anyone else colourblind?

[AquaSwing]

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i am colorblind as well. In the venetian tournament this weekend i accidentally bet 1100 instead of the 700 i meant to bet when i had 2 500s and a 100 and thought i had 1 500 and 2 100s. I should have said the bet amount. lesson learned.

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Which tournament at the Venetian? Was it the 8pm on Sunday and how did you go out?

[FCBLComish]

Casino chips are designated by edge markings, but TOURNAMENT chips usually are not. OP probably realizes this, but many of the respondants do not.

Limit poker is the correct answer. There will be no worries about missing colors there.

[Split Suit]

Im colorblind as well. (colorblind to red, and shade blind all together).

i have the most ammount of trouble with tourny chips. and also dark green 25's and black 100s get mixxed together. other than that...im generally ok.

but i also announce that im colorblind up front...ppl are generally helpful, and i also announce my bets so there is no confusion if i accidently throw in a wrong colored chip.

[nineinchal]

Verbalize the amounts you want to bet. If you call it out loud you don't even have to look at your chips when stealing.

Also, there is never any dispute about the amount of your raise. That's the main reason I verbalize it.

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Question for my colorblind brothas. Is there a lasic style surgery for us as well? Is color blindness a change in the brain DNA, or the eyeball itself?

[bav]

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Question for my colorblind brothas. Is there a lasic style surgery for us as well? Is color blindness a change in the brain DNA, or the eyeball itself?

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I'm not colorblind, but I know the answer (dad was mildly colorblind). It's genetic. Men suffer it more than women because it's carried on the X chromosome. Since guys have one X and women have two, women have a much smaller chance of having two defective X's so they suffer from this considerably less. Surgery can't help.

Least ways, this is true of common colorblindness. Perhaps there are unusual alternative ways to have this problem.

I used to have to do a long set of colorblindness tests every couple years. Two of the ~20 plates I had trouble with. I could tell there was something there and ultimately I figured it out but kinda had to study and squint. Nurse giving the test always said they were all blatantly obvious to her, but a large fraction of guys struggled or simply failed to get the couple charts I had trouble with. Don't recall exactly the number but I think she said you could miss 3 or 4 and still pass the FAA medical exam.

[AngusThermopyle]

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There is generally no treatment to cure color deficiencies, however, certain types of tinted filters and contact lenses may help an individual to distinguish different colors better. Additionally, computer software has been developed to assist those with visual color difficulties.

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Wiki

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Question for my colorblind brothas. Is there a lasic style surgery for us as well? Is color blindness a change in the brain DNA, or the eyeball itself?

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I'm not colorblind, but I know the answer (dad was mildly colorblind). It's genetic. Men suffer it more than women because it's carried on the X chromosome. Since guys have one X and women have two, women have a much smaller chance of having two defective X's so they suffer from this considerably less. Surgery can't help.

Least ways, this is true of common colorblindness. Perhaps there are unusual alternative ways to have this problem.

I used to have to do a long set of colorblindness tests every couple years. Two of the ~20 plates I had trouble with. I could tell there was something there and ultimately I figured it out but kinda had to study and squint. Nurse giving the test always said they were all blatantly obvious to her, but a large fraction of guys struggled or simply failed to get the couple charts I had trouble with. Don't recall exactly the number but I think she said you could miss 3 or 4 and still pass the FAA medical exam.

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This is called Color Weak, my brother has that. Yes its genetic, but that doesn't mean its not correctable. if its a brain deficiency then obviously it probably wont be a solution in our lifetime, but if the genetic deficiency is in the eye there might be a solution some day.

[Jimbo]

So do all you color blind poker players have chauffers or just run a lot of red lights? I like tha fact that other players help you out, I might just ry using this scam to get a read on my oponnents from their verbal cues when answering my questions, may come in pretty darn handy.


Jimbo

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So do all you color blind poker players have chauffers or just run a lot of red lights?

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Well, they have to pick up an orange and drop it to determine which way gravity is pulling, then compare that against the position of the light on the signal, but they get used to it after a while.

I know Google isn't as easy as the 2+2 search feature, but after typing "color blind surgery" and a few seconds of difficult scrolling, I found this:

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Inherited color vision problems cannot be treated or corrected. Some acquired color vision problems can be treated, depending on the cause. For example, if a cataract is causing a problem with color vision, surgery to remove the cataract may restore normal color vision.

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