Always reminds me of a story I read back when I fooled around with this PUA stuff for a little while. This was like 7 or 8 years ago, but I still remember the story was entitled "The Iranian From Hell"

Just googled it cos it's quite a lol TR that supports what CQ is saying. Here's the link for anyone who wants to read.

http://www.fastseduction.com/guide/0.../iranian.shtml

I'm just being rational. Confidence can only go so far. Manboobs trump confidence.

No they don't, not much trumps confidence.. You'd **** a chick with a peg leg if she acted like it was made of gold.

lol

Sweet, hope you had a great time.

I agree if he was a star, but this kid played in a small comunitee collage, got lucky enough to get on with a pac 10 team his junior year, had one good season, then looked like crap last night. He could maybe get a walkon tryout, but I doubt any team would waste a draft pick on him. he really did need another impressive season to be considered imo.

you can pretty much play it like your in those positions off the button on a full table. Just pay attention to how others are playing because some will really lag it up, some won't.

Hey thanks Steve maybe i'll play in a mtt 6 man once in a while to change it up.

I don't follow college football nearly as close as I use to. I figured if he was starting at Oregon he must be ok. They were ranked although it looks like they won't remain there after last night's debacle.

I followed back in the 90s when Miami v FSU games were awesome. Also the west coast games were so much fun to watch. San Diego State and BYU would score 50 a game. This year I could only tell you that Florida is good.

You guys are so wrong on this. Being fat is a gigantic barrier. It doesn't matter how confident you are. Yes it's better if you are fat and you think the fat doesn't matter at all. But you still increase your chances much more by getting in shape. This is very very basic stuff that guys seem to like to completely delude themselves on for some reason.

Bull****.

It's pretty offensive to slander a group of people as being:

a) racists
and
b) thieves

with literally zero evidence to support the claim.

Further, the idea that PokerStars discriminate against Americans (or any other nationality) is truly preposterous. Let me put that to rest, by directing you to the results of the big tournaments online at:

http://mt.pokerstarsblog.com/cgi-bin...IncludeBlogs=1

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to show the results of the more recent big weekly tournaments, but I assume it is possible somehow.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/sm/

Look at who won the six largest tournaments that weekend (22 March):

Sunday Million - USA
Sunday Warm-Up - USA
Sunday 1/4 million - USA
Sunday 500 - USA
Sunday $215 PLO - USA
$320 NLH - Denmark
$215 5CD - USA
$215 PLO8 - Norway
$215 LHE - Germany
$215 8-game - USA
$215 NLHE 6-max - Netherlands
$215 NLHE Turbo - Brazil
$215 7CS - USA
$215 Razz - Germany (but chopped with guy from USA)
$109r NLHE - Denmark
$125k guaranteed - USA
$215 Single Draw - USA
$215 Mixed HE - UK
$215 NLHE - USA
Sunday Second Chance - USA
$109r NLHE - USA
$215 Horse - Denmark


Ed's article is pretty poor in that it ignores entirely reasonable points and that it is fundamentally wrong.

1) He argues that the fact that the rules on Triple Draw prevent the same card being recovered by the same player is evidence of the possibility of rigging. No it is not. It is evidence that the PokerStars server deals cards according to the rules of the game.

His suggestion that the situation with triple draw represents a flaw in the RNG is simply incorrect. Given the hyperbole about this issue in various discussions on the internet, this is unsurprising, and I can understand how he mistakenly formed this conclusion.

In all the games, PokerStars randomly shuffles cards, and then deals them according to the rules of the game. In Stud games, this means that if there are insufficient cards to give everyone their last card, then one card will be placed face up in the center of the table as a community card that all players use as their 7th card. That's just how the rules of the game dictates the cards be dealt.

In the case of 2-7 Triple Draw, in accordance with the rules that PokerStars operates under, once a reshuffle has occurred, the server will prevent a player from receiving back any specific card he has previously discarded. Thus, if you throw away the deuce of spades, it is impossible for you to receive the deuce of spades back on a future draw even if the discards have been re-shuffled into a new deck. That's just how the rules of the game dictates the cards be dealt.

This is not a flaw in the random number generator, but simply the implementation of a rule that some players might not be previously familiar with. Other such rule changes include our use of a forward-moving button in games with blinds (thus, there is never a dead button or dead small blind). Some live card rooms do it that way, and some card rooms use dead blinds. Throughout the history of poker, different games in different card rooms have had slightly different rules, which all adds to the richness of poker, in my opinion.

All that said, this rule change was implemented on the suggestion of many experienced players who actually play 2-7 Triple Draw. That was their recommendation, and PokerStars implemented it.

2) Despite pretending to offer a considered consideration of the topic, Ed simply raises reasons that it might be "possible" without even admitting the existence of the safeguards that prevent against this.

Some of the obvious safeguards against it are:

1) The regulation of an independent regulator, appointed by a democratically elected government.

2) The RNG audits that prove the RNG is fair.

3) The fact that there's not a single skerrick of evidence of non-random shuffling


The way that rigtards use the word "possible" to describe online poker being rigged is an abuse of the word "possible".

Like, it's "possible" that suzzer is a thief. I've seen no evidence ruling it out... but the way that our societies work is that before you accuse someone of "possibly being a thief" you have some evidence to support your accusation. It's all very well to investigate (as people should) but it's not fair to accuse hundreds of people of being complicit in a massive international fraud based upon racism and half-truths. That's not fair, that's not reasonable: it's offensive and wrong.

So we're off to Orlando and will try to get a room via priceline's bidding service.

We're planning on visiting (mostly) Universal parks. Which areas are reasonable to start bidding for hotel rooms (3 1/2 - 4 star)? We have our own car.

josem wins at life , so ownd

Me likey, and that's a severe understatement! nice page-saver imo.


Also, in after Josem owns.


And I have finally played 3 sessions without laptop freezing with HUD running, for the first time since June. Removed more programs from startup and also quite some services, and finally success...woooooeeeiiiiiii

It's not actually me that is very special at all: it's just that I'm on the side of the argument that is actually "right" in this instance.

One of the things that has really impressed me since working for PokerStars is the committment to integrity, from the most senior echelons of the management team on down. Obviously I'm biased, but at the same time, that bias gives me a special vantage point to be aware of the value, ethics and integrity of the PokerStars team.

Karp, stay in area 8, 1 3 or 9. Some of those areas like 2 and 11 are not very nice.

Crackedquads: Aside from what suzzer posted (pronounce that suh zer), I'll post doomswitched posts whenever I feel like it... which isn't very often. I'm not real concerned how it effects you, and your girlish "plz don't kill me" is getting a bit old as well.

Thank god for that.

Have fun Karp. I'm only an hour away if you need anything....

as long as it's not between the hours of 3:30pm until 7:30pm on Saturday obv.

I left Pokerstars, at least for the time being. One of the reasons was questions about integrity, which I believe is my right. However, I'm not going to come here and try to convince others to do so as well. Nobody wants to hear it.

Just saw a commercial advertising the First regular season Sunday.... I got the goose bumps... Good feeling.....Not cuz its football, but cuz TV sucks and i will now have something to watch on Sundays...

Since June 10th on just pokerstars.com

lol that's so awesome, kleath

haha. vn

My bets for this weekend:

Alabama -7
BYU +22½
Wake Forest -2½
Michigan -13
(149) Western Michigan vs. (150) Michigan Under 56
Colorado -10½

Kleath, you're obviously a losing player and Stars is trying to redistribute from the good to the bad.

damn. those are mtts, no? which sngs pay 25K?

Im really good @ 3 way deals in the 2100s