I've been noticing a huge trend going on recently and it's one where I really don't get. Can you guys please explain to me why players are trying to make slowrolling an acceptable thing in poker? I don't think any player that is getting slowrolled, especially in a big pot, acutally ever finds it funny and to me, it's not only tasteless but it's just childish behavior that slows the game down. I remembered Shaun Deeb trying to be funny and doing it to certain players a while back. More players started to do this regularly like it's cool. Now The Hustler Live game now has this thing where slowrolling is encouraged. I just don't get it. Can we not or am I the only one that feels like this?

Jesus, it's a game, who cares. If the worst thing that happens to me during the day is I get slowrolled at a poker game, then I'm having a pretty good day.

Cause they're *******s

If you can’t handle being slow rolled then your mental game needs a lot of work.

Hustler is trying to make it fun and different. Nothing wrong with that. It’s a show where they are trying to get views and subscribers.

Lighten up Francis is probably all that was needed.

Two Plus Two should do an annual "Top Ten Dipshit Takes of the year."

Add a poll

Seeing a rec slowroll a pro is fun.

"Max Pain" aka slow rolls/needling is the main theme on Hustler mondays and spearheaded I guess by DGAF.

It's kind of entertaining, but because they all sign up for it, and they try to slowroll every single hand it doesn't really work.

You win... You win just a Jack
I called you
Just Jack high
Stop, you have Jacks
No
Show
OK I have JJ

Nobody shows because the slow rolls and expectations.

seems like just the type of thing DGAF would start but yea i tried to watch and couldnt stomach it

You're not getting the point of my original post. I'm not commentating on whether I personally or any other players are capable of handling it mentally. I'm saying I don't think find slowrolling comical and it's a waste of time and slows the game down. It's unnecessary and doesn't add anything but annoyance to the players. But if you want to talk about whether people should be able to handle it, I will just say that it may piss off certain action players.

Fwiw you can see the slowroll coming from a miles away in 98% of the cases. So like op have no idea why players are doing it or thinks it's somehow effective. In tv I gues for the extra screen time?

Your post would make the list. The one you quoted wouldn’t.

Would it still be funny if KL Cleeton was playing?

OH SNAP

Yes. It would hilarious

Wonder if he has the mental game to handle it?

I think we just lose valuable lessons as a society as we remove physical danger from the equation. The risk of somebody beating your face into a pulp for this level of disrespect is now near zero.

because it actually is a funny thing to do. hilarious how people make it out like a serious breach of some moral code. its poker ffs.

Come on now are you seriously saying you can slowroll someone and believe they don't see it a mile away? Rolls are so obvious I have no idea why players think they aren't. Like you actually really think something that often untill the timer hits zero. Lol. It's actually funny to think that the slowroller is gigling in his panties while doing that.

Never understood the big deal about slow-rolling, always just seemed like an agreed-upon excuse for the slow-rollee to act like a giant baby.

Slowrolling is terrible and even against the rules of many many poker rooms.

If I was a rec and got stuck in a game with you insufferable muppets I’d start slowing too. Get over your egos and grow a pair

The problem with slow rolling is that it hurts the players we want playing in our games.

Slow roll a pro. Fine. Whatever. They know the long run matters and one individual hand/showdown doesn't really matter.

An amateur who showdown provides either a dopamine boost or a kick in the nuts and that thrill is literally the reason they are playing, a slow roll crushes them and turns them off. Why are we trying to turn these type of players off?

People slow roll because it feels good when you win. (dopamine) They want to keep that feeling as long as possible.
People play poker to win, right? Narcissists do everything they can to get that feeling... even if they destroy other people with it.

Because the game of poker is attractive to people low in empathy. I'm not saying everyone playing it is low on empathy, just that it is an attractive game/dynamic to those sort.

With that said, people who troll at the table are looking for negative reactions to fuel their narcissism. Just no-sell it.

Right, because beating the crap out of someone for being embarrassed is clearly the right thing.