Frank,

First of all...thank you for sharing so many personal things with the group. You have always been fair with me and I have a ton of respect for your leadership with the forum.

One thing I would like to know is how fast you type. I don't know many your age that can jam out long responses like you. Do you whip through it in a couple minutes or are you hunting and pecking?

Mike

Thank you. And I appreciate you and your wisdom.

I have no idea.

I don't hunt and peck, but I don't exactly remember where all the keys are either. I think my fingering is generally correct, but I mistype a lot. Just now, I looked down at the keyboard to see where the "-" is. I also looked down for the double quotes. And in typing that last sentence, I missed three letters and had to do some backspacing. Sometimes I remember where the non-letter symbols are better than other times. I do a lot of cutting and pasting, words and groups of words. Just then I looked down to see where the "g" was (twice, and I typed "we" for "see" and I looked to see where the quote sign was twice and I also missed some other letters and redid them.

I used to play the piano. I could play with my eyes shut, including replacing a hand correctly after leaving the keys. I can usually hit the backspace or delete key correctly without looking. I had to look down just then to see where the period is. I couldn't do this (type) without wearing my glasses.

I read the above paragraph and added the word "key" in my proofreading.

I hope you'll do a "Getting to know Pred" thread.

(I like that... it rhymes).

Buzz

Hi Buzz,
Enjoying the thread.
Just wanted to say, thanks for your patient responces to my beginners questions - I posted some hands I played on some of the other forums (NL holdem etc) and sometimes the responses can be blatently rude. On this forum I feel I can ask for advice or post poorly played hands without ending up feeling stupid - your responses in particular; thanks

I just have one stupid question. What does meh mean?

Meh is an interjection, often used as an expression of indifference or boredom. It can also be used as a verb (rendering something uninteresting, boring or useless to the beholder) and an adjective (meaning mediocre, boring, or apathetic).

Thanks for clearing that up

As another newcomer to this forum I could not agree more. The responses from you and most other posters in this forum are very thought through and helpful.

You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words.

meh=shrug. I should stop using it if it isn't clear to everyone.

Here's a link that may make it clearer.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh

I hope you'll do one of these threads in the not too distant future.

Buzz

english is my 2 language and it was clear to me

What is your "requirements" system? Or is there another thread where that is already discussed?

Buzz,

Thanks for all the posts over the years. They have been amazingly valuable for someone who plays and enjoys the game from a recreational level as well. I often have some very intelligent and strong poker playing friends who start to play Limit O8. They are probably semi-pros in sng, NLHE cash, mtt, mix games, etc...

Is there a test or set of questions that could gauge their current knowledge level of Limit O8? Many of them like to know quickly where they are so they can begin to work on the leaks in their games. Most people intuitively know that chasing a backdoor low heads up is a lot different than 5 way in a raised pot pf but that is a very basic question.

What kind of questions/scenarios would be a good quiz?

Again, if you could ever harness and compile all this info that you have posted over the years into a volume, it would be the O8 bible!

PierreFermat

It's a system I used more than ten years ago. My approach to Omaha-8 has improved since I used that basic system. The "requirements system" was basically a "fit or fold" system where the requirements to play varied with the particular type of flop.

There's considerable truth to "fit or fold" but you do better if you think a level or two higher and play your opponent rather than your own cards.

I might have written about it in another thread somewhere. If I did, it was back before the old Omaha forum split into the two forums, Omaha-high and Omaha-8, and even before the old Omaha forum split off from the Other Games forum.

I have trouble searching this forum for anything. I do better using Google. 2+2 forums used to have a system that had a better search engine, but there were apparently some problems with that system handling the volume of posts on the 2+2 forums. At least that's my understanding of it.

At any rate, there are elements of the requirements system in my overall approach to the game today, but I would not advocate playing the way I played ten years ago, which, admittedly, was more oriented to how the cards in my hand meshed with the flop than with estimating what my strong opponents are doing, based on what they think I'm doing. (I don't know if that makes sense to everyone reading this).

Thanks for responding and I hope you'll host a getting to know daveopie thread in the near future.

Buzz

You're welcome. Thank you for the kind words and for responding to this thread.

Not that I know of. A diagnostic test designed to measure one's knowledge and pinpoint areas of weakness seems a good idea to me. I don't know if anyone has developed such a tool for Omaha-8 or not.

I imagine some coach or coaching service has developed such a tool for Texas hold 'em, but I don't specifically know of one. Interesting idea.

I haven't thought about it. From my perspective, developing such a diagnostic test would take considerable effort. There's really quite a lot involved in Omaha-8 play on the expert level. You at least have to be a good poker player, a good card reader, you have to know the game of Omaha-8 well, and you have to know what to expect from your Omaha-8 opponents. (I easily might have omitted something).

Interesting idea, though.

Thanks.

I hope you'll host a "getting to know PierreFermat" thread in the near future.

Buzz