I didn't understand anything you just said

Trump finally said something just amusing and not scary about foreign policy. When asked about rescuing the Spanish economy said "maybe after leaving kindergarten they can give up nap time."

Thinking about jumping in the 4 man $5300 against condia and Saahil. Condia had Brandon Marshall in the Thursday slate DU. Easy money

Hmm.

$20/$40 (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players

Button: $485.00
BB: $2,121.00

Button posts SB $10.00, BB posts BB $20.00

Button raises to $40.00, BB calls $20.00

Flop: ($80.00, 2 players) 9 4 2
BB checks, Button bets $20.00, BB calls $20.00

Turn: ($120.00, 2 players) Q
BB checks, Button checks

River: ($120.00, 2 players) A
BB checks, Button checks

BB shows 5 5 (One Pair, Fives)
Button shows Q A (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)

Button wins $119.00

If he's on Siemien (sp?) then I could see finding Marshall for the Thursday. Not that it's great or anything but I don't think it's awful.

Reminds me of John Cusack in Identity. Watched the most recent Mr. Robot episode on On Demand today. One episode left, I believe, in this season. Not sure where everyone is at though, so will leave out any details.

Sethypoo is the director of basketball operations for the bucks. Sounds like a cool job.

That was an observed hand, btw

It's ok bro... you can just go ahead and admit that you were BTN in that hand. Do you really think anyone believes that some non-PTR era random suddenly had a breakthrough post-bf on an anonymous site? PTR or it didn't happen, yo! So you got fancy on the turn and felt the c/r coming from 53 and you were wrong... it happens. Hey, at least you got one of his hole cards right! Just be grateful that you make enough money to donk off 6 figs per year to peons like us.

If Condia does something I think is stupid guess who's the fool. I did take second in a $5 GPP yesterday though. Screw poker.

I have no idea what a director of basketball operations is supposed to do. What is cool about it?

Which site was this Brandon Marshall lineup on?

DK. I'm in the screw the kicker school
Mariota/Yeldon/D.Johnson/Marshall/Sharpe/OBJ/Green/Langford/Pats. His DU lineup Thurs-Monday slate..scored 114. Pay me the money

It's fine but yeah there are a few plays in there that I think can be upgraded. My point is I wouldn't be looking to sit against it at 6% rake (I realize you are probably just joking). I always laughed in poker when reg battles happened between dudes that were probably just having an E(X)=0, Var(X)=∞ ego contest (that's a Student's t distribution with 1 < d.f. <= 2 for you nerds out there).

Some reg: livb is ****ing AWFUL. Just saw him make a bad shove in a marginal spot! Ima break this FOOL.

I think somewhere along the way, people forgot how rake works when transitioning to dfs. I've seen arguments, on these forums even, that dfs rake isn't a problem. I'm confident I could go back into the 2p2 archives and find some 2006 SNG reg confidently boasting the same thing about poker rake.

And they aren't totally wrong, other than suffering from an extreme case of myopia. It's true the sites can tune the rake to match winrates in the current time period. The problem is the skill gap between sharps/fish is largest at the beginning, so the high rake just compounds the fish's dilemma. He registers for 10 $1 contests and then gets this string of emails:

In time period t_j, the suits can't figure out why new depositor dollars are falling short of projections. They panic, then decide to give more incentives to volume grinders. In time period t_n, Amaya owns both FanDuel and Draftkings, folds them both into StarsDraft, and Matthew Berry tells us about the great changes that are "in the works" while hawking Choice Center memberships on his fantasy podcast.

So has DFS gotten softer or tougher in the past 2 years? I am hoping it has gotten tougher because it would make me feel smart for deciding to stick with poker after giving DFS a shot for a month back in 2014.

And wow, DFS is definitely broken... Condia grinding 1000 games/day is so much worse for the games than nanonoko or MI2 grinding SNE.

It's definitely tougher, but NFL is still very fishy and you should be playing it. I really don't think the other sports would be worth your time, especially NBA.

Just to clarify, you should be playing it with 6 accounts like Zeejustin since no one is going to stop you.

Ya, I keep hearing that NFL is where it's at. But damn... I am just so obsessive about games that I think my "hourly" would suck almost no matter what. And I just don't wake up early enough to make last minute lineup swaps. I thought NBA was a lot of fun, but I just wasn't feeling the edge. And it seems even shadier than online poker as far as the optimal way to behave as a pro.

Finally finished season 2 of Mr. Robot!

@andy

So I often check out the high stakes games on Stars and have noticed something interesting. For starters, the 10/20+ PLO games are almost always the exact same lineups at each table with no true fish. Like if there are 4 50/100 PLO tables, the lineup will usually be the same at each table or very similar... just regs. But there is one major difference that I keep seeing...

I notice that some of the regs are playing like 10 tables. Some of them do really dumb **** like playing 8-10 tables while playing in these lineups. As far as I can tell, these are the "fish" in these games. Then there are the guys who are generally considered the true elite... Ike Haxton, Ben Tollerene, Jeans86, Jungleman, etc. I notice that these guys are usually only playing 3-4 tables.

This reminds me of the old days on Stars where the SNE LHE grinders routinely got butchered by the "elite" who usually only play 2-4 tables. The SNE grinders were consistently unable to recognize that while they may be winners at the soft tables, they were bleeding so much money in the tougher games that it was negating their SNE rakeback and then some.

It looks to me like there is a lot of money to be made at Stars high stakes by simply turning off youtube, focusing hardcore on only 2 tables, and taking regular breaks to stay fresh. The fatigued 8-tablers should have no chance. I suspect that in the more complex big bet games such as PLO or 8-game, the edge against these degen types should be huge since the 2-tabler is going to have their sizing tells hacked and know all of their tendencies as well as just generally making better fundamental decisions.

And yes, I realize that it takes a lot of skill to even be able to hang with the auto-piloting high stakes PLO regs. And yes, it is pretty discouraging that the games are in such a sad state that it is necessary to beat up on 8-tablers instead of real fish. But I still think this is all very interesting.

LHE definitely reached a point a few years ago where I felt like the top 100 players in the world were extremely close in ability. I felt like the reg vs. reg battles in 6-max games were mostly draws... or at least that it was no longer fathomable to beat the rake against most Stars regs. I wonder if this is now the case at the big bet games.

Wouldn't it be funny if the "elite" at nosebleed PLO are actually of similar skill level to the 500 zoom grinders? And if some of the .50/1-1/2 PLO grinders are actually nosebleed caliber if they had proper bankrolls and cut it down to 2 tables?

This sort of thing was the case for a long time in LHE. Just something I have been thinking about lately that I thought might be interesting. It's old news to some of us, but I just never hear it discussed in the PLO community.