The Rules Guy: How To Conduct Yourself at the Poker Tableby Card Player News Team | Published: Nov 13, 2013 |
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Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations are binding.” But not everyone seems to have digested the game’s vast book of unwritten rules, admonitions like “don’t berate other players (particularly bad ones)” or “say ‘nice hand’ even when you mean something entirely different.” Enter “The Rules Guy.” TRG believes that civility and sportsmanship are never wrong, and that bad behavior (even when you’re simply trying to get an edge) is bad for the game. Have you got a question about how to conduct yourself at the poker table? Email TRG at therulesguy@cardplayer.com. No Laughing Matter! Dear The Rules Guy: I am sure you saw the YouTube clip when Shaun Deeb slowrolled Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. I gotta know, Rules Guy, was that cool? — A Card Player Reader Dear Reader, Sigh! Some things are, of course, beyond the pale at the ...
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