maybe ripjohn is going a bit crazy by PMing people with HH's, and maybe he posts too many bad beats etc...But don't you think everyone is getting on his case just a little bit too much? I mean i was on vacation for a couple weeks so maybe i missed too much stuff, but to me he seems like an active poster (post whore might be more descriptive) who doesn't quite understand what bad beats are or whatever - Is it his avatar that inspires such hostility?

for instance, his ? to aces about fear of a boat - I have posted questions to Gabe and Fnord regarding theories on their hands (like the A flopping, and inducing bluffs) - Just because I don't play 10/20 NL doesn't mean its a concept that I just should stay away from, or not ask about - I ask because I want to know (nobody is answering me though, so im starting to suspect their is a definite hierarchy going on lately)

so whats going on lately? Are only the great players supposed to be discussing big hands? I know that we low level guys don't get everything, but didn't everyone start exactly where we are now? I understand nobody wants to be inundated with HH's all day long and answering the same questions gets old - But I think everyone should understand that there are all sorts of levels of talent around here - and if someone is asking a question, its not to annoy people...its to get answers -