[FireStorm]

This is one of the biggest fallacies in all of poker. I hate reading this stuff. No matter what anyone says, berating fish 95% of the time has zero effect in any form. They don't leave the table, they don't take it to heart and change their style, and they sure as hell don't say to themselves "you know what, he's right, I do suck, right to HoH Volume 2 Monday morning!". Almost all of the time, the talk either leads to a small argument, or is ignored. The fish then continue doing what they do to define themselves, which is playing poorly. Someone calling PSB's on gutshots will not have a light go on in their head that indicates they should not do so simply because Seat 6 said "wow, thats bad". In fact, fish are MORE likely to continue their bad calldowns at a higher rate in order to show the so called great players that ANY TWO CAN WIN BABY AND IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE FLOP!

The examples listed are isolated ones. I'm sure for every story mentioned above, the people involved have been at 20 tables where fish didn't get up and leave. I personally am a talker, and play consistently with two other people whop verbally blast harder than I do, and rarely if ever have I seen someone leave or alter their play.

Bottom line, it's poker, not the opera, if someone wants to exercise their right to say what they feel, thats their business. People don't go to a casino in order to follow YOUR verbal demands in order to have YOUR winrate go up. If someone says something and you're not involved, mind your own business and use whatever you hear on either end to your advantage.