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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
Hi Everyone:
There's also another side of poker, and it's the idea of identifying the live ones, some of who essentially just give their money away, and to take advantage of them. Now instead of using high skill to be successful, the best way to be successful is to take advantage of these pitiful people.
My approach to poker has always been to enjoy the game. Of course if one of these bad players is sitting at the table, and he's giving his money away, that's fine with me.
Mason
You have the added advantage of extra revenue streams. So for one, its easier for you not to try & push every little edge you can get.
In the grand scheme of things ..... collusion, bots, online cheating, borrowing money and not paying it back, stealing essentially. Not to mention the online sites themselves. I don't think this is that bad. People always have a choice whether to play or not so getting manipulated into something like this is really the person's own fault.
When I saw the title, I thought you were going in a different direction.
Cause poker can be cruel in many ways.
Sometimes I feel bad about taking a bad players money. More so online, when there is so many sharks and so few bad players, 1 fish at the table just has no chance and I feel bad sometimes for the one guy just trying to play some recreational poker and these pro's (who suck) therefore really play a strategy thats not very skilled but not much fun for a fish to play. Mainly
the fish gets iso-raised so the pro can Cbet the flop and capitilize on the simple play. Sometimes I wish the pros would limp along once in a while with the fish, but there games are too pathetic and they have to isoraise Cbet because they have no postflop skill.
I think in a way your attitude sucks too. Calling them pitiful players?
For someone like you that attitude makes no sense. You should recognize that most of thei pitiful players play poker once a week / month, and you
spend hours & hours & years & years and read / written books etc.
I mean you better be light years ahead of them. I take no pride whatsoever in beating a fish who'm I've probably played 100 times more poker than.
There's nothing to brag about there.