matt2500

'We wish you a swinging holiday!!!'I am OFFENDED. DEEPLY offended, I tell you.As a proponent of strict monogamy, I am shocked that our public schools are preaching a gospel of loose sexual mores.Heh, heh.And yes, the use of the phrase 'preaching a gospel' was fully intended.

Following on the main topic, though, I play poker recreationally, mostly at a local 4-8 limit game, and in low buy-in tournaments. There really is a quite amusing dichotomy between older and younger players. I'm as competitive as anyone, and I play to win, track results, hands, etc, and so do a lot of the older players. And the games I play in are pretty friendly, everyone chatting it up, and having fun. But then you get in a lot of these 22 and 23 year old players who have watched WAY too many reruns of the WPT and WSOP. They come in loaded to the gills with iPods, fancy sunglasses and m

"When I was 16, I was amazed at how ignorant my father was. When I was 21, I was astounded by how much the old man had learned in the last five years."==Mark TwainHeh, it's funny. I was playing last night at a local casino, and a young guy (23 years old) came in with both his new wife and his 60-something dad. He sat next to his dad, and would 'advise' him on hands.Well, I sat on the other side of the kid, and while I'm hardly an old man (I'm 36), another 60-something guy on my left and I, along with the kid's dad, eventually ganged up on the poor guy in good-natured ribbing. The kid spent

No, it's NOT a freeroll (see above comment), and yes, it does cut into a professional poker player's real income, in so much as they are paying into the prize pool of said 'freeroll' without necessarily getting the chance to play in the 'free' tournament. Whereas other high-profile players are getting that chance. For free.

Here's the p0int I think a lot of people are missing. This was NOT a $2 million freeroll. The prize money for this event was taken from the juice everyone paid when they entered either a WSOP circuit event, or the WSOP main event.Poker is not similar to other sports like golf, in a very important way. Every dime won in a poker tournament comes from the entry fee other put up by all the players who entered that tournament. Every dime won in a pro golfing event (or tennis event, or bowling event) comes from sponsors. If every golfer who entered a PGA event had to put $10,000 into the priz

First, yeah, the show was pretty lame. As Daniel said, it portrayed poker as still being played in the wild, wild west. Which, I'm sure, hasn't been the case for something like 30 years now.But, still, ESPN has to create a show that the average Joe, who doesn't know poker, will want to watch. Now, I might want to watch if they showed a 'day in the life' of Dan N. Get up in the morning, go out for breakfast, buy in for $500K at the big game at the Bellagio with the best pros in the world, see what crazy side games are being played....... Now THAT'S entertainment.All of the 'Tilt' junk,tho

Yeah, the show was pretty bad. But Daniel had not just one, but TWO cameos, if I'm not mistaken.That's Daniel shooting craps in the intro, is it not? And, of course, Daniel and T.J. Cloutier begging off the big game when they see the Matador is playing.That was the only cool thing on the show. Other than that, well, I'll tune in to the second episode, and after that, probably not again. I think it's been a while since the game's been that seedy.