Our blogging friend, Michael Craig obsessed a bit in a recent blog. He busted out a pro , Keith Sexton, and attracted a fan base similar to his professional friend, Mike the Mouth. If you have a dollar on deposit at Full Tilt, you can chat in any game going. And people do that all the time. It usually isn’t a thoughtful conversation or one approved by Miss Manners. If you are ‘famous’ or affect ‘the famous’, you’ll get your stalkers. And, there is no Order of Protection available to our lawyer friend.
I wrote an article called Pogo Stick Poker. I did another called Odd Man Out. And just about all the article in my Poker Thoughts section could be brought into the picture to varying degrees. In almost all of them we could propose a corollary that applies to the hand Michael describes. In science, proposals and corollaries require rigorous proof. Poker isn’t that way. All my sometime solid ideas are situational proposals. It can be solid in early play and thrown out with the bath water playing at the bubble or late play … or … or … or.
Michael stated his reasons for the call. I have no reason to dispute any of them. They seem as rigorous as any poker calculator can provide. He introduces the other factors in his decision making process that provides a true hand history — and there aren’t a lot of those out there.
So, lets ask our questions:
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Can he make the call?
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Should he make the call?
Number one is a simple yes. It is a coin flip. But, at times we’ll take the coin flips. And Michael provides a good set of reasons he can make the call.
Number two is going to gather ‘number two’ in any poker forum out there. You haul it over to the penultimate home of odds based poker