May 8, 2005

Weak Players, Revisited Again

I think that people who are weak and pathetic at the poker table are drawn to lashing out at players who are blaringly superior to them as a way of compensating for their own ineptitudes. While I do not necessarily claim to be on the same level as, say, Phil Hellmuth, in this sense I identify with him. If ever there was a player who is widely despised by the fat, uncouth, ignoramus Middle-American poker playing base, it is Phil Hellmuth. He paints a target on himself by acting a fool around the table much of the time, but the core of the issue is that people hate him because he is superior. They can't identify with Hellmuth the same way they can with Moneymaker or Raymer because Phil operates in a different stratosphere of play.

Often the divide between people who are well informed, well read, and well experienced at poker and those who consider themselves natural experts (read: homegame champions) creates friction and sometimes words. Quite frankly, the resolution of such opposition can be found in one simple word, "SCOREBOARD." I'm so sick of dealing with people who's only way of effecting a point is through intellectually stunted name-calling. These individuals, as such, are seemingly incapable of elevating the way they express themselves above a senseless grade-school mentality. I made a formal petition for people to have an actual point before commenting on this site, so far that request has been wholeheartedly disregarded.

Listen people, if you get some sort of charge out of making your little asinine comments, just go for it.