| 17 Sep | Serves You Right, Mr SlowrollerPosted by PokerBarney on 12:09PM, 17th Sep 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
In the spirit of my recent post on Karma in poker, I thought I should share this.
I came across this thread on a forum I visit today. It's a real example of why slowrolling and generally being a prat at the table is going to come back and bite you in the end.
Slowrolling is not a nice thing to do. Why do people do it anyway? Because it makes them feel big? Because they enjoy playing with someone else's emotions? Building their hopes of winning up, then smushing them like a paper cup.. it's unsportsmanlike, ungentlemanly, and a malicious thing to do.
Well, this guy got what he deserved, and with any luck he'll learn his lesson and stop being a git.
On an unrelated note, I'd normally post a hand history of mine in the Pokerstars Hand Replayer today, but I don't have any interesting ones to share, and something rather interesting has cropped up in America.
The American government has been trying to ban online poker for months now. I'm not sure why.. I think it's because they're losing control of their public. The fear machine isn't working as well as it used to, so they'll probably be associating online poker with terrorism any day now.
Washington state passed a bill in July of this year effectively banning online poker and making it an offence. Now there's some talk of it being overturned (I'm not up on American politics really), and online players in the USA are being urged to contact their senators and fight to have the bill removed.
For more info, check out the Poker Player's Alliance.
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