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Originally Posted by LotGrinder
The amount of people that have to discuss every poker hand after it is over is lol...
They just give out a wealth of information for free and it's easier to categorize them quickly.
I talk about everything BUT poker at the poker table if I am talking.
Of COURSE people talk about poker and want to discuss the hands. You are sitting at a poker table playing the game. Not talking about the game, especially when something unusual happens, is unnatural. I mean, what do you talk about when you sit down with friends to watch a football game?
This hypersensitivity about talking about poker is overdone, imo. Really, the things you have to be careful about are berating a player so he or she stops having fun, and giving really specific advice that will help them improve their game. But talking about hands? Totally cool and it's what people expect.
I mean, come on- virtually everyone at the table thinks they've got a unique angle and no one sees what they see. If you say something they disagree with, they are going to write you off unless you absolutely pound it into their heads and start talking poker books and 2+2. So don't do that and let them think you are maniac for 3betting TT. Just shrug and say "it's a good hand." You can tell the truth and it won't make a lick of difference because they KNOW TT makes more money if you play for set value.
So yeah, someone asks me if I'd fold 77 from the SB like they did and I'll say "yeah". They have NO IDEA that the reason I'd fold is because the stack sizes were bad for set mining and I don't want to play it OOP. I'd bet a good chunk of my BR that if person asking me that question actually respected my play and thought I was giving good advice, they'd still misapply it because they don't know how to think about the game properly.
Don't get me wrong, I validate loose passive play all the time ("look man, some times you just go broke, if the cards were reversed, you'd have gotten my stack") and I say stupid stuff like "AK is a drawing hand- there are three ways to play jacks and they're all wrong, etc.", but I play poker because it's a fun game, and trying to NOT talk about poker with a bunch of enthusiasts while I'm sitting playing with them for hours is just silly. OF COURSE I, going to talk poker- I just talk on the level of the TV announcer BS, not 2+2 strat.