Around the Neighborhood
OK, so your neighbors drop over for coffee and to talk about the PTA meeting. Nice people and the conversation wanders a bit. His missus read something on the Internet and knows you as the neighborhood expert on the subject. How do you respond?
What she'd read was an article on the nose bleed play on Full Tilt. A fellow that lost almost a half-million admitted in the chat that it tapped him out. The article also talked about a single session where a player lost over 4-million.
Isildur1 started off playing “jungleman12” at $100/$200 no-limit hold’em. After Isildur1 booked a $471,000 win, jungleman12 confessed in the chat box that the match had busted his Full Tilt account.
Next up was Hastings, who sat with Isildur1 at four tables of $500/$1,000 pot-limit Omaha. Although Hastings started off the session losing $700,000, he quickly turned the game around. After what was admittedly a heaven-sent run of cards, the Full Tilt pro won an astounding $4,206,960 in 2,858 hands.
She'd also seen the Finance committee hearings on C-Span where Max Baucus ran his mouth sans brain about the horrors that allowing Internet poker would work on people. You know the crap he peddles about destroying youth and the weak.
OK, here's my question:
How do you explain all this to her?
I'd have a real problem. Many of the people we admire are inveterate gamblers. They make whore house size bets on silly props. They dump a ton at craps or the sports book in addition to supposedly being brilliant at using the skill portion of poker to operate in a supposed sane manner of making a living. Now we are seeing session that approaching or surpassing the lifetime income for many folks.
I'd probably mention that most of us aren't maniacs but play for the challenge with bankroll management being a significant part. I'd also hope she didn't stumble across blogs about what hoi polloi poker bloggers are saying about their plans for the WPBT.
If Baucus ever gets a brain, he'll go to PokerNews instead of the FBI for his dirt.
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