When I had the time, I enjoyed Dancer's articles on penalty card situations
but I realized that he was scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to
write about. To make it seem significant, he would state the penalty in absolute $
amounts. However, when the denomination played is considered, it is a small
fractional %. If you get obsessed with penalty cards, these are the REAL
penalties:
1. Unless you can play penalty card situations at normal speed, stopping to
think about what to play costs you in hands/hr.
2. The time you spend on penalty card situations is out of proportion to its
significance. The ROI on time spent here doesn't compare to the ROI on the
extra time spent checking your hold keys on hands with large potential payoffs or
time spent at the slot club finding out what the current promotions are.
3. If you like to correct people on penalty card situations, you'll win all
the Trivial Pursuit games but ostracize all your friends in which case you'll
have more time to develop that strategy card for JW4700 that you've always
wanted.
In a message dated 1/26/2004 6:41:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:04:50 -0800
From: Skip Hughes <skip-hughes@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Re: Penalty cards in JOB-any recommended reading???
<<<..... I credit Bob with doing
a great job in this regard. In his columns over the years, he has frequently
dealt with penalty situations, commenting on how much it will cost each time
you play one of them "incorrectly". The problem is, one needs to know how
often that situation will come up in order to know how much it will actually
cost you. Most people., I think, believed that when you add ALL those penalty
situations together they would make a really insignifcant difference.>>>
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