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Article: Superman Syndrome and the Bad Beat Monster

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  1. dgillis dgillis is offline Moderator

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    Jul 3rd, 2009 (7/3/2009 10:17am)

     
  2. X-Men XXL X-Men XXL is offline

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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 9:25am) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Great article! And so damn true!</p>
     
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 9:46am) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Very good article! </p>
     
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 11:15am) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Very good article, but please learn the difference between affect and effect (4th paragraph).  Sorry, I'm real nitty about this.</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 12:16pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>finewhine, no misuse of affect here. His decisions were affected, he wasn't speaking about the effect of his decisions...</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 12:40pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>wow, these are the thought I couldn't articulate but knew them in the back of my head.  Thank You Sir</p>
     
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 6:14pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Great article! </p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 6:58pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>I need a hugg now</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 7:01pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>I gotta friend in which this articles describes him to the T he cant control his emotions and it really disrupts his play.</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 7:52pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>I'm pretty sure hes right it should be EFFECT not affect..... </p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 8:27pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Anyone know where i can score some endophines?</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 8:38pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>nice read</p>
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 9:49pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Best article I have read on here for a while, great read, thanks!</p>
     
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    Jul 9th, 2009 (7/9/2009 9:59pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>good article....everyone needs to learn how to talk a walk more often</p>
     
  15. dgillis dgillis is offline Moderator

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    Jul 10th, 2009 (7/10/2009 7:28am) in reply to dgillis

    <p>TY for all the positive comments, greatly appreciated.</p>
     
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  16. finewhine finewhine is offline

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    Jul 10th, 2009 (7/10/2009 8:54am) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Thanks for changing it, dgillis!</p>
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    Jul 11th, 2009 (7/11/2009 12:13pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>here's a trick when you want to know which word to use: look it up in the dictionary...</p>
    <p>effect: Verb</p>
    <p>to cause (something) to take place: a peace treaty was effected</p>
    <p>affect: Verb</p>
    <p>1. to influence (someone or something): the very difficult conditions continued to affect our performance</p>
    <p>``I let irrational fear affect my decisions and soon I was over-betting my monsters.''</p>
    <p>affect is a synonym for influence, and that's clearly what he means...</p>
     
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    Jul 28th, 2009 (7/28/2009 6:44pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>WOW, nice grammar lesson finewhine.</p>
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    Aug 1st, 2009 (8/1/2009 5:39pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>A+</p>
    <p>got my inspiration back after these past 2 months!</p>
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    Dec 11th, 2009 (12/11/2009 7:23pm) in reply to dgillis

    <p>Impressive article, it reminds me a bit of myself when I first got into poker. I thought it was so great to get a well executed bluff instead of trying to winning the game. I called that era of my life as having "WPT Syndrome". lol</p>
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