i mean if a guy at my poker table is choking i'll take a short break to give him the heimlich. but i can't do nothing about no heart attack. if i was carrying nitro i would give him a couple but idk why i would have those.

I don't know what tables Beale plays at but all the times I've played live people mostly were pleasant or didn't talk that much lol

At most people, including myself, would try to rattle one another without being mean.

I suppose that you've never seen it happen. The medics show up and they need room so the chairs get pushed out of the way and they start their examination before hauling the person onto the gurney. Depending on location TWO games might stop. Most of the players are stuck and there's only ONE thing that they want: The next hand. They might not admit it but watch how pissed off they get when someone looking at his device takes 10 seconds extra to act. Now make that a half-hour.

lol never had the pleasure

Live poker sounds like so much fun, and by fun I mean AIDS.

*politely asks heart attack vic to not splash the pot*

Regarding the first part you are right when it comes to studies/facts and reason based counter-argument and I perhaps should've taken more time to think it over and mention that. But there's also various predictable derogatory/ personal remarks that a woeful number of posters feel compelled to make.

As to the second part: Bad read. I'm very outgoing and hilarious. I have a high opinion of myself. I know what's going on as if I can read people's minds and I am a very stable genius.

You'd like me in person for sure.

i've heard stories of guys at the backjack table blowing their brains out. honestly if i was sat next to a guy that did that i would pocket my chips and walk to another table. or probably go home, i think that's a sign to go home plus i don't play blackjack. but what do you think i should do? should i stay and pray over the body? it sounds normal to not want to deal with other people dying around you. sorry i'm not mother theresa, howard. SORRY

You're ignoring the numerous good points made against Mason's article and focusing on the derails. In doing so, you're turning this into another derail.

You should see what happens at Talking Stick if a single.drop.of.blood hits the rail: Everything stops and someone from housekeeping dressed in a semi-hazmat suit w/ rubber glove scrubs away w/ terrible to the smell obv special blood killing chemical plus the medic to apply bandages to the bleeder. And does the bleeder ever leave the game? No, he does not leave the game and all he wants is one thing and that is the next hand.

nice

YOU should show the affected person your collection of avatars. That'd perk up most of the men and some of the women. I might as well tell you that I never skip by a post of yours. I always take a peek.

Yeah, but a more fun derail. You ppl are pretty much done w/ Mason anyway, let's turn this into a discussion of whether or not poker players are scummy at least when they're at the table and what to do if the player next to you keels over.

Which amongst you is up for mouth-to-mouth w/ the 75 y.o. man w/ 6 teeth?

Pretty sure current guidelines say to just do compressions, no mouth to mouth, so we're off the hook

Good, bec I would've been in a tough spot as was Tonto:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto were camped out when The Lone Ranger went to relieve himself in the woods and got bit by a rattler on the tip of his penis. He came running back to camp:

'Tonto, Tonto, I got bit by a rattler on the tip of my penis!'
'We go town Lone Ranger see medicine man.'
'I'm took weak to ride. You gallop into town and ask the doc what to do.'

Tonto see medicine man and ask what to do. 'You have to suck out the poison, chief. Suck out the poison.'

Tonto return to Lone Ranger. Lone Ranger asks what's going to happen. Tonto say 'medicine man say you going die.'

It turned out that sucking poison out doesn’t help a snakebite

You used Facts against Mason and Trump.

It's not very effective...

https://www.economist.com/news/unite...k-whats-matter

Mason, you're hard wired for trickle down, it's all theory/guesswork after all, fair enough. As such it's quite easy to be in denial as to the extent Republicans hurt all poker players with the surreptitious UIGEA process.

Your Republican Trickle-Down team has Sheldon Adelson as captain. You should know this, they regularly pay fealty in Vegas during election season, and are rewarded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. And together they continually strive to financially harm you, your family, and your charity to enrich themselves(congressman by keeping their jobs, and Sheldon by keeping out the competition). How about spending time opining in your magazine about the scumbags in charge actively hurting your readers for their own personal gain; maybe rethinking your predilictions that gave you this lousy article idea and not soliciting musings from your readers on the wonders of Trump for poker.

Unless you're the President.

It's grandmother, and this is you in a thread titled "If your own grandma was on the felt across from you?"

But what if I start a business and invest all my money into it (as I did). Are you saying that I should be guaranteed success? And if I wasn't successful my personal results would have been below minimum wage.

As for my personal opinion on a minimum wage, Milton Friedman did propose a negative income tax, and it's my opinion that would be a better approach.

Do you always insult people who have a different point of view from you?

MM

I was being honest. Some of these others aren't.

Actually I'm not wired for trickle down at all and question whether it even exists. But what does in my opinion clearly exist is "pull up."

As a specific example, one of the reasons I was able to start a successful publishing company over 30 years ago was the fact that there were computer programs like Microsoft Word and Word Perfect which allowed me to do certain types of work which only a few years earlier I wouldn't have been able to afford. So were these programs part of the trickle down process or did they allow myself at a relatively small expense to pull up.

MM