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04-16-2006, 09:52 PM
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I did a bad thing.......
....but i am happy about it. i met this guy at a card room. he is a very nice guy. he is the horrible at poker. just horrible. i used to see him playing 30/60, but now i see him playing 6/12 and 4/8. a few months ago i bought SSH with the intention of giving it to him. after thnking more about it, i thought he may view that as condescending, so i decided not to give it to him. the book has been collecting dust. last week i saw him reading HPFAP. he said he borrowed it from someone. i told him i had a book for him that he should read. his eyes lit up. i brought it to the card room for him. he has been reading it and is very appreciative. i am a bad guy. but i feel good about it.
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04-16-2006, 10:01 PM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
PokerBob,
If a big snake gives birth to a little snake, what will that little snake grow up to become?
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04-16-2006, 10:51 PM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
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PokerBob, If a big snake gives birth to a little snake, what will that little snake grow up to become? [/ QUOTE ] i think your analogy doesn't work here. if i give a smoker info about how smoking kills you, does this mean he won't smoke?
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#5
04-16-2006, 11:16 PM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
Bob, nice job. People take this [censored] way too seriously. You decided to help a nice guy - this is far more EV than letting him grind away and lose at low limits. A long time ago, a friend called me and told me about online poker. He noticed I was a terrible player, and sent me the starting hand chart from Lee Jones WLLHE. He eventually quit poker, and now I've invested a significant amount of money in a company he is starting.
A year after he did this for me, I sweated my friend Mike and 2p2er mikeyKay for a while at low limits. He grinded his way up, had some bad swings, and eventually won a 750k guaranteed on Party for 150k. I'd never have played if it weren't for my friend, and Mike probably wouldn't have succeeded without me. All three of our lives are significantly better because of it. Player pools are so huge that not helping a nice fish 'because it will hurt the games' is a childish joke. I firmly believe I have significantly helped dozens of players, and those players have probably helped dozens more. The number on the bottom of my pokertracker continues to grow faster and faster - why shouldnt I help people again? -James
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04-16-2006, 11:28 PM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
I don't think this is a bad thing if you like the guy.
It doesn't all have to be THAT cut-throat. Especially due to the chances that you will ever see him in your games again anyway. However, I think that anybody who actually wants to improve their poker should be able to find out about these books with very little problem so the fact that he apparently didn't know about them indicates that he possibly never even tried to find them. Less than 1 month after starting to play I did a google search for 'poker strategy articles' and I somehow ended up on 2+2 (just from the 'poker strategy' part). I had never heard of Sklansky (or Hellmuth or Brunson or anybody else for that matter) and had no idea that the guys who did this website had also written some books on poker-strategy. I guess different people find out about this site and the books differently. But if you've been playing for a few years and never knew about 2+2 (or at least considered them) then that likely shows a good chance that you won't really work on it that hard anyway.
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#9
04-17-2006, 01:25 AM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
[ QUOTE ]
Bob, nice job. People take this [censored] way too seriously. You decided to help a nice guy - this is far more EV than letting him grind away and lose at low limits. A long time ago, a friend called me and told me about online poker. He noticed I was a terrible player, and sent me the starting hand chart from Lee Jones WLLHE. He eventually quit poker, and now I've invested a significant amount of money in a company he is starting. A year after he did this for me, I sweated my friend Mike and 2p2er mikeyKay for a while at low limits. He grinded his way up, had some bad swings, and eventually won a 750k guaranteed on Party for 150k. I'd never have played if it weren't for my friend, and Mike probably wouldn't have succeeded without me. All three of our lives are significantly better because of it. Player pools are so huge that not helping a nice fish 'because it will hurt the games' is a childish joke. I firmly believe I have significantly helped dozens of players, and those players have probably helped dozens more. The number on the bottom of my pokertracker continues to grow faster and faster - why shouldnt I help people again? -James [/ QUOTE ] While I'm pretty sure this post wasn't really a reponse to my "why?" I will point out that I wasn't suggesting Bob did anything wrong. I was mostly just curious why he decided to give this guy a book as opposed to the other countless idiots he plays with.
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#10
04-17-2006, 12:06 AM
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Re: I did a bad thing.......
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i think your analogy doesn't work here. if i give a smoker info about how smoking kills you, does this mean he won't smoke? [/ QUOTE ] FWIW, I wasnt going for any anology. Ive just been randomly asking people that question recently. Also... you never confirmed in that other thread: marathon in November??
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