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Message: [QUOTE="Merlin333, post: 714259, member: 32004"] [I]Thanks [URL="https://www.cardschat.com/members/subt33/"]SubT33 [/URL][U],[/U] [URL="https://www.cardschat.com/members/kingcurtis/"]KingCurtis[/URL]and others. Maybe those to whom everything is obvious won't mind if I remind myself........ I by profession, am a writer. My poker skill and experience are significantly less. The things I post are my observations of playing seen through a prism of being able to write about them. Much of the response I receive is positive and helpful - even if others know it already. I am not inventing anything just giving my own perspective. In my view while poker has a techno-mechanical side (math, position, odds etc.) those things are easily mastered without being a math PHD. Like most other human endeavor - it is the how, when, why and what blend of mechanics / "x'" factors / situation that makes a great player. How often is a pro, while ruminating on what to play doing the math? I'm a beginner and the first thing I can do is the math of a hand! The other rationale [/I][I]to play is more convoluted - at least to me. "xfactors" = [/I][I](what is he playing, what did he hit, what kind of player, what hand does he have, what has he done in this situation before etc,etc,etc) Though what I write may be "obvious" to some, reading poker books, watching players both amateur and heralded pro two things are clear [B]1.)[/B] there are many opinions (that work) as to what is correct [B]2.)[/B] There are few who can perfectly apply correct theory flawlessly and it is not always correct to do the "right" thing in every situation [B]3)[/B] Most of those who can spend little time criticizing others [B]4)[/B] in a game of incomplete information there is [U]always[/U] an unknown. So while I may be "obvious", the things I'll be writing here, if I continue to be a member, will if not be helpful or interesting to others it's good for me to "get it out". Members who reading my blogs think it pedestrian - won't bother - those who think otherwise will and perhaps expand ways to verbalize their own perspective of the foundation of how and why they play the way they do. If nothing else, if I become any good I'll be ready to write a book about it - lol. Jon (Merlin333) :cool: [B]ps.[/B] to [/I][B]NoWuckingFurries[/B] you will never see me "chat" on any subject let alone Christianity. Your analogies about me and this other person are comical, childish and off point. I read a lot - I don't agree with everything I read. I am mature enough to not make childish analogies just because I do not agree. If what you are trying to say is that I am lecturing - then it is you who is a pain. Feel perfectly free to block or not read my post. What I am saying should be clear to anyone with average intelligence. It is kind of sad that on a blog where the purpose is to express what you want there are still those who would have appear only what they like and can understand. This reflects poorly on you not me. I guess there will always be those whose first response to anything is negative - sad. another thought: I write several poker and blogs on other topics, this is the first time anyone thought the Charles Linebeck post "too philosophical" - too funny - he would crack up laughing. To extrapolate those few paragraphs into preaching about Christianity or philosophy is evidence of not ever having understood or even having read either. [/QUOTE]

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