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

[Jerrod Ankenman <jankenman(deleted the rest)>]

Ron Morgan wrote:

> Except the "dollars" you're playing with in low buy-in online 
> tournaments are not real dollars, you get 800 play dollars for your 
> buy-in. Eventually the tourney winner has 8K play dollars to win $50. 
> This is why you get 9 or 10 all-ins on the first hand, because no one 
> thinks they're playing with real dollars. In large part the folks with 
> the larger capacity to suspend disbelief, and pretend that they're 
> winning and losing real money stand the best chance of winning these 
> tourneys since they make better poker choices.

Such as calling all-in with AA on the first hand.

> It's been my experience in these low buyin tourneys that more often than 
> not the winner of a first hand all-in orgy doesn't hold onto their big 
> stack long enough to last deep into the game, having lost it in further 
> hair-brained all-in bets.

Is your contention that if you do in fact call all-in on the first hand, 
you will be possessed by the spirit of InDomitableR00ler and be unable 
to prevent yourself from losing your 5-6x starting stack?

Jerrod Ankenman