Oct. 27th, 2010

jack: (Default)
Poll #4882 Bibles
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


How many bibles do you own

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Mean: 3.35 Median: 2 Std. Dev 3.04
0
2 (7.7%)
1
6 (23.1%)
2
7 (26.9%)
3
2 (7.7%)
4
3 (11.5%)
5
1 (3.8%)
6
1 (3.8%)
7
1 (3.8%)
8
0 (0.0%)
9
0 (0.0%)
10
2 (7.7%)
11
1 (3.8%)
12
0 (0.0%)
13
0 (0.0%)
14
0 (0.0%)
15
0 (0.0%)
jack: (Default)
How not to give poker commentary:

- "That is poker"
- "He's either got a big hand, or he's bluffing"
- "They both have pairs and they're both red"
- "He's trying to decide whether to call"

It seems to veer wildly between repeating what happens to be on the screen in a fake excited voice, and assuming a professional-level of poker experience. I know commentating is hard to do excellently, but I'd have thought a reasonable level of explanation would be to assume people know the basic rules, but might not know basic strategy, so saying things like "A has a better hand, but has to decide between X and Y" or "A has to guess whether B has X or Y" might actually help. Or maybe I'm just biased by my own level of experience.