Because you watch the WSOP does not mean you know how to play poker.

I have been playing Texas Hold'em for almost 10 years now. Sometimes I make bad decisions but for the most part I would say I am an above average player. I have played in Shreveport, and both casino's in Oklahoma. Most recently I have played at Choctaw probably the most and have gotten to know some of the players. There is one thing I have definitely learned. Don't brag a lot and respect the older guys. They know what they are doing. A while back a guy came up to the table and it was like he thought he was on TV. He wore the following:

• Black hoody- Went way over his head.
• Black Sock Hat
• Sun Glasses
• An MP3 Player- So he could listen to music- loudly. I was on the other end of the table and could hear it.

You could see the look on the older guys faces. They were like look at this getup would ya?

• Anyway, this guy told the table as he was sitting down he got busted out of the tournament on the second hand and he was coming over here to get his money back. That was a HUGE mistake. Don't come up to players you don't know and tell them you are going to whip their butt. The old guys just said, well okay have a seat. Now the whole table has just declared war on this guy and they all are going to go against him and he does not even know it. Dummy
• Then he opens up and is VERY aggressive and talks....A LOT. Mistake number 3. They don't want to hear you until they respect you and that takes time.
• In a matter of 15 minutes he has lost 300 dollars and the old guys are loving it as he is cashing in for more chips.
• I go up against him and I lose the hand. He out drew me. That is poker. I lost about 45 dollars in the whole hand. Then I had to listen to his philosophy on Poker and how I should have bet what to get him out.
• I normally keep my mouth shut so I just said, thank you for the advice.
• About twenty minutes later I got involved in a big pot and "Uni bomber" was involved as well. I flopped a full house and he flopped trips. In the end I ended up getting four of a kind and he had a full house. He went all in with a large sum of money and I called it with one card to go. As it turned out even if he got his four of a kind I still would have beat him. It was a joy to watch his pain as he realized he not only was behind but was drawing dead.

All of the old guys were looking at each other and me and you could read their minds. Maybe that would shut him up and make him leave. He had lost over 700 dollars just on our table. He sat there for a bit as he got more chips and started telling us that he just does this for fun and how the night before he won 5,000 dollars online and he won 10,000 online the night before that. Of course we can't verify any of that because it's online. The very next hand he went all in and lost that. He finally left.

After he left all the guys just started giggling. One of them said, That boy may dress the part I guess but when it comes to this game he does not know his head from his butt. Then the whole table laughed out. I knew I was "in" when one of the guys looked over at me and said, "You hit him the hardest" and another guy said, You are alright."