Two Plus Two Older Archives  

Go Back   Two Plus Two Older Archives > Limit Texas Hold'em > Small Stakes Shorthanded

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old 12-13-2005, 06:57 PM
Peter Harris Peter Harris is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Posts: 113
Default Re: About chat...

great posts fellows, a must for the psychology forums. I recommend Microbob that you x-post this there.

As for me, I always say "nh" and "ty", "vnhs" if there are 2 goodies out there. When a table coach starts attacking a fish i defend them in a lighthearted manner. Once a guy told a fish that A6 was a piece of crap, so I insisted on pointing out every hand for the next 30 or so where A6 would have won. This shut the coach up. If i can't shut a coach up, i let them gun for me.

The "gotta play to win" quote is gold. Thanks!

Consider this digested. I thoroughly recommend a crosspost to psych too though.

Pete
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 12-13-2005, 07:04 PM
MicroBob MicroBob is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: memphis
Posts: 1,245
Default Re: About chat...

"thinking about your opponents as faceless, error-ridden algorithms to be exploited by the most efficient possible mechanical process is the first step to becoming a robot yourself."


really interesting ideas here.
me likey.

I think you would have made Barry Greenstein proud with some of these thoughts.
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 12-13-2005, 07:43 PM
Redd Redd is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 44
Default Re: About chat...

[ QUOTE ]
"thinking about your opponents as faceless, error-ridden algorithms to be exploited by the most efficient possible mechanical process is the first step to becoming a robot yourself."


really interesting ideas here.
me likey.

I think you would have made Barry Greenstein proud with some of these thoughts.

[/ QUOTE ]

I was going to quote that same passage and say it's very truthful. I'll just quote Bob's quote of it instead.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 12-14-2005, 02:14 AM
adsman adsman is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Snowbound in the Alps
Posts: 505
Default Re: About chat...

[ QUOTE ]
The moralist sees poker as a strange little exercise in ethics: you master your desire to gamble by only playing reasonable hands in reasonable situations, you don't raise unless you have a strong hand, you don't stick around for outrageous longshots, everyone waits their turn for good starting cards and/or good flops and then wins their allotted amount and everyone's happy.

/mc

[/ QUOTE ]

I liked your whole post, but this was especially good.

I had one of my best sessions last night where I chatted for the first time in ages. I happened to sit by chance next to a player that I've been living off a bit lately and I wrote a greeting to him in the chat box. He responded in kind and we spent the next hour having a great time exchanging witty banter while I proceeded to clean him out. We got the entire table involved and another upshot was that almost nobody left. Everyone stuck around because they were having a good time. A suckout was greeted with choruses of "you rock!", "way to go!" and even, "you needed that one."
New arrivals at the table were instantly bombarded with 1000 questions; where are you from, who is the hot chick in your avatar, is that you, we're playing really crap so you're going to love this table, etc etc.

I was up quite a bit when I had to go. Everyone thanked me for playing with them and my new friend, (whom I had buddy listed previously), actually told me to look for him the next time I was online. Now that is cool.

and I had fun.
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 12-14-2005, 02:30 AM
milesdyson milesdyson is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 197
Default Re: About chat...

i wish so much that i could just cut my winrate in half and make that every single hand. oh the joy.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:48 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.