Dubai, your posts always bring a smile to my face. Not because I think you're a particularly amusing guy, but because you seem blinded by your own irony and lost in a world of self-delusion.
Let me explain...
First and foremost you always insist that you don't like what I have to say but you are always lurking around seemingly eager to read what I have to write. I don't profess to understand this mentality because e.g. if I decide I dislike an author I refrain from buying their books.
Anyway, moving on....in the isolation of your own mind you see this as "the most basic of poker hands" requiring "no thinking whatsoever" when in reality you couldn't be more wrong. A range of players with a host of different ideas have contributed their opinions. Strategy for playing the flop alone has been remarkably diverse with plays ranging from checking to betting upto 2k. That's a massive variance. If the hand required no thought opinion would be quite uniform.
These are real people who play the game and have their own unique take on every situation. You really struggle to grasp this concept. Whilst the poker industry fails to even agree upon a standard set of rules for poker you believe that there is only one correct way to approach a particular hand...and that is your way. The weight of evidence is not in your favour I'm afraid and your words only serve to highlight your failings.
Your smug criticism suggests you think you know the right decisions to make but you never actually offer that advice up. It is like Martin Luther King saying "I have a dream"...the crowd wait with baited breath before he announces..."But I'm not prepared to talk about it cos you're all fish". If that was actually his famous speech he would have looked like a fool. But this is what you do.
I think you forget that the PHA Board is a learning resource for players wanting to make some progress in the game. You wade in with your self-appointed PHD in poker and run people down. Who benefits from that? It's like a maths professor waltzing into a secondary school and chastising the pupils for being stupid. Now whilst you may feel an intricate and deeply philosophical highbrow poker hand may be suitable for this learning resource I don't. The fact is my brief is to post a hand that creates discussion and debate but the success of the hand is sadly not judged on Dubai's scale of complexity. It's measured by hits and posts. So while your intention may be to try and bring me down a peg or two your contribution has only served to make this one of the most successful HOTW's so far. Do you see what I'm saying about irony?
I have recently written an article entitled "Highbrow Poker Snobbery", I will post it soon (I am sure you will read it) and you score a perfect bullseye in those stakes. You fail to appreciate the difference of opinion that exists in the game whilst failing to offer your own. You can't judge opinion as correct or incorrect. That is a fact. The forum is designed to solicit opinion from every type of player and as such we help each other's education. I care not whether my opinion is "right" or "wrong" in your world...but I will respond when someone is disrespectful, it shows a distinct lack of class...a characteristic you seem familiar with. It may earn you a few sniggers from your Beavis and Butthead cronies but it only serves to highlight your naivety and it prevents potential posters from getting involved. What a difference you make.
Anyway, on to more serious matters. You suggest my words are incoherent and I congratulate you for this. Confronting your reading gremlins is the first step in making progress with your literacy. There are currently some excellent college courses available as well as home study programmes that will help you resolve these issues.
I can see some of your problems surfacing in your post though...
The 1k Bellagios during the WSOP are the one of the worst standard tournaments you will ever see
You can't use the word "the" in such quick succession here because then the sentence wont make any sense. But it took guts to try so fair play.
Like Byron said, keep reading the board though because you will begin to realise poker is as individual as the person who plays it. All comments are valid and all opinions are welcome. I am setting the alarm clock and putting on a fresh pot of coffee as we speak.
Yeah youre probably right, which means whole thinking is results orientated, oh well. Gl al
p.s. Who's Al?
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