Grumpy bloke on Grumpy blokes......

[blonde17]

 .     SCHADENFREUDE....."pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others"  may be a big part of this issue?

Prevelent in English society generally not so prevelant in American society.

Players don`t realise the harm they do by berating other so called weaker players both at the table and behind their backs and from many years of observing this quite often it is the clever berating player who is actually equally poor or even worse playing wise than the player they are criticising! Funny eh.

[The Squid]

Think there is too much emphasis placed on the idea of pros being in a clique. It's fun talking to randomers but it's also fun chatting with someone who you've clocked thousands of hours with online, share a ton of mutual friends with and of course the same profession.

I've had great times interacting with unusual characters from different walks of life at the table, but I get super excited when I play with some online hero irl for the first time.

[pleno1]

Think there is too much emphasis placed on the idea of pros being in a clique. It's fun talking to randomers but it's also fun chatting with someone who you've clocked thousands of hours with online, share a ton of mutual friends with and of course the same profession.

I've had great times interacting with unusual characters from different walks of life at the table, but I get super excited when I play with some online hero irl for the first time.

Exactly here my tweeting exchange started with Neil.

In Vegas I spoke to about 30 amateurs in great depth about life, where they come from etc.

I then got put on fu 15s table and we spoke about online MTTs for 90 mins I didn't even look at any of the amateurs and I was engrossed in his presence. He is sonebody I' was super interested about.

Put it this way your favourite footballer (teddy is a good example) you speak to him for your entire time asking him about everything and not engaging the amateurs. If somebody did this they would be deemed totally fine.

In golden nugget I sat next to a guy I've spoken to online for 3 years. We chatted about everything and it was great to meet. Next to him was a woman who I never spoke to but I was very polite. Our table broke I wished her good luck.  Or the rest of the tournament she found me on every break when I was usually with my friends laughing an being very loud and smiled and asked how I was getting on.

There's just so many examples I could get in to but it feels like everybody is jumping on this bandwagon because it's the thig that ppl care about right now. Think a lot of it is completely exaggerated and not balanced. Never saw the mention of the grump guy who slow rolled me or the guy who told me to shut the fuck up you hobbit when it was the guy behind me on the rail fist pumping when hi friend 2 outtered the 50 year old.

!!!!

[tikay]

Hobbit though.

[pleno1]

Haha was pretty hilarious. I was a long bubble period and I went from 20k - 55k without showdown and was playing dry aggressive. The guy was tiltig very hard. I went to te oiler and pab told me he was saying nasty things about me.

I 4bet him pre flop with aces and he folded.

Nex hand he 4bcalls 77 v 22 v another young guy. 2 Otr for chunks and young friend goes BOOOOOM and then the oroental middle aged guy lays into me Rofl.

I took it classy obv !

[Tal]

For those who've never been to Vegas, The Oiler is an open minded establishment just outside the Rio.

[tikay]

For those who've never been to Vegas, The Oiler is an open minded establishment just outside the Rio.

Yup. Oiler Gulch.

[Doobs]

Can't less this pass.  FU15 is your hero?

[Tal]

For those who've never been to Vegas, The Oiler is an open minded establishment just outside the Rio.

Yup. Oiler Gulch.

That's the one.

I'm told.

[Tal]

Am currently playing a £40 comp at Broadway and am sharing a table with two chaps who are so perfectly as described in the OP, I think BadBeat has actually paid two local actors to seek me out.

"Oh mate, you've just joined the weirdest table", number one opens. He then proceeds to slag off the play of one of the players at the table's play in 'MTTGrinderSpeak', while number two is multitabling on his 'phone on Stars.

I could play Willy Waving Bingo and tick off the comments as they are made: re-float, c-jam, tilt range...

But I intend instead to get the rest of the table talking, in the hope that these two are - as I expect - entirely normal, nice guys and are perfectly capable of joining in with a bit of fun on a Friday night.

Also, while I'm typing this, one of them just said "do you read Neil Channing's blog?" and I can't be bothered to re-write this more favourably.

 

The other one just laughed, so I assume he does.

[Tal]

Just to report, chappie number two turned out to be good company. Chappie number one bust in a reasonably standard pot, where the opponent made a rather questionable call on the flop but turned the universe draw and wasn't passing. Chappie number one then had a hissy fit that causes the rest of the comp to notice his exit. He makes a few sarcastic comments to his conqueror and to his mate about his conqueror.

I had fun and so, I hope, did everyone else.

Some grumpy sausages out there.