Stu Ungar FACTS

[Jim Kuhn]

You mean play money counts?

[andyfox]

Well, let's think about this.

Let's say you're a 20-40 player winning one big blind an hour. Let's say you participate in 8 hands an hour, losing four, averaging $100 lost per hand, and winning four, averaging $110 won per hand. Let's say you play 40 hours a week.

So in a week you'd win $17,600 and you'd lose $16,000. In a year you'd win $915,200 and you'd lose $832,000. After thirty years, you'd have won $27,456,000 and lost $24,960,000. [I'm bad at this, someone should check my math.]

Kind of frightening to think about. If only we could eliminate those losing hands . . .

[southerndog]

Tiltboy, I was not referring to racial prejudice
at all. I was referring to overbearing religious zealots.
When we have football games in town, there are people who
stand with big signs that say "Live a chaste life." In other words, listen to me tell you how to live your life.
They are the ones that end up being the biggest hypocrites.
To answer your trivia question, I'm not sure, but it may be Ohio or Maine that has the highest Klan partcipants nationwide.

Michael, I still disagree with your comments.
When we send someone to jail what we are supposed to be doing is punishing them for the crime they committed. I can think of people that are scummier than a lot of people that end up in jail. Hence "We hate the act, not the person." Otherwise, we never give people a chance to redeem themselves. If I dislike the way someone lives their lives, I have the decision not to be around them. That doesn't give me the right to yell "sinner" at them everytime I see them. Doing the latter is Puritanical, and its what this country needs to get away from. If it were up to some, women would still wear scarlet letters.

[J_V]

Ok, he's the most overrated card player of all time.

[Ryan_21]

Yeah, he won 3 world championships, was 10 out of 30 in tournys w/ $5000+buy-ins, was banned from playing blackjack at all vegas casinos, was banned from all Gin championships b/c of his dominance, etc, etc, etc, but if you say he's overrated.....

Ryan_21