Don't tap the Tank -- How do you handle this.

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I'm in seat 5. Seat 7 isn't playing ATC, but he's pretty darn close. Truly playing 85% of his cards. Since he's on a rush and seems to be sucking out every time, the table sees most of the cards he's playing.

Pretty soon, seat four starts ripping into him -- "How can you call with that crap .... Don't you know anything about poker, etc." I try to quietly tell him, let it go, but he is having none of it.

45 minutes (and three racks of chips) later Seat 7 gets up and leaves. At which point three other players rip into seat 4, explaining that when someone is betting like that, the last thing you want to do is mock him. That if Seat 7 is going to play those hands, we want to keep him here as long as possible, and that his actions probably drove the guy from the table.

Anyway -- the question before the floor, what do you do when someone at the table is berating someone you want to keep around?

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I prefer pointing out that person's own poker flaws, and try to get the table to chime in on them as well. It's very easy to do, and it shifts the momentum to them almost at once.

Many times they'll begin to act defensive, or attempt to justify their reasoning behind their poor decisions.

This'll immediately take the heat off of the person being berated by the so-called expert and shuts down the idiot once the microscope is turned upon themselves.




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