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Yeah, I never thought of that. Is your last name Chad, by chance?

So, I decide to take a break from running tournaments and sit down to play. I announce to the table that I am only going to look at one card, and I will play on the merits of that card until the river, or until a substantial raise. For theatrics, I cap all four corners of one card right as it's dealt to me. Internally, my strategy is to limp on big cards except clubs, raise on medium cards, except clubs, and fold small cards. On the clubs I reverse my strategy, so that it is randomized. Granted, I am still betting in a way that has me raises with iffy hands most of the time. Like I say above,

Yes you did. Who, that you can beat, will call you.TPTK is dangerous because it is the LOWEST hand people will stick it all in with. No puts it all in the middle with top pair, second kicker, right?

And now people are defending him over there. Wow. Just wow.I just value my time more than he does. I prefer spend it mocking him wasting time than doing something productive.

Dude just ain't hooked up right.I'm trying to imagine him having dinner with Daniel when he pulls one of those "leave an extra $100 with the check" moves. It's funny.

There are times it pays to be theatrical, but in general, no.For instance, I was in a tournament where player made a basic position bet, tookthe pot and showed everyone his rags that totally missed. So, on the next hand, I call his raise preflop and eventually push him off of pocket tens (he was stronger than I realized!) on a low connected board, so I spun my hand up reminding him that he should have just taken that pot he bluffed and been happy. I was table captain from then on, and stayed out of my way until the table broke.That was a useful play then, but it was part of my specific purpos

All verbal declarations in turn are binding.You said raise, so you're raising. It's not that you CAN put chips in, you MUST put chips in. Since you did not declare the amount you are still at liberty to decide what it is.As a tournament director, this [bALONEY] your friends pulled really pisses me off. They were OBVIOUSLY limping in with weak hands and wanted to get in as cheap as possible. This is why poker players annoy the bejeezus out of me sometimes: the nonstop angle shooting supposedly made because they just care about the rules more than the other guy, when they really jsut want to gam

Short answer:It is extremely foolish to BLUFF here. Feel free to bet for value or anything else. Just don't bluff.

Right, just like when Clinton invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam, he browbeat our intelligence agencies (and those of our allies) into giving him the data he wanted, ignoring adverse information, and firing anyone who spoke out otherwise so that he could more forward with the invasion plan he had already decided to do. Just like Bush I. Just like Reagan. Just like Carter.Oh, wait, they DIDN'T. Umm, what was the question again?

Please review:Limbaugh, RushOr, if you're in to some more considered reading:Politics lost And I appreciate your reinforcement of mine.

The list of people who match that description is long and not illustrious. David Koresh springs to mind.

Or just nod appreciately and check-raise on a later hand.

Just because I feel like it:1. The insanely out-of-control federal budget, where the President did not issue a single veto his first six years in office; The decision to go to war in Iraq, which was clearly his to make; the continued employment of Donald Rumsfeld, who offered to resign and had his resignation declined by Bush; The appointment of Michael Brown to head FEMA, a presidential appointment; the decision to form the Department of Homeland Security at all. Just off the top of my head.2. Primarily nations in the Middle East and North Korea. Middle Eastern nations (presently) have their

And I appreciate your having put yourself in a position to do so. Thank you for your service.

Or, possibly, also very informed. Dismissing people who disagree as uninformed is like ranting at people for bad play at the poker table. If the person is in fact merely uninformed, you look like an ***, and you are motivating them to be a better enemy. If the person is NOT uninformed, and quite possibly knows a lot more than you do, you're a presumptive idiot who is precisely delineating for everyone what the limits of your knowledge are. it's a lose-lose.

For what it's worth, purely because you don't hear it a lot, I agree, although I tend to think of it in less inflammatory terms. (I view him as more apathetic than hateful.)And I do think that it is fairly clear that this administration has been a disaster. And saying so matter-of-factly is the most effective way to turn off people's brains and get the most emotional reacion possible.

You are not way off, although, knowing the group as I do, I would add that they are slightly more tempted to call a bet because it is an "all-in" than simply a good raise.Regardless the commentary here reminds me of my law of strat forums answers I should have remembered. A smart raise on an early street can avoid a tough decision on a later street.

No, I'm saying that he made a bet that forced me to define my hand very clearly for him, and then from that information made the correct read. In retrospect, that would have been a pretty good move most of the time, although fields like these tend to be pretty sloppy preflop, so I don't know that that would have saved me.

Short answer: if they wanted to bust you, they could.Gambling is three elements: consideration, chance, and prize. If you have to risk losing anything of value (money, $10 minimum tab, donation to charity) to play a game of chance (poker) to win a prize (self explanatory) then you are gambling.The rest is simply a matter of how bad law enforcement wants you. Answer: generally not too bad, till org. crime gets in.

I'm playing a live bar tournament against a good-for-this-class group of players and we are down to two tables, about four places from the bubble. I have been nursing a short stack back to health most of the tournament after paying off a well-played flush with top pair. At my new table, I am decidedly short stack, but the play is still pretty volatile, and I don't have a lot of great reads yet. There are eight players at the table, and I am on the BB. Blinds are 100/200.Key players:SB: ~4000BB(me): 2200 K 9 UTG+2: ~5000UTG+3: ~8000Cutoff: 2100The five of us limp into the flop, that I see for

Look at the denominations of chips they bet with. They are generally consistent in their use of big chips and small chips. Typically, they bluff with lots of small chips and value bet with a few big chips, although some people do the opposite (because they always want a large number of chips in front of them).

THE KEY FACT IN THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM:The host KNOWS he is opening a dead door. If the host is also opening a door at random the problem falls apart. It is the face that he knows the door he opens is no good that makes this problem go.Telling people this seems to get them to nod and agree.

Because they had $2 million seized by the justice department for running the ads of online poker site (under the provisions of the Wire Act). That's why all the sites you see advertised now are the free .net sites, not the for-money .com sites.

I DEFY you, DEFY, to find another soul on this planet who has so deeply mastered the art of pretending Norman Chad is funny.

I had always guessed somewhere in the 18-20 million range, between his (according to Hendon Mob) $7.5 million career in tournaments that was considerably less than half that before his stellar 2004, even though he had been playing in the big game before his big tournament year, but I would be massively unsurprised to find out that, including other deals, he has around twice that to work with.