This has got to be the dumbest article or web page or what ever it is... that I have ever read. This cat says some crazy BS about online poker and how it's impossible for anyone to actually come out ahead and more.... I just had to post it cuz I don't want to be the only one sitting here disgusted with such ignorance....lol
The Fallacy of Online Poker Gambling
I think Dum is spelled dumb..............could be wrong though
u picked up on that 2 huh...i never read the article i tried but got bored of the constant repetition in an attempt to make a pointQuote:
Originally Posted by Drywallman3
well yeahhhh I am not dumQuote:
Originally Posted by azreal1
she spells it right in the post... just not the title... typo nazi :)
ok ok we were having fun, she is cool
WHATEVER... I spelled it right both times, eh! I am not stoopid .....hahaha!
LOL.
I got this far:
" In the long-run though, the gambling "house" which operates the gambling website, will permanently win all the money from all of the players."
Definitely written by an idiot.
i didn't read all of this as its just gone 9am and i haven't slept yet. but the argument with the rake is bullshit. mid to low stakes can easily beat rake and a lot of players even make their profit solely from rakeback. max rake on pokerstars is what, $3? $3 deducted from a $100 pot really isn't gunna be noticeable by anyone. i think he's just bitter.
I wanted to email him and tell him how DUM he really is!!! People out there writing crap like that are bad for us. And it is crap... very little if any fact to it... ... and stuff like that probably discourages more than a few prospects........
Ha ha! I was thinking... whats the purpose of his pages, so I went back and BINGO!!! Right at the top of the page is a PAYPAL donation button!!! TOOOOOO Funny! (there I go misspelling again... ;0)
I'm sold, I Quit, anybody want the funds I've won, and my pts?
He probably got his bank roll taken and is now bitter and his wife is pissed and made him write the article...
This is from 2005. Maybe rakes were much higher then, but still, this is a load of bs.
This book was written by an addict. It is 344 pages of the same stuff. He originally was writing it as a daily self affirmation on why he needs to quit. He had to utterly convince himself that there was no chance that he could win or anybody could win. So if the rake doesn't get him it will be the RNG or bots or the site just draining you bank account. If you read it line for line it is just a constant reminder to himself that he can't succeed at it. Almost like reprogramming the mind.
I believe that he thinks that if some people are able to make money at the game that his ego won't let him quit. So instead he needs to train his mind that no one can beat the game. Now I am guessing it has become a crusade for him.
Like many things that people passionately crusade against he lives in the extremes. His rake example is completely ridiculous and shows that mindset. The author is not someone who can have a reasonable discussion about the subject. However, for his problem this is what he needed to do.
I see what you are saying deedbr... His book though is named Gambling Facts and Fictions: The Anti-Gambling Handbook to get yourself to stop gambling, quit gambling or never start gambling... yet how could anyone be saved from themselves with a book that is filled with lies that he claims are facts. For sure, anyone that truely needs to quit is someone that has experience and they will recognize the ideas he calls facts are self manufactured and many of them untrue. If a person needs to lie to themselves to be saved, so be it, but lying to the public is a whole other subject.
guy who wrote this is a dooooonk ...... :)
wow interesting articles i like the link to the other article better however i dont play cash tables and big mtt no im not worried about bots
he is just jealous and self-righteous did not read it all but read enough
Actually, I saw the boys spamming the thread with typo nonsense, so I edited the title. It was indeed "dumest" initially.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoldemSally
And the the article is sort of correct, "in theory". If 2 players sat and played heads up nonstop at a cash table, ever hand played that was raked takes money off the table from them, eventually wouldn't they get raked out of all the money they sat down with?
Not everyone is a fan of poker in general. A lot of nuts out there.
It would take tens of thousands of hands, especially since a pot has to reach a certain threshold before rakes are even taken, but in theory, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by MichMan