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 Topic: American Idol Finale... |
griffinlord
Replies: 21
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 Forum: Player's Lounge Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:47 am Subject: American Idol Finale... |
All that said, I would have seen Kris go out 4th, not because I dislike him, but because I liked Allison and Danny a little more. I do think its the best collective top 4 ever so far on the show.
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| Topic: American Idol Finale... |
griffinlord
Replies: 21
Views: 368
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Forum: Player's Lounge Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:42 am Subject: American Idol Finale... |
Intolerance will only end when the human species dies out. Until then we'll merely cycle through the things we are intolerant of.
not so... your forgetting about Romulans and Klingons. they are ... |
| Topic: American Idol Finale... |
griffinlord
Replies: 21
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Forum: Player's Lounge Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:21 pm Subject: American Idol Finale... |
and i really hope adam being gay had nothing to do with the votes. because honestly i thought we were past this intolerance bs.
Is Adam out? I thought he might be gay, but I've never heard a conf ... |
| Topic: American Idol Finale... |
griffinlord
Replies: 21
Views: 368
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Forum: Player's Lounge Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:16 pm Subject: Re: American Idol Finale... |
WTF was that?
An excellent decision.
A lot of the votes for the 3rd and 4th place finishers went to the more mainstream singer, instead of the screamer.
Absolutely. Adam is pretty good when ... |
| Topic: Nothing but bad beats and coolers after cashing out |
griffinlord
Replies: 7
Views: 290
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:25 am Subject: Nothing but bad beats and coolers after cashing out |
| I learned a new word for this kind of variance: the Sports Illustrated jinx; get your pic on the cover of SI and pretty soon you stop being a hero and start to suck. (Well, maybe not suck, but you a ... |
| Topic: Odds of getting dealt the same hand simultaneously on two tables |
griffinlord
Replies: 15
Views: 638
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:14 am Subject: Odds of getting dealt the same hand simultaneously on two tables |
Can't do sigma notation here
x = number of tables
chance = 0
for( i = 1 to x-1 ){
chance = chance + i/1326
}
So if you played six hands at once, the odds that at least ... |
| Topic: Poker as a game of skill |
griffinlord
Replies: 12
Views: 1231
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Forum: Poker News Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:27 pm Subject: Poker as a game of skill |
The most informative part of the article:
Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Case Western Reserve University, conducted two poker-related studies with college students and published the resul ... |
| Topic: How do you know you should go to lower stakes? |
griffinlord
Replies: 9
Views: 1719
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Forum: Fixed Limit Strategy Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:48 pm Subject: How do you know you should go to lower stakes? |
You are considering this backwards: The correct question is how do you know if you are ready to move up stakes?
Playing at higher stakes for a session does not make that your regular game...your r ... |
| Topic: urgent help please |
griffinlord
Replies: 7
Views: 801
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Forum: Fixed Limit Strategy Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:34 pm Subject: urgent help please |
Jones book is a pretty good beginner book and it will take you from big loser to small loser or from small loser to small winner.
It has been a while, but I remember (re)learning about pot odds a ... |
| Topic: Is this a correct way of thinking? |
griffinlord
Replies: 2
Views: 400
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Forum: General Strategy Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:46 pm Subject: Is this a correct way of thinking? |
The way to think about these things is to think of yourself as the casino in a game such as craps.
In the short run the casino can lose a ton of money on a craps table, but in the long run they alw ... |
| Topic: bankroll management strategy for limit games |
griffinlord
Replies: 6
Views: 361
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Forum: General Strategy Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:38 pm Subject: bankroll management strategy for limit games |
| If you buy in for 25BB then you are placing 5% of your BR at risk per game with a 500BB roll. |
| Topic: Got my first rakeback today! |
griffinlord
Replies: 14
Views: 945
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:21 pm Subject: Got my first rakeback today! |
| So is there an option for long-time players to start getting rake back these days? |
| Topic: Illegality Of Online Poker? |
griffinlord
Replies: 17
Views: 677
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:14 pm Subject: Illegality Of Online Poker? |
| At least one State (Washington) has banned online poker. If you live in Washington it is clearly illegal for you to play. Not that the law is working any better than prohibition did, but at least the ... |
| Topic: Reply to srpromo |
griffinlord
Replies: 10
Views: 558
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:52 pm Subject: Reply to srpromo |
Now if the odds of a PP being dealt in a hand is 5%, I would think the odds would be a little lower for a 2nd PP to be dealt in the same hand... out of the 20 cards, 2 are gone as far as the PP goes ... |
| Topic: Reply to srpromo |
griffinlord
Replies: 10
Views: 558
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:41 pm Subject: Reply to srpromo |
The probability that YOU will be dealt a pocket pair is .0588, or about 6%. This is true no matter how many people are at the table.
At a 10 person table the probability of 1 or more pocket pairs ... |
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