Two Corrections on BoneRack’s House O’ Poker

First of all, I keep forgetting that Pete’s game is BoneRack’s House O’ Poker.  That needs to be addressed first.  Second, I have an apology to make.  In a previous post, I said I lost respect for someone’s game.  This is way more critical than I intended to be and I want to make a 100% absolute uniquivocal apology on what was a mischaracterization on my part.

As you’ll see in the comment below the post, the player was a relative new comer and is consciously trying to work on their balance.  They did play wreckless in one the hands I referred too, but to say I lost complete respect for her game was completely unfair.  Futhermore, reflecting on the second hand, the push with a low Ace was not necessarily a bad move, especially when you consider that I did not raise pre-flop or show any real strength.  You can also see in the post that I note I had never played with the player before so I obviously knew nothing about what I was saying beyond the two hands I referred to.

I’d also like to note that I too was once new to the game and played with much more wreckless abandon than this.  Much worse play and I also probably wouldn’t have been aggressive enough to move with the pair of aces I mentioned above.  Clearly there is much to be said for the power of aggressiveness in poker as aggressiveness is a common denominator of the great majority of top players around the world.

To be so critical of a newer player and a player I know so little about is frustrating for me as this is something I would not want to portray.  It’s one thing to criticize the pros on their poker play, but its another to be critical on a new player still picking up the game – especially coming from someone who is no pro themselves (see: me).  When you’re writing a blog everyday, you don’t always fully realize every word you’re writing yourself.  This was the case here.  Had I looked beyond the grammar on second glance, I obviously would have reworded a truer meaning into that particular passage.