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Poker Player Tweets of the Week: Forgetting "Runner Runner"11 October 2013
As Jerry Seinfeld noted in "The Raincoats" episode of Seinfeld, "… men wear their underwear until it absolutely disintegrates. Men hang on to underwear until, until each individual underwear molecule is so strained it can barely retain the properties of a solid. It actually becomes underwear vapor." An underwear brand called "Rips" is actually quite fitting, then. And there are definitely plenty of names that are worse. "Skids" or "Drips," as a couple of Ausmus' followers responded, are on the list. I'm interested to hear more. Thursday, Oct. 10: Jay "@Jay_Farber_LV" Farber Eli Manning has been terrible as his New York Giants have fallen to 0-6 following a Thursday night loss to the Chicago Bears. And while at first glance I thought this was an absurd notion, Manning legitimately does make a strong case for the "worst QB in the league" title. Take noted deadbeat QB and Aaron Todd favorite Christian Ponder, for instance. The Minnesota Vikings quarterback's highest QBR in a game this year is 57.9, which is pretty awful. Manning hasn't even eclipsed that mark in any of his six games in 2013, and has posted QBRs below 30 in four of his starts. To be fair, Manning is cursed by a horrendous offensive line and has been forced to take too many shots down the field in games where his team is getting blown out. But it's also always fun to laugh at the Giants. Wednesday, Oct. 9: Jeremy "@jeremyausmus" Ausmus Yikes. Ironically, Aaron and I were just having a discussion about my fear of having kids for pretty much this exact reason. Don’t get me wrong -- I really do want to have kids someday. But the prospect of having to take care of what amounts to an unpredictably insane tiny human being is frightening to me. I do think that things like this would be funny. But if, as Ed Norton's character Worm in Rounders was right when he said, "In the poker game of life, women are the fucking rake," kids are the bad beat jackpot that never hits. Wednesday, Oct. 9: Phil "@PhilGalfond" Galfond I'd feel way worse for Phil Galfond if he wasn't already a complete luckbox in life. This hand is insane and would be worth 42 points against one opponent (assuming Phil scooped and his opponent, Farah Fath, didn't have any royalty points). And that's not even factoring the potential points gained from being in Fantasyland! This is the kind of Open Face hand that comes around once in a lifetime -- or if you play it as much as the degenerates in the poker world play it, once every couple of weeks. Tuesday, Oct. 8: Matt "@MattGlantz" Glantz This is hilarious. Gavin Smith decided to write an article about a hand he played with Matt Glantz on the Poker Night in America cash game. Glantz won the pot with a nice semi-bluff against Smith (he was actually ahead after flopping bottom pair and a flush draw with 5-2 suited), and Smith opined that Glantz played the hand terribly. Smith makes some valid points in his critique of Glantz's play. But nothing makes a poker player sound like an amateur more than complaining about an opponent's play in a hand, especially in one where the opponent took down the pot with a bluff. Glantz and Smith are both top pros, and though Smith's critique could be correct in a vacuum, he's only considering his own perspective. Glantz obviously had a completely different read on the situation, and it helped him beat Smith in the pot. Related Links
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