Thursday, July 1, 2010

Background characters

People hate to go unnoticed and feel insignificant. I am constantly reminded of this element of human nature everyday at the tables. Here's a common scenario to illustrate: Bunch of players in a hand, first player checks and the third player checks prematurely skipping the second player. Second player makes big scene about getting skipped and wants to act on his hand. Thirty seconds go by, he postures, checks and then folds his hand. This player never was going to play the hand anyway, but wanted the respect of being the center of attention. If he was going to check anyways, why make a huge scene to slow the game down, just let the action unfold naturally. Instead this Joe stops time for thirty seconds before it can resume its natural progression. this needs to be amended.

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