Comment by jcampbell1
11 years ago
I think the writer deserves a ton of credit. This article was informed, technical, and funny.
What I don't understand is how much information the players got. Did they have to learn each half of the deck? That seems absurdly hard. I get the feeling Phil Ivey was just along for the ride. My guess is the chinese guy could watch how the cards were sweeped, adjust in his head which cards were in what half, and recompute odds based on the backs. That is a bat shit crazy talent.
Deserves a ton of credit for record length sentences. A lot of those paragraphs are two 50+ word sentences.
They no longer award credit for that, after a high profile incident involving a couple of poets out of jersey who were caught gaming the system with single-sentence sagas.
I remember that case. Semicolon and Sons sued Sammy "Sentence" Splice, saying his single-sentence sagas seemed somewhat salaciously un-salubrious.