With my corporate head on, it’s ridiculous and embarrassing, with my recreational customer head on it’s fucking funny.
I’d like to know the majority are looking out for the equity I have in other stacks on other tables, wouldn’t you?
I do not feel negative about this being strategic end-game for humans v bots in online poker. I’ve watched the Terminator Movies and Planet of the Apes, the monkeys always survive.
I have never been mugged at knife point, nor beaten senseless and robbed. Never been carjacked nor held up at gunpoint. There is no immediate single event that I can point towards in my past that excuses the instant trigger to victim-blaming the guy who had his money stolen from him because he left his bag of cash under a chair whilst he wandered off.
The only people who get to be negative, snarky or bitchy about a live poker event are players who have given their own time and money to play and feel let down by organisers.
Punters gonna punt, and punters come in all shapes and level of IQ and financial wealth. This is not an accusation of stupidity. Of the people who dismiss all learning of previous humans, a very tiny percentage absolutely do change the world. Life is a matter of faith and some punters are not followers the church of maths and statistics.
I will assert that, in this case, the reason the accusation happened as quick and hot-headed as it did was relative to the gender-presentation of the player accused of cheating, and that this is problematic to poker irrespective of the outcome of the investigation.
This isn’t Jeff Bezozzzzz. It’s a guy with some lettuce in a truck
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