Why You Shouldn’t Complain While Playing Poker

Certain poker players would rather complain about a pot they lose. They actually think that complaining will make them feel better about what just happened.. Complaining is simply bad karma. Since it cannot help your strategy to engage in complaining, then you have to start asking yourself why you are doing it.

You can recognize players who complain frequently by their poor long term results. Mentally and financially. If you desire to become a money-making poker player online, this is one of those practices you need to do away with immediately. Now I am not talking about being angry at yourself. I am talking about going to chat in your online poker table to scold or abuse your opponents’ decisions.

Very often your opinion is not always perfect, and your opponent’s play was at least a justifiable choice. Even if it wasn’t, what would be the benefit to having them uncover something about their lack of comprehension of the game? The players that you may feel the need to lash out at, are the same players that make the game profitable for skilled players such as yoruself, so let them be a donkey and reap the rewards long term!

Complaining will also result in tense feelings in your poker game and may produce divisions between other players there who decide to join in the discussion. If you feel upset at the table, you will make further weak decisions while also revealing your own tactical thinking to the rest of your opponents. Ask yourself, how can this help you? It cannot.

There’s a simple way to do away with complaining to other opponents and that is plainly to not yak and keep your disparagement to yourself. Once you are able hold your tongue, you will find very little yearning to do it to yourself and eventually develop a winning attitude whereby your only desire for contact with your dumb-luck antagonists will be, “Nice hand”.