Well I'm teaching beginners class yesterday to a bunch of new players and this guy keeps coming in with garbage - despite me giving him strict written guidelines to come in with. After he played a K3o I asked him why. The why was simply because I can't correct his thinking if I don't understand it. Said he, "Well I was thinking that maybe a King could come." I pointed out that if a king did come then it was very likely that someone had a better king. He pointed out that he could flop 3 kings. Hard to argue with that. So I pointed out that while that is true - it won't happen enough to be profitable... he didn't look convinced. I did the math up on the board. He still didn't look convinced. Then I found the argument that worked... it's great when you get to see the light go off. Here was the argument:

You leave class tonight and go home. When you walk in the front door your wife greets you with a question: "Does this dress make me look fat?" Now it's possible that you will somehow, miraculously come up with the perfect answer but you have to hate the question cause you know that you are going to be wrong WAY more than you're going to be right. This is an example of a negative EV situation.

I'm happy to report that I solved his looseness problem.... can any recommend what to tell him to get him to play a hand now cause he's throwing everything but AA away pre-flop now.

TUP

Thats pretty damn, funny. Though you may have screwed up the mans marrage too. I hear the only question his wife can ask him that he will answer is "Honey do you want a beer."

Give him this analogy:
He is sitting at home.
There is going to be a bill collector coming by his house for the 100 he owes.
But there will be 4 friends coming by who will be each paying back a 100 loan.
If there is a knock at the door, should he answer?

Sometimes you have to take a chance, and open the door.

TUP, well said, well thought out. I agree with your thinking. It's what I've been thinking while attempting to put the radio show together.

now...about that plateau...

please see

forum/viewtopic.php?t=2603

CJ--the anti-threadhijacker

TUP,

I hear what ya sayin' about women, obviously poker is a game of skill, but I like the surrealness of a professional gambler baulking at the financial thought of a wife!

Molina


PS. should that surreality?