I like Buddy.

Maybe you just like movies with a Howard in it.

I'd consider changing my name to Howard except my brother-in-law's name is Howard.

Someone asked me what I meant, and basically at least for me -- I was a hyper-competitive person when I was younger, to the point where I always wanted to beat everyone, everywhere. Mike Tyson "eat your children" and all that.

So when I started playing poker, basically my strategy was fully exploitative. I actively tried to understand people, find holes and weaknesses in their game, and then smash that hole wide open and crush them that way. So basically search and destroy flaws in decisions people made. I still pretty much play this way, as I think most people do who play exploitatively.

I've spent years and years actively thinking this way, to the point where my brain pretty much automatically always sees mistakes people are making all the time, in every situation. In LHE, you have to see and identify every tiny mistake players are making, and then poke that mistake over and over again for the tiniest fractions of bets every hand.

While great for beating people at poker, it's not really a happy way to live your life and interact with other people in a normal setting. But it's also hard to shut that off and completely ignore what you can recognize as constant tiny mistakes over and over.

I think a lot of poker players have turned out this way, by evidence of the types of arguments we see, even in this forum, over the most trivial of points.

Pointing out the faults of others, no matter how trivial, has become the norm; it's expected.

We all judge people on some level, but a lot of people take it to an extreme.

Poker player mentality also leads to optimizing everything. It makes you frustrated that your kid is pulling stuff out of a box inefficiently.

Maybe your kid is pretty smart, and is exploiting the box's unbalanced range.

I am deliberately inefficient.

Sucks when you're counting pills.

I’m curious why every drugstore sells alcohol? Is this a thing where if you have a license for pharmaceuticals you’re already legalized for alcohol, or is there some other relationship?

When someone’s prescription has expired, do you just point them to the shelf and tell them they can get the over-the-counter version?

Every CVS around me sells alcohol.

Not every Walgreens does.

CVS stopped selling cigarettes awhile ago. Not sure about Walgreens since I am in them less...

Please see the bolded responses!

Walgreens recently "merged" with Boots and became the Walgreens Boots alliance...they're all currently in the process of figuring out a strategy to replace the billions in sales that tobacco brings in. Walgreens will be phasing out tobacco sales soon as well though. CVS is ahead of the curve in that respect, and with respect to wages, and with respect to not forcing every single employee into burnout.

...got a light?

I was joking that people could just buy alcohol if their prescription ran out, thanks for explaining things.

You see these types of arguments all over the internet.

Thought you were trolling those of us who live in places where there is no booze in grocery stores.

Getting older is the real reason we optimize everything mentally.

When we were younger there was less evolutionary pressure to do finances well or send recurring Outlook meetings well or map the most efficient path through Disneyland.

Over time your recurring deposits equal your starting mutual fund buyin and the time you waste at inefficient meetings and the amount of crying you'd deal with for not going to Magic Mountain add up to a significant penalty.

Also over time the competition you face is less and less external and more and more internal. It expresses itself in poker by shifting the "I'll eat your children" attitude to "It's okay if I sit at a 100/200 game and be a small loser."

I don't think any of us are less competitive than we were 10 years ago.

Wynn Seniors, level 6. UTG opens, middle position calls everyone else folds. Flop 459r, bet/call. Turn 4, all in, tank, ask for count. Call. UTG QQ. MP=AA.

Really dude, were you thinking about folding?? That's 45 seconds of my life I'll never get back, just so you could Hollywood. What an idiot

We need these ppl bec they make us look good.

That's setting the bar pretty low!

537 entries, $52k up top. Not too shabby for a 1 day tourney with a $550 buy in

The surprising thing I learned is quantph is a senior.

You only have to be 50 to be a senior in the poker world, I reached that milestone last year

But prescriptions aren't licenses

+1

wow grew up in CT, live in MA, spent material amounts of time in NH, VT, and RI and I have never seen alcohol sold in a drugstore anywhere in New England, which granted is smaller than many states west of the Mississippi

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There's a liquor store nearby that has a drive-through window. That was a real to me when I first saw it.