4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 2,361
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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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