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Originally Posted by HailtotheRedskins
And the end game?
You are so caught up in the justification of your selfishness that you cant be a part of the growth of the business that feeds you.
Bleed it until its gone.
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I don't think it's selfish to try to make money. If doing things like not defending my big blind with K9o facing a big raise cause it's "good for the game" or seat/table changing moderately makes me more money, I'll be doing that.
What is selfish is expecting other winning players to share your philosophy for what in the end benefits YOU and berating them when they don't. I've been playing seriously for nearly 1600 hours (mostly Vegas). Despite the "scummy" behavior I do, my table mates and the staff generally like me, not that I'd lose sleep if that wasn't the case. Basic social skills and emotional control goes a long way.
The loud whale who never shuts up and never folds doesn't start folding to me cause I'm not a 50 VPIP spewtard. Nor does he start folding to me cause I changed seats once in the last two hours or cause I don't feel like drinking (don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE drunk poker I just came back from playing wasted). He calls and sees a flop cause that's what he came to do. All the time when I'm card dead and have a nitty image I hear "you never play a hand" and then have people limp call my big iso raise with trash.
So again, don't be entitled. I don't owe you, whoever's about to flame me or the poker community anything. I go to the poker room to do my thing and the vast majority of the people I encounter doing so are fine with it. I'm definitely bad for the game economically, but I'm good for the game socially. And I can live with that.