http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...?currentPage=1

this is a very interesting yet disturbing read about the long term effects of playing football.

excerpt:

"For the past five seasons, Guskiewicz and his team have tracked every one of the football team’s practices and games using a system called HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head. Using the HITS data, Guskiewicz was able to reconstruct precisely what happened each time the player was injured.

“The first concussion was during preseason. The team was doing two-a-days,” he said, referring to the habit of practicing in both the morning and the evening in the preseason. “It was August 9th, 9:55 A.M. He has an 80-g hit to the front of his head. About ten minutes later, he has a 98-g acceleration to the front of his head.” To put those numbers in perspective, Guskiewicz explained, if you drove your car into a wall at twenty-five miles per hour and you weren’t wearing your seat belt, the force of your head hitting the windshield would be around 100 gs: in effect, the player had two car accidents that morning. He survived both without incident."

Helmets and pads make the game MUCH, MUCH, more dangerous.

if when they top off the regs sit out vs them it would appear as if their tricked was working!!

It should be noted that that garbage Giants defense scored me -4 fantasy points last week.

to the biggest ****ing fish i haveever ****ing playesd in teh ****ing world


Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players
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BTN/SB: $78.65
Hero (BB): $44.35

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 3 3
BTN/SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5, BTN/SB calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.00) 3 9 T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB checks

Turn: ($10.00) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $4, BTN/SB raises to $12, Hero raises to $39.35 all in, BTN/SB calls $27.35

River: ($88.70) Q (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $88.70
BTN/SB shows 5 5 (three of a kind, Fives)
Hero shows 3 3 (three of a kind, Threes)
BTN/SB wins $88.20
(Rake: $0.50)

Bet the flop. Bet the turn alot bigger.

I would guess he's going for a check/raise because the guy is a mega spaz

i quit
seriously


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Hero (BB): $89.65
BTN/SB: $45.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with A A
BTN/SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5, BTN/SB calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.00) T 8 Q (2 players)
Hero bets $7.50, BTN/SB raises to $40.50 all in, Hero calls $33

Turn: ($91.00) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($91.00) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $91.00
Hero shows A A (three of a kind, Aces)
BTN/SB shows K Q (a straight, Ace high)
BTN/SB wins $90.50
(Rake: $0.50)

Hey question for you heads up guys. When you are playing what is presumably a fishy player who has one of those increasing aggression factors by street i.e. it's close to 0 on flop, and infinite on the river, do you find your own aggression factor is the exact opposite i.e. very high on flop and close to 0 on river? This happens to me but I don't know if it's abnormal.

ufff.

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Hero (BB): $19838.00
UTG: $835.00
CO: $12119.50
BTN: $2784.00
SB: $3945.00

Pre Flop: ($30.00) Hero is BB with A 3 A K
UTG raises to $70, CO calls $70, 2 folds, Hero raises to $290, UTG calls $220, CO calls $220

Flop: ($880.00) T 6 A (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO checks

Turn: ($880.00) 6 (3 players)
Hero bets $507.00, UTG folds, CO raises to $1680, Hero calls $1173

River: ($4240.00) J (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $3840.00, Hero calls $3840

Final Pot: $11920.00
Hero mucks A 3 A K
CO shows 6 5 2 6
CO wins $11917.00
(Rake: $3.00)

at least you didnt go broke here, nice job i guess?

gross pfunk :\

***** for grimming me medhockey

why do you just call on the river? you have the second nuts. the only hand that's beating you is quads.

Because they are 6BI deep? I would think a fold is better then a raise

thats ploooooooooooooough

PLO man, what worse hand is bet/calling the river?

Full Tilt Poker $2000.00 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hero (BB): $19838.00
CO: $12119.50

probably thats why

I gots 1k of Cake and want 1k of something else (preferably FTP, UB/AP, or Stars). Anybody interested?

loooooooool i stil can't believe you wrote this!!!

obv american football is more brutal than soccer, but to make a sport a good sport, don't need to be brutal. anyway, discuss about soccer w/ americans remember me discuss about poker w/ my mother


about f4zi, i think he is bad player, over agroo and spew. but at that time i don't think he is a douche bag. i played w/ him 5/10 deep 4tabling last year and i remember he had very good etiquete, he did good things like tell me 20min before leave etc. (and he was down a lot)

so i think its strange for him doing what he did w/ you. anyway, since he did what he did vs you, i changed my mind and now i am sure he is a douche bag.

btw, pretty sick hands. =/


i used to do this a lot. at ftp/stars doens't work because ****** tableratings.com **** ****!! but at smaller sites which tableratings.com doens't track, its a very good strategy. i love sit w/ 74,15bbs and open limp first hands, then raise 5bbs on 2nd hand OTB, or mini re raise pre flop.

i traped the biggest bumhunt ever doing this. hahaha i felt so nice for doing this vs that big bumhunter. its funny, they think they are playing w/ some fish and they have no idea i will kill them. plus, its so easy destroy a reg (even a good reg) when they think you are a random fish and actually you are a good reg. i do this because if i sit w/ 100bbs and raise OTB my first 5buttons, 99% of chances villain will sit out. as someone said, we did try something if its impossible to get action.

edit: thatpunk, nh. for people asking why he didn't shove on river, its simple, its because if villain isn't brain dead, he won't call a shove w/ TTxx.

QFT

Lets say playing 2/4 you 3bet to $40 after a $12 open.

Standard 4bet would be to ~$96-104 or something like that.

What should we 5bet to if we were 250bb deep lets say.

It seems as if we 5bet, ive seen alot of people 5bet so small and i never really understood it. Shouldnt we be making it like $220?

I played f4zi HU at 3/6 recently, and his style is terrible. How does he still have $. I thought he was very good until I played him.

guy must be brain dead to not figure out you are a reg...sure the first few hands he's going to think you're a fish, when you stop playing fishy he should realize you are not a fish.

Speaking of braindead