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Originally Posted by floatingtheriver
Sure getting games with bad players is predatory, but what are the most egregious/over-the-line examples where there's just zero regard and zero morality? I heard this story about how Garrett A suckered a lawyer going through personal issues, boozed him up and pressured him into playing heads-up to send him home broke and homeless. Don't know if true. If true, that's a nastiness that I can't stomach, but what are some other predatory examples that are just way over the line like Garret? Where people just have zero regard for others?
Most predatory is relative.
For me, in a $1/$3 game I saw a guy raise to $12. Another player calls, but puts out $13 (which was the standard raise at the table). Player who bet $12 started to point that the other caller put put too much. He stopped and pulled his hand down.
So I spoke up to the dealer and said the other player put in an extra $1. The dealer was new and had already pulled in the chips. He looked at me like I was an alien. The inital raiser who clearly saw his opponent put in an extra dollar started grouching at me. He told me to mind my own business. I wasn't in the hand, etc. The dealer couldn't figure it out. Eventually I just gave up an said nevermind.
To me it wasn't worth arguing over a $1 if it wasn't going to be easy. So I stopped.
******* wins the pot and looks at me and berates me for getting in his business. Be actually crosses a couple lines in his verbal beat down.
I let him berate me for a long time. Then when he wound down I finally spoke up and said everyone has their price. Everyone on this earth has a number that they would look the other way and play dumb. Everyone. Some people would be willing to wrongly aquire millions if they know they could get away with it. Others would require more. Some people would require less. Some would steal a few hundred if they could.
I looked him in the eye and said that he would knowingly steal $1 from someone if he could. I said I couldn't imagine being so pathetic that I would knowingly steal $1 from another person (first red line I stepped over calling someone pathetic). Then I made a comment about how desperate a person must be to knowingly steal $1 from another (2nd red line I jumped over).
He went silent and hemmed and hawed a bit. So I jumped all over him and openly asked him if he would give me a blow job for $1? I asked if $1 was so important that he would blow another man for it.
The dealer immediately called the floor and I was rightly given a stearn warning. In fact, the floor wanted to (rightfully) kick me out I told him that I said my peace and would not speak of it again. Mercifully he let me continue to play with a warning. If I even stepped slightly out of line I was gone.
I was good after that, and I wish I had a feel good story about stacking the *******, but I do not. Nothing happened and he left profitable.
My question is, how much if an asshile does a person have to be to knowingly take $1 from another person? How is that not predatory?