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Re: PL Home Game in Helsinki - Finland i have voted 26th March as i am in New York at the end of February beginning of March,this sounds wicked though,well done G :clap:clap
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Re: Samba's MiniFTOPS Staking Ask **Sold out** just a reminder Graeme,please give mine to Woodie for his latest staking and keep the change:ok
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Re: Selling some MiniFtops action you should be getting mine from Morlspin :ok
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Re: MIA = WASP Wins APAT Coventry, Mole wins APAT Pro League see i told ya 4/4 was the best damn hand in poker ;) well done Brian :clap:clap
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Re: WPT Magazine - Win $10,000 Bodog Sponsorship
Bodog won't restrict them' date=' merely instruct them not to play. However, those Yanks not reading the lobby (as there were one or two tonight) don't read those rules.[/quote'] ok cheers Jon for the quick reply -
Re: WPT Magazine - Win $10,000 Bodog Sponsorship can you guys at WPTMAG get the yanks out of the tourney before it starts?? Pokerstars can restrict different regions,cannot Bodog do the same? it is not right they can get the cash and in the final get the tickets
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Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - Please Post to confirm
:welcome to PL,,bit hard to say who is best,so many good players hereJust heard about this today from a friend off npf. Going to try and make the alternates for the evening one but not certain to as working til 6 :( Who are the likely candidates for winning - Who are the best players? Is it 40/1 the field?(I work for Coral lol) :beer:cheers -
Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - Please Post to confirm
ok m8 thank you' date=' so only way i'll find out is to turn up tmorow ro see if theres any space???[/quote'] yes mate,,but stick around here and join in our online games as well -
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Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - Please Post to confirm
if you havent voted already then you will go down on the reserve list :okhello m8 WUD LOVE TO PLAY IF STILL ROOM???? i've played a lot of poker with peely 009 and he told me about this!! hope you don't mind!! -
Today, let’s have a little riff on the psychology of bitching, whining and complaining about bad beats. Bad beat stories have been discussed to death on chat rooms and poker forums. A consensus has emerged: I. They never get you the sympathy you think you deserve. But there's a deeper story here: II. Complaining about your misfortunes at the table is likely to backfire and result in more abuse being dumped on you. The first is obvious. You don't get sympathy because no one cares. Every poker player alive has had their flopped nuts cracked by a two-outer and doesn't give a rat's ass that it just happened to you. I used to get really ticked at players, especially ones who repeatedly tell these stories and, worse, wouldn't listen to mine. I finally developed a simple rule. I will listen and nod the first time I get assaulted by someone. But that's their only shot at it. If they come back for a repeat performance, I hand them a card that I carry with me. It reads, on one side: "Your bad beat story has touched my heart. Never before have I heard a story like that. You have my sincere sympathy. Now **** off and stop bothering me." And, just to drive the point home, I flip it over so they can see: "Pardon me, but you have evidently mistaken me for someone who gives a shit. Here's a quarter. Go call someone who gives a ****." Okay, that's one way to take something vaguely annoying and make it amusing. But it's the second point that I want to get to. There's a lot of psychology going on here, in the bad beat stories themselves as well as the range of responses that people have to the person telling them. Let's get our intuitions rolling by considering two "real world" situations. Case 1 -- A bad beat to a neutral person: A tornado totally leveled his house and smashed his car. Here, suffering garners sympathy; this person's pain draws others to empathize. Neighbors, friends and total strangers rally around in a chorus of support. In fact, he can complain about the injustice of it and they will listen and acknowledge. No one doubts his sincerity; no one wishes further pain on him. Case 2 -- A bad beat to a member of a discriminated group: Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The inner-city poor took the brunt of the disaster. At first, their suffering drew support and concern. But further complaints of neglect and injustice were often not greeted with sympathy but with continued scorn and not-so-subtle prejudice. This reaction against those clearly suffering was so dramatic that it shocked many. But most psychologists weren't shocked. For some time we've known that despised individuals and groups who are suffering often garner, not sympathy and support, but further abuse. When we dislike the one in pain, we are quite comfortable with increasing the pain. In fact, as recent work by Roland Imhoff has shown, this pattern is found even when, initially, there were no negative feelings about those suffering. I hope you can see how these findings apply to the teller of bad beat stories. The whiners, the complainers end up getting treated like a despised minority. We may briefly see ourselves in their eyes, we may even feel a fleeting dollop of empathy, but basically we view them as weak, pathetic creatures who haven't yet learned the lessons of life, poker life. They deserve what they get. So, even in those cases where the poor sucker you've cornered to bitch at seems to be sympathetic, he's probably not. In fact, he is almost certainly increasing the level of disdain he holds you in and looking to inflict even greater pain on you the first chance he gets. For the poker player the lesson is dead simple. Stop bitching; no more bad beat stories. Not only are you not getting the sympathy you are looking for, you are lowering your reputation, damaging your image and making it more likely that opponents will want to pummel you more, just to see you suffer. Is there any upside here? Yes, but it's one that is tough to pull off. It is possible to use whining and bitching as a weapon to put others on tilt or, more subtly, to make them try to target you. It is a fundamental mistake in poker to try to "get" someone for it almost invariably leads to errors and misplays because you're focusing on the wrong things. Arthur S Reiber
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Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - Please Post to confirm
sorry you cant make it Alun,would have been good to catch up with you again.Sad to be missing this, send me the winner's names and some pics next week please Morls. Also good luck anyone flying in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11843907 -
Re: WPT Mag Xmas Freeroll Ladbrokes 8pm 19/12 regisration is now open, password found on page 76/77 of the December issue :ok
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Re: Bodog Poker Series :welcome to PL Dan,good to see the WPTMAG staff here. you can also find details from our earlier thread here: http://www.punterslounge.com/forum/f17/wpt-magazine-win-10-000-bodog-sponsorship-108258/
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Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - 2 SEATS LEFT, PLEASE VOTE IF COMING!
i am not playing the Omaha game looking to get there for about 7 earler if i can have to go and watch my wifes friends gang BANG show :(' date= good luck to all who are playing and see you all there :oksounds good to me :tongue2 -
Re: APAT Team Event January 29th and 30th 2011 - Do you want to play for Team PL? APAT have closed the requests for teams,there are 33 teams vying for 25 spots. we will know if we are successful early next week. If we are successful then the team of 8 will be chosen to represent us. many thanks to all those who have voted so far :ok the poll will close on 1st December 2010.
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Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - 2 SEATS LEFT, PLEASE VOTE IF COMING! :ok
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Re: New Red Hot Poker Exclusive League - Leg 4/4 24th November
welcome to a very elite club :okOh wow - never realized I was even in contention :rollin Will display it proudly -
Re: PLWSOP - Attendee's list - Important - 2 SEATS LEFT, PLEASE VOTE IF COMING! okay,with the snow already in t`North,i only have an hours leeway from getting from the station to hotel then to casino,my buy ins for both games have been paid so if i am late due to weather,will i just be blinded out in the Omaha game and not have my seat taken by any alternates if any?
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Re: £5k WSOP Package Freeroll 12/12 on WSOP.COM title updated :ok and the last one is on 02/01/11
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Re: New Red Hot Poker Exclusive League - Leg 4/4 24th November
oooh more goodies??Players will be manually input by RHP Ive sent the list already and you can meet the RHP team in Newcastle this weekend mate:ok -
Re: New Red Hot Poker Exclusive League - Leg 4/4 24th November will these finals be passworded or manually put in by RedHot ??
** Poker Diary Weekend 4th-5th December **
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Re: ** Poker Diary Weekend 4th-5th December **
i know Wednesdays are as reg is open now,but didnt see anything for Sunday :unsure