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To: Solon who wrote (47022)

2/21/2014 11:59:10 AM

From: koan

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I can give you an exception which imperils the generalization.

Not every great poker player is a "left". And you know damn well that a consistently winning poker player has to be relentlessly honest and free of myth or any impaired thinking. If a canoe fights a ship it will lose. The guy in the canoe cannot lie and survive. But it is because they do lie that you and I can have really good poker nights!>>

I don't accept the premise a good poker player must be free of myth. Most of the old time good poker players were religious e.g Doyal Brunson. I think myth can be compartmentalized where Poker is concerned.

Poker is a game of knowledge mostly. Just a few years ago I took the winter off and made my living playing poker. I am an OK no limit player, but limit is where I have the edge and I win 4 out of 5 nights. I have played all my life and earned a lot of my college money playing low ball in San Jose area in the 60's.

I played a lot of my games at the Oaks in Berkeley. I was playing $30/$60 and $50/$100 mostly. I won 14 days in a row. I was playing against a lot of the geniuses at UC Berkeley.

Where I got them was in my general knowledge of the game and the bluffing. It was like they were blind and could not see what I was doing, which was pushing them around. I had more and better software. I am sure they all had better hardware than I.

I can only play about 14 days in a row and then I must take a week off and rest my mind. I would travel back up through Eugene and Portland where my two daughters are and then play the $20/$40 game at diamond Lil's.

I did win $35,000 playing a no limit tourney on poker Stars, but am too old to learn the game really well.

When I would get to Eugene my younger daughter was still at the university and rooming with other kids poorer than her. I always had $3,000 or $4,000 on my in hundreds at any given time so I would take them all out to any restaurant they wanted and let them order any thing they wanted.

I have two very nice girls. Sweet and self actualized.