Thanks for the explanation on the shirt, but I still don’t get the ear buds. Is listening to music supposed to confer some kind of advantage or hide tells, or are they just being douches?
No, it’s just something to do. Poker itself is boring, so a lot of people listen to their iPod while they play. Most people, however, just put them in one ear so they can still, y’know, play the game. This guy had both in and couldn’t hear us even though we were talking directly to him.
I’d have a hat made with tiny venetian blinds that I could lower from the brim, and then peek through to look at people.
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about David Caruso.
::snerk::
Or wear a burqa and full niqab to hide all tells and make sure everybody knows you’re a guy.
The only people who wear sunglasses indoors are blind guys and assholes.
Or blind assholes. Thankfully I’ve only had the pleasure of knowing one.
Actually, I have a much more significant truck with people who listen to iPods and such at the table, since the screen can just as easily convey information as music.
But what if their optic blasts would otherwise be out of control? Huh? What then, smartass?
Now wait a minute!
How do you know that the birth wasn’t legitimate?
I mean just because they are monsters doesn’t make their baby a bastard.
Didn’t you know? Bastards have an unmistakable mark on their corneas for easier, more efficient shunning.
So what if it does?
What would they be looking at? Odds calculators? Hand rankings? Player notes? So what if they did?
It’s cheating?
Wellllll… in my defense, I’m nearsighted. And sometimes it’s very sunny outside. And if I have to enter somewhere and I only have my shades on me… well, let’s say that I’d rather look like a douche than like Mr. Magoo.
If you run into me while I’m wearing my sunglasses, I’m not going to take them off to talk to you. This is because if I take my sunglasses off, I won’t be able to fucking see. They’re prescription lenses.
Ok, you get a pass. But this guy’s glasses were like this, but tinted orange/red.
Did I mention that this game started at 9:30 pm?
The guy in the OP was definitely a douche. Which is why I made sure my response was directed to Silver Fire.
Sometimes you have legitimate reasons for wearing sunglasses indoors. For a period of about a week last year I wore sunglasses indoors and out every single day. This was not because I thought it was cool but instead because I was on a medication that sent my blood pressure sky rocketing which caused some extreme sensitivity in my eyes. It took about a week for the doctor to figure out why my vision was perfect and everything in my eyes looked normal but I could barely open them in bright light they were so sensitive.
I was going to try again, and ask why anybody would give a monkeys fart, never mind having a “more significant truck”, with somebody at a table using an ipod.
But, fuck it. Its cheating. Good answer.
(Perhaps the spirit of Stu Ungar has come back in the form of an ipod, and he is helping your nemesis cheat his way into “da maney”. Damn you Stu Ungar.)
It is cheating. You cannot consult any of those things (except maybe hand rankings) during a hand. Even in between them sometimes - for example, there’s an iPhone app that calculates ICM values for end-of-tournament deals; that’s also banned at the table as it conveys info that the other players won’t have.