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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 10:31pm Post subject: Gambler's Fallacy |
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4-of-a-Kind

Joined: 29 Apr 2004
Posts: 1918 WPP: 120
Location: St. Louis
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 4:42am Post subject: |
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Full House

Joined: 23 May 2004
Posts: 611 WPP: 82
Location: Crypto 6max 100NL
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| Absoulutely, i always chuckle when people sit down at a table and say something like "does this site deal a lot of flushes" and 3 people will chime in with tales of woe and stacked decks, i just look at them and see $ |
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 9:44am Post subject: |
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Full House

Joined: 22 Jan 2005
Posts: 944 WPP: 117
Location: Vancouver
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| I've been hearing a new theory lately, its the lucky seat theory. Some seats give better cards then others. This guy was telling me how they did a test. He said that he won a buyin from one seat, got up came back and lost it all plus a little more in a different seat, and the guy in his old seat had also won a buyin. I would have encouraged him to believe this but i was too busy adding him to my buddy list. |
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 10:29am Post subject: |
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Full House

Joined: 11 Feb 2004
Posts: 610 WPP: 108
Location: lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
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| I can usually tell in the first orbit if the action generator has been tweaked favorably for that session. |
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 11:34am Post subject: |
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Full House

Joined: 23 Aug 2004
Posts: 813 WPP: 145
Location: Mount Holly, NC
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I almost choked on a jellybean (literally) when I heard this one:
Fish1: If PokerStars has less than 10K people logged in then be careful when dealt K-K
Fish2: Why is that?
Fish1: Well they are not making as much rake and every time someone is dealt K-K another person is dealt A-A to generate action.
Fish2: Wow thanks for the tip!
DavSimon: Oh yes, that is absolutely true, however we are playing a SnG and the rake is fixed..... |
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Posted: Sun, 03 Apr 2005, 12:27am Post subject: |
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Straight

Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 119 WPP: 62
Location: chicago
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| i like the conflicting avatars fromt he posts above... |
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Posted: Sun, 03 Apr 2005, 3:37am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind

Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Posts: 1522 WPP: 82
Location: England UK
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yeah that annoys the hell out of me "welcome to river stars"
"hehe i love Party Poker" |
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Posted: Sun, 03 Apr 2005, 4:05am Post subject: |
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Strike 3

Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 3289 WPP: 119
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Some of my favourites (used often)
"Ahh, RiverStars got me again"
"**** you, Lee Jones!"
"That's a PartyPoker special"
"XXXing joke you XXXXing XXXXty little XXXXXX, what a XXXXer"
And one that isn't so well known but since I play there I see it a lot:
"Only at Bugsy" |
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Posted: Sun, 03 Apr 2005, 5:27am Post subject: |
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Flush

Joined: 08 Jun 2004
Posts: 497 WPP: 73
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Bringing the thread back to the original topic....
If you flip a coin and get heads 7 times in a row, what are the odds the next toss will be heads? 50%.
But what are the odds of flipping a coin 8 times and getting heads each time?
1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2 = 1/256 |
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