Because it is boring in the extreme.

If I have just concentrated for 2 hours on a game of poker, the last thing I want to hear when I get ten minutes break is how someone played AK.

Tell me about your kids, or your job, or your football team.............................


bit harsh, as it was at the TABLE  as stated.

chat and atmosphere, like good manners , are free.

Yes I didn't come across very well.
The example at the table is fine, and the other person was out of order to interrupt.

But the first post was making the point about hand accounts in general, for which I have a very low tolerance level!!

Wait til I tell you about tonight's game, I got  in the big blind. No wait   
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I'm sure on a site like this one with so many colourful people there are a few 'interesting' bad beat stories going round

Or 'real life bad beat stories', that should have its own thread.

'So I meet this amazing girl  As ' then find out    that maybe    she wasnt always a girl 

thanks claw, they look pretty good.
I think the one's I saw before had links maybe to other poker forums.

he needed the prize money to pay her BUPA bill.

ok if I bump into a stranger at a bar after a game, and start babbling about my bust-out, I can see how it is not interesting. He has probably seen the same setup that busted me. Why would he want to hear it again? But if it's for a lot of money, and someone wants it out of their system, I don't mind my friend mentioning it to me, and I will listen with (maybe slightly feigned) interest. Afterall, when his gran was sick in hospital, I listened, not out of interest (I've never met her), but because it mattered to HIM. Thus......I think it's out of order for a third party to try to stop this discussion between friends.

hiya.
It was in the forum bit, both were in the Subject header 'Sit N Go strategy' and 'Diary of a slag' 'Slag blog' or something. I searched, but could not find.

maybe I should give my recent example: two friends of mine in a recent big buy in tournament. One busted out and came to my table, dejected. 'How did you get on?' our friend asked him, we were wondering why he busted early
'Well, I raised pre with AKs, was reraised by the big blind, I pushed

'Stop, we don't wanna hear it' said some random at the table, who wasn't even being addressed'
My mate kind of gave him this 'you werent being spoken to look', and carried on.
'If you want to talk poker, wait til the end'

This seems to me pretty rude, what's wrong with someone taking an interest in the details of someone's demise. Since it matters to the victim, it matters to his friend.
I see this quite a lot now.

you don't talk about fight club!

when i first started playing poker, I saw peeps telling other peeps to stop talking about bad beat stories. This seemed a bit strange to me since I did not and still dont get bored of hearing them. Anyways, I think now that it ain't just bad beat stories, a lot of the time I hear peeps telling other peeps to stop telling poker stories full stop. This seemed weird to me. It was a poker club. Peeps went along and were told to stop talking about poker. 'Don't tell me your poker stories, don't tell me what you think about poker personalities, or how you did online'. Instead of talking about other things instead, the people I see playing mostly just sit around silent and save the chit chat for arguments about angleshooting. Sad, really.
Why would people have such a problem with chit chat about the thing that brought them together in the first place?

Wonder if they wuz deleted? One about Sit n Go strategy and one about the diary of a SLAG. Looked like good reading but I didn't finish them.
Thanks,
M