"Chess One" wrote in message news:EhnHg.876$Bu2.608@trndny02...
no chess in this message, and some whacko who can' write his name continues to offer gratuitous
advice to someone who can


Hey philsy - your message describes you and your slop that you try to pass off
as chess material.

g4 wrote:
"Chess One" wrote in message news:EhnHg.876$Bu2.608@trndny02...
no chess in this message, and some whacko who can' write his name continues to offer gratuitous
advice to someone who can


Hey philsy - your message describes you and your slop that you try to pass off
as chess material.

By the way, I've been on the wagon a week. How am I doing?

You're doing fantastic.

Now if we can only help James Rynd who seems to be a hopeless
philaholic.

"The Historian" wrote in message
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g4 wrote:
"Chess One" wrote in message news:EhnHg.876$Bu2.608@trndny02...
no chess in this message, and some whacko who can' write his name continues to offer gratuitous
advice to someone who can


Hey philsy - your message describes you and your slop that you try to pass off
as chess material.

By the way, I've been on the wagon a week. How am I doing?

g4 wrote:
You're doing fantastic.

Now if we can only help James Rynd who seems to be a hopeless
philaholic.

Taylor Kingston appears to be addicted as well.

Taylor Kingston wrote:


At this point, Phil's right hand, seemingly acting on its own, starts
to slide chips into the pot. He looks down and shouts "Get your greasy
fingers off my pile! I'm not your boy!" After his hand puts 2K worth of
chips in, Innes is considered to have called the bet, though he then
claims he did not.

Kingston shows his hand: A-A-A-K-K.
TK: "Full house, bullets backed with cowboys."


The odds of getting such a hand in five card draw are about
the same as the odds of Sanny becomming the next world
chess champion. I say, check up Kingston's sleeves for
hidden cards, and count the deck to make sure it adds up
to 52 cards. And run a background check on the dealer, as
he may be in on the scam.



The group's patience finally exhausted, the dealer picks up Innes'
cards and lays them on the table, showing 3-3-10-6-2.


See? This is more like it. Innes at least does not cheat
by having extra aces/Kings up his sleeve.



PI: "You have snipped my other twelve cards!"

Dealer: "Those are all the cards you were dealt."

PI: "Cheat! You ignore my other cards, just as you ignore your own
complicity in histories written with blood."

Dealer: "You have no other cards. A draw poker hand is five cards.
Period."



Note well how the dealer *always* takes Kingston's side.
Very suspicious, if you ask me.


PI: "And I have five cards. Therefore I win!"

TK: "Jeez Louise, guys, he doesn't even understand the basic rules of
poker."

PI: "Ha! You understand these things only with your head, not your
heart. As Ovid said to Shelly 'Carthago delenda est, hace calor a la
chingada.' When Karpov was caught dealing off the bottom at Hague-Avro
1936 ..."

At this point the poker parlor bouncer comes over and escorts Innes
outside, where he stands on a street corner, telling passers-by what a
great poker player he is, nearly an IM in fact.


IMO, it was most likely Taylor Kingston's constant cheating
(the ridiculously good hands are a dead giveaway) which
ultimately drove Innes batty. I once played a man who tried
to elbow one of my Rooks off the board during a rated blitz
game. What some people won't do to try and win mere money
and rating points -- as if such things even mattered in our
soon-to-be cashless/ratingless society....


-- help bot

help bot wrote:
Kingston shows his hand: A-A-A-K-K.
TK: "Full house, bullets backed with cowboys."

The odds of getting such a hand in five card draw are about
the same as the odds of Sanny becomming the next world
chess champion.

No, they're a bit better than that. And when you get the two pair on
the first deal, as obviously happened in the allegory, then the odds of
hitting the full boat are only 11 to 1. I actually held that very hand
in a game long ago, and won a good pot.
Once I even hit 5 Aces, though admittedly it was in a game with 2
jokers; I actually had A-A-A-joker-joker. Ironically, I hardly won a
thing with that hand. The other players had mostly trash, and they said
I lit up like a Christmas tree when I first looked at my hand. I even
drew a card, discarding one of my jokers in hopes of luring a sucker
in, but no one really bit.

Taylor Kingston wrote:
help bot wrote:
Kingston shows his hand: A-A-A-K-K.
TK: "Full house, bullets backed with cowboys."

The odds of getting such a hand in five card draw are about
the same as the odds of Sanny becomming the next world
chess champion.

No, they're a bit better than that. And when you get the two pair on
the first deal, as obviously happened in the allegory, then the odds of
hitting the full boat are only 11 to 1. I actually held that very hand
in a game long ago, and won a good pot.
Once I even hit 5 Aces, though admittedly it was in a game with 2
jokers; I actually had A-A-A-joker-joker. Ironically, I hardly won a
thing with that hand. The other players had mostly trash, and they said
I lit up like a Christmas tree when I first looked at my hand. I even
drew a card, discarding one of my jokers in hopes of luring a sucker
in, but no one really bit.


What fool discards a joker? You are supposed to act
exactly as if you have a flush or a straight, and keep all
your cards, but don't frighten anyone away by making
extroadinarily big bets.

This still doesn't explain *why* you drove poor Innes insane.

And what have you and that corrupt dealer done with all of
Innes' rating points? Literally *hundreds* of them have
inexplicably disappeared and no one at the USCF can
account for all the missing points (he was at one time as
high as 2450!).

I played several hands with my 8 year old niece a while back,
and sure enough, great hands like this do come up now and
then. In fact, playing poker, I quickly won back every penny
she had taken from me at blitz chess. :D


-- help bot

help bot wrote:
This still doesn't explain *why* you drove poor Innes insane.

Oh, no, Phil did that all on his own, or at least without my help. I
merely provide counterpoint on some occasions when his insanity spills
into this group.