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A quote for area 51 regs
bandini
Member Posts: 1,802
"In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself" - Confucius.
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I'm not referring to Elsadog et al who make arguments that, although I find them hard to believe, are intelligently made.
I merely refer to some of the crazies that can't believe AA can ever be beaten.
I play cash mainly here. Rush poker is my crack addiction though.
Am I a winner here? Probably marginally since I started cash if you misclude (word) my forrays into the bigger stakes. Not tonight, where everything that could go wrong did. But live poker kicks me in the a$$ often too. I know I made mostly right moves tonight and was targetting a maniac who I could have stacked with a bit of luck. But someone else caught him firing into a 7-2 pair of 7s against Atrips. Then my made house got rivered by a bigger house. People forget that poker requires luck too. I lost 2 BIs tonight but could have made 7 easily.
I respect you cash game Stien, I respect the way you can start an argument that suddenly makes a thread on here interesting.
When I lose I look inwards though. Of course it's possible I'm wrong. But my, I think, rational mind suggests it is bad play by me. Or bad luck. Poker has huge amounts of luck involved.
That's me explained.
Still not sure what point you're making bud?
Bandini,
Fair play to you 'I lost 2 BIs tonight but could have made 7 easily.' there's a feeling I'm familiar with.
The point I was making is that there are winning players also questioning some of the things they see online. Don't get me wrong I examine my game more in a downswing and am well aware the majority of my losses come via my own mistakes, its the basis of the game, someone else has to make a mistake for me to win.
Why do I ask questions? Because I find some of the things I see online hard to rationalise but for me the REAL ISSUE for us as online poker players is that there are a significant number of people out there who won’t play online because they believe it is rigged, I know plenty. As players we need as many people on here playing as possible, the fact these people won’t play online is ours and indeed the sites loss. Surely the industry should be falling over its self in producing evidence that makes a good number of these doubters return.
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces." Anon
Everything should be questioned. There was a time when you were considered insane if you didn't believe the earth was flat. A large swathe of the good 'ol Ooh Ess Ay still preach intelligent design. We live in a crazy world. Anyone who can say that, without doubt, online poker cannot possibly be rigged is as insane as anyone who says it without doubt is IMHO. But I still can't rationally opine that it is.
Would expand further but I'm already an hour late for a big tourney after staggering into the house, cooked breakfast stolen from the hotel in hand, £200 down from a cash game, at 7 this morning. Got to win the damned thing now. Or get luckier in the cash game tonight :-)
Peace brothers.
I so hope don has said this but am thinking it's one of dohhhhhhhhhhhs comedy moments
I so hope don has said this but am thinking it's one of dohhhhhhhhhhhs comedy moments