Posted by Johnnymac 7:46 PM
....aaaand in my continuing effort to be the permanent grumpy old crank of this blog, yet another observation of the inaneness of online micro-limit big-bet poker: The "Call Any" checkbox.

This has to be both simultaneously the most dumbfounding and beautiful innovation in the history of the world. Dumbfounding because blindly calling any bet unseen has to be one of the worst move anyone can make in a poker game (even if you have the stone cold nuts on 4th street, why look eager?) and beautiful because, well, if someone is so dumb to use it, I want to be playing with him.

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Posted by  C.L. Russo, at 8:07 AM, February 28, 2006  

I agree with you, to a point. If you're so confident in your hand that you're going to call anything, you should probably raise instead.

Also, I doubt most players at the micro-limit level notice fast calls. The only thing they notice is if you go into the tank, and that's only because it gives them the chance to type 'zzzzzz' into the chat.

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Posted by  Johnnymac, at 10:41 AM, February 28, 2006  

Yeah, but no matter the limit, that button is there on all of the tables, from 1c/2c to $1000/$2000. Amazing.

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