{"id":4556,"date":"2016-09-20T15:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamblingwithanedge.com\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:37:03","slug":"in-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"In Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always had a thing about sportsmanship and basic manners. I was raised to respect opponents and was taught that being a good winner is at least as important as being a good loser. When I watch a hard fought game, I watch closely the way both sides behave at the conclusion, and am heartened when there is a show of sportsmanship on both sides. How does this relate to poker?<\/p>\n

I remember the first time someone celebrated in my face after beating me in a poker hand. It was a tournament in the ’90s at the WSOP at Binions. This was unprecedented as far as my poker experience, and I was shocked at the rudeness of the act. Little did I know that it would become standard practice after the poker explosion of 2003. Often, the poker world mirrors what\u2019s going on in the outside world. We have become too much of a rude, me-first, look at me, disrespect the loser society, and it\u2019s spilled over to poker.<\/p>\n

About 10 years ago, it was the height of poker mania, ESPN was televising a lot of different events, and the acting out was out of control. Players were shedding all dignity and sportsmanship to try to get some TV face time. As a long-time poker player, it was embarrassing.<\/p>\n

I remember watching the WSOP live stream of the 10k Pot-limit Hold\u2019em in 2012. Andy Frankenberger and Phil Ivey played a great heads up match. After beating Phil in the final hand to win the bracelet, Andy immediately ran over to the stands, with the cameras following, and celebrated with his fans, as was the standard reaction at that time. Phil, obviously crushed by the defeat, nevertheless had gotten up and looked like he was ready to congratulate and shake Andy\u2019s hand just as Andy ran away. I like Phil for a lot of reasons, but this was my favorite: he waited about 15 seconds, looked over at Andy, shrugged his shoulders and left. When Andy finally came back, he looked shocked that Phil was gone. Sorry bud, respect your opponent first, then celebrate.<\/p>\n

I was going to write an article for my All In column this year about this subject, but as I watched the preliminary events at the Rio, it seemed that things had calmed down a bit in this regard. Maybe it\u2019s because TV coverage is limited to the Main Event and players weren\u2019t willing to look like assholes if it didn\u2019t get them TV time. Maybe it\u2019s because civility and manners are making a comeback. I\u2019d like to think it\u2019s the latter, but given what\u2019s going on in the world right now, I doubt it.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"youtube\"<\/a>\"instagram\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always had a thing about sportsmanship and basic manners. I was raised to respect opponents and was taught that being a good winner is at least as important as being a good loser. When I watch a hard fought game, I watch closely the way both sides behave at the conclusion, and am heartened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[685],"tags":[1188,142,1189,1187,210],"yoast_head":"\nIn Your Face - Gambling With An Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Your Face - Gambling With An Edge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019ve always had a thing about sportsmanship and basic manners. I was raised to respect opponents and was taught that being a good winner is at least as important as being a good loser. When I watch a hard fought game, I watch closely the way both sides behave at the conclusion, and am heartened […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambling With An Edge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lasvegasadvisor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-20T22:17:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-20T22:37:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lva_tweet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lva_tweet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/\",\"name\":\"Gambling With An Edge\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/\",\"name\":\"In Your Face - Gambling With An Edge\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-20T22:17:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-20T22:37:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/#\/schema\/person\/93fac9ab8f32c7c3873ceb8cecc4aca6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/in-your-face\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"In Your Face\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/#\/schema\/person\/93fac9ab8f32c7c3873ceb8cecc4aca6\",\"name\":\"Blair Rodman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GWAERodman3Avatar.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GWAERodman3Avatar.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Blair Rodman\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/author\/blair-rodman\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}