--- David Silberstein <davids at Kithrup.COM> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >And there's a prime example. If you're actually holding the *best > >possible* hand -- that is, you know the odds of any other player > >having a better hand are *zero* -- then knowing the odds certainly > >will influence how you play your hand! Ike must have meant the best hand at the table (which of course you wouldn't know at the time). > >I guess I can believe that people *have* been bluffed or bullied while > >holding the best possible hand -- but I have a hard time believing in > >such stupidity. They'd be the same people who sell books for a living but don't learn to pronounce titles that might give them trouble. Is "bullied" a technical term in poker like "bluff", by the way? > Well, it might not be stupidity per se. I know very little about > poker, but I still find the following little quote Amusing: > > "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces > > (or should it be "A Smith & Wesson beats five aces" ?) > > And tangentally to speaking of cheating at poker, I just saw /The > Sting/ last night (where a deliberate poker cheat leads to other > stuff). Very Amusing. I liked that movie, although even thinking about it can give me Stuck Tune Syndrome, or is it called Earworm Infestation? > Are Chreotha the confidence tricksters & scam artists of Dragaera? > It would certainly tie into the whole web-weaving and traps side of > things. I'll be very interested to find out what Chreotha are like, other than being pushable around. In the meantime, if a Yendi tells you he knows a wealthy man on Elde Island who's been unjustly imprisoned and will richly reward anyone who helps free him, I suggest you respond cautiously. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/