Chip Tricks Rant

[bernie]

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I guess I should change the name of the post to "Stop stalling, Hollywood". This is my main issue. Just act, dont sit there and take all day over small decisions. The chip tricks just seem to come out while someone stares you down doing tricks for 4 minutes over a 10 dollar decision.


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Now THIS I agree with.

b

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On a side note... I live in LA and have notice a lot of aspiring actors are migrating to aspiring poker players?

Any thoughts.

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They'll still need a day job.

b

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...Butterfly...


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You mean this is a cheep treek? I always considered it one of my better sex moves. Go figger.

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[Onaflag]

Blind response. I can't wait to read the replies.

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you can teach me how to do the damn Butterfly

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That's actually quite a difficult trick to master, but I've done it. And I sometimes do it at the poker table. Why? I don't know. Just because. Not to impress anyone, that's for sure. No one is impressed.

Shuffling chips? Makes noise you say? Tough. Get some earplugs if it bothers you that much. I'll do what I feel like doing at the poker table with my chips.

Who knows? Maybe I stop shuffling when I have a monster or shuffle extra fast when I'm bluffing. At the limits I play, no one is paying attention anyway. You, however, the expert player you are, might be able to pick up a tell or two about a person's hand based on their shuffling technique at the moment. Or do you not look for these things?

Who cares anyway? Have you ever had a nervous wreck sitting right next to you who can't stop bouncing his friggin leg for 5 hours straight. Drives you batty. Or the fat ass 385 pound slob that hasn't showered for a week on your right.

There are many annoying things at a poker table and now, sir, you are one of them.

Onaflag...........

ur just a nub who cant do cool tricks like me.

[UATrewqaz]

95% of the reason alot of "new" players play poker is because they can live out some trite fantasy of being a high stakes, ultra cool poker hustler.

Thus the sunglasses/hood/chip shuffling/staredowns at the 2/4 limit hold em table.

In other words they aren't playing for the poker or even to win money. It's like baseball fantasy camp, only with Poker.

Basically they are playing make-believe.... which is fine because players like this, however annoying, rarely play good poker.

[ZenMusician]

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There are many annoying things at a poker table and now, sir, you are one of them.

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You're becoming one of my new favorite flamers! nh

-ZEN

[benfranklin]

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I tried amazing my family by shuffling chips at the dinner table, it didn't work [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Shuffling potato chips is not very amazing.

actually, I'd be damn impressed with shuffled potato chips... they're not uniformly sized, and they're extra thin.

but then again, you'd be ruining them, so it'd probably just anger me more.

[Xelent]

I shuffle chips b/c I have ADD and some OCD, and a lot of poker players have characteristics of these disorders which make them shuffle to calm the nervous system.

[daryn]

i disagree with you, but i thought this was pretty top notch material:

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Maybe you'd like it if next time youre waiting on me to make a big decision in a pot against you, you look over and Ive decided to put together a model railroad while i think about it.

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