RE: [ba-poker] Is being obnoxious a tell?

["Dave Horwitz" <dhorwitz(deleted the rest)>]

owner-ba-poker(deleted the rest) wrote:
> Now that I'm playing a bit more online, I'm trying to learn about
> online tells.  So I was wondering whether being obnoxious is a tell.
> 
> There are many kinds of obnoxious players, so let me narrow the field.
> There are some players who sling insults at  players who make loose
> calls, even when they themselves were not on the receiving end of a
> bad beat. That's who I'm talking about. They are making an
> affirmative effort to type in stuff intended to make other players
> feel bad, even when it is against their own long-term self-interest
> and they are not emotionally involved in
> the hand.
> 
> It seems to me that these players are more likely to be selective and
> less likely to be fancy.  They are not necessarily great players, but
> you can count on them not to have a straight in early position when
> the board reads 7-6-3.   You can generally trust their check-raises
> to stand for what they represent.
> 
> It also seems likely that they would be more vulnerable to tilt, but
> since I mainly play in tournaments I haven't been able to verify this
> hypothesis. 

Errr, can we leave this at "it's exactly the same as B&M"? 
Maybe exaggerated a bit due to the anonymity.

-Quick