A mate of mine was trying to get in to see The Who at Leicester Polytechnic once by climbing over the fence, when Pete Townshend passed him and said something like “It’s ok mate, I’ll get you in”, and did.
When the band came on he swears Townshend saw him and gave him a small nod.
Was going to post something like that. You’re pretending to get something productive done when you make the slides. People are pretending to get something productive done when they watch your presentation. Rule of thumb is to make it look good enough that you’re not making it obvious that the whole thing is a farce.
With a difference that big, my first thought is false positives in the antibody tests. I know the article leads with ‘accurate’, and I know it’s becoming more plausible this was circulating earlier than we’d all thought, but that’s just a crazy figure imo. How accurate are the tests, and who says so, does the article say?
depends on the experience. Even pros won’t come back if you’re forced to wear a mask and have plexiglass everywhere. 4 handed play is also just not a good poker experience. But, you’re a fool if you don’t think there are home games running everywhere right now full of casuals and pros.
I did this to Samuel L Jackson once on the streets of St Andrews (in Scotland). He returned the nod. Probably the best thing I’ll ever do.
The government did a similar test with a larger sample size but selection bias and cheap tests made in the CR prevented it from being representative of the population. This study used a more representative sample with more expensive tests developed in Germany to get their results.
I’m sure the final report will acknowledge the study’s shortcomings and likely state that a replication study will need to be done to confirm their results.
Nice plexiglass
Too bad every person is touching every card
I just don’t get the current poker scene. All the money is in side games and the most critical skill in being a poker pro now appears to be buddying up to suckers, or something.
I once noticed an actor who played the thug in Citizen Smith, a British TV sitcom of the 70s, on his own at the bar in the pub where I was with a few friends watching some bands.
I went to get a round in and asked him tongue-in-cheek if I’d seen him on TV or the stage because he looked familiar. He looked pleased, puffed up his chest a little and said he’d been in some productions of Shakespeare at the Old Vic or w/e, and I might have remembered him from there.
I continued to look unsure, and then feigned a flash of clarity as I exclaimed to him “Oh I know, you played Wolfie Smith’s sidekick in Citizen Smith, didn’t you?”
Not so pleased any more lol.
Where is PETA to save all these animals being tested with vaccines?
That’s the way poker used to be. Doyles major skill was not getting fatally shot. 2002-2008 was a major aberration in the history of poker. Just watch rounders. Half of that movie is them tricking their way into soft games.
Can not wait for the federal government to start raiding shipments of black market vaccines in order to protect the profits of big pharma. 2021 will be quite a year
Its a lot of it. Your whales in a lot of areas just want to drink more than allowed in most casinos (for poker anyway) and sometimes want to increase the stakes as played. In my area rn there are multiple home games like this and a bros set up around a guy who is basically a billionaire (and almost definitely going to jail soon for being a mini Epstein).
I’ve traveled a lot for poker, but there was an 18 month stretch where a home game was right by my house. 2/5/10 PLO with some top pros, but a ton of whales. Any alcohol you’d want was provided. Dudes wife made a 4-5 course meal every night at like 1 AM. Just much better than any casino experience you could ever have.
I don’t remember the guy’s name, but someone on 2p2 had great stories about getting into high stakes games with gangsters in Korea.
I get the appeal, but poker players are huge scumbags and cheating / robbing / scamming is guaranteed without the enforcement mechanism of either violence or a gaming commission.
The underground poker room in ME at which I sometimes play is preparing to open with a whole list of new policies (e.g. reserved seats only, cleaning cards/chips/chairs every half- hour, masks required, no more than 8 to the table, temperature checks, etc.).
I can’t imagine they would strictly maintain these new policies for more than a couple of days, if even for that long.
This stuff is never the main concern about home games really. The main concern is always that too much credit gets doled out, then players can’t get paid. That’s how great games die. Robberies/theft/“bad” cheating rarely happens. Soft playing is obviously a thing in most home games, but I don’t really count that as cheating unless it is really bad.
Twice in a casino setting I’ve had players go all in and run away from the table when shown a better hand, definitely has never happened in a home game!
Yeah the important poker skills in order are
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