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Originally Posted by lippy
My god, reading Bob's abhorrent distaste for spread limit is so great.
But, it is a comical, horrible game.
In fairness, I should point out that I have only played 1 hour of it (Tuesday 4-20 at RA) but it was exceptionally painful. There was one gentleman in the game wearing sunglasses, which pleased me. There were also two guys in the game who were writing down every hand that they played. One of them had a simple notebook, the other had a chart that he must have made on Word, with columns labeled "preflop", "flop", "read", and some other things that I cannot recall but were rather amusing.
Someone asked the guy with the notebook what the deal with the writing was, and was told "Well, he (pointing at the fellow with the customized hand recording sheet) enters them in a database at home. He does it for a living." This of course was too much for me and so I asked, "He enters poker hands onto a computer for a living?" I think this humored them. Not because they thought it was funny, for they had to have known I was being sarcastic, but because I think they felt that their little operation was on a level that mere mortals like myself simply could not understand. (I must admit that I did find their record keeping useful, for whenever I wondered what they were misplaying in a previous hand, I could just glance at their paper and it would be there in column 1 for me.)
The guy with the custom sheets felt that he needed to speak to his opponent before each action as if to get a read or who the hell knows what. The bottom line was that any time that this guy was in a pot the hand took at least 2 minutes. He apparently was a professional from LA but currently living in Vegas. 1 hour was enough to decipher that he was just horrible at this game. I laughed.