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From: "cheesy1012001" <steve@vease98.freeserve.co.uk>
Date sent: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:39:19 -0000
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: XVP-Texas Holdem
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "larsonsm" <larsonsm@y...> wrote:
Collusion is definitely a possibility. But it would be really easy
for the sites to track that - two players playing at the same table
regularly and making "strange" plays. I think it's in the sites
interest to keep the games as fair as they possibly can so they can
keep raking in the money so simply. That's been my experience at
least - I've had an easy time coming out ahead although for relatively
low stakes. To me that's the appeal - I enjoy gambling and for me
it's definitely a positive expected value game.
There was a hand in the 2003 WSOP final between Sammy Farha and Chris
Moneymaker where Moneymaker went all-in on the river with nothing
bluffing a club flush and Farha had a pair of nines and thought for a
looong time before folding. I was watching this on TV with a woman who
has little or no interest in gambling but when I told her 'if he calls
this he's the world champion, and 2.5 million dollars richer... but he
has no way to know that for sure' she started asking serious questions
about the rest of the hands they showed and even described it as
'thrilling' This is the sort of thing you can't really imagine with a
VP tournament. In fact I don't know why anybody in this group is even
bothered about VP getting any kind of publicity at all, look what
happened to Blackjack once the books started pouring out telling
everybody how 'easy' it is to win at,and consider that nobody is
falling over themselves to televise BJ tournaments??