Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

"You're probably right, but I like the action."

Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

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"You're probably right, but I like the action."

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You beat me to it. My variation is:

'I suppose you're right but I'm here to GAMBLE!'

Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

yeah, or you can always just try saying whatever you hear other people say when they play bad like...

"i'm on vacation...i didn't come here to fold"

Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

Nod and agree. If you happen to get those hands (JJ, TT, ...), and lose you make a comment about how you made a bad raise preflop, if you win you say how you made a bad raise preflop but still got lucky.

Plus, if you raise preflop and the flop is something like A K T you fold and sigh to the other guy about how QQs are crap in these low limit games.

I'm pretty good at putting up with complete [censored] from guys sitting next to me. Although I had a guy last week that actually caused me to go out and buy a nice MP3 player, simply because I don't think I could stand another session with the pointless crappy yapping from a guy like that next to me.

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How do you react to these people?

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Cry a little on the inside, smile a little on the outside, and try to use this information (if they follow their own advice) to my advantage. I usually avoid debating strategy in game, and like you said, keep it fun and sociable.

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How do you react to these people?

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The answer is simple: run with the faulty logic.

"I have to raise with these hands, because my pocket aces never win."

"This hand would have won me a ton of money an hour ago. I'm not missing the boat again!"

"I read this move in Moneymaker's book."

"I was watching [TV poker show] last night, and [pro #1] knocked out [pro #2] with this exact hand."

"These two cards are golden. Pot odds, baby! Let's see a flop!"

"I read this move in Hellmuth's book."

Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

Use the information to your advantage in hands against the player engaging you in conversation.

Cut it short if possible by changing the subject or involving yourself in something else (the hand in progress, cellphone, ordering a drink, a different conversation). The player will stop soon enough.

If anything, simply say that you disagree and that you have your own strategy, and prefer to play your own way. This doesn't have to be complicated, and you aren't giving anything away by disagreeing politely, most crazy old 50 year old men aren't capable of taking in the information anyway.

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take notes obv

Re: What do you say when someone tries to talk bad strategy with you?
 

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"You're probably right, but I like the action."

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You beat me to it. My variation is:

'I suppose you're right but I'm here to GAMBLE!'

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"You're probably right, but I like the action."

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You beat me to it. My variation is:

'I suppose you're right but I'm here to GAMBLE!'

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my variation is: xx is my lucky hand. xx = whatever hand they are trying to coach me on.