Speach play - bad manners, poor play or just plain wrong??

[way_too_tight]

But if it is ever to be taken seriously as a game of skill I don't see how deliberately trying to verbally put off your opponents can be part of it.

There's trash talking as a part of a bunch of other skill games. Boxing would be a good example - they even organise an official pre-fight rubdown contest under the pretense of weighing the guys.

And you should see those Chess guys talk trash ! (Ok, the last bit was a lie - but still

edit: ok - there are a bunch of these already - sorry. But I'd just like to add that speech play is a great thing - if I wanted to sit silently playing hands I'd stay home and play online. Seriously - if someone can talk you into calling then you might want to revisit your decision making process. And there's plenty of times when "How silly are you going to feel, saying that you put all your chips in with that hand ?" has, in my opinion, swayed the decision.

[AdamM]

for me there's two different types of speech play, one fine, one not. If you're in a hand and you ask a player "do you have an ace?" or "That flop's no good for your AK is it? you're gonna have to bluff at it now" or something is fine. if you can't keep your emotions to yourself when facing this kind of speach you have no business being at the table. HOWEVER, speech play between hands specifically designed to tilt players in future action is out of order. you can try and talk some ino out of your opponent without being rude or offensive.

[tikay]

You can't get close enough to your opponents in Elephant Polo to bring speech play to bear. You're both on the back of great big mammoths.

Hearing can be a problem. As a kid, when you're outside playing a spot of the ol' Elephant Polo in the garden, you'd be lucky to hear your mother call you into dinner.

Gotta be a contender for Post Of The Week, all things considered.........

[Newmanseye]

Just a note on this, I played last night and I got called with my every pair of aces i had, And people called off their entire stack, All with good use of speach play. I was never rude, I just gave good banter, using abit of verbal, ensuring i was extracting those chips when I wanted them most.

[Teacake]

You can't get close enough to your opponents in Elephant Polo to bring speech play to bear. You're both on the back of great big mammoths.

Hearing can be a problem. As a kid, when you're outside playing a spot of the ol' Elephant Polo in the garden, you'd be lucky to hear your mother call you into dinner.

Gotta be a contender for Post Of The Week, all things considered.........

It would be if he was being funny but I think he's serious