Re: [ba-poker] RGPM: Moderator Selection - Call for Volunteers

["David S. Heller" <david(deleted the rest)>]

Andy:  You're a brilliant guy, and I love you, man.  But...

I write for a living.  I'm right, the dinosaurs are wrong, and normally you
don't use a preposition to end a sentence with.  <Note use of irony there>
It leads to exactly this kind of awkward, funny sounding phrase that just
needs to be repaired.  You can use a preposition to end a sentence when it
is absolutely necessary.  As Churchill once observed:  "That is the kind of
pedantry up with which I shall not put."

OB poker

Q:  In normal life, all-in preflop wins in one of two ways:  either
everybody folds and you win what's in the pot, or you get called and you
still have a chance to win.  In these games, someone goes all-in preflop the
first hand almost every time, and I have yet to see them steal even once.
At least one person, and usually about three, call.  So there is essentially
no chance that everybody folds, and against several players even AA wins
less than 50-50, doesn't it?

But if you are patient, the fools eliminate themselves, and I find I can
just about guarantee myself a money finish if I am patient.

My overlay might be better if I were better at playing as the big stack with
small blinds at the "final table".  As it is, I'm not finding it makes that
much difference, but that's probably my fault.  One miscalculation and
somebody's even with you.  And the blinds are so small they aren't too much
of a factor, i.e., nobody's under much pressure to make a stand.

Any suggestions on how to be the big stack under these conditions?