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Once again sorry I haven’t blogged in awhile, Ive been very busy and will get back to it soon

Wow.

60 minutes considering absolute poker story

Nat just alerted me to this on AIM. This could easily be terrible for online poker.

For now I’m done wandering around Copenhagen and London and I’m back home in Philly. I had fun in Europe, but as the old saying goes, “it’s great to travel but it’s even better to come home.” Since arriving back I have had a Business school interview, attended my grandmother’s 21st birthday party (figure that one out) and I have been working on an article for BLUFF magazine. I can’t share the content of my article here but I assure you that it is both poker related and worth checking out (a paradoxical statement much of the time) so pick up the next issue of BLUFF.

Poker forums are a funny thing. The major ones (twoplustwo, pocketfives) have always seemed to me like a sort of grotesque online fraternity filled with 17 year olds. Usually about 2% of the posts offer some sort of interesting thought or insight while the other 98% are pointless one liners such as “lol”,  a repeat of someone elses line, some idiotic forum jargon with no relation the post it is supposedly in response to such as [x] AKo FTW IMO (ace king offsuit for the win in my opinion), or some scathing criticism of anyone and everyone. Of the 2% of posts that are decent, probably 95% of them come from well known respected “posters” most of whom are online pros. There is definitely something valuable in being one of these respected posters. They build solid reputations and become well liked among all the teenage fan boys. On the more practical side, someone like Taylor Caby was able to parlay his forum popularity into a powerhouse poker training website. From a business perspective I regret avoiding forums for most of my career (evidenced by my post count of 24 on 2p2 under my name TGSB).

I always told myself that I had good reason for refusing to take part in the mountain of idiocy, but I have come to realize that due to the backwards way the world works, it’s sometimes necessary to do pointless things. Exhibit A in this case would be the phenomenon of post count. My friend shrew posts on 2p2 all the time. He NEVER offers any sort of insight and almost always just repeats someone or says lol. Despite this, my guess is most people would give something he posts far more credence than something I posted simply because his post count is four figures vs my two figures. My friends and I joke that all it would take to scam millions from the poker economy is to join a forum, make like 10000 posts about ANYTHING, and suddenly you would be the most trusted person in the world. Even writing about the respect that a figure like post count brings to people makes me a little bit angry at how backwards our society is. I’d imagine that in many walks of life the one listened to the most is simply the one who speaks the most; This is totally unacceptable to me. Now that I have ranted about forums, I would highly recommend everyone read through this thread:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=147782

The original poster in that thread, stealthmunk, is a 19 year old degenerate who I have played against in long high stakes no limit sessions on many occasions. Given the crazy prop bet he made, my guess is our life philosophies are very different even if our love of gambling is not.

NOTE: In the second to last sentence I almost wrote “played with” instead of “played against” funny that while they are virtually synonyms in this context the latter far better represents the reality of the situation