Psycic jiujitsu and John Finn

Subject:      Psycic jiujitsu and John Finn
From:         Jim Geary 
Date:         1997/07/04
Newsgroups:   rec.gambling.poker



Eric Obleman wrote:
 
> Psycic jiujitsu - How an rpger puts a rude local on the tilt-o-whirl
> ride of his life.
> 
> By the way how does a real rpger do this?

Sometimes the rudesbies make it south to my neck of the woods;
they blend in about as well as Captain Kirk from the negative
universe.  I have tracked win rate vs. happy table, and am convinced
that the EV from a happy game is .5 - .75 BB/hr greater at the
merrily-we-limp-along games.  Causation or correlation, who knows?
I do my best John Finn (the positive one, not the negative one :) )
to populate my games with as many happy limpers as possible from the
room.  It's trite, but you really do catch more flies with honey.

As for psy-jiujitsizing those nasty noncompliers, use this table:

1 NN :  Overwhelm him with love and good cheer.  Disarming the NN
        can really fuck up his game.

2 NN :  Separately engage the two NN's and try to elicit a topic
        that they both feel strongly about -- strongly opposite.
        After setting up the engagement, pull back and quietly
        neaten your chips for a while.  There's nothing like watching
        two NN's standing up screaming at each other, "States' rights!"
        "Strong Central Government!".  Then call the floorman over.
        Possible topics:
             Unix  -   NT
             John  -  Paul
             86 Celtics  -  96 Bulls
             Kasparov  -  Ungar
             Anita,Bill  -  Clarence,Paula
             
   (FYI:  the correct answers are NT, John, Bulls, Kasparov, Bill&Clarence!)

3 NN :  Where are you at, the Mirage?  If you're not sure, ask for a 
        comp.  If it's the time of day where there are some free tables,
        try to conspire with the rest of the table to start a 10-20
        Omaha game.  Dollars to donuts says the NN's would rather play
        Razz.

4+ NN : Fuck it.  You are now the Uber-wienie.  You're down to few
        enough local compadres that you won't burn too many bridges,
        and you can always blame the out-of-towners during a future 
        spin-doctoring session.  Get some shades, get some earphones.
        Get the chips.

Regards,
JG 

PS  Most of the people I've met playing at the Mirage are very nice.
I think the higher the limits, the more the good players have a 
professional understanding of the EV of niceness.

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