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June 19, 2004
The $215
Tonight I played in the $215 limit tournament on Party Poker. I played for 5 hours and got 15th for a prize of $1176. This isn’t much of a prize and is fairly disappointing, but when you get no good cards for 5 hours I guess getting 15th is a blessing. I quite literally had the most mediocre luck imaginable. I got KK twice and one AK, which pretty much got me every chip that I ever had. Other than that I folded just about everything, in the end having only seen 9% of flops. I won a total of 6% of hands throughout the entire tournament.
I also managed to increase my haters club by at least 4 new members. This always happens to me in tournaments because when I see people stalling I attack them. Stalling is perhaps the dumbest tactic you could ever use, but I think I have gone into this before on here so I won't do it again. Nonetheless I have actually in the past managed to convince people not to stall, which is beneficial for both them and me. Sometimes I have also been able to insult them into it. So when I see people stalling I try both tactics.
Of course whenever you insult someone you get 3 people (often not including the person you insulted) mad at you, and today was no exception. It is amazing to me how people who have very little poker skill can be so sure that they are exceptional players, and never is this more apparent than when you try to explain something to them that they don’t understand. Add in the fact that they hate you because you called someone an idiot for stalling and in the end you have zero chance of convincing them that you are correct, but they aren’t the ones stalling anyway. The concept that stalling is almost universally bad is one of those few poker concepts (similar to not bluffing at dry side pots with all-in players) where it is actually beneficial for your opponents to understand it, so I think you should try to explain it to them whenever possible. But try that before the insulting phase. Once people hate you they just assume that everything you say is wrong, and they not only won't even consider whatever you tell them but will actually just automatically take the opposite viewpoint.
I seem to have really touched a nerve with this one idiot today named ChopperRick. He pretty much went ballistic, trying to insult me for no reason every few minutes throughout the tournament. Of course nothing he said had any logic behind it, and he pretty much was left with nothing but petty insults when faced with actual solid reasoning. It was just funny how he kept trying, obviously seeking my attention. I think some people are actually deeply offended when you call them an idiot, despite the fact that you are a random person thousands of miles away, and do this in order to somehow gain your respect. They rationalize it as hatred of you, or ridicule, but it is really a sad plea for attention. In any case all he accomplished was making an ass out of himself and getting me to disable his chat after I grew tired of his pathetic attempts to insult me.
In addition to the haters there are the people who whine for hours that you are annoying them in your chat. These in my opinion are the biggest idiots of all. They can't right click your name and then click “disable chat” because their fragile ego can't stand the thought of you saying something about them without them knowing. Personally once I have tired of idiots like the above ChopperRick I simply block them. To not do so and whine about their chat when you don’t have to read it is like complaining about getting wet when you are holding an umbrella. Anyone who does it needs to choke on a peanut and stop wasting food that could go to people intelligent enough to contribute something to society.
Also I have a rather funny anecdote. When we were down to 120 people (only 70 spots paid) some idiot at my table with an average stack named BloodyPirate starts stalling. This is incredibly absurd because bottom money is a useless $410 while first is $30k. not only that, we are going to be hand for hand something like 21 spots before the money, so all he is going to do is put himself in a worse situation then. So I emailed Party asking them to send a floorperson in to hurry the game along. The message I sent was:
I am in the $215 limit at table 10 and player bloodypirate is stalling. Can you please send a floorperson in to stop it immediately?
So I keep playing and sure enough a floorperson comes in and says “Please do not use foul language at the table”. I am a little suspicious because I have had the floor called on me enough times to know that they address you by name when someone complains. Also I wasn't using any foul language at all, and I couldn't remember many instances of anyone else doing so either. I immediately type in asking the floor to make the assclown stop stalling and the table breaks immediately, so I never got to talk to the floorguy. Sure enough after the tournament I look in my email and here is the response I found to my initial letter reporting the staller:
Dear Matthew,Thank you for contacting us.
With regards to your email, thank you very much for bringing to our attention the use of foul language in the chat box. We will definitely address the situation as soon as possible.
Next time you see someone using offensive language on the tables, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can take immediate action.
Thank you again for helping us maintain a positive atmosphere on our tables.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Care Department at any time. We are here 24/7 to assist you via email.
Thank you for choosing us as your online gaming site!
Pranitha
Poker Customer Care
Seriously, does anyone there speak English? If they do then they must not work in customer support. Every time you send Party an email they either send you something like this back that is completely off topic, or they simply paraphrase your question and send it right back to you with no hint of an answer. Very rarely do you actually get a response that has any meaning, so of course I emailed them informing them of that. I am still waiting for the response to that one.
Posted by themaroon at June 19, 2004 9:42 AM
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