When You Have to Deal with Uncivilized Players
Unfortunately, not all people have the necessary common sense required for a poker game. The attitude of some can negatively influence our game, that’s why we must not tolerate it.

Written By: Floris Emanuel
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sometimes, at the poker table, it can happen to find some unwanted players. Unfortunately there are a lot of players accessing online poker rooms that still do not know poker basics. Someone should teach them what the hands’ hierarchy means, that there is no betting between rounds, and many other basic issues like the use of soap in everyday life. Then come other players who still have not understood what a bad bet is, they don’t do not know where they wrong, they do not realize that the other player has just made a bluff on them and when finally they realized what happened they begin to feel very hurt, throwing verbal threats and using bad language all over the place. These players actually behave like that because they have no idea to play, and therefore always have the impression they being are cheating, that the world will mock them, and other such things.

There are hundreds of poker advices that can teach these payers how to act and react in a social manner in an online poker room, but there are too few that can guide those who are civilized and have to deal with such phenomenon of bad behavior.

Even if nowadays poker moved online, that does not mean that it has stopped being a social event. An online poker room is like a social reunion. Poker players interact with each other using the available chat function. In case the so called online poker thugs appear, poker players can simply report their behavior to the website officials. To make sure that they will be punished, banned and banished until they learn to behave, you need to make prints of the words addressed to you and of the heavy language they use.

Just because we are in an online casino and because we can not punish those poker players on the other side of the screen, it does not mean we should play poker worse just to avoid the comments from these people. We must not stand any kind of abnormal poker behavior. Poker is and must remain a civilized way to relax and earn money.


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