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Most players at this level are just trying to have fun. THey aren't concerned with odds, or outs or anything that you've read in a book. THey're there for one reason. To get lucky. The more hands they play the luckier they can get. Or so they think. So don't try to talk to them about anything you've read or the mistakes they're making. Make small talk. Get them to like you and think you're a great guy. LEt them believe that you're a lucky player too. THis way they'll be happy to call your bets when they're drawing dead. Make it so it is enjoyable to lose to you. And they actually will.

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I do not have a LOT of experience but virtually ALL of my experience has been with $3-6 limit games in a casino.

I think the paragraph I have quoted above it worth its weight in gold.

I gave away a lot of chips when I was new. I was stupid and just didn't know any better and half the time didn't even realize my mistakes. I wasn't there for the "fun" of it, I really WAS trying to learn but along the way I "paid for lessons."

I remember being particularly distracted one night, all my play was off (which, being at my retardo level to begin with, I must have been playing like a chimpanzee). I glanced at my hole cards and thought I had pocket aces. Long story but when I flip over my cards it's not aces, it is an ace and a four. No biggie, I didn't have the set I thought I did which then turned into a boat. But I won the pot because my four made a straight flush. The guy berated me so badly about being so stupid and chasing to the river (which I am an easy-going old lady prone to self-deprecating humor anyway but extremely sensitive to anger, meanness and intimidation) and it hurt my feelings so much that I left the table so I wouldn't burst out into tears. And instead of moving tables, I just went home.

That saved me money and chips-- especially the big pot I had just won-- LOL. But those same chips probably would have ended up back in his or the rest of the players stacks had I stayed.

I always remember that, how I felt and what I did. Now, not only do I take care to never do that to other players (whose chips I am happy to take) but I try to make sure that the rude and arrogant jerks don't chase MY fish away from the table. So when some bumbling retardo player is getting "lessons" from a loudmouth telling him he didn't have the odds to call or whatever, I try to catch the eye of the fish and will roll my eyes or mumble about the "expert" down at the other end of the table. Something to make the fish feel better about him or herself or to deflect that attention away from him or her and back, in a negative but humorous way, upon the loudmouth.

Now I've made a buddy. LOL. And if he or she shows up again, it's only "natural" for me to sit at the same table and "remember" them with friendly words, etc. and when they're down, I try to encourage them with "Some days are like that" and when they're up, I say "Great. hope some of your luck rubs off on me" sorts of things. And they have told me things like "well, if I had to lose all my money, I'm glad it went to you" sorts of comments!

Don't know why I am going into this whole big thing. The guy whose paragraph I quoted said it much better. Just wanted to give you a glimpse from the other side of the coin that as one who has often donated more than her fair share of chips, I won't do it at a table where mean, beligerent hotshots are trying to insult me.

So the advice here given above is, I believe, very wise.