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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Madharry who wrote (106839)	1/11/2007 10:55:11 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Human nature is human nature and whiners will always be with us. When I was in high school, I used to play tennis against sore losers all the time. The only time I won, it was "luck." <G> I think an obnoxious winner, though a horrible person, is more natural than a sore loser. In poker, a lot of folks don't understand the idea of stack betting. It happens all the time in tournaments. The other guy has aces or kings or some other great pocket pair, and the big stack, who has 10 times as much money, calls his all in with Jack/8 or something. Then sucks out. Then, the loser tells the winner what a rotten player he is. No, he's not. The chance to knock a player out and climb up the payout rungs is worth the relatively small loss if the big stack loses. The losers never seem to get that concept.