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merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: Poker topic needed...

There�s this company here that needs a full time poker writer. I sent them my resume and some writing samples and they were interested enough to request of me another, more specific writing sample

I have to write a 300--1000 word journalistic piece on Poker�any aspect of it�players, tips, online, legal�anything at all. Just to show I can write and have some knowledge of poker.

I�m trying to think of something original, but my ideas are slow in coming.

Kate's no help. All she likes tp do is play Go Fish, except she calls it So Wish and the rules are different and we always end up drunk and naked.

Anyone?

This sound like a cool job.

Kenny Kimchee · Joined: 12 May 2003

Just go to twoplustwo.com and cardplayer.com and plagiarize something from there...

merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Kenny Kimchee · Joined: 12 May 2003

Is "here" somewhere back in the States?

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

How about a rant about how on tv shows, the supposedly good poker player never wins by actual skill, but by getting ridiculously good hands all the times. You never see a guy make a good read and win with middle pair. No it s always a f*cking royal flush or 4 queens. Seriously. Or the supposedly good player calls all the time with this smug look on his face. Good players do not call(generally). I'll write it for you.

merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject:

merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject:

Yes, I can see it now. I will develop a folowing with my brilliant column, Then, I'll syndicate in one gaming magizine at a time until I'm all over the world.

I'll buy that island that's for sale next to Gary Larsen's in the Bahamas and build a mansion. We'll play Risk every Tuesday while our wives do whatever they do in Gary's meditation garden.

I'll get a flat screen TV and a yelow submarine.

I'll run for president in 2016 when Obama is done and I'll finally have a platform for my FTPFS program (Feed the People First Stupid)

Yes, it's all clear. All I have to do is to write this little paper and I'm golden.

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Are you sure this will be a good job for you if you can't even think of a topic?

merlot · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

merlot · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

This is a rough thesis I'm working on:

When comparing and contrasting the in-game thought processes of professional poker players verses the mentally of professional blackjack players �it becomes apparent the scope, although equally intense and demanding, encompasses completely different dynamics. It took an accomplished innovator of both games, Arnold Snider, to develop and publish the first book deviating from the mainstream thought that dictates strategy should be the same for low buy-in poker play just as big money games.

>>>>compare and contrast the two games in terms of thinking processes.<<<<

Paragraph 2--poker mindset

Paragraph 3 --blackjack mindset

Paragraph 4--tie in contrast and comparisons from both

Paragraph 5--concludes that although mental processes are different in both games--having to ability to "think outside the box" is a common denominator.

An expert of thinking outside the box in both games, may pull something valuable out of one, and add it to the other for its benefit

Hence, Snyder's acclaimed book, The Poker Torunameant Formula

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

What about:

Poker is a Joke: How most "poker players" lose more playing poker than they would if they were playing any house edge game.