You took the words right out of my mouth. I wrote a rebuttal article to the one Bob did on stress. I believe he's going to use it next week.
My criteria for declaring something "a play" was a 2% edge. This way one could run a little bad and still make money.
Bob would argue that this is no longer possible. I would agree, all the progressives I've played this year were at least 4% edges.
As long as you are happy with a 90/10% scouting to play ratio, it's still possible to get some good overlays.
Bob & I are very different in precisely the same way.
~FK
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bobbartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
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> In his last article he was discussing "stress", and in it he mentioned that $5 and up players would be thrilled to get a half percent edge, and frequently a quarter percent is higher than they can find.
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> I cannot tell you the many times when I have left my WinPoker running on high speed simulation and come back an hour later and it's run some several gazillion hands. I mean, literally, 10 to 20 million hands. And, not always, but often enough, the result is OVER a quarter percent off from the "expected" result.
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> So if what Bob said is true, and I certainly believe him, these BIG players like him would not be assured they're going to end up in the black even after a decade or more of play. Wow! Talk about a hard way to make an easy living!
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