Is Tiffany Williamson qualified to write a poker column

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This is going to be the one time I am glad ESPN edits the hands, cause otherwise it would be torture to watch Tiffany take 5 minutes for every street decision. I heard she drove the tables nuts with her slow playing.

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They won't show the it in real time, but I am sure they will show some of it, complete with the expressions of the other players.

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This is going to be the one time I am glad ESPN edits the hands, cause otherwise it would be torture to watch Tiffany take 5 minutes for every street decision. I heard she drove the tables nuts with her slow playing.

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They won't show the it in real time, but I am sure they will show some of it, complete with the expressions of the other players.

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Actually, I had a great interaction with nearly all of the players with whom I sat during the WSOP. Although I did take some time on certain of the key hands in which I was involved, the majority of my hands (countless hands over the course of 7 very very long days of playing poker, including satellite day) were played in fairly quick fashion. In any case, as I've not participated on this forum up until now (and I know that there has been some discussion of my play on twoplustwo since the WSOP), please let me say that on nearly all of the decisions where I did take what some may view as too much time, I was making critical decisions for my tournament life. I can't say for sure whether I offended any of my table mates, because none of them approached me about it. The clock was indeed called on me several times; but the clock was called on other players at my tables as well (some only once or twice and others more than that). I myself had occasion to call the clock on players during some hands. I think the key issue that has been raised with respect to my play was whether or not I was angle shooting (which prior to reading the threads here, was a new term to me). Some have speculated that I was; but anyone who knows me, or knows how inexperienced I am to big tournament play, would know that I could not have dreamed up such a scheme. As I said before, I was faced with critical decisions during those moments, and it honestly did take me as long as I took to make those decisions. In fact, on one occasion I simply couldn’t decide, the clock was called on me and my hand was declared dead. Obviously, players with more experience than me (such as those who frequent the twoplustwo boards) would have been able to make those decisions much quicker than I did. I appreciate that and you can be sure that one of the aspects of my game that I have been working on is my ability to make decisions in an almost second nature fashion. But this only comes with experience. In any case, I can take a joke just as well as the next gal, so…



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I don't know if Tiffany is qualified to write a poker column. However, I do know that if she wrote one, it would take her a really, really, really, really, really . . . long time.

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I can understand that an inexperienced player making a decision where several hundred thousand in real $s is at stake might take a while.

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Obviously, players with more experience than me (such as those who frequent the twoplustwo boards) would have been able to make those decisions much quicker than I did.

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Understated and all- classic!

[bwana devil]

very nice post. sounds like you have a great sense of humor and great confidence...not to mention a nice bankroll that most everyone but a few on this board are w/out.

bwana

[college_boy]

If your thought process consists what we heard during your KJs vs AA hand then all the time in the world aint gonna help you.

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1. Yes, Jim McManus is qualified to write a poker column. He is an oustanding journalist and a more than competent poker player. Is the NYT boxing columnist a former world champ?

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The backgammon, bridge, and chess columns are ostensibly written by strong players. I assume the boxing columnists are very knowledgable on teh technical aspects of boxing. From McManus' columns, he evidently does not have that kind of knowledge of poker.

[cwsiggy]

McManus just came in 4th at a Bellagio $2,500 buy in for $40,975. 298 players. He also placed in the money in a tourney last week.

[whiskeytown]

it's a sad fact of life that some of the best players (TJ, for example) are also some of the worst writers -

that sorta applies to anything - I wrote a chapter in a book years ago that was technical and educational in nature - and it's a fact that many, many network engineers know how to do something but don't know how to teach how they do it - That's why I got the writing - not because of my gig, but because I could write it clearly and explain it in a way a person would get it for the exam -

I'm having that issue with a new employee at work right now - I have to teach a firewall guy subnetting and I have a real easy way to do it in my head, but I have to re-explain/reexamine it for the guy that doesn't know anything about subnetting.

I read a lot of great poker and gambling related material but it doesn't have to be all written by world champions - sometimes one of the best articles are written by guys who say "Hey, here's what I'm learning while I play - watch out for this" whereas a pro may not be able to regress back that far.

I liked Varkoni's column - if for no other reason then it answered some of my questions about how he won - but I'm not reading him for that grand insight I get when I read something Jennifer Harman wrote, for example, but I think sometimes, what Robert writes may have more application for my current level then what Jenn writes.

RB

McManus is an idiot when it comes to poker. I suspected this after reading his book, but after reading his AQ article, I'm 100% convinced.

In the article, part of his evidence as to why AQ is a bad hand is that it lost to A4 and to A9 at the final table. Yeah, going in as a 70/30 favorite with AQ on those two hands was just bad poker.

As a long time reader of the NYT, I find it insulting that they print his garbage.