New tournement idea
Psychic Texas Holdem
We bring in the top "psychics" from around the world and have them compete in a Texas Holdem game. We put them in a place where they have to put up or shut up. They're psychic right? They should know what everyone has ... there should be no bluffing happening (unless they watched one of the original Battlestar Galactica shows where Adama (Lorne Green) was able to trick a psychic by thinking about something else and not letting him know where the person he was protecting was (wait ... I am dating myself ... nm)).
If cost is an issue then we can just setup a table and put a phone at each chair. After the cards are delt then the psychic can phone in and tell the dealer what they want to do. I mean if you're psychic then you're psychic right? Distance should be meaningless.
Just a thought ...
We bring in the top "psychics" from around the world and have them compete in a Texas Holdem game. We put them in a place where they have to put up or shut up. They're psychic right? They should know what everyone has ... there should be no bluffing happening (unless they watched one of the original Battlestar Galactica shows where Adama (Lorne Green) was able to trick a psychic by thinking about something else and not letting him know where the person he was protecting was (wait ... I am dating myself ... nm)).
If cost is an issue then we can just setup a table and put a phone at each chair. After the cards are delt then the psychic can phone in and tell the dealer what they want to do. I mean if you're psychic then you're psychic right? Distance should be meaningless.
Just a thought ...
Comments
(and BG was great)
If the psychics are so good, why do they have to ask for your credit card number when you call them? Shouldn't they already know it?
THAT'S what I'm talking about!
The fundamentals of giving someone a satisfactory psychic reading are strongly along the lines of being able to extract information from the customer in such a way that the customer is generally unaware that the psychic is doing so. An effective psychic must be highly skilled at what poker players would simply call reading people.
For example, a customer may be impressed with a psychic's abilities if the psychic is able to correctly divine their profession, or the kind of car they drive. Skilled poker players could also often decude the same sorts of things shortly after a new player joins the table.
A poker player will often try to use conversation and being attentive to the opponent's reaction to extract soem information from them. A psychic does the same.
Poker players need excellent short-term and long-term memories, as do psychics. A regular customer might be absolutely blown away by a psychic diving an incredibly specific detail, where the reality of the situation is that the customer had told the psychic the tidbit several months earlier and had forgotten about the conversation since. Similarly, a poker player gains a significant advantage by being in tune with what his opponents have "told" him about their play a few minutes ago, and a few months ago.
You don't have to believe in eerie powers like ESP to understand how an effective psychic operates. Along the same lines, an effective poker player doesn't need the ability to see through cards with X-ray vision to draw conclusions about opponents' secret holdings. Both poker players and psychics use logic, psychology and most importantly observation and memory to extract and make use of information which is given to them from whoever may be across the table from them.
ScottyZ
Just had to go and suck the fun right out of it for us, eh?
oh oh oh wait. Since we're having psychics play each other by phone then we should also
see the "really good ones" be able to move their chips around. Push em in, pull em back
and some of the fanciest damn chip tricks you'll ever see.
What if we got down to a psychic vs a jedi knight in a heads up tournament?
psychic: I sense you have pocket 9's
jedi: [waves hand] no, you sense I have 56o
psychic: I sence you have 56o
jedi: [waves hand] you don't need to see my cards
psychic: [mucks] I don't need to see your cards
end if
(there ... I am mocking psychics AND jedi knights ... suck the fun outta that one!)
I can't beieve i am wasting my time on this.....
much more than the psychics would. You see, they wouldn't even bother playing, because they all know who would win. ANd therefore only one of them would "show up" and thus complete the circle by winning by default. Or, perversely, perhaps by winning by proclamation (the others wouldn't dare challenge him for they already KNOW he will win) and thus joining the Grand Old Man Johnny Moss in an elite circle indeed - voted by your peers to be the best poker player in the field.