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08-07-2007, 06:58 AM
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people working on a law firm making over $200/hr. [/ QUOTE ] Please introduce me to these people....we get charged five times that! 
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08-07-2007, 11:44 AM
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poker is gambling, and everyone hugely overestimates the edge even big winners have over other players [/ QUOTE ] Winner.
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#23
08-07-2007, 11:52 AM
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Poker is a game of both skill and luck and a game of incomplete information. If there were no luck involved, there would't be very many games, as the poorer players wouldn't play. If I played chess against a Grand Master, he'd win 100% of the time because there is no luck involved and we can see each other's moves.
But one can gamble with the best of it. That's why there are professional poker players, professional blackjack players, professional sports bettors, but not professional craps shooters or professional coin tossers. You can explain to doubters that poker is indeed a game that involves luck and that is why you don't win 100% of the hands you play nor 100% of the sessions you play. But that it is also a game of skill and your skill level allows you to overcome the luck factor and be a winning player. Good luck! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#24
08-07-2007, 12:01 PM
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Of course its gambling, calculated, but still gambling.
And don't we kid ourselves, poker would be a loosing game for everyone even if there was no rake. Due to the limits of our bankrolls, risk or ruin is always > 0, no matter the size of the roll or the player's edge. Its only a matter of time.
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08-07-2007, 12:01 PM
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I don't know anybody who wins money at craps, slot machines, or three card poker.
I know lots of people, including myself, who win money playing poker. I don't know anybody who wins money playing poker, *AND* wins money playing craps, slot machines, or three card poker. There ya go.
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08-07-2007, 12:03 PM
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And don't we kid ourselves, poker would be a loosing game for everyone even if there was no rake. Due to the limits of our bankrolls, risk or ruin is always > 0, no matter the size of the roll or the player's edge. Its only a matter of time. [/ QUOTE ] nonsense, total nonsense.
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08-07-2007, 12:07 PM
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Do you understand what "risk of ruin" means? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] The risk of ruin is always there of course, I took your post to mean everyone is going to go busto at some point. I disagree with this and if I read it wrong I apologize.
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08-07-2007, 12:12 PM
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Thats right. Everyone is going to go busto eventually. Its not really an opinion, just secondary school math. But most people will never see it in their lifetime.
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08-07-2007, 12:25 PM
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Thats right. Everyone is going to go busto eventually. Its not really an opinion, just secondary school math. But most people will never see it in their lifetime. [/ QUOTE ] Well, I don't know much about math. I was never very good at it quite frankly. I knew this, so I went to law school and became a lawyer instead. In law school they teach you all sorts of cool details about evidence, and how to come to certain conclusions based on that evidence. Based on the evidence you've given, I conclude you're a moron. How's that?
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