DESPICABLE
Monday, November 24, 2008 15:33Today I'm annoyed, a feeling of dismay considering the affairs in the USA, gas prices, housing, mortgages, loss of people’s homes. Everywhere I turn something or someone is DESPICABLE. Someone hits you with a door. The sandwich shop burns your food while eating out. Your flight is cancelled twice.
A player goes all in and breaks you on the river. Over and over again I hear DESPICABLE! Everyone uses this word, in Merriam - Webster dictionary, "Despicable" means, (worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation behavior) Bull, no one feels this way when they take your money. That’s why there playing, to take every nickel you have!
I was having excellent luck. With $100 buy-in I ran it up to $1700. I didn't walk away from the table with this $$$$. Luck changed, it was so bad that on occasion I didn't even have toll money to get home.
Don't tell me your DESPICABLE, just tell me the truth, If I f ......up, it's a problem I have, and why do you give a shit. I was a bonehead for playing that horrible. Lucky, no way, I shouldn’t have chased all those cards to the river. Now that terrible player who beat me has all my chips.
Don't blow smoke, you know where. Is it truly DESPICABLE for winning pots, you've missed the boat buddy. Why are you sitting at the table? To win the other player's money, RIGHT!
The game of poker and the table you sit at should not be DESPICABLE.
Does the HOBO feel sorrow after finding $10 on the street? Shit NO! ... Poker players should never feel DESPICABLE. Poker players should never apologize for winning, don't ever for playing well. Instead, take your winning and get the hell out!
So, what do you think? Can you find a way to stop saying wow that was DESPICABLE? Because if I hear it again from a winner, I hope they chock!
Good luck at the tables 
Comments
People apologize when they make misstakes. When you hit a one outer on the river to win a 200bb pot, you probably made a misstake somewhere along the line. You are happy to win the money, but you are truly sorry you made such a stupid misstake. So for the loser a very despicable SORRY, has no worth, but it's good to realise the loser is actually the winner. And so not make this misstake in the future.
Not a clue what this blog entry is trying to say...
Like dave I don't subscribe to the use of the word despicable, are you from the uk?
However, I do imply a 'bl' or badluck to the aggrieved. I agree about what you're saying in terms of no holds barred in poker and everyone's out to screw anyone who will call them but I think there is something to say about admitting a nice river and acknowledging a bad beat. Just to admit you got lucky and show that it was a bit of bad luck I think is ok but not of course to go on and on about it or apologise as you intonated.
There is a difference though between live and online play though as I've said 'bl' live before and extended a hand for a handshake and most people say well played and shake my hand (not on a bad beat but a well played hand), better luck next time, etc. But I have had the time when it was shoved back in my face with a, "F%$#! off!".
This is fine with me and shows the true class of the poker player and the individual.
These days I think the best option is to keep quiet and laugh (snigger) internally.
The best poker players are not necessarily the 'hardest' or 'toughest', they're usually introverts like Hansen, Negreau and Nelson who take the falls comendably and analyse the whys? Which is why they win 9 times more than they lose. You need to have a great temperament in poker to succeed as you do in life. Too much is riding on the pot for you if you act like a poor loser and can't be sportsmanlike.
Cheers,
rx. 
dzzz, maybe I run in the wrong poker circles, but I haven't heard anybody say despicable since Daffy Duck. "Sick" seems to be the phrase of choice where I play. Like you said, never apologize for winning a pot. It's insincere and pointless.