Maybe hours must be at a table taking full rake or something.

I'd rather kill myself than play full time at The Orleans even though I love it as a visitor. OTOH, I finally sat Talking Stick's 20-40 Big0/Super Stud8 and, if what I saw is the standard level of play, it's what I'll be playing from now on. I'll find out on my next few tries.

Ive only played limit 2-7 dramaha hi, but Id imagine short deck plo variety must be the nuts. That game is so funny especially when u draw and scoop both.

Playing smaller than 8/16 is really painful now, but running poorly at 8/16+ is even more painful.

I have a sample size of 2 hours in which I won $400 but that's not the story. During a measly 2 hours I saw plays made which are truly horrible and I say that having NEVER played SuperStud8 before. If that's the way they play it's the game I'll be in from now on.

Do they run straight high or hi/lo like it's meant to be?

And by "meant to be" I mean because it makes it "like a gold mine?"

Both are in a rotation format. The 8-16 is per usual but the 20 morphed into Big0 and SuperStud8. I'll be at it again on Friday afternoon and am hoping the self described (and proud of it!) action player is in the game.

When I was there on Monday there were 2 40/80 BigO/SS8 and only 1 20/40 BigO/SS8 going around 1pm.

Yesterday they could barely get a game going which is why I could only play for 2 hours before having to go home bec 'mom.' It will take me 2 weeks to know who is who and when I should sit in.

Weezer’s blessed the rains down in Africa. Amazing.

Weezer's blessed the rivers down in Cuomafrica?

Just listened, meh. Was hoping for something a lot more different from the original.

Weezer is still a thing?

I bought their first CD when Clinton was President.

What's with these homies dissing my girl? Why do they gotta front?

I remember listening to that song on the demo station at Tower Records.

Bumping from April because this is a topic I think a lot about:

Isn't that like saying, I don't care whether you won or lost a ton of Sklansky bucks. I only care that your top set lost a fortune after the guy with overcards hit his backdoor Broadway."

Or more generally a good leader should differentiate process failure from process success that led to unlucky results. Which, after all, should come natural to us poker players.




I think I agree with this. But I'm not convinced treating people fairly disqualifies you from making a fortune. Costco is one example. Starbucks seems actually pretty good for the most part.

Want to know what tilts a little bit every time I see it?

The \' in Carpal \'Tunnel. It should be a hyphen.

I'm not sure I understand the comparison between Sklansky buxxx and excuses?

In poker, Sklansky bucks represent that sometimes you make the right decision but get a bad result. In the real world, you also sometimes make the right decision but get a bad result. Wise people analyze those situations to distinguish what they really could have done better versus what really was external factors (i.e. bad luck). But some people find that process of identifying legitimate bad breaks repulsive, and they call it "making excuses."

Ever tried to explain the difference between an excuse and a reason to an angry person? Don't.

The same reason over and over is an excuse.

Sent from my phone which is the reason I am posting

Ohhhhh this comparison requires that explanation of what "making excuses" is. I do understand your point now, thank you.

It is part of the strong power of the illusion of control that people overestimate the chance of a 80% or 90% likely outcome to succeed. If it comes in 10 out of 11, they're sure they ran bad or someone screwed up.

You also have the need to assign credit to someone who brings in a long shot. You know it was 1 in 4 beforehand. It works, and suddenly the genius in charge was so smart it was probably a 3/4 thing in the retelling.

Seems like an escape character **** up. Should be easy to fix, but then the title would lose its charm.

. . . said the wise man

Something maybe not quite as wise, but def entertaining, is the 100% certainty that when your cab driver picks you up at the airport and finds out you are in Vegas to play poker, he will offer you unsolicited advice on how to play poker in very general terms.

Some gems I got tonight included, "Play smart. Know when is the time to maybe use your chips as advantage. But of course, sometimes you have to know when is time to fight for another day. You know you are strong player and you know how to play strong."

Andy is a hardworking first generation Albanian immigrant who drives until midnight. He could be playing in bobby's room every night when he gets off for all I know. But the day my cab driver turns around and says, "Poker, huh? Do you employ a mixed strategy from the SB w your 2 cd draws when the HJ opens?" or "Even the online players will tighten up their push/fold ranges too much in live MTTs when the stakes are higher than the 109s they're used to 12 tabling, don't you think?" I will ask him/her to pull over, walk myself back to the airport, book the next flight home, and quit poker.