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I would like to see a reallocation of the money that goes into a public school system. Like, switch the Administrators' salaries with the much more important Teaching jobs. I seem to recall the dean at my high school owning a jet, and she didn't do a damn thing. It's a similar (although much worse in the education industry) ailment of corporations I've worked for - too top-heavy with managers and analyzers and report-makers that don't really do anything, and not enough going into actually creating a quality product.If it were up to me, becoming a public teacher would be about as difficult as becoming a doctor, and they'd be paid about the same as doctors. I think this one change would drastically improve the entire world.
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To those that bring up population control with regards to the long term sustainability of the human race and/or the earth - I think you severely underestimate both the human race and the earth.How is "viable embryo" defined? An "autonomous" newborn cannot survive on its own either. Why are miscarriages so traumatic? How do women who want children view what is within them during pregnancy?
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I just saw Daniel and Phil Ivey in the stands at the Australian Open. They're watching Martina Hingis's return match.On a side-note, I saw Doyle in attendence at the UFC event tonight.
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It doesn't really matter what the probability of a random hand containing QQ while you hold AQ is. You need to know the range of hands with which your opponent can re-re-re-raise you all-in. I have no experience with this person you were playing against, but I'd have a tough time calling with AQ against a lot of players with which I've played no-limit cash who stick in a 4th raise all-in. Again, though, it depends on what kind of trash appears in your opponent's range of hands that they're capable of making this play with. By the way, why such a huge initial raise of 10 times the big blind? That's a pretty big overbet.
I was just asking to see if there is some mathematical back up when trying to read if an opponent has a pocket pair that would have you more dominated than the typical coin flip.Here is the situation as the hand played out1/2 NLH cash game at Caesar's PalaceMe and this girl about 4 positions to my right got tangled in a hand early after I sat down.I had the Krablar and like the good FCP Charter Member that I am....I jammed it down her throat until she folded....which gave me about a $250 pot. When she folded...I then showed the mighty Krablar to the table and said the obligatory "Hail to the Krablar!" (I did not do the dance though as I felt I had done enough damage)She was obviously steaming from this quite a bit....and everytime there after she would try to push me out of pots....and I let her do it most of the time if I wasn't too confident in my hand. Her tiltage was also making her bet all of her chips on drawing hands....and she lucked out on all of them.About an 1.5 hours from the Krablar incident...the following hand happened.Villian is BBI am in mid position with ADid you have AQ and AQ flopped with the other 2 people having sets? I don't understand why you would be asking this. The odds are low of it happening, but there's never a 0% chance of someone getting dealt certain hands,
Q and I raise to $20 (very loose 1/2 game) with no callers before me, and then everyone folds after me to the villian who reraises to $60.Action is to me...and now I decide to take a stand with Big Chick....I reraise to $180.Action back to the villian....who thinks about it....turns around to her friend standing behind her....and asked "What time is it?" Her friend said "Almost midnight" and she then says..."Oh....then I'm all in" Her all in move reraised me to about $400 straight ($220 to call)....so combined with my $180 already in the pot...puts the total pot at $580.I then go into the tank. Remembering how she was playing / acting with me and others....I started to dismiss the possibility of AA and KK. With me having AQ....that takes away one A that she could have and one Q....so some donkified part of my brain said that she had JJ. The only hand that made me nervous with her was AK...as she was really playing the hell out of it the entire night. I figured that with a coin flip and me getting better than 2-1 on my money...I guess I should call...so I did. If she had AK...then a Happy New Year to her.She flips over Q 
Q ....I did not reveal my cards until the end...mostly due to the extreme embarrassment of my call.In any event....4 clubs hit the board and I made a Q high flush...winning the pot. She then proceeded to call me things in her native language and left the table.So...that was the hand that spawned my original question. I figure maybe some statistics on the probability of having shared cards would help myself and other people making the all important AK decisions as well as AQ. -
Cool. Thanks.
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Anyone play the one on the 29th? Is it 8 min. rounds? How big do the blinds jump each round?
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If that's what he meant, then he could have said "Of course, you could never convince him of that, he's a trash-talking, poker-playing punk with no respect for the history of the game!". Instead, he states that his youth has something to do with his problems. If you're reading the statements with blinders on, then I feel you don't think that generational disdain is an issue. A minor one, I've repeatedly admitted, but an issue I feel the world can do without.This isn't what DN was talking about though...he was talking about the "trash-talking, poker-playing punks" that have literally NO respect for the history of the game and the people that were there before the game got "big"!!
I disagree that ethnicity and age play a part in "how people respond to stress and make decisions". (with sex/phisical conditioning it depends on the activity in question) I agree that background and life experience plays a large part in your development and how you handle situations. But I don't draw any correlations between ethnicity and/or age to background and life experience. We're not all robots - we all have different backgrounds and experiences, little of which has to do with our ethnicity or age.I am not a political expert and I do not wish to offend anybody. However, in my experience - human physiology (sex/physical conditioning), race/ethnicity (background/life experience), and age (behavior/maturity) all play a large part in how people respond to stress and make decisions. To make general assumptions about somebody’s sex, race, or age for hiring or social purposes is folly. However, to ignore where somebody comes from when considering why a particular action was made or believing that we are all robots is equally foolish.
That's an awesome point. And a tricky question. Age with regards to physical activities was not what I was talking about, so gymnastics, wrestling, etc. are out of the scope of this discussion. Obviously, any given 1-year old is different from a 24-year old which is different from a 108-year old in many activities. I'm not that interested in drawing the exact line, just trying to convince people that the line is vastly wider than most of society's view. I would never dare to compare a 14-year old (poker player, musician, political analyst, whatever) to a 39-year old and consider their age difference to be a factor. It isn't. In a school chess competition, I don't believe the age guidelines are in place to protect the disadvantaged youth. They're in place as guidelines based on experience. Should a young chess badass be prohibited from competing with older, less-skilled people? I don't think so. I guess my point is that the differences people see based on age are superficial. It isn't the age they're seeing. They're misinterpreting the data of experience, background, psychology. I think your example of the former world champion actually argues MY point.Here is a final thought: In 1960, at the age of 24, Mikhail Tal became the World Champion by defeating Botvinnik in a championship match. In 1989, I had the privilege of playing a game of chess with Mikhail Tal at the U.S. Chess Championships in Long Beach, California. He was much older and his physical conditioning and medications left him a shadow of his former self. I was 15. My question for the OP is… When is age not a factor in any competition?! Gymnastics, chess, wrestling, golf, poker…
How would you classify the following statement? "Of course, you could never convince him of that, he's black for goodness sakes! It's a pretty common trait amongst black players honestly, especially those born in the U.S."Is he stereotyping young poker players or making a generalization about young poker players? Too often I think people want to say that any general statement is a stereotype, but that's not true. Whenever you are talking about a large group of anything, you make general statements, otherwise you have to list all of the exceptions and your speech starts sounding like the internal revenue code (tax law). -
There will always be tons of people younger than you that know more than you and are more mature than you.There will always be tons of people older than you that know less than you and are less mature than you.Retards and badasses come in all shapes and sizes (and ethnicities, and genders, and ages).
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DC deserves worse than what DN is saying about him. DC's a classless jerk, and isn't even remotely in DN's league at headsup limit hold'em. I just don't like elitist slants against people based on age. It's the whole, "you're young, you don't know any better" attitude. I wholeheartedly approve of DN attacking DC in his blogs. I just don't like attacking his age. DC's age has nothing to do with his character. Age has nothing to do with anybody's character.
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I don't know his intent, but it's possible his use of the word "kid" (and other words pointing to their youth) is mildly (very mildly, but still) derogatory.It's mostly the overall tone of the section about his heads up match with DC. And the fact that you don't see it, is kind of one of the points I was trying to make.The main specific section was, "Of course, you could never convince him of that, he's 23 for goodness sakes!" He backs up the assumption by drawing conclusion from the sample of early 20's people he's experienced (including himself)."When I was 23, I was 172% certain that nobody could possibly play better than I did or know more about poker than me. I was young, fearless, naive, and falsely invincible.It's a pretty common trait amongst young players honestly"The very fact that he brings up counterexamples he's experienced (from other countries) makes drawing conclusions based on age even more meaningless. "Those kids totally amaze me. "What if I were to say the following, "Of course, you could never convince him of that, he's black for goodness sakes! It's a pretty common trait amongst black players honestly, especially those born in the U.S. I've come across several black people from Africa, that would rip through the boastful African-Americans, and do it with an aura of maturity, discipline, and skill that I've never come across before. Those black people totally amaze me. "How would that fly? Like my original post said, "racism" is a much bigger problem, but ageism is still pretty darn silly.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is ageism. I found it a little ironic that in DN's blog where he mentions "racism", he stereotypes based on age (and sprinkles in a little nationalistic stereotypes as well).One of my favorite things about poker is that it is such a pure form of competition between individuals where age, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, etc. are all pretty meaningless (much like it is in most aspects of life).It's easy not to stereotype ethnicity. It's a little less easy (though still easy) not to stereotype gender or sexual preference. I find it odd how easy it is to attack age. Almost everyone does it. Ageism is not nearly as impactful as "racisim" or sexism, but I still think it's an issue that's overlooked - even often widely accepted as truthful.Just wanted to share my 2 cents.
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Motorhead "Ace of Spades".
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Does the client have a mini-view option like UB's? If not, if anyone with power is reading this, I cast my vote to add this functionality.I absolutely LOVE UB's mini-view UI.
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I run a weekly home tourny, and all the participants seem pretty pleased with the structure.note: I decided it was dumb to have the illusion of large chip values, with the typical starting round of 25-50. Whatever. If you have 5000 in your stack and the blinds are 10-20, it's the same as having 50o at 1-2. Starting stacks are dependent on # of players - 4500/n (n = number of players). We typically have about 10 people show up, so with 450 you start with about 225 times the big blind for the first round.20 minute rounds1-22-43-64-85-107-14 (a lot of my friends who aren't as math-inclined hate this round) :)color out the 1's10-2015-3020-4030-60every round after increase the small blind by 10 and the big by 20.I was after a weekly tourny that lasted about the same time each week. I accomplished this by having the total chips in play the same at each tourny. Since we typically have around 10 players each week, this has worked out pretty well. Even when we have a lot of people show up, the starting rounds are pretty forgiving.We usually get heads up around the 30-60 round, so the tournies last about 3-4 hours. You can increase or decrease this total tourny length by varying the chips in play from 4500. You could also increase or decrease the round length, but I think changing the chips is preferable. I definitely wouldn't want rounds any less than 20 minutes in length.
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This is one of the best threads I've ever read on this forum.
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Loose-aggressive and tight-aggressive are both winning styles if your reading ability is high. And we know Daniel has an amazing read. Tight play is designed to limit your encounters with tough decisions. But if you're comfortable facing tough decisions, and choose the correct answer enough to make you a winning player, why wouldn't you increase the frequency of having an edge by playing more pots?
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It isn't even 40 minutes of big action hands. They spend tons of time on profiles and interviews (often of joe-scmoe satellite winner who we'll never see again, talking about his charity work, or showing us his rv). And then they waste a good 2-6 minutes on showing how certain players dress, or watching them play rock paper scissors, or some other nonsense. And there are even still poker shows that take time to explain the rules every episode. Can you imagine watching football on tv and they explain the rules every game? It's madness.Sorry I'm keeping the rant going. I just can't stand the current state of poker coverage on tv. But there's usually just enough content to make me watch - so I'm bitter.
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Um... yes. A resounding yes. I would hope that most members of this message board would agree. I'd love to see full coverage of every hand, and I'd want to see everyone's hole cards on every hand so you can see what people are folding. They should turn up the players' mics too. And I'd like no commentary. And no human-interest side-interviews, or anything else that's not poker (with the exception that I wouldn't mind seeing Shana Hiatt pop on screen from time to timewould you want to watch the WHOLE final table at this years WSOP? All 6 or 7 hours of it? An hour at a time or all at once?. This would be the perfect poker show, and I could watch it an hour at a time, or 7 hours at a time or however long it took. I agree it'll never happen on mainstream or even semi-mainstream tv (I wonder how it would fare as a straight-to-dvd release). But I would have thought that most players here would want to see coverage like this. Like the poster above pointed out - the rare live shows have been amazing.
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regarding Theory of Poker: "i would like to look thru it first before buying"You really don't need to. I consider it absolutely essential reading for any serious poker player. It will probably be one of the most important books in your poker library.
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By the way, "trey" is a 3. "Trips" means three of a kind.
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"If I bet 1 dollar on a coin flip repeatedly, it's a mathmatical certainty that I'll go broke eventualy unless I have an unlimited bankroll"This statement is just wrong. Period.And in a tournament, you're right: small edges aren't very desirable. But in a live cash game, if you're cringing at exploiting small edges, then your bankroll isn't big enough for the stakes you're playing, and you should find a smaller game. If I could see my opponent's cards, the pot's laying me even money, and I have 51% edge, I should take the bet. I have the best of it.And you can't beat roulette because it's not a coin flip. There are green spots.
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I think you guys are taking this all a little too seriously. Was the show good? Not really. But it's just a TV show. I don't think it's going to negatively affect the poker world in the slightest. Plus, how many first episodes to TV shows rock? Not many that I've seen.
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Hello,I've never played a 7-stud tournament. I host 2 hold'em tournaments every month at my house. We'd like to try playing a 7-stud tournament. Any suggestions on a tournament structure? $40 buy-in. For 10-20 players. About 4 hours long. How often should the limits increase and by what increments (and how many chips should we start with)? How do I determine the ante and bring-in at each limit level?Thanks,endo
How Did You Know When To Quit The Day Job?
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I think a lot of people (while supplying correct information and good GENERAL advice) are missing the key points. The most important things I got from your posts are that 1) you HATE your day job, and 2) you could easily(within a month you say) get back on the wagon if it came down to that.Life is too short. I think you should follow your dreams, and do what you love (both in poker and photography). Happiness is more important than the safe and secure path. I honestly believe that if you truly love a particular field, and you're focused and disciplined, and have well thought out long-term goals and plans - you can succeed financially in most dream careers. Perhaps not as lucratively as your current day job (then again it could be greater), but I gaurantee the quality of your life and emotional well-being will far outweigh most worst-case scenarios.You shouldn't get too hung up on money and material things. Find things you're passionate about and just go for it. If it doesn't work, you say you can easily get a "regular" job, but it's better to try and fail, than to not try at all.You should definitely save a ton of money before you take the plunge though. Poker money isn't real money - it's business capital. But I think you know that.