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Message: [QUOTE="regd87, post: 700985, member: 32732"] EDITED:SO YOUR EYES DON'T BLEED. When I was a kid growing up we all hung out a general store (which there is not many left today) all day long playing pinball machines. In the back of the store was a card room were the old guys would play and cuss each other. Some times we would sneak in and watch the old guys play it was comical to say the least. I would say looking back now that way more then half of these men were retired and had nothing to do but play cards, But Im sure if they gave them a way to get out the house and be around others of there own kind (old). The guy that ran the store aka card room was one of my dads best friends. Actually he baby sitted me and really to this day has not let forget that. What I saw those days were people having fun playing cards something that I'm not sure I have now. I understand change is good and that change will excel but not everyone is trying to reach a goal as such. Sure id loved to be a better card player I'm sure we all would,but I think in trying to become a better card player I feel like I leave behind the meaning that I saw in the old guys I used to watch. In the last couple years as TV and the Internet has came to the card world it has changed everything. Im not saying its bad, so don't start screaming! I think its been good for cards.I watched the 2005 wsop lastnight where Doyle won his 10 bracelet and I heard him make the remark many times the old time way. You can disagree with my words as I'm no one in the card world but you cant argue with Doyles words. Cards in my opinion has and is going down hill in my eyes and the way I play. I'm not gonna change my ways of old and I'm still gonna play the way I always played and not be one of the lucky few that make the big time. I have played cards along time and I'm not broke, and in live play Im sure Im way up in my so called bankroll. The internet play makes me wanna grab some of these people and ring their necks off for playing the way they do. All in on hands that i wouldn't give a second thought to even try to play in the position their in. In the last couple years at the casino. I have seen players change to the point that its crazy. their playing the same way I see online cards played and to me its sicken and a disgrace to cards. The card rooms are filled with wanna be card pros and some really thinking their as good now. To me and speaking for only me its not as fun as it once was ( maybe take up fishing again). I'm not knocking anyone play the way you chose ill play my way and all the luck to you. I'm saying we are not all gonna become that great card star some of us have to lose to them. One more thing then ill shut up or stfu as its said now. I see all the formulas and tables figure charts,wiz books,pro chat,and all that is great to a point.in the end it is left up to patience and luck ill agree with that but also in the end if you spend all your time confusing your self with these figures your gonna miss what playing cards can bring you. Oh yea the reason I call it CARDS instead of poker is because poker is just one game in the card world. i guess you cant learn an ole dog new tricks. [/QUOTE]

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