| ure everyone at one time or another has seen a | | | | rare skill to bluff. |
| painting of a group of gentlemanly canines engaged in | | | | Since there is no way to identify the poker players |
| an anthropomorphic game of poker as created by | | | | online due to its anonymous nature, no one knows if |
| Cassius Coolidge in his wonderful series of poker | | | | their opponents are human or something other than |
| playing dog paintings. But check this out, the artists | | | | human. That player who started off betting small and |
| whimsicality was not entirely removed from reality. | | | | showing his lame cards to all, the one who much later |
| You may be nave enough to think that chips and | | | | bet large, had everyone call, then gleefully showed |
| chimps cannot play together as a team and it sounds | | | | aces was probably one of the non-humans. The |
| more like something out of a Douglas Adams novel. | | | | players had no idea he then jumped up and down, |
| Should you ever play online poker with a player who | | | | pounded his chest and demanded a banana. |
| has an ape photo for his icon, it may not have been | | | | Not coincidentally, the primate-payers were initially |
| just a player with an odd sense of humor, the dude | | | | hired as computer programmers. They actually |
| that took your money by his excellent play may | | | | develop programs by themselves as a side line to |
| really be a poker playing primate. I kid you not. Apes | | | | playing poker. PPI has not yet revealed the content |
| can do a lot more than wield tools in this twenty first | | | | of these programs. Certainly, though, they could go |
| century of technological advances and "intelligence | | | | for a career in professional online-poker playing. They |
| explosion" they can also beat you at online poker. | | | | don't seem to want to pursue this career choice, |
| Primate Programming Inc has established that great | | | | however. When they leave the office, they are very |
| apes (sharing 97% of their DNA with us) make | | | | apt to neglect all their training and go back to climbing |
| efficient IT specialists. Individuals are employed by | | | | fences and eating bananas. Even so, if they are paid |
| PPI, undergo training and offer their services to PPI | | | | regularly, given three squares a day and a boyfriend |
| clients for peanuts. A later PPI discovery was that | | | | or girlfriend, David Sklansky and Ed Miller may have to |
| the same employees, for purposes of pastime or | | | | update their No-limit Hold'em instruction books very |
| secondary sources of income, are capable of being | | | | soon. |
| taught to play online poker, evincing particular talent | | | | For the past several years, Norm McAuliffe, a Yale |
| for no-limit Texas Hold'em. | | | | biology Phd and the scientist heading the research |
| No-limit poker appeals to these employees because | | | | team behind the discovery of programmer apes, has |
| of their natural bent for playful (and sometimes | | | | been investing money and effort into a Primate |
| serious) displays of aggression. PPI tells us that is this | | | | Poker Inc, "hiring" profitable ape-players to play for |
| quality that makes them outstanding bluffers. | | | | money in rotating shifts, 24 hours a day. He has been |
| Aggressive bluffing in no-limit games allows the player | | | | quoted as saying: "I'm completely committed to this |
| to bet it all at any time. This rule of the game | | | | business model. It is reasonable to say I am "all in". |
| requires edgy, aggressive behavior and the rather | | | | |