Upon careful consideration, the worst play I've ever seen was a woman
playing .25 FPDW, dealt 456710 with a flush draw, held the TEN....
And of course, she got a royal. I was sitting next to her, down about
$300 after playing four hours of genuine Perfect Bob Dancer Optimal
Strategy. Being a lucky moron beats being an unlucky smart person ANY
ol' time.
A couple next to me were playing some terrible version of DB when they
were dealt a full house (AA444). After much talking they held only
the Aces and drew the other two! I just burst out laughing and
congratulated them.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"
<tralfamidorgooglycrackers@...> wrote:
Upon careful consideration, the worst play I've ever seen was a woman
playing .25 FPDW, dealt 456710 with a flush draw, held the TEN....And of course, she got a royal. I was sitting next to her, down about
$300 after playing four hours of genuine Perfect Bob Dancer Optimal
Strategy. Being a lucky moron beats being an unlucky smart person ANY
ol' time.
Although not exactly an example of dumbest play that worked, the
almost-dumbest play I've witnessed was a young drunk kid with a bunch
of his drunk buddies playing Deuces Wild. The kid is dealt deuces,
but one of his buddies tries to tell him to throw away the hand
because "They always do stuff like that -- show something that looks
good to keep you from getting the better hand on the draw." The kid
who's playing is conflicted. Is about to get bullied into dumping the
hand, when he turns to me and asks: "What do you think?" I tell him
it's not been my experience that there's a better hand lurking behind
the second best hand in the game, and he's about to throw away $250.
With relief, he holds the hand and gets his jackpot.
I'm glad he asked, because I've learned not to interfere when not
invited. Even when asked the "Should I hold this one or that one?", I
tend to be vague unless there's a major difference. Too many hateful
glares when I've given good strategy advice that didn't provide a
winner on a particular hand.
jedd
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"
<tralfamidorgooglycrackers@...> wrote:
Upon careful consideration, the worst play I've ever seen was a
woman
playing .25 FPDW, dealt 456710 with a flush draw, held the TEN....
And of course, she got a royal. I was sitting next to her, down
about
$300 after playing four hours of genuine Perfect Bob Dancer Optimal
Strategy. Being a lucky moron beats being an unlucky smart person
ANY
ol' time.
As you say, Jedd, that may not be the dumbest play, but it surely was
the dumbest piece of VP strategy advice that I've ever heard! How
lucky for that drunken kid that you were there!
~Babe~
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "jedd3" <jedd3@...> wrote:
Although not exactly an example of dumbest play that worked, the
almost-dumbest play I've witnessed was a young drunk kid with a bunch
of his drunk buddies playing Deuces Wild. The kid is dealt deuces,
but one of his buddies tries to tell him to throw away the hand
because "They always do stuff like that -- show something that looks
good to keep you from getting the better hand on the draw."
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "jackessiebabe" <jackessiebabe@...>
wrote:
As you say, Jedd, that may not be the dumbest play, but it surely
was
the dumbest piece of VP strategy advice that I've ever heard! How
lucky for that drunken kid that you were there!
Well, not really, sad to say. In the long run, it would have been far
more beneficial for him to take his friends' advice, throw the hand
away, and lose $250. Surely the lesson that would then have sunk in,
namely, never to listen to his idiot friends again, would have been
worth far more than that in the long run 