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Alright let's say that there is a person that starts playing poker one day to find that every three hands he is given pocket aces. He continues this amazing run of hands for about a year until he finally finds himself at the WSOP. With hole cams and TV lights on him the whole world finally sees how lucky this guy is.
Alright I can already feel the wrath of those who want to say that it is impossible and with that I counter with the odds of our existence. Let us put that aside however and theorize just what this would do to poker.
No one in their right mind would play with him and poker would be just like it is now...or, if its a regular pattern, then its easy to know when he has aces
He would lose his shirt. How much easier would it be to play against someone with such a limited hand range?
LetYouDown
12-01-2005, 02:34 PM
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He would lose his shirt. How much easier would it be to play against someone with such a limited hand range?
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Impossible? He could push every third hand and at the very least picks up the blinds 3 1/3 times per orbit...or someone calls him stupidly and he has the best hand.
This is a dumb debate, but so he would win free blinds every 3rd hand....big deal :P
LetYouDown
12-01-2005, 03:08 PM
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This is a dumb debate, but so he would win free blinds every 3rd hand....big deal :P
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LOL, virtually guaranteed profit isn't a big deal? If I knew I would pick up the blinds 3 1/3 times per orbit or have a huge favorite to double up...I'd find the biggest game(s) I could and quit my day job.
but then it comes back to my original point, no one would sit with him :P
but you would have to sit with him if you were in a tournament!
But winning the blinds once in 3 hands isn't that big of an advantage in a tournament.
He's still just as likely to go broke with his other hands, and 1/3 of the time he will not get any action.
It'd only be useful in a high stakes cash game...where the blinds are worth like 40 bucks haha, but then you can't get anyone to play with you at a cash game, making the whole thing moot /images/graemlins/smile.gif
LetYouDown
12-01-2005, 04:53 PM
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But winning the blinds once in 3 hands isn't that big of an advantage in a tournament
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Excuse me? lol
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He's still just as likely to go broke with his other hands
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Not if he doesn't play them.
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and 1/3 of the time he will not get any action.
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So what?
do you want him to win the tournament by winning the blinds 1/3 of the hands only? Because he won't :P
mosdef
12-01-2005, 05:00 PM
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do you want him to win the tournament by winning the blinds 1/3 of the hands only? Because he won't :P
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You are aware that in tournaments the blinds go up, right?
Like you said, cashgame, he would get no opponents. Tournaments they have to play him and we deal with that situation.
I think this might be better, instead of winning the blinds 1/3 of the time and an occassional double-up or getting broke it would be more optimal to steal the blinds say half or 2/3 of the time. That way people have to play with him. Of course he cannot go all-in all the time then, just play ordinary poker and he will do just fine.
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