Comments: You Cannot Make Someone Fold

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Wow, that was one seriously awesome post.

yeah, great post Pyroxene!

Does this mean that I can break someone's wrists if they suck out on me?!?!!?

That story belongs on the front page, shit I think you could sell it to a poker magazine.

Originally Posted by Pyroxene

t3h st0ry

Originally Posted by Fnord

That story belongs on the front page, shit I think you could sell it to a poker magazine.

I have to agree, at the very least somebody should steal it out of this thread and sticky it somewhere.

Ask Hump to sticky it in the Beginner's Circle. Though, he's a neat freak and he wants to keep things tidy.

-'rilla

Excellent post.


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Originally Posted by Xianti

Excellent post.


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And it only took 9 months!

Good stuff, Pyroxene.

Bravo. Now fold douche. Awesome post.

Originally Posted by Pyroxene

In my 20's and early 30's I practiced an old, particular brutal martial art.

Man thats cool! Excellent post!

vnh

Originally Posted by dwarfman

Originally Posted by Xianti

Excellent post.


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And it only took 9 months!

Good stuff, Pyroxene.

9 months and two bumps! i already made xianti feel bad about it, i'm pretty sure he cried.

it definitely needed to be stickied. it's an amazing post.

So when is FTR going to publish FTR Poker Essays Vol. 1? I know there has been talk about something like that. Is it really that difficult to publish a compilation of essays like Malmuth's Poker Essays Vols. 1, 2 and 3?

Thanks Pyroxene, that was a great story. I added this thread to the right nav of the Beginner's Guide html section.

Very good post.

That situation is an exact analogy to some situations in chess.

Ever have someone say "Mate in 5" and you may think, "no one can see 5 moves ahead, the branching probabilites are damn near infinite"

But when you FORCE a move, it's easy . But you really aren't seeing 5 moves ahead. You are giving him 2-3 VERY necessary choices which lead to the final 2-3 true "mating" moves.

Originally Posted by SuperDave9x19

That situation is an exact analogy to some situations in chess.

Ever have someone say "Mate in 5" and you may think, "no one can see 5 moves ahead, the branching probabilites are damn near infinite"

But when you FORCE a move, it's easy . But you really aren't seeing 5 moves ahead. You are giving him 2-3 VERY necessary choices which lead to the final 2-3 true "mating" moves.

I mating moves

(sorry, couldn't resist ). Great post, Pyro. Knew I had seen it before! (At first I thought it was copied but then I realized it was teh old)

What an awesome story..........

Thank you

Syn

Great story.

I did the wrist lock thing at the casino when someone reraised me and I was thrown out of the casino haha

God - I still love this story. I read it at least once a month.

Wonderful - great read.

Originally Posted by deuces505

Great story.

I did the wrist lock thing at the casino when someone reraised me and I was thrown out of the casino haha

wtf....how nice

No where in that post does it say how much to bet to make someone fold.

BOOOOOO OVERRATED!!!

Why is it my opponents always choose to break their wrists? Then they end up breaking mine when they suckout??

Originally Posted by bigpokerfanatic

Why is it my opponents always choose to break their wrists? Then they end up breaking mine when they suckout??

Unfortunately you can't always get the wrist. Playing at lower stakes is not so much "go down or I'll break your wrist" it's more "go down or I'll seriously crinkle that shirt".


And I do like the idea of this story. Very interesting.

Although of course you CAN make people do stuff sometimes. Like if you pick them up and thrown the across the room you've pretty much taken their choices away.
(Unless you're going to say... "no, they could choose to learn to fly" ).

OUTSTANDING....Very profound I must say!

Nice story!

great!

why was it locked?

because comments go here

That post is theeee Shit.

vnh sir.

I need to print this out and put it on my wall to look at whenever I am about to play.

That story was insane it should definitely be published

Agreed, fantastic story.

It was one of the first things I read on FTR before I joined, and I must say, it's helped my game.

I have that line in big text on my wallpaper on the pc i play on.

I bt if you gave them a chioce of live if they do such and such or die if they didn't then 99.5 of the people would do such and such even if it was the wrong thing to do. Chioces are the way to alot of things freedom hell heaven and financial freedom all's you can do is choose the right chioce and see were it leads you but if you choose the wrong chioce you know were it will lead you 80-90% of the time it will lead you back steps in your progress instead of taking you forward to new highs.

Such a great analogy. I get goosebumps whenever I read this.

Originally Posted by triumphant cracker

why was it locked?

Before we had Digests, we used to sticky all the best posts and lock them, with a separate comments thread to keep the original post clean. Now that we collect everything neatly into Digests, we don't do that anymore.

Ideally, we should unlock ALL threads that have been added to Digests and let people comment in them so they can be properly rated.

But there are so many...

Excellent post..

awesome post i like asian kind to explain things a la konfuzius
edit:/ you must be like water my friend
if you fill water into the glass it becomes the glass

that's some deep stuff