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congrats daniel, I'm mostly a lurker but I'm so glad you finally took one down again! Good bye 2005, and hello 2006!

Trout getting married? Vonnegut would not approve :/ But maybe we're in a timequake so he can't help getting married, he's just watching it happen.

I decided to venture to my first card room tonight. Hearing over the radio that a card room had opened 30 miles away, I decided it was worth a visit. The website, btw, is http://www.hamiltonjaialai.com - not only can you play poker there, but you can gamble on jai alai! I'm looking forward to doing that in the future when I have more free time.Anyhow, it was about a 30 minute drive or so to get there. I walked in the doors at 7 and went straight to the poker room where there were mounted plasma screens and 30 some odd poker tables. All were of nice quality. I went up to cashier and bought in f

Sent, I have 48 left. Don't ask me how I got that many...

I have a bunch of invites, post an email address and I'll send em out.

You're right Nick, I guess I am an ignoramous. Oh, but look what I have here - an edit button? What's the point of it? So that I don't have to make multiple posts in a row!!Aside from knocking you down with a stupid strawman fallacy, I think you didn't read my second post. True, my first post came out as 'mocking', but I'm going to clue you into a vocabulary word - satire. What's it mean? Maybe you'll pay a visit to dictionary.com and find out. My satiric post poked at the fact that Sklansky emphasizes math over the human aspect; I'm sorry you took it out of context that I was making f

Where the hell did I throw his theories down the toilet? I said you shouldn't play by the book poker, I didn't once say you shouldn't incorporate anything you've learned.As for why I don't like Sklansky? Probably because he's the #1 solution to any poker question people ask, and I'm rather tired of it. "Did I play this righ--" "READ THEORY OF POKER!!11"; "Hey guys how could I have known I was outflush--" "READ HEPFAV GOSH FREAKIN DEAD MONEY SCRUB MAN READ SKLANSKY HE'S GOD FOLLOW EVERYTHING TO THE BOOK AND YOU'LL ALWAYS WIN AT LEAST $4000 PER SESSIONS"Honestly, Sklansky's theories and id

So you're agreeing with me since Erudis agreed with me. I said myself math is part of the game but is not a crutch. So I'm still an ignoramous?Sklansky is no god, as people try to make him out to be. He's just a smart man who advocates a mathematical approach over a human approach, which I disagree with; you must have the best of both worlds. Letting one aspect dominate the other is far, far more ignorant.

As some have already said, calling from EP is a tough decision to make in a ring game. If you feel like you can outplay your opponent post-flop, then do it without hesitation. But obviously his raise commands some respect, and I just can't see myself paying 4x the BB just to hopefully catch a nice flop. If this was a tournament, it may be different, as your implied odds would set you up to bust the guy just by catching a good flop - but I'd pass on this hand in a ring game, unless I was feeling very loose and generous.

I certainly have read sklansky, I just hate the fact that most amateur players who consider themselves "successful" play straight by the book. Last I checked, poker was played by humans, not computers. Playing by the book is pretty ****ing robotic if you ask me; I'm sorry, but for every situation with a "sklansky" solution to it, I can guarantee you there's another just as viable solution that DOESN'T involve the square root of your opponent's stack.Part of poker is adapting what you learn to your own play style, and NOT taking on the play style of a guy whose book you've read. If I read a

Sklansky: "If the pot is x sized and you have x amount of chips and your hole cards are xx divided by the square root of the pot, then it's ok to cold-call a raise, even if your opponent does seem to have a strong hand and you only have 72off. ZOMG ITS IN THE MATH!!!11"

mike's pocket queens just got busted when tryangle called his all-in on a flush draw....damn, 2.5k lost that quick...

logging on now, I love seeing people play each other on ftp...wasn't tryangle supposed to have gotten his avatar by now?