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srm80
08-17-2005, 05:08 PM
I just recently watched the Star Wars trilogy, and noticed something that could be garbage, or could be a profound realization. Han Solo is to blame for the millions of bad poker players!!! I have come to the conclusion that people just want to be Han Solo and will take huge risks just for the sheer excitement of it! You meet Han in the movie and he is this big gambler/"scoundrel" (as they say in the movie), and he is taking these huge risks trying to evade the Imperial fleet, you have this flitty golden robot telling him the odds of everything he is doing, and Solo is all like "Never tell me the odds!", and it just hit me right there: Han Solo is to blame for all of this! I am guessing a majority of people who play poker have seen the Star Wars movies, and they all just are envisioning Han Solo and the aura of the gambler and risk taker, thinking "I don't want to know the odds, I just want the excitement!" So they sit down at a table, looking for action, looking to chase the impossible, looking to hit the big one, not knowing the odds and not caring, but finally they hit one and are thinking "I am Han Solo!" Maybe not that everyone is thinking they are Han Solo when they sit down at a table, but on a subconcsious level they are thinking about the idea of "never tell me the odds," just go for it, kind of thing. Anyone have thoughts on this?
coffeecrazy1
08-17-2005, 05:22 PM
I use the line "never tell me the odds" whenever I can at a poker table...it makes everyone extremely happy, especially after you suck out on them.
A_C_Slater
08-17-2005, 08:23 PM
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I just recently watched the Star Wars trilogy, and noticed something that could be garbage, or could be a profound realization. Han Solo is to blame for the millions of bad poker players!!! I have come to the conclusion that people just want to be Han Solo and will take huge risks just for the sheer excitement of it! You meet Han in the movie and he is this big gambler/"scoundrel" (as they say in the movie), and he is taking these huge risks trying to evade the Imperial fleet, you have this nitty golden robot telling him the odds of everything he is doing, and Solo is all like "Never tell me the odds!", and it just hit me right there: Han Solo is to blame for all of this! I am guessing a majority of people who play poker have seen the Star Wars movies, and they all just are envisioning Han Solo and the aura of the gambler and risk taker, thinking "I don't want to know the odds, I just want the excitement!" So they sit down at a table, looking for action, looking to chase the impossible, looking to hit the big one, not knowing the odds and not caring, but finally they hit one and are thinking "I am Han Solo!" Maybe not that everyone is thinking they are Han Solo when they sit down at a table, but on a subconcsious level they are thinking about the idea of "never tell me the odds," just go for it, kind of thing. Anyone have thoughts on this?

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FYP
Guernica4000
08-18-2005, 12:58 AM
If you think about it some more you could say that Hollywood is to blame.
I mean think of all the action movies with the hero beating incredible odds to become victorious. Most sports movies are shown from the side of the underdog who usually win the big game in the final seconds. In romance movies our hero is always the poor nice guy competing for the love of the women of his dreams against the rich “has it” all A-hole.

People like the underdog because they can identify with them so I would argue that it is not that they don’t know or care about the odds. I think they want to be the hero that regardless of how bad it looks they will win the big game by the turn or river. They want to be David with their 83s killing Goliath’s AA with a river rock.

So is Star Wars to blame? I would say just as much as Rocky, Die Hard, The Bad News Bears, The Princes Bride, Indiana Jones, etc. are.
08-18-2005, 02:16 AM
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So is Star Wars to blame? I would say just as much as Rocky, Die Hard, The Bad News Bears, The Princes Bride, Indiana Jones, etc. are.

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You forgot to mention Bridget Jones Diary and A Very Long Engagement.
TaoTe
08-18-2005, 10:56 AM
Anything that can tie Star Wars and poker together is a good thing. It's all about why someone plays poker. Besides that, Han didn't really have much of a choice when be chased by the empire. Hearing the odds of surviving would just distract him.

Oh, and yes, I want to be Han Solo, but I'd rather be Yoda at the poker table.
Pondy
08-18-2005, 11:30 AM
I wanted to be Princess Lea, but my wife won't let me.



I'll get my coat....
08-18-2005, 11:50 AM
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
VoraciousReader
08-18-2005, 12:09 PM
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Han Solo is to be thanked for the millions of bad poker players!!

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My very first FYP.
BettyBoopAA
08-18-2005, 01:51 PM
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen
erby
08-18-2005, 01:55 PM
in a related note...Harrison Ford is currently basing his religious convictions off of a book by L. Ron Hubbard


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gildwulf
08-18-2005, 02:01 PM
I blame 'Big Fish'.
08-18-2005, 03:00 PM
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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen

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That's not until Jedi....dumbass /images/graemlins/smile.gif

God, get your Star Wars movies straight. You might as well have just said "I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive."

"KKKKKHHHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!"
Scorpion
08-18-2005, 03:55 PM
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I wanted to be WITH Princess Lea, but my wife won't let me.

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FYP
08-18-2005, 04:24 PM
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in a related note...Harrison Ford is currently basing his religious convictions off of a book by L. Ron Hubbard


ERBY /images/graemlins/spade.gif

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No way!! They got him too??
srm80
08-18-2005, 06:17 PM
maybe dumb question, but i am a 5 year veteran of message boards all over the net...

what does FYP mean?
srm80
08-18-2005, 06:22 PM
oh, and I did mean flitty golden robot...3PO is a fruitcake!
BettyBoopAA
08-18-2005, 06:45 PM
FYP: Fixed Your Post
srm80
08-18-2005, 06:50 PM
thanx, i can sleep soundly! /images/graemlins/grin.gif
masse75
08-20-2005, 01:33 PM
When there's a conflict at the table, let the wookie win.
RydenStoompala
08-21-2005, 09:20 AM
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3PO is a fruitcake

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No freakin joke! The only things that bot was missing were women's undergarments, lipstick and having most of his scenes shot in the men's room. R2D2? Midget porn star and likely into beastiality. Luke Skywalker? Probably liked necking with his sister. Han Solo? Little too chummy with the wookie. I think "he likes fur" is a fair statement.

Nobody has bothered to mention George Lucas' directing talent, so I will. He couldn't get a job shooting jars of jam for the Home Shopping Network. Talk about winning the lottery. For a guy with zero...and that's an insult to zeros...directing talent, he's done OK for himself. I don't give a crap if he's richer than god, he'd flunk a high school music video competition. He's to blame for the huge rise in poker. If he can be a film director, any one of us can beat Phil Ivy. Having just said all that, I own the whole series on DVD, even if it is riddled with gay robots.
srm80
08-21-2005, 09:46 PM
a lot of people consider Empire to be the best one, which Lucas did not direct!
Conspir8or
08-21-2005, 10:16 PM
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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen

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Nothing like a Dark Side quote in the middle of a hand. For a while, I have wanted to use the following line to crush an irritating nit on the river in my regular game:

"Young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand."

Simpler still, the host quit hosting and I took up the burden and omitted the nit and his nit friends from the invitation emails. Thus:

"Wipe them out. All of them."

Darth Conspir8or