Situation: $100PLO online 6max game. Huge fish at the table, calling with essentially every hand, every raise, every situation. A couple of sharks and some recreational players.
Hand: UTG open raises. Fish calls from big blind. Flop is A-J-8 rainbow. Check-Pot-Call. Turn is an offsuit 6. Check-Pot-Call. River is a 5. Check-Pot-Call.
Result: UTG turns over AAKK for top set. Fish turns over 7422 for the straight.
Aftermath: The UTG shark berates the fish. “You’re an idiot!” “How could you chase with that?” and “You f**ing moron didn’t even know to re-raise on the river with the nuts!” The fish leaves.
My Chatbox Entry: “So, he was a terrible player, right? And you told him so and chased him away from this table with insults. So, honest question: If you don’t want to play against terrible players, then who exactly do you want to play against?”
Lesson: Quit getting angry at the bad players. Learn to weather the ups-and-downs that come along with fish. And exploit the hell out of them. This can be an easy game— if you let it be.
So true. Online, the time you spend ranting impotently at a luckbox would be far better spent clicking their avatar and making a note about the leak in their game. Scribble away your wrath.