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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/18/2007 : 21:04:48
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I think Filthy, our Poker Pit Viper of Biker Bars, might appreciate this guy's psychological technique. It doesn't require a degree in psychology to win the World Series of Poker, but it can't hurt, either: LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional training in his card-playing arsenal, won the top prize Wednesday of $8.25 million at the World Series of Poker.
Jerry Yang
Yang vaulted quickly from eighth to the chip lead soon after play began Tuesday afternoon.
He knocked out seven of the eight other players at the final table, reminiscent of last year when Jamie Gold ran over his opponents. The main difference, Yang did it from the back of the pack.
"The only way I would win this tournament is to be aggressive from the very beginning and that's exactly what I did," he said. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2007 : 23:34:06 [Permalink]
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Damnit Half... and here I thought you were going to have something about a PSYCHIC winning... rofl.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 00:28:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Damnit Half... and here I thought you were going to have something about a PSYCHIC winning... rofl.
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Psych!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 00:33:05 [Permalink]
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And of course, that's what any REAL psychic (if there were such an animal) would do: Use his or her powers in poker, and keep silent about those powers. Or, better yet, in the stock market, and then be able to be open about their powers. Funny how the income of professed psychics instead always depends on finding credulous people.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/19/2007 00:34:41 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 01:31:32 [Permalink]
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Yeah, even if your psychic power was only accurate prediction of trends... if it was real (statistically significant) you'd easily become a multi-billionaire trading stocks.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 03:44:41 [Permalink]
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In short, why has Silvia Browne or one of them not ever hit the lotto?
A little psychology is good to know in not just poker, but 'most any endeavor where you are 'across the table' from someone. And after all, what is psychology but cold reading with a sheepskin?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 04:31:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Damnit Half... and here I thought you were going to have something about a PSYCHIC winning... rofl.
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Yep. And I thought I was about to read another entertaining piece from Moonscape News. Disappointing... |
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Psych wins Poker World Series
