you are not the first person to say things like that. My goal is for everyone to remember all my posts because they are all filled with great insight and.....HAHAHA. Nope, i couldn't make it through that speech.

Brian the dog could have made it through that speech.

I wasted all you guys time with my long post. Should keep quite. Will.

Sorry johnny. I did make an attempt to bring the thread back to the orignal topic but it had a life of its own.

JH,

I and I'm sure many others read your post and if we didnt learn something then it at least made us think a little. Sometimes we just get carried away a little in this section blowing off a little steam. Its the only section where we dont really have to behave.

Keep your thoughts flowing here, please.

Johnny, like I said, I totally appreciated your original post. Please do post more.

Some posts just lend themselves to being discussed more than others, perhaps. The tone of this particular post was so passionate and intense, it may have put people off from replying to it easily....

Johnny (man, I feel like saying Mr. Hughes here),

Please post more. Love your stuff.

Tim

interesting article on stu ungar, johnny

i dont know a whole lot about him , i've seen his semi-fictional movie and read some stories. from what i gather his reads on people at the table were almost non-human. one story i read, , had stu ungar and another pro playing heads up. on the last hand at the river, the opponent bets all in for 32k and stu calls his bet down with a TEN high knowing full well his opponent had missed a small straight draw.

now if thats not a good poker player i dont know what is... the only requirement for a good poker player is to win lots of money at the table, in my opinion. what stu ungar did away from the table does not take away from the fact that he had perfect control at the table. since you could hardly call stu ungars poker game a "gamble" he satiated his desire to gamble with other activities- in which he had harldy any control over. everybody has their "leaks", stu ungar chose a path most of us could never take, and although we probably wouldn't follow in his footsteps, why should that take away from his status as a poker player?

He may not be the best, but he's a true legend. The fact that people are writing books and movies about him today proves it. His ups must of been unbelievable. His downs I dont even want to think about.

yd