The Art of Trash Talking

I took a day off work to get fully settled in my new place and take care of some loose ends. Well thank god that mid-day boring TV decided to give me a gift; a few episodes of WSOP to watch in between errands. I watched a few hands of the 1993 WSOP final table on ESPN Classic and man do those guys look sleazy, back then we were no pocket cams so you did'nt know what anyone had until the hands were flipped up which made it intersting but not as eventfull as GSN's High Stakes.


Then there was the final table featuring Jean-Robert Bellande, Jennifer Harman, and some lucky guy named Lee. Jean-Robert is a trash talker, you might remember him from the guy who kept saying "Good lay down", "Excellent lay down", etc. He runs his mouth as much as Mike Matusow and I like it. I thought Jean-Robert was a nobody but then I pulled up his record in Cardplayer and he cashed multiple times for over half-a-million. Sometimes you never know.

I enjoy trash talking but sometimes it can back fire on you. If you get into a heated argument or pissing contest with another player and end up throwing youself on tilt, then its obviously counter-productive. But on the other hand if you end up throwing other players off their game, more power to you.

I am throwing a game this sunday and am looking foward to hosting a game again. I hosted a game twice a week in college for a year and It was always a good time.