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Time for a “things that I hate about poker players” blog, I’ll be doing one of these at least once a month and it will all just be things off the top of my head that drive me crazy about poker players. For now:

1) Anyone in a cardroom (usually LA) asking for for a big scraaaaaamble or a new setup (new decks of cards) with the intent of changing their luck and in the process slowing down the game.

2) People screaming yesssssssssss at the top of their lungs in anything but a life changing situation in which they can’t control themselves at the poker table. A few examples off the top of my head are any number of times I’ve heard insanely loud screams from across the room during level 1 of day 1 of the main event of the WSOP. Someone who doubled up acts like they won the lottery because they have double the average stack with 8000 people to go. RainKahn during much of this years wsop broadcasts. He’s probably a good guy, I don’t know him but I cringed anytime he won a pot because of his idiot animalistic screaming routine. Humberto anytime he wins a pot with cameras within 1000 feet. Once again, he may be a good guy when you get down to it, but the way he acts is totally unacceptable. The idiocy of this screaming alone I could deal with, but couple it with the fact that in order for these people to win, someone else is losing, and the bigger the win for them, the bigger the loss for their opponent. The lack of class and social intuition they show is stunning.

3) People that are so obviously insanely lucky whining about luck. Primary example here is Joe Hachem. He wins millions in one of the biggest poker tournaments ever. He necessarily had a ton of luck to do so, and the next year he takes a relatively minor bad beat and acts disgusted and says, “Story of my life”. Are you kidding me?!?! Most people would kill to make the story of Joe’s life the story of theirs, and he can’t see past a hand and realize that not only is he one of the luckiest people in the world (like most people reading this) but he is actually one of the single luckiest poker players of all time even if he gets unlucky in poker in every subsequent hand he plays after the main event that he won.

4) Players verbally assaulting dealers because they didn’t like the turn and river. EVEN players verbally assaulting a dealer for making a mistake is borderline unacceptable, but to blame the dealer for their own misfortune is obviously absurd. Many of you honestly wouldn’t believe some of the things I have heard said to dealers, I can’t even believe them and I heard them.

I could really go on forever on this topic which is why I will post on it every once in awhile. People are just unbelievable, but I think its just people in general are bad, not poker players.  I happen to see the subsection of the population that happen to be poker players. Stay tuned for future tilts.