I know you're right and most times I don't say anything. After ten tourneys where I know if the cards had just cooperated only ever so slightly, I'd have won. (On one I did win, I was down under three hundred chips with four opponents left and came back for the win.) But after seeing time after time when it was one ridiculous hand after another--would you ever in your life call a pot raise with Q3?--I just snapped when the guy says WP. Bull-oney! That's not well played. That's just blind sh(t-house luck.

I will take the pledge. No matter how bad the play, I'll not criticize nor attempt to disuade the fish from schooling up on the shores of Crapoli.


Cactus Jack--who does firmly believe that, someday, if it weren't for luck, no one would play me. (Take that, Phil Helmuth.)

Its so easy to snap back at them- it is also a lot easier to know how you should respond when you get a bad beat, than to put it into practice.

One thing that I do online in these situations is to tell myself while typing 'nh' or 'wp' that I am being sarcastic, and that if they were intelligent, they would know that, otherwise why would I congratulate them for calling an all in bet w j7?

They don't know the difference, and knowing you are taking the p ss out of them without them knowing it can be the difference (for one as short tempered as I) between tilt and stability- try it! It gives one a wonderful sense of superiority, and doesn't give them any tips on how to play poker properly in the process.