Re: Don\'t tap the Tank -- How do you handle this.
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Do people really buy it when you praise bad play? Isn't it insulting their intelligence?
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They do buy it when they have a big stack in front of them, IMO, (which is just about the only time I'll go that route). I'll usually point to their stack and say - "Seems to be working for him". Most people like to believe that they are not terrible poker players just terribly unlucky. When they are running good they attribute it more to: this is the way it should be, rather than dumb luck. Also, this has the added bonus of getting under the skin of the guy doing the insulting because he likely knows that a short term win means nothing.
My mentor tells me about a friend who is a smart guy in the world. He has dropped over $100k on-line and is working on $200k. My mentor asked him to read a book (Hilger I think). The guy gets back to my mentor and says he couldn't finish it because in the examples he knows that Hilger is wrong. He (the friend) says that he has just been extremely unlucky.
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