Forum: Poker Theory
03-11-2007, 11:35 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 128
Re: Tournament play and skill ?
I'm a long time 10-20 limit grinder currently making the switch to cash game small-stack no-limit. I've also just begun to play small buy-in on-line tournaments. I've read Harrington. I'm not...
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Forum: Books and Publications
03-01-2007, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 117
Re: The Play of Hands by Roy Cooke
Cactus Jack, you are right on here. Cooke has always been good on mid-limit hold-em. And he seems to be growing. His article in the Cardplayer with Mizrachi on the cover that works through his...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-28-2007, 12:12 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 96
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-28-2007, 11:39 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 163
Re: Is Chip Reese the smartest poker player alive?
It's great for individuals such as Hellmuth, Negreanu, T.J. Clouthier, Phil Gordon...the list goes on, to make endorsement income and book sales royalties outside of playing poker because of their...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-27-2007, 12:39 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 96
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-27-2007, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 163
Is Chip Reese the smartest poker player alive?
We know he's the best--every top pro agrees he's been the best for a long time. He's got nothing left to prove. Phil Ivey is talked up as the best of the younger generation which he certainly...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-26-2007, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 159
Re: How great is Dewey Tomko?
Thanks guys. Great stuff--Cardplayer's interview is a hoot. Gold mines and orange groves and sick sports bets and high stakes golf and a $50,000 coin flip and a $20,000 three pointer by Phil...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-26-2007, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 159
Re: How great is Dewey Tomko?
I don't know anything about Dewey Tomko. What I have 'heard' is interesting. Doyle Brunson said he was one of the few players who regularly got the money on the golf course back in the day. A guy...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-26-2007, 01:29 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 159
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-26-2007, 12:59 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 159
How great is Dewey Tomko?
Twice this guy had the lead on the turn of the final hand of the WSOP big one. Each time the winner got there on the river making Tomko a two-time runner-up. I don't know what the chip counts were...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-16-2007, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 398
Re: Re-evaluating Stuey Ungar
Hey Busto.
Most 'opinion' about Ungar's Gin ability rates him as being without peer, the best player, maybe ever. None of which mattered because once this became generally known he couldn't get a...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-15-2007, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 398
Re: Re-evaluating Stuey Ungar
A leak is a leak. Players have them both at and away from the table. Unger's leaks away from the table are well documented. Regardless, Doyle Brunson is on record as saying Unger wasn't in his top...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
02-15-2007, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 174
Re: Metal Money, Money and Gamblers
In Canada both the one dollar bill and the two dollar bill were replaced by coins some years ago. Hence the beloved 'Looney' so-called because of it's engraved loon facing and the 'Twoney'. They...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
02-06-2007, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 684
Re: Suppose Horses (or Zebras) Never Existed
It's the wheel, not the horse, that was indispensable. Without it we're still in the bronze age.
Zebras resist all efforts to domesticate. Not sure why they've never been bred to create a...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
01-31-2007, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 256
Views: 1,013
Re: Phil Ivey Gossip
I wonder if E-Dog saw an opportunity here to stick it to Ivey because otherwise what on earth is he doing in there? Think about it. These guys go off for a million and their 'appeal' hangs on the...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
01-31-2007, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 233
Re: Sports Betting Question From Bluff This
Heuristic--adj. useful for discovering knowledge, e.g. of a teaching method which encourages the pupil to proceed by his own investigation // of the creation of models as a working hypothesis of a...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
01-28-2007, 09:55 PM
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Replies: 256
Views: 1,013
Re: Phil Ivey Gossip
Getting an edge is what it is all about. Maybe Ivey didn't play a round in the preceding months, the truth, and disclosed it while not disclosing the recent amount of practice and lessons. These...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
01-27-2007, 06:39 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 1,144
Re: Personal Question From Jared L
It would be a waste of time if you managed. Baseball traditionalists vastly overate the skill of the 'big shot manager' (Michael Lewis' term). The real power lays with the GM who makes the roster...
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Forum: Special Sklansky Forum
01-27-2007, 05:55 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 677
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
01-21-2007, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 107
Views: 328
Re: Comments on Negreanu\'s recent blog?
Good poker has non-Christian elements. A live one is a live one and taking advantage of him is still taking advantage--is this Christian?
Posting religious opinion is Negreanu's right. We may...
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Forum: Books and Publications
01-17-2007, 01:22 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 77
Re: Best book for a complete newbie?
Duh...where in any post here does anyone say "no big deal" Jeffnc? And yeah, unless she is going to start at the top she'll need to read the best small stakes hold 'em book which is, wait a minute,...
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Forum: Books and Publications
01-14-2007, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 238
Re: Worst Two Plus Two Poker Book Ever!
Any and all 2+2 book PURCHASED ten years ago. Creel Printers did a lousy job. My FIRST copies of Hold 'em Poker For Advanced Players, Seven Card Stud For Advanced Players, Gambling Theory and Other...
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Forum: Books and Publications
01-13-2007, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 77
Re: Best book for a complete newbie?
It all depends upon how bright and how serious she is. If, as you say, she is just killing time between interviews and is not playing to make a living then GSIH is fine.
Small Stakes Hold 'em by...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
01-04-2007, 11:19 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 318
Re: The Advanced Concepts of Poker
It was my first poker book. I took away nothing from reading it that made me a better player. Still, I can remember being entertained by John Finn's (Wallace's alter ego) recognition of a new,...
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Forum: Medium Stakes Limit
01-04-2007, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 105
Re: Live 50/100 Bluff
Reminds me of Doyle Brunson in SS1 talking about the paradox (my word) of the good player being more susceptible to the bluff and, in general, to the 'play' than the weak player who calls down...
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