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Pastimes : Gamblers--can you make a living?
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To: Chas. who wrote (56)11/6/2005 12:15:59 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 113
 
"I've discovered that the more I play on a serious level the more conservative I've become"

There is absolutely no doubt. Good hands win more than bad hands! And BEST beginning hands win more than insisting on seeing the fold because you have two cards!

I talked to a guy the other day who deals and plays as well. He thought that great hands like pocket aces were bad because they could lose to flushes and straights. I did not tell him how foolish he was. I've heard the same nonsense from people in blackjack who THINK that splitting aces just makes it worse. They don't understand the concept.

Pocket aces won't always win. Many times one must fold them. But they are the best way to start!

I would love to know how it goes for you. For me it is a retirement concept. I had wanted to make a living through gambling probably 45 years ago. But the very concept is the ultimate in loneliness. I remember reading that very concept in a poker book in the sixties. It is long gone and forgotten--but the author commented that a poker hand was the ultimate in loneliness--and he had a picture of a man alone in a boat. Society tells us we are bad and that we are not supposed to get ahead so easily. It is hard to challenge the ocean when you are a mouse in a boat. But sc--w them!
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