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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 1:44pm Post subject: Some Poker Grammar ... a motivational speech
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Season I
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Posts: 2360
WPP: 74
Location: Dallas, TX
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There's a post in another forum that contains these lines:
"Oh great... I folded a straight flush"
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"Oh great... this time I folded four of a kind"
Now I didn't read the hand histories at first and I thought "How stupid! Why would you fold a straight flush!?!"
(This speech is full of sarcasm)
Everyone knows what actually happened: X folded some cards that would've become a straight flush, quads, etc.
You hear the word "would've" a lot from beginning playes (the guy in that thread actually wasn't a beginner, but whatever). If you catch yourself thinking like this, try to entertain these possibilities too:
If opp had not had a ten, I WOULD'VE won that hand.
If opp had stopped all of a sudden and said "I found Jesus and will never gamble again. Here, take all my money", then I WOULD'VE taken all his money.
If Greta Garbo had come back from the dead, looking really fit, and offered to take me in the back room, I WOULD'VE got laid or something.
"Would've" indicates the conditional tense. For talking about reality, use the future tense.
If you call big bets with crap cards, you WILL lose money. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 2:05pm Post subject:
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 04 May 2004
Posts: 1887
WPP: 103
Location: Kansas City
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 2:14pm Post subject:
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The Greatest American Hero
Joined: 04 Dec 2003
Posts: 5241
WPP: 91
Location: facebook.com/xianti
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Excellent.
It's like I tell my newbie friends...
I don't care at all how a folded hand would've played out. I only care about my long-term winnings. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 2:31pm 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 don't know how much: would have, should have or could have pays..... However, I pretty well know how much I will lose by playing crap hands - exactly what I bet. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 3:32pm Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 1277
WPP: 105
Location: Drowning in prosperity
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Those thoughts are the exact thoughts that cause recreational players to see nearly every flop and limp with AKs (which they think of as a drawing hand).
Thing is, we all have those thoughts. Consider that fishstick (who seems like a pretty good player) asked a similar question about folding JJ when two opponents held overpairs but a J showed on the river.
When you can make the right play and not worry about the results, you have reached a high state of poker existence. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 4:14pm Post subject:
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Flush
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 313
WPP: 124
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| I guess people like saying these comments either b/c they are newbies are like to rant about what could of been to take away some pain of the loss |
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