How do you stop people from offering unsolicited advice?

[goofball]

I have a few standards:

1. Order a salad from room service.
2. Use the fork to stab him in the leg under the table.

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Hold up chips and say 'you know these? they used to be yours'

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Say "I thought you were bluffing!" or "I had a good feeling"

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The ipod idea is good but it has the best effect if you put it on mid rant.

[Bonified]

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Some variation of "excuse me, could you wait til I'm done stacking my chips" or "shhhhhhhhh, I'm stacking your chips" should get the point across.

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I quite like holding up one finger and saying "one second, I'm just stacking these chips". Stack them as slowly as possible. Smile and say "Now. What did I do wrong ?"

[oddjob]

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Why do you want him to stop giving bad advice?

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because it's annoying.

[vikefan24]

Tell him in the poker game of life, women are the rake..

[MicroBob]

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you are a female who is old enough to play poker in a b&m. you have spent your entire life dealing with men who act like idiots and will do anything to get your attention, and surely you have a variety of strategies for dealing with these men (play dumb and twirl your hair, get a bigger man to take care of this loser, KITN, make a withering remark about his manhood, etc.).

if you can remove your ego from the equation and just ignore him, you will make a lot of money off of him. otherwise, use one of your go-to strategies. otherwise, table change.

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I think comparing this to everyday situations isn't quite correct.

The amount of nastyness and vitriol at the poker-table can be pretty significant sometimes compared with what you would normally see in the real-world.

I can imagine putting my GF, Mom or sister (none of whom play poker) at the poker-table and having them deal with something like that and their reaction would be that they've never met somebody so nasty and mean to them before.


It sounds like this guy was way over-the-line.
And the more polite comments about how someone should play are already over-the-line to begin with imo.


I think pkfaok's idea of "you are making me really uncomfortable with your comments. please just let me play my cards" is probably a decent approach.

but it sounds like there's not too much she could have done here really and I'm not sure that something like that might just get the guy even more angry.

Screaming at him "why don't you just STFU!!!!" would be a fun idea to try too. Especially after sitting politely and taking it for 20 minutes or so and then suddenly just exploding on the guy and scaring him to death.


Anyway, OP reports that SEVERAL people at the table already told him to chill-out and just let her play her cards and that he was pretty much ignoring them for quite awhile.

If multiple players on the table are telling him to zip-it then obviously it's pretty bad.

[3rdCheckRaise]

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Ignore. Humor. Sarcasm. Vitriole. Threats. Violence.

Start at the right and work your way across until it stops.

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FYP

[iggymcfly]

I get along great with the LAP fish, but I have a hard time shutting my mouth when the table coaches are out. Eventually, I either end up pointing out how wrong they are to shut them up or make a point of showing a bluff or two to get under their skin.

[Ra_]

Anytime some retard starts criticizing my play i always just say "I'm just here to gamble." That way i don't have to argue or justify anything. at 4/8 i would just remind him we are playing 4/8.

[Mr Rick]

One time I called a raise with 52s from the BB with 3 others in. I hit a straight on the river and did the check raise thing and got paid off. The guy rants at me for awhile about how bad a play I made. I thought he meant calling the flop bet with a gut shot - but he later clarified that I shouldn't even have been in the hand. So I asked him "aside from being a poor loser, whats your point?". He went off at that and another player said "he's just mad his chips are sitting in front of you..."

Normally I just agree with the other person about how bad I am. It almost always shuts them up and doesn't give away the fact that I actually think about my poker decisions. But if they don't shut up and you really want them to leave you alone, just ask them why they are trying to help you beat them!

[bernie]

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Why do you want him to stop giving bad advice?

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because it's annoying.

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I usually find it kinda humorous.

Unfortunately, this is pretty standard in a cardroom. May as well get used to it and find a positive about it.

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