I don't blame arci one bit for making something else up on the go....and getting caught again doing it. After all, what else does he have left? Stimulation comes in many forms. I suspect that because today's Sunday, the missus thinks he's off to church asking for forgiveness (which should take quite some time). But where do you think he REALLY IS....

Where he took his latest wrong turn was in waffling between a term he previously would never use in describing anything about advantage play--the short term--and his misguided belief that it is all one lifelong term. Over the years I've found that the longer I've explained and discussed how we all only and always play in individual, unrelated short term bursts, all the so-called and self-proclaimed gurus & experts eventually find themselves doing exactly what arci has done here: they start talking in common sense, then either catch themselves and are ashamed for going out of character, or get reminded by another embarrassed party--and become predictably defensive. One of my discussions with Mike Shackleford provides another good example.