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Originally Posted by WereBeer
You can disagree all you like but you can't stop dicks playing poker so your goal is literally impossible.
That's not my goal though (although it would be nice). My goal is to stop abuse before it starts effecting my mental state. There are different ways to skin a cat but what I found works best for me is confronting them directly.
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The wise man learns how to deal with these people and going toe-to-toe with them is seldom the most effective way to resolve matters.
It's not going head to toe. It's not like this:
D: "Haha, nice call, dumb ass!"
M: "**** you, mother****er!" or "At least it was better than your raise, idiot!"
It's more like this.
D: "Haha, nice call, dumb ass!"
M: "Excuse me? Listen, you're being rude and I really don't appreciate it. There's no need to be rude. Let's just play the game and have fun."
D: "I'm not being rude. I just think you're a dumb ass".
M: "Floor." the dealer backs me up when the floor comes over because I've engineered the encounter to be as black-and-white as possible.
That's it. It's over at that point in 99% of cases. Even if he wants to **** with someone else after the floor's involvement (usually not) it won't be me. I don't need to listen to him anymore, I don't need to ignore him, I don't need to think of clever responses back - it's done, I can relax and focus on the game.
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Unless of course your ego is more important than your bankroll, in which case go for your life.
To some degree it is about ego and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think allowing people to disrespect you is psychologically healthy - and I think that's actually proven with scientific studies. And it is very much about bankroll for me. If the abuse is not stopped sooner or later it starts to effect my mental state and my game quality goes down which negatively effects my BR. Does that make me a "snowflake"? I don't think so, I think it's pretty normal for humans to be affected by this.