They say Christmas is a time of joy, celebrations and spending time with your friends and loved ones. For all the gamblers in the world it is a time to gamble more than ever! Card games with uncles and friends, excessive bets on Kempton on boxing day! Now a friend of ours would always hustle us, he would bet us £20 on one nfl team to beat another and take the team that was a few points behind. After he won the bet he would say "The main player, the quarterback on your pick got injured just before we made the bet. Endless hustle bets, never for much money but it was annoying! Everytime a bet seemed to be too good to be true it was and somehow we always lost!
Then one Christmas my friend and I had watched the end of the world's strongest man contest and saw who won. The next day we went to a friend's to play some cards and hustler was there! On the television we noticed the world's strongest man contest was on and noticed all the contestants were the same as the day before. Obviously it was a re-run and noticing after 4 events the eventual winner was was off the top we suggested a bet with the hustler. He had the leader and we had the guy in last place who we knew was the eventual winner and he also gave us 3/1.
We then watched the rest of the contest with a smile on our face waiting for the inevitable late surge of our pick. Our hustler friend had a smile as large as ours as surely he had a sure thing. The longer the contest went the less we were smiling as our man simply wasn't catching up, then it got to the stage where with a few events left it was not even possible to win if he won every single event left. It was then that it dawned upon us that the contest we watched the day before had been the one the year before the one that we were currently betting.
So we lost the bet and had to pay up, £20 only but it was the gutting feeling that once again he had gotten one over us. It wasn't all bad however, on the card tables he was an absolute fish and would always pay us off there!
A slight change of topic, its good to see that viewers of this blog are picking up a bit. Several people have posted comments which I have withheld due to the fact they are advertising products. I am not saying it is necessarily spam, however I don't want to have anything advertised via this page. Some poker products that have been good for me I will mention such as Barry Greenstein's "Ace on the river". Truly the best poker book I have ever read.
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3 comments:
Nice story pal. Which site are you playing at mostly at the moment? Also Barry Greenstein's book, one of the ones i dont have....why is it that much better than the rest....i will invest if your assessment is compelling.
Cheers!
The book is great as rather that discuss hand strategy it keeps putting across important points such as not mixing drink/poker, not playing tired, not playing out of bankroll, avoid rigged games, all the basics with a few more you have never though of. But the points are made so many times that you have to listen to the man. If you don't you are just a fool as Greenstein is one of the biggest winners in the world from poker.
p.s. www.nbc.com this weeks poker after dark sees Greenstein and Ivey needling eachothers endlessly. They are great friends and it is just banter but still great to watch! How often do people tell Phil Ivey that he doesn't play too well and needs to learn more about poker!
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