Sports Illustrated

[AJo Go All In]

yikes

[BottlesOf]

I didn't get that. Why would you memorize sections of HPFAP?

[WWJFergusonD?]

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I didn't get that. Why would you memorize sections of HPFAP?

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Because it contains far more truth than, say, Barry Bonds' batting statistics....

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[Jason Strasser]

Its just been two... Some guy at SI knows some kid at Duke and thats how it started.

[Vee Quiva]

Sometimes I wonder if I have an unhealthy interest in poker. I love playing online, in casinos, and reading 2+2.

After reading the description of the losing player in the article, I no longer have a concern.
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"My hands were still shaking when I had that cigarette," he says. "I'd been praying for that diamond. I was thinking I'd take this $40." He pauses, reassesses. "But I don't even have this money." Asked whether he has considered counseling for gambling addiction, he replies that he doesn't need it, because he can control his habit.

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Yeaaahhh Riiiight. He's totally in control.

[Vee Quiva]

By the way, couldn't you have asked for control over which pictures they run.

Unfortunately it is not exactly a flattering shot.

[phifediggy]

the excerpt about 2+2

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While Brunson's skill arose from hard-bought experience, the slow grind of trial and error, Strasser's is book-learned, steeped in the rigorous writings of David Sklansky, which read like calculus textbooks. Strasser spends the small hours rehashing hands and refining strategy not in bars or around smoky card tables but in rapid-fire posts to the message boards maintained by Sklansky's publisher at TwoPlusTwo.com, a virtual clubhouse for bright twentysomething players.

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[diddle]

after reading the responses to the 43o NL thread, I don't think you need to worry about people improving after finding 2+2.

[pokerlaw]

Just read the article, pretty good compared to the NY Times cover story a month or so back. Two Plus Two was definetly portrayed in a flattering matter, unlike that Indiana Student - he made Worm seem put together.

[InkyWretch]

I liked the hypocrisy of SI in this issue.

The poker article was, basically, warning about the poker/gambling addiction that might (or might not) be gripping some college kids. (The HBO Real Sports story was even more damning.) But in the front of the magazine, there's a Q&A with Annie Duke that contains nothing but puffball questions.