Only Politics Post This Election

I'm not American. I would vote for the democrats as the lesser of two evils in this election if I were. I am Canadian, so I probably have a better understanding than any other non-american person of the issues....particularly because there were more articles about the American candidates in the papers than the Canadian candidates that I voted for a week or so ago.

I have suddenly become concerned, after being enthusiastic about Obama, that this election is too easy. He will win, there's no question there. Everything the republicans have done or *been* has worked against them in this campaign.

After Brian Mulroney's reign as PM in the eighties, Canada became a dictatorship. The liberal government had a majority, and passed countless laws that violated not only the charter of rights and freedoms, but the Magna Carta.

The conservative party was absolutely crippled, and many of their parliamentarians became part of a new "reform" party. They split the opposition and allowed Canada to become totalitarian for a long time.

The liberals did not win because Jean Chretien was a swell guy. They won because everyone resented Brian Mulroney.

They were the worst thing to happen to Canada since the french.

Good luck with these next eight years.

NL getting tougher

Well, I played 5/10 limit for a long time grinding out slightly more than a call center job, then found NL and was able to make plenty without playing anywhere near as many hours, and now the NL games are really tough. I think 1/2 is fish central, but it's getting tougher and 2/4 and up are pretty bad games. Not to say there aren't good games now and again, but generally if you're a good player, the other players will be doing similar stuff to you, and working to find places to exploit. So, I played a little 10/20 6m on stars yesterday and today because I was running poorly in NL games, and WOW!

Limit is booming. People are limping 68c UTG and probably not folding if it comes back capped. There are definitely a LOT more very weak and poor players in the midstakes limit games now than midstakes NLHE.

I expect these things to go in cycles. For instance, if all of the legal confusion in the US is finally put to bed, and depositing and withdrawing are made very easy again, I expect to see a lot more extremely weak NL players. For now, though, it looks like unless you want to play fewer tables and really put in effort to gain an edge on reasonably good competition, LHE is where the loose money and big winrates are.

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wcoop 200 LHE

Probably the only wcoop I'm going to play, since I can't be bothered with satellites. Perc and Neverwin are in, I noticed. Anyone else here playing?

Hey Druff

Pokersnoopy seems to kill the 1/2 game and the 2/4. He plays more than anyone else at those stakes, as far as I know, and it says he's from Vegas...surely you must know him?