Learning how to handle bad beats and suckouts correctly is a very important part of professional poker attitude and even strategy. There was a question about this in one of the recent threads, so I thought I would post some general advice for those of you that like to use the chat box.

Let's say some intellectually impaired player 3bet shoves T7s for 87.5BB over your utg open and you call with AA. The flop comes AK6rb, turn 8, river 9 and you loose a big pot. What do you write in chat?

Most new and even some experienced players go crazy and berate the lucky player. That's very bad for several reasons:

1. Villain might leave the table.
2. Villain might quit poker after feeling stupid.
3. Villain might stop to make stupid plays.
4. It makes you look very amateurish.
5. It makes you tilt even more.
6. It makes poker less fun for everyone.

Instead of writing something stupid like 'nice play idiot', write something GENUINELY friendly and nice. It will make you look like a pro. Here are some suggestions for the hand I described:
"Cool hand dude, please use my money responsibly "
"HAHA, gambooooool tiiiiime!!! "
"Loooooooooooooooooooool ".

If you are absolutely unable to write something friendly, then at least consider writing something funny, it helps to make you tilt less:
"I've lost every coinflip today! "
"I was bound to lose that hand. If you only call we're going to get it in on that flop anyway :/"
"I knew I was going to loose the instant I saw that flop!".

I know this can be very hard in the beginning and especially if you are playing underrolled, but poker is not an easy game. Please discuss...