Re: [vpFREE] Bob D's no brainer at Palms

 

Maybe I've grown a thick skin after 30 years of east coast living (certainly I have more than a few callouses these days) ... but Bob's reply, while emphatic, was fully respectful.

"Why do you care?" can be an obnoxious response to a question, in some circumstances.  But I see Bob's point being that whether he came away a winner was the last thing someone would find beneficial in his column -- he writes to inform and his column had a particular focus (which wasn't the tournament outcome).

I had an aunt Naomi who frequently was dissatisfied by television movies.  If a story featured a couple, the wife pregnant with a baby (incidental to the main story line), even if the primary plot line was satisfied in the end she'd pout if the pregnancy wasn't carried to term during the movie.

Were Bob the writer in that case, I suspect he wouldn't be terribly concerned with Naomi's disappointment.



---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <der145@...> wrote :

What a jerk to respond like this.  All this person did was ask a simple question which was probably on the minds of a lot of people who took the time to read the article.  It is a question that given the circumstances of a story about playing in a tournament that would be on one's mind after reading the article.  You didn't have to respond in such a manner.
 
In a message dated 8/27/2014 5:29:42 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
 

I also found the article very interesting, but the ending was missing - did he or Bonnie win anything in the tournament after all that effort?

 The short answer is no, neither one of us won anything (other than me winning the $1 from her in side bets that I "forgot" to collect) although I did talk a host into a $25 lunch comp.

The longer answer is, "why do you even care?" Even if you found out I won $1,000, what would that tell you? You still wouldn't know my year-to-date score within $50,000. You wouldn't know my net worth within $1 million. You wouldn't know whether I won or lost $100, $1000, $10,000, $100,000 later that weekend. So if my wealth/bankroll before the event was a big unknown to you, which it was, (big unknown + $1,000) is still a big unknown.

Had I won, it wouldn't have made it a better play. Even though I lost didn't mean it was a bad play. Whether a play is good or bad depends on the information available BEFORE you actually make the gamble. And as I argued in the article, thi s was a good low-roller gamble.

Bob


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