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Originally Posted by Guito
Not sure why it took so long to hit the UK; it was at its north American peak roughly 2008-09. It has mostly been cured. Clock is no longer. 4 letter word.
There is a new strain I'd call the card funeral (where a player knows he's beaten and knows he's folding but has to take a minute to mourn the loss, often with some muttering, eye rolls and showing a few neighbours).
I lived in San Diego 2006-2013 and I don’t remember ever being annoyed by anyone taking too much time (I never played any tournaments so I wouldn’t know about that side of things).
“The card funeral” haha yes I’ve heard that mentioned before, the thing about that is though it is much shorter than these prolonged tanks and less common as they have to reach the river and the “mourner” has to have perceived himself as having been given a beat or cooler.
In England there are several very irritating traights amongst the guys who have studied the game a little, one is tanking (especially pre in ep before they inevitably fold) another is the use of the term “speech play” (It makes my skin crawl to about the same degree as hearing the word “banter” in regular life), the last one is when an English man uses the word “value”, it’s just so disgusting coming from a man with an English accent, it’s just so stingy and cheap sounding it’s hard to put my finger on excactly what it is, you’d have to come over here and hear an English poker player say “value” uuuugghhkkk gross😂