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That doesn’t make much sense. Are you sure it didn’t say “pickaninnies?” Some of those casinos are pretty racist, you know.
hats your favorite movie about poker players?
The thread that was its own pitting.
His woman thread in IMHO really needs to be moved here. That’s a thread begging to be a self pitting.
:smack: I really should have made sure to pre-plan a smartass answer when I picked which letters to remove.
If you pour her right Jenny Cream always gives good head. I think. Curse you for making me want to try and find some where I live now.
I think it’s more meta than that. He’s painting himself as a stereotypical hipster to prompt anti-hipster outrage for…some reason.
“LOOK AT ME! I’M A HIPSTER! AREN’T WE HIPSTERS ANNOYING?! WHO WANTS TO MAKE FUN OF HIPSTERS, BECAUSE HERE I AM!! GO AHEAD!!”
I think he’s auditioning for Buzzfeed:
20 ways to totally win women!
10 things you’d never guess about poker!
I wouldn’t know, since I have no idea who you are and you just joined last month and only an obsessive person would have “mentioned it that often” in the time you’ve been here. But I’ll play along.
I would think it’s losing money, but carry on.
Some people enjoy gambling. Some enjoy it to excess, like my buddy who lives in his truck because all his money is lost on the ponies. I find it pathetic and sad for too many people to think of it as anything like glamorous, especially since it’s done in those ghastly temples to Mammon, which are far too tacky to not be Hell to a person of breeding. If to you Donald Trump is an arbiter of good taste, then have fun without me.
Example, Stu Ungar, a nerd and, not a degenerate, but obnoxious and an addict. But he was a FOAF, so I can’t say too much against him.
I know I’m scared. And have total respekt for your mad skillz.
Part of my friend’s problem is that he drives/lives in a pickup, not a van. A tip for you to plan ahead.
If it’s gambling you’re doing it wrong. I only play poker with drunken salesmen.
Hold 'Em is a girl game, with all the silliness that comes from that. More specifically, it’s a children’s game. I base that on a remaindered kid’s book on it I saw, including cards and chips, but not the feathered cowboy hat.
No argument.
Well, it is, isn’t it? No skill whatsoever. Just the fantasy that you can make the dice land your way. It would be faster if you swiped your credit card and let a random number generator play for you.
So, according to you, poker is gambling. For your sake, I hope you’re better/luckier at poker than you are at communicating.
Seven come eleven baby …
So the fool-proof sure-to-come-out-a-winner system I use is minimum bet on the pass line in craps and suck down as much free booze as I can. I’ll be a bit down on money but I sure will be drunk.
I’m just glad all the mockery the OP is getting has been comped.
Hey, who made YOU the Pit boss?!
How is this, exactly? Isn’t every hand independent of every other hand? This sounds a lot like the gambler’s fallacy.
I am going to take on faith that this is not the gambler’s fallacy, and the OP actually knows what he’s talking about. But I’d really like to know what “swings” mean in real terms.
Mods, please change my username to Blue Mn with Extra range*.
(I only drink it ironically. Really!)
Oooh, we got a normcore hipster, here!
It means that even a perfectly random series will have seemingly nonrandom stretches in it, and that you cannot automatically put a string of wins or losses down to good play or bad play.
Personally, I tend towards the “pathetic degenerate activity” end of the spectrum. As a form of employment poker is crap, it’s got more in common with a pyramid scheme than gainful employment, since it’s all about the players passing a finite amount of money among themselves as it is slowly whittled away by the rake. And as a form of entertainment, even among card games there are better games which are not reliant on ante to be interesting.
Thank you, I came to say something similar, though not nearly as well. Also, I love you for the phrase, “ghastly temples to Mammon” and the reference to Donald Trump.
IMO, the only time a person of breeding finds gambling acceptable is a) during Casino Night at the club, or b) during a game of rummy, bridge, or euchre, when it’s raining like mad and you’re stuck inside the cottage with the family during summah. Then you play for pennies. And possibly a friendly wager with a good chum on a race*, but that’s a $20-$100 thing, depending on your definition of “mad money”.
(*“Racing” is and always will be, horse racing. Dog and car racing are beyond the pale.)
As a professional poker player, I’d think you’d want people to have as uninformed an opinion as they can possibly have about poker, so you can rake it in against casual players. You have no reason to be angry if they think it’s gambling like craps or don’t understand the various aspects of profitable play such as tells.
Casinos exist to exploit fools. Different casino games appeal to different people in the hierarchy of fools. If you’re really foolish you play slots. If you’re less foolish you play poker. Blackjack is somewhere in the middle. But you’re still a mark, regardless.
FTFY:
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