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#1
08-07-2007, 11:41 PM
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do you play with chat turned on?
i leave all chat turned off when i am playing, because i figure its really more of a distraction that its worth. every once in a while you'll gain some useful information, but it also makes it a lot easier to tilt, because you just hate people so much more. there's nothing quite like sitting through a couple of fish "breaking down" a hand when you're running bad.
do you guys think it helps more than it hurts? 
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#2
08-07-2007, 11:44 PM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
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distraction [/ QUOTE ] what the hell? How can chat bother anyone? By reading it you can eaisly spot someone who is not very smart. Plus you can be nice to fish and keep them playing. Just try not to have it affect yoour play
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#3
08-07-2007, 11:52 PM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
Actually, I actively enforce chatting. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I really love to see a 50/2/1.1 guy typing in his chat window: "What a fish you are! Keep on playing like this. You will donate me my happy meal for tomorrow." It is fun. OTOH: You can actually filter the guys who are a little more serious than ^homegame expertise^. I think chat is probably the best online tell you can have.
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#4
08-07-2007, 11:53 PM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
i dunno. 99% of the time, about all i gather from chat is the fact that people, in general, are really stupid and annoying.
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#6
08-07-2007, 11:58 PM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
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i dunno. 99% of the time, about all i gather from chat is the fact that people, in general, are really stupid and annoying. [/ QUOTE ] Yes. But you can even make them feel better by making up a stupid image for yourself, a better for themselves. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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#8
08-08-2007, 12:08 AM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
everyone tilts. its just that some people are more in denial about it than others. chat can be a pretty big contributor to that, especially when people start thinking "man, i'd sure love to bust that guy" kind of thoughts.
its funny when i go through my hhs after a session, and see chat that i missed out on while playing. example: i raise with AK and get called by a shortstack in the blinds. i hit top pair, shortstacks checks to me with just over a pot sized bet behind. i move in and shortstack calls with a rag two pair. shortstack: nice try nice try what, retard? its not like i had nothing, and you made some sort of Ahigh/44 bluff snap-off. i dunno. i guess its more of a big deal the more you hate people.
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#9
08-08-2007, 12:10 AM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
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nice try what, retard? its not like i had nothing, and you made some sort of Ahigh/44 bluff snap-off. [/ QUOTE ] Why cant you focus on thinking about how you are a winning poker player and he is a losing poker player; thats all that maters
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#10
08-08-2007, 12:14 AM
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Re: do you play with chat turned on?
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[ QUOTE ] nice try what, retard? its not like i had nothing, and you made some sort of Ahigh/44 bluff snap-off. [/ QUOTE ] Why cant you focus on thinking about how you are a winning poker player and he is a losing poker player; thats all that maters [/ QUOTE ] because its easier to turn chat off than to achieve some sort of zen mastery of emotion and mental focus? i wouldn't turn it off if i thought it yielded some sort of significant advantage, but i think that the positives are barely even tangible.
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