thebottomline
Thursday, September 13th, 2007, 8:22 AM
QUOTE (Kwest4chipz @ Monday, September 10th, 2007, 11:20 PM)

why play if you are not playing to win. How many poker players do you know that sit down and say, "I'd really like to lose this tourney/roll tonight." My only point was you really don't have to showboat for the cameras, or be inflammatory to win at poker.
Well your first sentence proves my point. In this thread you seem to have put a higher impetus on being a good embassador than anything else. Like I said, what he did was well within the rules, so I see no reason to look down upon him. He may have gotten Daniel off his game, which, I'll say again, he did within the rules. If thats helped him strategically then I don't see why it's bad that he did it. His verbal wasn't even that bad, IMO.
QUOTE (Kwest4chipz @ Monday, September 10th, 2007, 11:20 PM)

As I say that I will also reiterate that people that rely on taunting or have a condescending attitude in order to hopefully piss off another player and force them into mistakes are not very good overall poker players. It comes down to the cards you are holding and how you play them that decides if you win or not. Not how much shit you can talk.
Matusow, Hellmuth etc constantly berate any player that makes a bad play or gets unlucky. It most certainly works for them when they piss people off. Are they not good overall poker players?
Your argument gets thinner and thinner, sir.