I expected a lively discussion, and even arci's bevy of lies, hatred, misinformation & envy can't derail it. I guess he didn't win that bowling tournament yesterday, and we all know thanks to his camera and several awkward comments he probably wishes he could retract, that he really REALLY needed to win it

The easiest part of all this is arci's lie that using a special play lessens the chance I'll hit a win goal. Again, he's looking at the issue in a long-term setting, and he should know better than to assume any such analysis can be accurately applied to short-term play. This particular play may appear once or twice in a session, and how often are you going to get an opportunity like being dealt 3 aces? So if you don't take advantage of the opportunity, you have no chance of hitting the big hand. So obviously, YES, making that special play is the right thing to do--not in the 50-play setting Alan just mentioned--but always in a goal-oriented strategy where hitting the aces achieves a goal.

I wish I could continue the schooling of the AP's here like I've always done, but we have something more important to do that it seems the whining AP's have no clue about. It's something called LIVING, and we're headed down to Mammouth Lakes & Yosemite today and possibly overnight.

Enjoy all that wonderful downtime contemplating all that "could have been" arci