deal with him in ways you shouldn't deal with somebody.
But I came very close to doing it. We survived it,
we got through it. But ever since that time, because
I lost my cool at the table with him, which
is the only time I'd ever done anything like that.
Usually I just ignore him or laugh at him because
he's so ridiculous. He's just the dumbest person. He's dumb,
and he's mean, and he's he's mostly dumb. Let's just
be honest. If you ever had somebody that thinks they're smart,
but they really aren't all that smart. This is that
guy anyway. You know. I let it go, but I
guess because he got a rise out of me that night.
He loves just poking at me all the time. It
usually doesn't bother me, but on nights that I'm having
a bad night, and this is what I do all
nights that I'm not the best mentally or emotionally, Like
if I'm having a bad day, perhaps I'm sick, perhaps
I've a headache, perhaps when somebody's already ticked me off
that day, if there's any chance that I will react
in a not polite way or a not just sitting
back an ignorant way to where it might escalate to
violence for this person's safety, primarily for this person's safety,
not my own. However, I first to admit I could
wind up getting hurt in the altercation as well. We'll
find out. Because I ain't scared for that person's safety,
I will generally change tables. Uh, not because I'm scared
of them, not because they're particularly brilliant, or they're all
that witty, or it's just it's just for their safety
and because I don't want to go to jail. But
other nights I don't really care, and I'll just sit
there and just listen to the not well. Usually have
my headphones on, so I don't really hear anything they say,
and if I do hear things they say, it's just
little bleeps and blips there, and just let it go
and not worry about it. Just I feel I pity
them because they're just pathetic. They're just a pathetic human.
That's how you have to deal with these things. So
you're gonna run across all kinds of people in poker.
This guy's horrible for the game because he just never
plays a hand and he doesn't bring anything to the table.
He doesn't bring enjoyment to the table. He doesn't bring
fun to the table, he doesn't bring your action to
the table. He doesn't bring anything positive at the table.
But sometimes you will run across people who are kind
of like him, like they like to dig at people.
They're a little annoying. Sometimes they can be you know,
caustic at times, but they're good for the game. So
when when personally me when it's somebody that's good for
the game. I just ignore them like I won't let
them get too far with somebody or with a dealer,
like I'll speak up, but otherwise unless it goes too far. Whatever. Man,
you're good for the game, you're losing fifty one hundred
dollars an hour. Please stay here and be an idiot
all you want. That's just how I handle it personally.
Let's talk about dealing with floor rulings. I've said this
for a long time. It doesn't matter how wrong the
floor is. They're always right, and the sooner you accept that,
the easier life will be. That doesn't mean you won't
get frustrated at times or annoyed at times. But whoever
is the floor is god. Whatever they say goes, it
doesn't matter. You can go pull up their own rule
book and show it to them. However they ruled, It
doesn't matter. Whatever the rule the floor says goes. Floor
rulings won't always go your way. Sometimes they won't go
your way and correctly so they shouldn't go your way.
And then other times they won't know your way and
the floor's just wrong. Look, you can't let that bother you.
It's one hand, it's one pod, it's whatever is, move on.
You can call the floor right when you call the floor. Look,
here's what you need to do. First thing. Let the dealer.
They're gonna want to want to know. That's the dealer,
what happened. Don't be interrupting the dealer and trying to
tell the floor what happened. You'll get your chance. You're
just making things worse for the floor when the dealer's
trying to tell them and you're yapping over them and
go no, this, yeah, that No. Let the dealer finish
giving their interpretation to what happened, and then tell the floor, Hey,
part of what he said is what happened, but then
he missed the you know, set the record straight and
the best of your ability. Sometimes they'll go check a camera.
Sometimes they want but look, there's no point arguing after
the ruling is made. You can be upset about it.
You could leave. You know, I've left a few times
after blow rulings. I've just racked up my chips and left.
I've also had conversations with the poker room manager after
a floor ruling. But as far as in the game, like,
you just can't go on and on about it. It's
not gonna change anything. It's gonna put you on tilt.
You're gonna lose money, you're gonna be unpleasant to the table,
you're gonna make the playing environment uncomfortable. Just just move on.
Some ways you can protect yourself during these so things
aren't ambiguous, like things we've talked about before. Keep your
hand where it's visible, but keep it covered so it
doesn't get mugged. Keep your chip stacked straight, keep your
big chips out front, make your bet sizes clear, announce
your bet size clearly. Don't do anything in an ambiguous way,
and you will save yourself some floor rulings. And then
the last thing is you need to know the rules
of the room you're playing in because they vary slightly.
There are slight variations and rules from room to room.
For example, for the longest time my room, the front
edge of your cards was a betting line, and once
you made a forward motion past the front of your
cards with your chips, that was binding. There's other rooms
where there's that little circle painted on the felt in
the middle once that's called a hard betting line. In
some rooms, once your chips move past that line, every
chip that's in your hand has to be dropped on
the felt. Then there's ways my room is now where
it is forward motion dropping of chip and then moving
the hand back right. So it's an assertive forward motion
past the point where it's clearly a bet. It's going
to be different for a route. Make sure you know
the rules. Make sure you know how the high hands work.
Does it need to go to the river? How much
money needs to be in the pot? Can you play
one card? Do you have to play both cards for quads?
Do you have to have a pair in your hand?
Or can you make quads with just one card in
your hand and your other card in your hand? Be
the kicker, like, know all these rules and you will
save yourself a lot of headache. I won't talk a
lot about dealing with violent players or potentially violent players,
like you just shouldn't entertain them at all. Don't get
mouthy with them. I would just recommend changing tables there.
If there's a potential for something to bad happen, you
may even just consider leaving. You could, of course, call
the floor at the first sign you see violence is
about to happen. Hopefully the dealer or the floor will intervene.
But just look, don't be a hero in those spots.
Just remove yourself from the situation, get the dealer's attention
about it, ask for the floor, change seats, change to
a different table, don't try to be a And look,
I screwed up with this couple weeknds ago and got
interjected into a situation that wasn't even me. It was
a friend of mine was in it with this other
guy who brought his brother in, and I was gonna
let my friend be one on two. So I made
a statement about, hey, you know, both of y'all need
to calm down because he's not by hisself, I should
have calmed down. So I'm not perfect either. I'm not
perfect by any means. Hopefully this will help you with
some poker room etiquette how you should act and deal
with people in the poker room. Right etiquette protects the game.
Poker is already stressful enough. Like if you keep your
etiquette good, it'll keep the game clean, it'll keep it fair,
it'll keep it fun, it'll move along quickly, and you'll
just enjoy it a lot more. Don't forget you have
a reputation. Just like my dad always said, your last
name is the best calling guard that you have, don't
try to remember it. I think if you ask people
in my home poker room, where I play fifteen hundred
hours a year, I would say probably ninety percent of
the people in my room will be like, yeah, gonna
ever see him get too out of line or blue.
And then you'll have a small percentage who are for
whatever reason, just don't like me. And I do my
best to be liked by everybody. Remember, you can be
competitive without being toxic, angry, caustic. You know this type
stuff like play hard, bluff, you know, value bet. You
know you can go tip for tat with your friends
a little bit if it's a really good friend of yours,
But no do it with somebody you don't know, because
you don't know how they're going to take it. Right,
Just try to remember you're at a table with a
bunch of strangers, usually or at least part of them
are strangers, and so you don't know how they're going
to take something, So don't give them an opportunity to
interpret something differently than how you set it, and try
to keep things fun right. Poker is supposed to be
a battle of cards, chips, math, psychology, your nerves, your wits,
and it should never become a battle of intimidation, threats, violence,
or anything like that. Take care of yourself, take care
of your hand, take care of your chips, take care
of your reputation, and you should have a very long
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