JustRalph
08-19-2009, 04:12 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/columns/story?columnist=cronley_jay&id=4405951
From the LinK: Please read the whole thing......pretty good stuff
The literacy and wit and humor that exist among horse players are unmatched in all other sports or gambles. Geeky odds and percentages aside, poker usually comes down to, "Uh, let's see, all in." Then cards are flashed and smacked down like Junior playing War, biggest wins. Blackjack is memorizing your counting keys. I know all the presidents and all the state capitals, big deal, pass the grilled cheese. Memorizing isn't intelligence, memorizing is memorizing, it's genetic, it's a prodigy playing Mozart upside down and then leaving his or her Rolex on the keyboard.
Intelligence is the creative application of memory toward a solution. That's horse race handicapping.
From the LinK: Please read the whole thing......pretty good stuff
The literacy and wit and humor that exist among horse players are unmatched in all other sports or gambles. Geeky odds and percentages aside, poker usually comes down to, "Uh, let's see, all in." Then cards are flashed and smacked down like Junior playing War, biggest wins. Blackjack is memorizing your counting keys. I know all the presidents and all the state capitals, big deal, pass the grilled cheese. Memorizing isn't intelligence, memorizing is memorizing, it's genetic, it's a prodigy playing Mozart upside down and then leaving his or her Rolex on the keyboard.
Intelligence is the creative application of memory toward a solution. That's horse race handicapping.