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September 28, 2005
It is definitely proper Pokerparty etiquette. One could argue that a player is not obligated to willfully arrange his or her cards in their delivered order. On the flip side, it is most surely unethical to intentionally rearrange the upcards to purposely deceive. If I receive the card that makes a set, I might be inclined to change the order of the cards so that I don't lose it. In my opinion it is actually a very important procedure.
I guess what I am trying to say is, why can't some players who see themselves as good Pokerparty players, with good intelligence, fail to understand the simple concept of recognizing when they are in a good game? Is it possible that these people really don't understand that game selection is about as important as it gets? Is it that these people cannot succeed at anything but being stupid and miserable, and at that they are an overwhelming success, or am I just making a mountain out of a molehill?
- A lot of people enjoy re-buy Pokerparty tournaments because the payout will skyrocket in relation to the amount of re-buys. One thing some people don't think about is the level of blinds when they rebuy. Sometimes you can blow off a rebuy in one shot when the blinds are large. The problem here is that you have to be sure that you are not the one who is fueling the payout single handedly. I don't remember who wrote this but it cuts right to the chase.
- If the other player plays "like he should", then aren't you asking for increased competition? Doesn't it follow your opponents will win more, and lose less money when they do "play like they should? Of course I get frustrated when, against all odds, another player hooks the best hand on the last card when I dominated the hand all the way and played it "book perfect."
- Do you remember the times when you ran very good, most likely you can only remember very few. This is the problem, we tend to forget those good times. Those are the times that someone else is saying to themselves, that you are the luckiest Pokerparty player he ever saw. This is how the game goes, twice is bad enough, but when you run way below your statistical mean deviation for a unusually long period and your best hands go down in flames repeatedly something is wrong.
In these Pokerparty games a run of bad cards, I mean the absolute rags that can keep coming for hours, can make you think a pair of 8's is a monster hand. I have made some nice wins when they expected incorrectly, that if I had a big hand I would slow play it, in a wild game. I find that I like a maximum of three maniacs in my game, two is perfection. I guess I can handle that amount of variance and keep my discipline and my mind if I am running badly, and running badly is an important factor to remember.
If you slowly roll through a stop sign and there are no cars around for miles, you can still be given a ticket. The only question the officer will have to ask you is, "Did that sign say stop, or slow down", and you will have to pay up. I had something happen to me a few days ago in an Omaha 8 game. There were three of us at the showdown and one player had the nut low. I was sure I had the nut high which was a straight.
I would rather do this than be forced to play Pokerparty against my pals. I know that when we are all in the game together, that I do not play my usual game. I will on many cases raise and re-raise a hand if it is a friend and myself, along with a stranger in the hand. I do this to get it head to head. The problem is that if the stranger drops, I just cannot bring myself to put in a check raise against my friend.
