BLUFF Magazine, anyone read it yet?

[jedi]

I was at my local B&M casino yesterday, and they had copies of the premiere issue of BLUFF Magazine, with James Woods on the cover. Has anyone seen this yet?

I read through it, and it's got some big names writing for it. It had Antonio Esfandiari and Erick Lindgren's viewpoints on tournaments they recently played, Josh Arieh's version of the hold-up in France, and Annie Duke talking about how to take advantage of guys perceptions of women at the poker table.

There was also a quiz near the back that looked absolutely AWFUL! I don't have the copy with me, but one of the questions was something like this:

What is the primary thing that determines if you're a winning poker player.
A) Skill
B) Luck
C) Experience
D) All of the above.

(Answer was D)

Grammar afficionados will enjoy the misuse of "your" in some articles, and I'm not sure if I've ever heard the use of the word "cardsharp" before. Maybe I'm new to this, but I've heard "cardshark" but not "cardsharp."

Anyways, I didn't think it had great poker value to it. Most of it was geared to inexperienced players I thought. Even the crappy experienced players won't get too much learning out of it.

There was some advice that contradicted Ed Miller's advice on folding in large pots. It said something like losing players consistently put in bets while drawing dead, just because the pot is big. Ed's advice says that it's a mistake to do this just because you MIGHT be drawing dead. You don't have to be right that often for calling to be profitable.

Anyways, just wanted to see if people read the magazine or knew what I was talking about.

[maryfield48]

From the American Heritage College Dictionary, courtesy of Bartleby:

cardsharp

SYLLABICATION: card·sharp
PRONUNCIATION: kärdshärp
VARIANT FORMS: also card·sharp·er (-shärpr)
NOUN: An expert in cheating at cards.
OTHER FORMS: cardsharping —NOUN

[jedi]

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NOUN: An expert in cheating at cards.


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Interesting. Well given the context, I think cardSHARK would be better in the article. I don't think it was trying to promote cheating in hold em.

[pheasant tail (no 18)]

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There was some advice that contradicted Ed Miller's advice on folding in large pots. It said something like losing players consistently put in bets while drawing dead, just because the pot is big.

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I've played w/ the guy who wrote that article a few times (for only about 3 hrs. total) and thought that that article was great bc. he is hyper aggressive and I saw him getting caught bluffing at least 6 times.

Other than that I found the Mag to be a big glossy piece of crap. It would be of no interest if there were never a waiting list unless you think that poker is glamorous and want to know about famous people. I need no such ego-boost, the action, profit and comraderie of the game keeps me interested. Maybe it will get better.

If James Wood likes to play poker, well, great, I do too. Maybe some day we'll play together.

[maryfield48]

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NOUN: An expert in cheating at cards.


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Interesting. Well given the context, I think cardSHARK would be better in the article. I don't think it was trying to promote cheating in hold em.

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Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I haven't read BLUFF magazine so have nothing useful to say about it. But I do find this stuff interesting - the following is from an etymology website:

The earliest (1859) written version of the phrase was card sharper. As card sharp occurs in several of our dictionaries and card shark in none of them, I would suggest that the latter form is merely a modern mis-hearing of card sharp, possibly influenced by loan-shark.

[mike l.]

it's real trash and im glad it's around. it's for all the kids with fake ids i play against lately to look at and wank off to hoping theyll get on tv someday, maxing out their credit card cash advances losing at 20-40 to me. perfect. long live all this movie star poker crap.

[jedi]

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Other than that I found the Mag to be a big glossy piece of crap. It would be of no interest if there were never a waiting list unless you think that poker is glamorous and want to know about famous people. I need no such ego-boost, the action, profit and comraderie of the game keeps me interested. Maybe it will get better.

If James Wood likes to play poker, well, great, I do too. Maybe some day we'll play together.

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I've yet to read the Woods article, and briefly skimmed the Ferguson interview (not bad), but I'll have to agree on the rest of it. All of the content seems to be geared to screw up the fish.

Lederer's hand reading article I thought I'd find interesting, but turned into a recap of Caro's book of tells. I wanted to throw up when I read about Antonio Esfandiari. The quiz looked like a joke though.

[onegymrat]

Hi Jedi,

Yeah, I picked it up a couple of weeks ago also. I think it's crap. The quiz was ludicrous, especially the one that you pointed out. It's mainly a bunch of fluff and a mediocre attempt to jump on the "hold'em bandwagon" to get a few issues out. It seems like half the magazine were ads from online sites. Yes, I agree with Mike L. I hope those underaged wannabes will continue to leak money to us, especially after reading Bluff.

[Sponger15SB]

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it's real trash and im glad it's around. it's for all the kids with fake ids i play against lately to look at and wank off to hoping theyll get on tv someday, maxing out their credit card cash advances losing at 20-40 to me. perfect. long live all this movie star poker crap.

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holy [censored] did somebody take an axe to jimmeny cricket or something...

you could at least pretend to have a conscience.

[J.A.Sucker]

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im glad it's around. it's for all the kids with fake ids i play against lately to look at and wank off to hoping theyll get on tv someday, maxing out their credit card cash advances losing at 20-40 to me.

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That, and for inflating Wood's ego even more. Get him in the 1-2 game and you could retire early.