i like all those quotes, they all work untill u run 100 bi under ev.
Thanks for saving my time destroying Jared Tandler's quote. In order not to be "empty-worded" I've spoken about this nature with few very smart men and they can twist his head completely opposite in no time. No disrepect to the author, I did get couple usefull things out of his studies, but sometimes he just goes over the roof recklessly IMO.
Also it reminds me of that quote, which many people count as the best words spoken on 2p2 ever. Something like...you will run bad, you will run worse then you could imagine, only the latter thinks he doesnt deserve this blah blah... I thought that quote was so God-awesome, until I've fallen into bottom 0.00001% of all players. I'm happy for other 99.9999% of all players, because they will not get a chance over their whole career time to experience what it is to be in the 1st group. Their worst run they could ever imagine is almost my normal bad run. And i'm blessing them for not believing that it's possible that i ran way worse then their imagination could imagine for a quite long period of time. 99.9% of people will never fully understand how luck can play enourmous role in the "game of skills", while bitching at standard few bad beats. They will never understand just for example how it feels when 11.4% of your AA over dang two years gets to see freaking flop in HU, while donks you face have no problem playing 50%+ OOP and IP hands and will never think WTF how's it possible unless they see your cards lmao. Even Ivey or Jungle or whoever would start thinking how it's possible without beeing rigged. In more scientific words, the odds of it are so so miserable that it will never ever happen to most of you in your whole life.
Last edited by PureDiesel; 03-02-2012 at 04:07 PM.
i like all those quotes, they all work untill u run 100 bi under ev.
I agree that it is harder to stick in that mindset when things get tough, but that's when you need it the most. It's just a question of mental pain tolerance imo
^^Dude, I found out that i have unhumanly enormous mental pain tolerance, given what I've been trough. And, no, it's just a question of ODDS of happening, and when it keeps happening at real sick odds there's no way spoon doesn't exist. When you lost yesterday, day before ,today, tomorrow and so on, you draw a graph and see a pattern, that DOES EXIST IRL. If people wouln't use this tool and think in this key, modern world would fall apart. So those quotes are to trick average-thinking population.
^^Dude, I found out that i have unhumanly enormous mental pain tolerance, given what I've been trough.
And, no, it's just a question of ODDS of happening, and when it keeps happening at real sick odds there's no way spoon doesn't exist.
There will always be outliers in variance, that is true. However, just because the outlier occurs to you doesn't mean you are somehow special and have an inherent "unlucky streak" to your existence. If you look at it from the inverse, a guy who runs great for 1m hands would have the same fallacy that he was somehow special either through his "lucky streak" or his perception of his own godlike poker skills. But the truth is that that perceived "streak" could change at any moment for either of you.
As for your argument that the spoon does exist, of course it exist's, but only in our mind. The spoon, like a streak, does not have an independent existence outside of our minds. Sure, there may be particles arranged in the pattern we identify as a spoon, and there may be a series of events arranged in such a way that we perceive it as a streak, but the labels we give them are constructs in our mind. They are not inherent to the spoon or the streak. Reality does not exist purely outside ourselves or within ourselves, reality is a constant interaction between ourselves and the way we perceive things in our environment.
When you lost yesterday, day before ,today, tomorrow and so on, you draw a graph and see a pattern, that DOES EXIST IRL. If people wouln't use this tool and think in this key, modern world would fall apart. So those quotes are to trick average-thinking population.
The first thing I'd say is if you're spending that much time validating how bad you run, then you should be spending your time better. If you spend less time focusing on things you CANNOT CONTROL, and more time focusing on things you can control, then things will get a lot better for you.
I agree pattern recognition is an amazing tool of humanity, it's how we make sense of the world. However, we have to be very skeptical with it, because the human mind is very capable of recognizing pattern's that are not real as the result of biases that plague us. Here's an example:
A lot of people see the virgin Mary on the sandwich, assume that it must be a miracle from God, etc. This is obviously fallacious imo, there are billions of grilled cheese sandwiches made, and this bound to happen eventually. The human mind sees a pattern here though, and then tries to find a way to explain it. However, this sandwich is an outlier, not a the deliberate miracle of a god. If we are not skeptical of our pattern recognition, we would not realize this though.
lololol @ stupid snadwich picture comparison. And lol at me wasting too much enerhy on what i can not control. No, I don't man, trust me, but yeah, i don't keep it quiet and shamelessly bitch about it, but i don't care, it helps relieve lots of tilt tensing up, so next day, no matter how bad i ran, i will be ready to 3bet you 30% again and again and take your maneys f the do.
Last edited by PureDiesel; 03-02-2012 at 11:12 PM.
lololol @ stupid snadwich picture comparison. And lol at me wasting too much enerhy on what i can not control. No, I don't man, trust me, but yeah, i don't keep it quiet and shamelessly bitch about it, but i don't care, it helps relieve lots of tilt tensing up, so next day, no matter how bad i ran, i will be ready to 3bet you 30% again and again and take your maneys f the do.
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