Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Always a good post when redietz talks out his ass about things he believe he understands... but hey he was back in LV way way way back whenever but doesn't have a single damn story worth telling.

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Sorry. I was just referencing a Doug Polk piece from 72 hours ago. I'm sure account has a more erudite, authoritative, and knowledgeable take than this:




I think the chart about the 11 minute mark spelled it out clearly enough that even I understood the domino effect of the legislation. Unless, of course, account has brought his fine mind to bear and has a more sophisticated assessment.
You barely know the rules. Weirdly enough last time I ran into Doug some time ago - he came up happy to see me shaking my hand. I am not saying we are great friends or anything but the guy respects my troll game. 100%

Anyway you're not worth arguing anything over. Sorry Charlie. Only thing worth arguing about is whether you have enough of a clue to argue over. Lolz

Translation: I know nothing, but everything I said was more or less correct despite my knowing nothing. Otherwise, if I had been wrong about something, account would have actually explained how I was wrong.

Polk's chart says it all pretty clearly. Once this kicks in, anyone playing tournament poker can tell themselves all the grandiose narcissistic stories they want. The bottom line is that this legislation has magically transformed large numbers of good poker players from (and God, I hate these braindead labels) "sharps" to "squares."

The question is whether they will acknowledge that they are now "squares" playing a purely donation game with a clearly negative "EV," or if they will find a way to talk themselves into the fantasy that their poker skills still provide some kind of tournament edge, while top professionals will argue that such an edge has clearly evaporated.

Let the addicts' cognitive dissonance begin! Sit back and grab the proverbial popcorn. More than 99% of tournament poker players are now inarguably saps unless they are being sponsored. How will accepting this fact of life affect the "poker community?" Will tournament poker actually suffer, or will all those folks who want to pretend they are winning poker players work harder to delude themselves? How can tournament poker players argue that what they are doing is "+EV?" They cannot. It's going to be comical, because the people who are going to argue most that tournament poker is now simply a donation mill are going to be the very best players.

To put it bluntly, if you are going to argue that tournament poker players have an edge because they are ahead, you may as well argue that winning lottery players have an edge because they are ahead.