Talk:Steal (poker)

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The article says that stealing can be profitable if the players to ones left are passive. I believe that the correct word here would be tight, not passive. Some passive players call and call and call. Tight players fold.

I posted the above quite awhile ago. You guys don't seem to want to use a meaningful terms, or at least you can't take suggestions. I would change it myself but I don't have time to get involved in editing wars with people who won't even discuss their choices. And I saw what happened to my change below.

I changed "a raise can act as a steal," which was pretty damn meaningless, to "any raise can act as a steal," which was more to the point. Someone changed it back. I won't change it again. you can keep your article pristine, and rather bad, just as you want it. If you don't think my change was an improvement, you could at least say why.

I agree on both counts. Not sure why your earlier edit was reverted without comment. --LDC 06:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

There was a comment, and it wasn't addressed. The "any raise" comment is silly. Steals are a specific circumstance. A raise on seventh street instud will never be a steal. I'm changing it back to the proper language. 2005 06:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Good point: "but...a raise" didn't make grammatical sense. "...any" did, but your version is better grammatically and semantically.