Sunday, February 17, 2008

Not quite what I expected

So I posted my last post on 2p2, to see what the general consensus was. The first poster actually had a link to an old post that was exactly the same thing I was proposing, that you could play only 22+ and AQ+ at uNL and win a good amount. Here's that post.

http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=microplnl&Number=12907966&page=4&fpart=1

And here are some responses to it, the op is Gelford.

"Gelford, I [heart] you."

"Great post Gelford."

"nh Gelford. people like to moan about 'recipe' type ideas here, but i wouldn't mind betting that they are the most popular posts and that this will help lots of beginners find their feet while they start learning to think about poker. this feels like the new tien 'raise that [censored] up'."

"What you described is not real poker, lol."

So there were some nay-sayers, but the others in the post flamed them pretty good and told the to literally, F off doouchebags, lol. Here's what people had to say about mine though.

"why would you do this?"

"With stacks of 250bb you can play way more hands than with 100bb. Also, over my last 5000 hands, I have lost money with every pocket pair except QQ and 66. Pocket pairs are not as good as you think"

"It is so far from optimal it isn't funny"

"What you describe here isn't even poker...."

Hey at least I got one response like the ubernit thread, maybe I'll get some in support as well. :)

"its poker lol, it may be bad poker but its still poker."

Okay, so maybe I won't be getting any pats on the back. The closest I came was this guy who kinda defended me sort of somewhat.

"So someone comes in and says ... I'm not very good at handreading, but if I play only 22+ and AQ+ I seem to make a very nice profit ... and the entire forum goes: ZOMG exploitable, bad poker, move to bbv .. etc.If it shows a profit over a large enough sample, then it is good ... if not then it's notEthical or moral considerations about what type of poker is correct do not exist."

I guess they liked the idea more when it was new. Based on my social-psychology I'm also pretty sure that because the first response in Gelford's was that they love him for posting it, and my first responses were, 1)Someone has done this before and 2) Why would you do this? we got very different feedback. I still think I could come up with the basic foundations of a bot that shows a profit at uNL. Oh my god, I have to go now, it's 9:20 and it's the final day of my girlfriend's swimming championships. They start in 40 minutes, I'm out!

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