DRF -- Poker Column

[SoCalMan2]

Anybody notice this thing disappear?  

They come out blaring that horseplayers are wussies and Poker Players are real studs who are only stymied by bad beats inflicted by bad poker players.  Then, the next thing you know, they fold up like a cheap suit at the first sign of adversity.  Sheez.

[Ill-bred]

Good riddance. Those poker columns were pretty poor imho.

[P-Dub]

I don\'t know.  When I think of poker authorities,  I don\'t thnk of Sklansky, Malmuth, Lederer, etc...

I think of Steve Davidowitz and Steve Crist. Sure.

Its guys like this that make poker profitable,  people thinking they are better than they really are.

[bobphilo]

Frankly, the wholly idea was poorly conceived from the start. They must have figured that since horseplayers are gamblers, they must all be pokers players as well. The same way Bush thought that since Saddam Hussein was Arab and Muslim, he must be connected with Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
Stupid and simplistic in both cases.

Bob

[wderanged]

The DRF poker column was not only poorly-conceived, much of it was very bad advice. I have been a moderator on a similar poker forum for a major publisher of poker books, and the kind of advice which was discussed on DRF would have been ridiculed. They took the approach often taken by inexperienced poker players of assuming nothing of your competition and bemoaning bad beats. I was shocked to see the degree to which the same writers who have a relatively sophisticated sense of the inherent variance and difficulty in horseplaying had little concept of the same features of poker.

I think the idea of having comparably-sophisticated discussion of different forms of potentially positive-expectation gaming is a good one. But the fact is that there simply are not many people who have the time or energy to be both great handicappers (I am certainly not one) and great poker players (I\'m trying to get there) because both are so difficult.

[Boscar Obarra]

I dont care about poker or play it, but if you want to read a killer book pick up The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown.

Some really top notch stuff in there, even a silly little part about the racetrack.