Giving Up?
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empoleok14
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i think its retarded how they change the sets and rotate the cards and stuff that the only downer if it didnt change stuff and rotate it would be alot easier for people
Rather boring if you find yourself only able to play commonly made strategies, I agree. Bobby Fisher, one of the greatest players alive, got to where he was by studying common strategies in Chess, then devising one that would be able to statistically handle all of them, while still being able to adapt for unusual strategies.
Pure skill and psychology is what Chess is, and considering its been around for around 500 years, I'd say if its not broken why fix it.
JandPDS
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I just find it a little bit hillaroiuos that the person who finsished 2nd in regionals last year with such a random Magmortar/Cystation Crystal deck would compose such a post complaining about loosing to random noob decks.
gashmoigidy
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if we didin't rotate, we'd all be doomed to rocklock or some such deck.
lolganium
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play in an unlimited tourney, you'll see why that would 100% ruin the game.
chess is good, but texas hold-'em is the way people.
AzNightmare
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I think unlimited is fine with friends. We all play casually and no one's gonna be insane enough to spend a few hundred bucks buying BOXES of boosters. In the end, unlimited or not, I find if anyone is willing to throw in enough cash, anyone's gonna have an awesome deck. And even a noob should be able to win if they have a big advantage from having a very good deck. But even in limited tourneys, we see the same cards/archtypes being used over and over again anyway. Whenever it's a tournament of any format, I expect to see the same 3 or 4 different types of decks being used because everyone that's participating in the tourney is probably serious enough to spend a few hundred on getting the best cards they need. I honestly find more variety in decks in less serious, casual playing, because people will actually go and try out new decks/strategies, since there is no big stake for losing. Although Tourney (of any format) and just casual playing is both fun in their own ways.
While Hold'em is very fun, I laugh at anyone that says I'm a "professional" poker player.
That game is more or less full of luck. You can have your bag of tricks or theories on reading people. Yes, THEORIES, because there is no one set guide on how to read another human beings mind/actions, and to throw in the fact they can be trapping you, poker face, using reverse psychology, it's all luck.
The only skill comes in understanding the probabilitiy of cards, but even then, it's still luck. Anyone can still win with offset deuce 7. If some total noob goes all in with that, and gets freakin lucky and lands a full house somehow, he wins.
The cards do the talking in the end, regardless how much "skill" a player claims he has or not. Most players are man enough to just admit they lost. Unless you're Phil Hellmuth, the biggest crybaby I know of. He'll come up with some stupid excuse about his loss. Like the other players were talking too loud so he couldn't think. He's a joke.
While Hold'em is very fun, I laugh at anyone that says I'm a "professional" poker player.
That game is more or less full of luck. You can have your bag of tricks or theories on reading people. Yes, THEORIES, because there is no one set guide on how to read another human beings mind/actions, and to throw in the fact they can be trapping you, poker face, using reverse psychology, it's all luck.
The only skill comes in understanding the probabilitiy of cards, but even then, it's still luck. Anyone can still win with offset deuce 7. If some total noob goes all in with that, and gets freakin lucky and lands a full house somehow, he wins.
The cards do the talking in the end, regardless how much "skill" a player claims he has or not. Most players are man enough to just admit they lost. Unless you're Phil Hellmuth, the biggest crybaby I know of. He'll come up with some stupid excuse about his loss. Like the other players were talking too loud so he couldn't think. He's a joke.
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Phazon Elite
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I had been playing in OP since 2004, and that's the first time I ever won prizes from a legit (non-prerelease) tourney. It's also the one time I wasn't slapped by tiebreaker and didn't get utterly terrible draws (except in the finals against Paul) . . . but at least I didn't get a T1 win. I had to actually think about what I was doing, and my opponents had the illusion that they might win beyond the first two turns. Even in cases where they got owned by bad draws and terrible opening hands while I landed perfectly timed Warps/Cessations and won nearly every game of RPS, we actually got to play the game instead of just showing off our opening hands.
The format nowadays brings to mind the guy who won the Grinder just thanks to Riolu starts against Holon's Castform (which is still hilarious), but on a much grander scale.
AZN: Unlimited is entirely different. There are multiple ways to get a setup going to avoid T1 donk, even if you go first. There is an out for any situation. It's beautiful.
lolganium
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that is pretty strange to play with mate :wink:
im really struggling to stay motivated right now ... i got donked by a junior playing a machamp deck on wednesday ... ihe wasnt even a good player, my friend built th deck for him (he was a master) and just just went secon and got the candy donk.
(TYranitarFReak)
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As a student i dont really have time for all these deck test or so called new archtype counters , SD etc etc...
BTW there's not a tourney near me.
add in the fact that it's getting kinda boring after like 4-5 years of playing....
I just dont feel like playing anymore. My time and money are better spent with my friends and buying a phone.
BTW there's not a tourney near me.
add in the fact that it's getting kinda boring after like 4-5 years of playing....
I just dont feel like playing anymore. My time and money are better spent with my friends and buying a phone.