Re: Pissed at Crist (522 Views)
Posted by:
Mall (IP Logged)
Date: December 05, 2005 03:53PM
A well written letter to the editor, which I'm sure you're very aware of, in yesterday's drf makes these points quite well. The best hold-em player I know is the engineer I sometimes mention here, & he also holds the opinion that the very idea of a poker bad beat is nonsense, since that's the equivalent of differentiating between a "good" vs a "bad" statistical probability. I don't recall the incident in the Beyer book, but do remember the last leg of the biggest pk6 carryover in SA history a couple of yrs ago, where a horse with a clear lead very late suffered an injury & was passed & barely beat by a horse named, I think, Houston Rocket. I didn't see any explanation in Fornatale's column re how things will eventually even out for the guy who held the only ticket, worth approx $3 million, on the sure winner which suffered the injury. Then there's the guy who in all probability would have had the sole winning pk9 ticket at one of the West Coast tracks if a track maintenance worker would have done his job & not left the turf watering system on all night. The list in racing is pretty much endless, but the bottom line is that I've played both, & most of the poker guys know about as much about bad beats as the gal in Gone With The Wind famously had to admit she knows about birthing babies.