I did a bad thing.......

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I just want to say that I still think it's weird that Bob gave some random stranger a book. Not because I don't like helping people learn poker, I do that all the time both on this forum and on AIM, but because I think it's weird to give people you don't know gifts.

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He didn't say he was a random stranger, only that he was a guy he met... perhaps they have become friendly in the card room over a period of time? Maybe Bob has a man crush?

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"the guy in question is just a really nice, friendly guy who i have struck up a friendship with. we don't get together outside of the card-room or anything like that. he just is a good guy."

Someone who I only see in a card room falls into the "random stranger" category for me. If I liked him enough to make him something else we'd hang out outside of cardrooms.

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Someone who I only see in a card room falls into the "random stranger" category for me. If I liked him enough to make him something else we'd hang out outside of cardrooms.

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Most people who spend enough time playing live develops a bunch of cardroom only friends, its a strange side effect that just seems unavoidable. I guess spending 8 hours at the same table week after week with the same person is bound to do that, they are almost like co-workers that you are trying to own again and again. But I can understand how its odd to you none the less.

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PokerBob,

If a big snake gives birth to a little snake, what will that little snake grow up to become?

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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?

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Ok we'll put you over here.

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This is absolutely genius, and I fear no one will understand why

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I don't get it.

[CallMeIshmael]

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PokerBob,

If a big snake gives birth to a little snake, what will that little snake grow up to become?

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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?

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Ok we'll put you over here.

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This is absolutely genius, and I fear no one will understand why

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I don't get it.

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Did I not fear this??


The whole this is from this really funny story involving kevin smith making a documentary for prince. One of the funniest things Ive ever seen, and Im not a fan of his movies.

[LozColbert]

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Most people who spend enough time playing live develops a bunch of cardroom only friends, its a strange side effect that just seems unavoidable. I guess spending 8 hours at the same table week after week with the same person is bound to do that, they are almost like co-workers that you are trying to own again and again. But I can understand how its odd to you none the less.

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TT -- has Bob spent 8 hours with this guy at the table week after week? Sounded to me like he'd seen him 5 times or so and been friendly. Obviously, this is just my impression; perhaps I'm wrong.

I'm with Evan. I would never plan to buy a poker book for someone or do so impulsively. I might pull them aside and recommend a Sklansky/Malmuth/Miller book, and tell them why I recommend it. But buying a book for a person, then deciding not to give it to the person....that's a bit odd.

However, I still say good for Bob. If someone is a nice person, then do something nice for them. That's what makes the world a happy place to live.

[PokerBob]

a regular last night asked me if i could now give this guy a copy of an advanced hold'em book so that he'd stop playing K2o and snapping off his aces. you can lead a horse to water.....

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sounds like ur being used, fold preflop

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Something that shouldn't be on an airplane.

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Nice hand.

[JJNJustin]

I have a good friend who plays very badly. He has good instinct but his math/basic strategy/discipline is horrific. He used to play limit holdem but now plays a big no-limit game and is losing big time. I feel bad for him because he is my friend and he is a very good guy, and I dont like to see him lose.

When he sits down at the big NL game he plays in, all the players light up and shout out his name and shake his hand and make room for him to sit down. This pretty much removes any doubt that I might have had in my suspicions about him being the sucker.

I have tried to offer him pieces of advice, and have offered to loan him some of my poker books (TOP, NLTAP) but he always gets extremely defensive saying things "I know how to play." When I go to pick him up to go to the casino (he always pays for the gas and more if he wins) I have been bringing NLTAP and making him read "weapons" out loud to me for "my benefit." Hopefully some of that will sink in for him, as well. He considers me a tight-grinder with little or no instinct. His nickname for me is "the mechanic".

My feeling about this guy is that he could be a decent-fairly good player if he had some firm ground in basic strategy and some better discipline. His tilt threshold is low and usually tilts away the rest of his stack when he suffers a bad beat.

However, I have seen him make some good reads, excellent bluffs, good calls, and decent laydowns.
I have also seen him play foolishly. My own feeling is that he would fair best in a NL tournament over a cash game, and I'm not sure why I feel this way.

Advice, how to help this guy? Don't bother? People shaking his hand and hustling him via false friendliness in the NL game really makes me cringe. I told him, "You realize they arent doing that because they like you..." He laughed.

-J

[Joe Tall]

I must have seen him at his peak w/9k in the 30 then eh? He's such a friendly guy. Tell him I said hello and to read the book and play good! Seriously!