there was this late-20s early-30s dude that used to fuckin' make it a point to try to bust me out when i used to only play limit like a fucking moron- he ONLY played $4-$8. i mean this dude would be bagging on my play and vocally bitching about how stupid my bet sizes were and this and that. he was this weasel-y looking dude who was sort of short and a little stocky and always wore his baseball cap backwards so he just looked like this total douche and i always figured the reason he was so angry all the time was because of some sort of napoleon complex. he was a regular at the poker room too so most people at least recognized the pissy little gnome sitting at $4-$8 who apparently was always making the PERFECT moves in his play but was the most unlucky man on earth getting sucked out on by all the shit players out there. the kind of guy who complains about playing against shitty novice players because they can't think on his amazing poker skill level and thus don't fall for his superb genius poker skill moves, etc. etc. like a fucking idiot
anyways i'm reminded of the time i was there and he raised pre-flop UTG- mind you this is $4-$8 LIMIT H'E- and i call middle position with AhJh. maybe one or two calls. Flop comes Jxx. he bets again, i call, fold fold. turn comes J, i spike my trips. he bets again, i raise, he re-raises, i cap. river's a blank. he bets, i raise, he calls.
so he flips over KK and i fist-pump flipped my cards over to take down the pot, and he was so fuckin' pissy about it he mockingly imitated my action like a child trying to piss off someone at recess "oh yeah such a great play dur dur durr" just total sarcasm asshole-ery. he gets up and leaves the room he's so tilted. comes back and is bitching about how stupid it was for me to call the pre-flop bet and the post-flop bet and how i was stupid lucky for catching the J and demanded i keep playing like that so i could apparently lose all my money to the guy due to my horribly poor play. it was just laughable though because that hand played out literally textbook limit hold em style, and really he made the dumb-ass mistake of re-popping my 3-bet and allowing me to cap it and then betting AGAIN on the river with a blank even after all that strong action on the turn. later on i got some food and he was telling me that eating my food while handling poker chips was so disgusting as people shit and don't wipe and handle the chips (i'm fucking eating stir fry with a spoon too come on) and i guess insulting my... eating? classy guy all around.
about 6 months later our room opens up $1-$2 NLHE which is a first as they only had $3-$5 NLHE since its inception so the guy decides to start playing 1-2NL instead of 4-8limit, and dude this guy was straight garbage, raining chips on everyone because his play was so used to playing low-limit limit poker, within a month he was back at the $4-$8 game, just now he's always bitching about how there's not enough people playing it because all the $4-$8 limit people obviously migrated over to $1-$2NL. and then he just disappeared. so in the end it was satisfying to see him fail so hard since he was an asshole, but i'll be honest his insults and shit talking and negative aggressive attitude fuckin' bummed me out while playing $4-$8 and i did attempt to play different tables than him when we were both there simply because i didn't like dealing with the bullshit. i'm there to enjoy myself, not to hear some dude smack talking shit like a bitch.
so i feel for ya, OP. is all.