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Arrogant
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If I had any other job, I’d want to work with animals.
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Strong Means Weak and Weak Means Strong
by Chad Holloway
“Strong means weak and weak means strong” is a concept discussed in Daniel Negreanu’s More Hold’em Wisdom for All Players and one of the most trusted maxims in the poker world. The concept is rooted in “reverse psychology,” which is defined on dictionary.com as: “a method of getting another person to do what one wants by pretending not to want it or to want something else or something more.”
In this case, poker players tend to act strong when they want another player to fold because they actually hold a weak hand; likewise, players act weak in the hopes of inducing action when they actually hold a strong hand. Although this is a simple concept to grasp, recognizing when it’s being applied can be more difficult; however, there are a number of different ways of to tell. Negreanu says there are two things to keep an eye out for: “This is another common tell that you can spot in several forms. It can be the way a player throws his chips into the pot or the tone of his voice that gives away his hand.”
Talking at the poker table is always an iffy situation. Whenever a player, whether it is you or your opponent, opens their mouth, they are supplying valuable information to the entire table. It is then up to the remaining players to interpret that information and act accordingly.
When you are making a decision based upon another player’s words, just remember “strong means weak and weak means strong.” As Negreanu explains:
“When a player sounds dejected, saying something like, ‘Well, I guess it’s now or never; I might as well bet all of my chips,’ that’s usually a sign that he holds a powerful hand. He’s trying to sound weak so he doesn’t scare you off. Trust me, he’ll show you a full house if you call him!”
Table talk is not the only thing at the poker table that captures the “strong means weak and weak means strong” philosophy. Negreanu talks about another situation where he routinely picks up valuable information:
“Another way to spot this tell is to watch how an opponent puts his chips into the pot. Did he forcefully throw his chips toward you, or did he gently place a stack in the pot? When a player throws his chips in an aggressive manner, he’s trying to scare you. He probably has a weak hand. On the flipside, when he gently places his bet in the pot, he likely has something strong and he’s inviting you into the pot, hoping that you’ll call.”
Aside from looking for strong and weak moves by your opponents, be sure to pay attention to your actions as well. Are you putting your chips in forcefully when you have a weak hand? Do you talk about how bad your hand is when it is actually strong? If so, you might want to make some changes, because your opponents are catching on to it. Furthermore, now that you are privy to the tricks of “strong means weak and weak means strong,” you can use them to your advantage. Feel free to change things up by acting strong when you actually have a hand, oftentimes this will confuse your opponents just enough to get them to pay you off!
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The Karate Kid Trailer (1984)
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Snake oil, originally a fraudulent liniment without snake extract, has come to refer to any product with questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit. By extension, a snake oil salesman is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is themselves a fraud, quack, or charlatan.
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…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
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People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
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Alla Prima
Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting,
in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered
layers of wet paint. This technique requires a fast way of working,
because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried.
It may also be referred to as ‘direct painting’ or the French term au premier coup (at first stroke).[1]
Wet-on-wet painting has been practiced alongside other techniques
since the invention of oil painting, and was used by several of the
major Early Netherlandish painters in parts of their pictures, such as Jan van Eyck in the Arnolfini portrait, and Rogier van der Weyden.[2]
In traditional painting methods new layers were applied to most parts
of a painting only after allowing the previous layer to completely dry.
This drying process could vary from several days to several weeks,
depending on the thickness of the layer. Work done using “alla prima”
can be carried out in one or more sessions – depending on the type of
paints used and their respective drying time – but it is mostly done in
one session or “sitting” only.[3]
Among the many Baroque painters who favored an alla prima technique were Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. In the Rococo era, connoisseurs appreciated bold alla prima painting, as exemplified in the works of artists such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, and Thomas Gainsborough.
Since the mid-19th century, the use of commercially produced pigments
in portable tubes has facilitated an easily accessible variety of
colors to be used rapid and on-the-spot painting. Impressionists like Claude Monet, post-Impressionists like Vincent van Gogh, realists like John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri and George Bellows, Expressionists such as Chaim Soutine, and the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning
have each in different ways exploited the potential for fluid energy in
the application of oil paints. It is still heavily used by both
figurative and non-figurative fine artists today.[4]
In the medium of watercolors,
wet-on-wet painting requires a certain finesse in embracing
unpredictability. Highly translucent and prone to accidents, watercolor
paint will bloom in unpredictable ways that, depending on the artist’s
frame of mind, can be a boon or a burden.
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Who seeks shall find.