Can Live 2/4 be beaten? ESPN doesn't seem to think so...

[MagicMan08]

I think it is a farely accurate representation of the 2/4 game tho. 3/6 is a slight step up

[Lawrence Ng]

If this article were written for comedic purposes, it would only be slightly funny.

The ironic thing is that almost every point that he mentions about why small stakes is not beatable is exactly the reason why small stakes like 2/4 games ARE beatable.

I'd send this "researcher" an email, but then I don't want to educate the fish.

Lawrence

[bernie]

my initial response to the article...

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[tripp0807]

"I consider myself a no-limit, tournament-style specialist "

Where? At the Party 100 Play Money Level?

"I think I'm addicted to poker. Actually, I'm just addicted to Texas Hold'em. I'll talk about it. Watch it. Read it. Play it. Teach it."

This is fantastic news for the rest of us.

-Tripp

[kiddj]

Here's a good quote from the movie, The Breakfast Club:

Brian Johnson: I'm a [censored] idiot because I can't make a lamp?
John Bender: No. You're a genius because you can't make a lamp.

[AKQJ10]

OK, i couldn't help myself. Submitted to their poker feedback:

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How can I get a writing gig like Peter Newmann's? I have to confess, though, that I understand poker to be about more than setting an opponent all-in every chance you get. (Not coincidentally, unlike Peter I'm beating the Foxwoods $2/4 pretty handily in a small sample of ~200 hours.) So while I'm not a poker expert by any means, knowing something about the game may make me overqualified.

Regards,

(my name)

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He's probably the one who answers mail, but oh well.

[steamboatin]

I sent one also.

[sfer]

ESPN should be embarrassed to have such shoddy journalism.

[PoorLawyer]

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I was half-expecting to see someone eating Oreos like Teddy KGB.


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Now, that I haven't seen yet...it'll happen one of these days.

Last week I had a guy at a tourney table with a banana. He was pricking it and sniffing it like Johnny does with his orange. You know how a banana bruises when you dent it or whatever? After a few orbits, the thing looked totally gross, almost all black. He looked like such a fool.

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i had a kid with an orange at the MGM a few weeks ago. nobody said anythign for a while and finally a new dealer came in and called him Johnny and I started cracking up and then it was open season on making fun of him the rest of the day

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ESPN should be embarrassed to have such shoddy journalism.

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All of ESPN's journalism is shoddy. SEE obsession with Yankees, NY; Red Sox, BOS.