Posted on 03/25/2008 10:55:04 AM PDT by blam
Which makes Jamie Gold the exception and not the rule.
LOL, true. When a tournament has thousands and thousands of people in it, there's no doubt you need a huge amount of luck to go along with some solid skills in order to win the whole shebang, even at two hours per level.
Poker might be a game of skill but psychology is not a science by any stretch of the imagination.
You can never go wrong with me, when you quote Mark Twain. Ambrose Bierce as well, is always a worthy quote.
I have watched the “World Series of Poker” on occasion and am amazed at how often Daniel Negreanu, correctly guesses the cards in an opponents hand by the way they bet after being dealt only two cards.
OTOH, the best poker player in a room isn’t always the one who walks away with the winnings at the end of the night. They need a little luck, too - or to put it another way, they need to play the statistical probabilities and not come out on the wrong end of them too often, which does sometimes happen.
Gold was also skirting the rules as well-—doing things like exposing hole cards while a hand was in progress, talking about what he had while a player was making a decision, he’s very lucky another player didn’t call him out on any of his antics or else he probably isn’t a multi-millionaire right now.
His performances on NBC’s late night show “Poker After Dark” exposes just how mediocre of a no limit player Gold really is.
It is in no way a violation of the rules to tell your opponent what you have.
I think it was somebody else making that statment....
“Exposing of a hole card is a possible violation of the rules. A player could call the floor over for a ruling and request the players hand be declared dead.”
ACCIDENTLY exposing a hole card is not a violation of the rules. The card that is exposed to one player, is exposed (shown) to all the players, and the hand continues.
“It is in no way a violation of the rules to tell your opponent what you have.”
It is considered bad poker etiquette to discuss your hand while the hand is being played. OTOH, it is considered good playing to lie about what you have in your hand while playing. Go figure.
....Bob
Psycholgist's deductions no better than chance
Correct. It's not a rule violation--although when I was down in Reno for the World Poker Tour events in which I played players were strongly discouraged from doing what Gold was doing in the Main Event of the WSOP last year--but it's more of an annoyance than a rule violation. Thanks for catching that for me.
computer poker and “real” poker are different.. I think. In real poker, you play the other players... in computer poker, you play the cards...
The thing is, “in the long run” can sometimes be a very long time.
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