HAL LUBARSKY. BLIND MAN TO GO ALL THE WAY

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Wow you guys are dicks. The guy is f-ing blind. Give him a break. Do you really think this is some blind poker strategy expert and his tell-master prodigy assistant teaming up to gain an unfair advantage? Oh, and sory you were so grossed out by the guy with no arms. He should definitely not be allowed in a casino.

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seriously, wtf?
I can gaurantee you that that guy's feet were cleanter than 99% of poker players' cum stained hands.

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True. His feet are his hands and he treats them as such. You alls are srsrly this insensitive and callous?

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"Seat 4 is playing weak, tight" or some other comment that is more subjective? Would that be allowed?

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Why wouldn't it be?

What would be the difference between that one player razzing another player, for all the table to hear, about playing too tight?

Hal already has the 'weak, tight' read based on the previous action, the assistant doesn't need to reiterate said information.

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Does he have to post the blinds?

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It would be great if he was a trash-talker. Anybody seen that Curb Your Enthusiasm with the blind guy that gets Larry and Richard Lewis to move his furniture?

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Crunch numbers? What the hell are you talking about? (If poker math is that hard for you I'm gonna suggest no 10k buyin tourneys.) This is ridiculous, the blind guy is still at a disadvantage, obviously the card reading person isn't going to offer as much information as someone with his experience would be able to see. I honestly don't know what the hell is wrong with you guys, thinking he has some enormous advantage by being blind. If it's so great, go stab your eyes out and get the monies.

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Beat me to the punch, well said sir.

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It would be great if he was a trash-talker. Anybody seen that Curb Your Enthusiasm with the blind guy that gets Larry and Richard Lewis to move his furniture?

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Bwahaha dude is a world class hustler. He became an regular character later on.

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Its been stated a lot in this thread as fact that the ADA requires a resonable accomodation. I'm hoping somebody with some knowledge on the subject can weigh in on the subject and say whether that's true.

My knowledge of the ADA could be described as cursory at best, and non-existant at worst, but I'm under the impression that while it clearly requires that a casino wold have to make reasonable accomodation to allow a disabled person into the building, rooms, showers, gambling area's, etc. I'm not at all clear that it requires reasonable accomodation to play in a poker tournament.

Does anybody know for sure if it does?


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Caveat: I am a lawyer but I am not an expert on the ADA. This is not legal advise and should not be relied on as such. [Now doesn't that sound lawyerly.]

I think this would be similar to Casey Martin's case against the PGA. Casey Martin was afflicted with a degenerative muscular disease (I believe) and he wanted to use a golf cart. PGA said no -- walking was a requirement on the professional golf tour. Supreme Court found for Martin and allowed him to use the golf cart.

The law found applicable in the Martin case (and is likely to be equally applicable of Lubarsky and Harrahs) is Title III of the ADA. That section requires an entity operating "public accommodations" to make "reasonable modifications" in its policies "when... necessary to afford such...accommodations to individuals with disabilities, unless the entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of such...accommodations."

Allowing someone to whisper the cards to a blind man and provide him other objective information (I do not believe he should be describing players reactions to cards, but can describe stack sizes, etc.) is a reasonable modification which does not fundamentally alter the tournament. (Some will argue that the one-player-to-a-hand rule is fundamental, but based on the reasoning in the PGA case, that argument is likely to fail.)

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Does he have to post the blinds?

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I wish there was an accurate visual of the 'ba-dum-crash' drum fill.

Srrsrly, I don't think i'd have to stick to games with just antes.

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I'm starting to think Lubarsky may only be sightless while so many others are the ones who are truly 'blind'.

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Poker players are the world's foremost cripple shooters and they don't want a blind man to play?