DanielN wrote:So does the government and most other business in some form or another... let's face it, our entire society is nothing but a big scam 80 - 90 percent of the time. That's what happens when you have a monetary system based on twenty different types of interest and inflation etc etc etc...
I just think it's kind of funny when people want to demonize someone for possibly doing the same thing as everyone else is doing, for being not quite as adept at it, and still at the same time and even from posts in this thread you can see that SOME people think ti has been worth the money. Maybe it IS a waste of money, but how much money do you spend on going to the movies or paying for television per year watching people PRETEND to be other people doing all kinds of amoral stuff, hmm?
Lol people are so f'd up... I'm going asa a master neo-cheater this halloween... that does it.. I
My friend that is BULL. Wallace obviously never INTEGRATED game theory. In games the rules are agreed upon, often unconsciously. When you play a game you give up a percentage of your voltion. A percentage of your free will. A percentage of your income, which is your time and labor (adam smith). But games have a finite end and beginning. Poker isnt one continuous game, its multiple hands, multiple decks, multiple "innings" in a concurrent string. All games have boundarys, end, beginning, out of bounds, off sides. There are rules for games. The only game without rules is real life (love and war as the saying goes). Hobbes said "force and fraud in war are the cardinal virtues". "There is no god and truth is what comes out of my mouth". This is textbook example of a moneyhungry ahole. Just another rich money hungry miser right? Wrong.
You see, when you take "the game" and poker is an example, perhaps the supreme example of the worst game to take outside the conventions of the poker table. Then its just bad acting and bad lying. As you can seeming well tell for yourself. The justification that 'Its just a game' and that the other players agree to be screwed over and as long as you dont directly cheat, then your tactics are open to anyone as an advantage if they 'study' and 'integrate'. Which is kind of hard when you actually work for a living.
Wallace was able to step outside of a moral and ethical bubble to enter another bubble, a neocheaters bubble, a cheater outside the convention of gaming. Poker tactics outside poker are 1) bad tactics 2) immoral 3) unethical 4) for people to weak and lazy to actually use physical violence or overt forms of manipulation. The latter being a violation of NT ethics, leaving what? Clever social engineering? The medium of words? Classic.
Let me sit here and pretend I have an answer to every question, 4 aces and i-know-that-you-know-that-i-know-that-you-dont-have-4-aces body posture and 3000 year old played out poker dogface stilted body language so you better lay it down and walk away from the table...
Problem is folks you have to have something to bluff with. And you have to show your hand eventually. When someone calls your bluff and your shown to be a scared little man hiding behind aformentioned "tactics" (more like defense mechanisms) that my friend is plain dumb.
