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Apologies to my regular readers for my extended absence - work had dragged me to the US of A for a week and I have been a poker free zone except for a couple of hours today and yesterday. Good hours though :-)
Scanning through cardplayer.com I found a most stunning article by Dan Negreanu. Check out his latest one and see what you think. I don't want to comment on it directly and spoil your fun, but it did remind me of how idolised he is on the Internet, and how contrary his public, recorded, actions are to that image, self-promoted or not. I do believe that he is probably a nice guy to have a beer with, and certainly an excellent poker player, but like a lot of people with exceptional gifts matched with exceptional egos, he believes that "I'm in the right, now what's the question?" Anyone with a memory and knowledge of rgp over 3-5 years can see that his integrity is certainly up for question. It's nice to see him revert to type in this article.
There are two diseases rampant on the Net - Doyle Disease and Stuey Syndrome. Doyle Disease is the mindless idolisation of people whom you have never met and know almost nothing except Nth hand hype; Stuey Syndrome is the firm belief that you can play any cards and out think and outplay any opponent as the reincarnation of Mr S Ungar himself. One is embarrassing, the other is costly. You are who you are. If you start from that, you've got a chance.
"Everywhere you go, there you are"
8 comments:
Ouch. That's not very nice. Let's just be grateful it didn't happen on camera or we'd have everyone trying it in their poxy £5 tournaments the next day. For anyone who's interested, by the way, I'm pretty sure that Dave is referring to DN's Party Poker Million Part One article, which is currently the second most recent on the Cardplayer site.
As for Doyle's disease, do you still lurk around the Mob Forum ? Harry D must be a terminal case !!
Andy.
I am not really somebody who spends a great deal of time worrying about big name poker players and know very little about most of them. I was a little suprised to read the article as I know many of my friends seem to rate Daniel as a great advert for poker. The article didn't really fit in with this image ;-) At least hes being honest about it though.
steveyboy
Can we have the link for the Dan Negreanu article cant seem to finf it !
thx Andy
p.s. great site
Not sure how to post a link in a comment but try this :
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=14117&PHPSESSID=60f8651c0e75fe736906d1b37f95cb60
Meanwhile today I was trying to think of a name for the syndrome where the guy analysing his hand afterwards always knew exactly what his opponent held all along. "Ah yes because I put him on AK you see". Hellmuth Hysteria or something, except that's terrible :-)
Andy.
I can't see that he's done much wrong here. All the other player had to do was roll over his cards. I don't have sympathy for people who don't turn their cards over when they are in doubt. Years of waiting for ages while people look at their cards for the umpteenth time at the showdown on the river has made me immune to feeling sorry for them when they throw in a winner.
DY
My table ettiquette has sometimes been questioned but mainly because of the moodies i sometimes use, Its got to the stage now that if i reraise and say " I will gamble with you" everyone folds expecting me to turn aces over (can be quite useful obviously). My main pet hate about poker is slowrolling your hand- It drives me crazy and is one sure way a player will get me targeting him. Why doesnt everyone turn their hand over after the river and betting is complete? I hate the way some players turn one card over at a time to give you false hope. Keep up the good work Dave I am enjoying these posts.
ARISTON
Maybe Hellmuth Hindsight
chaos
Ariston
Completely agree with you...especially when playing stud and they spend forever squeezing out the river card - it drives me mad! The least improvement would be in stud competitions to force you to turn your cards over when all-in but I guess I'm dreaming.
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