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I AM NOT IN THE SPOY COMPETITION BY CHOICE
By GWL666Mar 05, 09 01:29 AM
You guys don't get it. I am not in the SPOY competition. Let me repeat that, I am not in the SPOY competition by choice, like many other players. I do not have the time or desire to play in that many cash tournaments.
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I am flattered that so many of you looked at my profile to see that I have played 49,981 hands and have only made 7 cash final tables with no 1st place wins in cash tournaments.
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So what? I am not in the SPOY competition. I don’t play many daily cash tournaments, e.g. none this week so far. So whatever point you are trying to make, is pointless.
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What do you think that proves? It proves nothing because you do not know whether those hands were played in cash tournaments or non-cash tournaments. And, you have no way of knowing how well I have done in non-cash tournaments because Spade Club does not give badges or trophies for non-cash tournaments, except for the Bellagio.
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You do know that “hands played” includes all hands played, just not those in cash tournaments? Do you really understand that?
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If you do, then you should know you that you can not used that as a measure of anything. So if I played 49,981 hands and 42,000 of those hands were in non-cash tournaments and you don’t get badges or trophies for non-cash tournaments, what can you tell about my play? Nothing, other than I do not play in many cash tournaments.
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But, you don’t even know that unless I tell you because that information is not available. Send Spade Club an email and request that they tell you how many of your hands played were hands played in cash tournaments versus non-cash tournaments and see what response you get. They do not know and do not keep that breakdown.
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So hands played tell you nothing; and that is exactly what Spade Club will tell you. Send them an email and ask them what “hands played” means. They will tell you nothing and that they are removing that from the profile soon because it is only the total hands you have played since joining Spade Club and means nothing.
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I do think Spade Club should provide more statistics on a player’s profile so you could make a reasonable comparison, but they don’t so you can’t. And, they have no plans to do that in the future.
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And, you folks who are doing just that are just lacking in any semblance of understanding of simple statistics. Again, I am not in the SPOY competition and have not been since I joined and play very few cash tournaments; so the badges you see and 1st places and final tables for cash tournaments are meaningless. Do you quite get it yet? Probably not!
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Do you truly get it yet? If someone is not playing many cash tournaments and does not care about SPOY and plays mainly point builders and promotional tournaments, they of course will have fewer badges and SPOY points.
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There are not sufficient statistics on any player at Spade Club for you or anyone to properly evaluate any player’s abilities at Texas No-limit Hold’em or Omaha, unless that player is solely in competition for SPOY and plays nothing else but cash tournaments. Do you understand that? If you don’t, contact Spade Club technical support and maybe they can explain it to you. But, even then you do not have the statistics to make any evaluation that means anything.
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For the record, most of my hands played are from 2008, when I played mostly point builders, which is mainly what I play now. Also, in case you don’t know it, the hands played statistics are not accurate and SC is eliminating them soon. I also did not play at this site for 5 weeks, 3 of which were in January 2009.
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In the thirty of so cash tournaments I did play this year, I made one final table with the chip lead but finished 4th; I got bored once again and started calling with marginal hands deliberately because I had more important things to do, i.e., helping my 12 year-old step-son with his homework. I mean wining $5 for 4th place after playing for two hours and then having to play an hour or more time to win $15 more is not worth it to me. For me these daily cash tournaments are boring, more boring, and extremely boring for maybe $20. Now if I paid $20 to enter and the payout was $5,000, yes I would find that exciting and would pay attention while playing; but for $20, who cares?
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My time with my step-son is worth more than you can win in any daily or weekly tournament. I do play in the monthly only because it does not interfere with my free time with my step-son, his homework and Tae Kwon Do.
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You are entitled to your opinions on whether I know anything about poker. I have read more poker books than most and know a lot about odds, outs, position, starting hands, bluffing, semi-bluffs, etc. I especially love it when I hear “It take more than books” and “obviously it has not helped you” too funny, since again, I am not in competition for SPOY and play few cash tournaments. So you have no clue as to how good I am or not; but you are entitled to your opinions.
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I have also said over and over again, I have been playing no-limit for less than 8 months and do not have enough experience yet. But for you to tell me I can’t blog about a topic because of that is absurd; but, you are entitled to your opinions. But again, you have no way of evaluating how good a player I am with the statistics that are available at Spade Club.
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Just like you are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to my opinion about SPOY and the players who are enamored with it.
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My point about SPOY is that it is what it is, a competition for SPOY points to win a cruise at the end of the year, nothing more, despite what you think it is. To compare it to POY is nonsense and then to make that giant leap that it is some how the measure of the best players at Spade Club is also nonsense. I am sorry you can’t understand that, but that is a fact. But, if that is what you want to believe, you are entitled to believe whatever you want. Who am I to burst your bubble? Reality is a lady and she ain’t kind.
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Again, for me, the daily cash tournaments are just not worth the time for the amount of money you can win. I am sure that is why the best players at Spade Club only play the big money weekly and monthly tournaments and don’t care about SPOY. Why don’t you ask some them? But they are hard to find and pin down because most of them don’t compete for SPOY points, only money, and then only the big money where playing for 4 hour or more is worth it.
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Why would anyone play in thousands of daily tournaments over a year to win maybe $5 dollars a day, if that, so that they might win 1st and win an all expenses paid trip for two on a 7-night Card Player Cruise of their choosing? The last time I checked, 7-night card player cruises are not that expensive. Look one up on the internet for yourself if you do not believe me; they are cheap.
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Maybe it is an EGO thing? If so, don’t stop at Spade Club, get the #1 online ranking at real money sites or go for POY; don’t play in the minor leagues, join the majors. But, if you think SPOY is worth it, knock yourself out. Far be it for me to stand in the way of your quest for Poker’s Holy Grail - #1 SPOY.
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Again, I am not in the SPOY competition by choice because I don’t think it is worth the time and effort; I have much better things to do. And, I don’t care whether you like me or not, or whether you think I am a good player or not or whether you think I know anything about poker; but, this is America and your are entitled to your opinion and free speech to a point.
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And, yes of course there are many good and even exceptional players playing at Spade Club; I never said there were not.
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And for the players that play 15 hours a day playing thousands of cash tournaments a year or even 5 tournaments a day at Spade Club trying to win SPOY, knock yourself out and I hope you win that cruise.
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Good Luck
downtown209
i for got what a idiot this guy was lol i glad hes gone