Pretty sure if I had a time machine I would be one of the best players in the world in 2009.

There’s a huge difference between your overall sentiment, that poker is 1000x harder nowadays, which I agree with, and what you and wj are saying. Not every amazing online player nowadays is a human solver- that’s a fact. A lot of those same people would struggle to make the adjustments necessary to beat a pool of the same wizards rather than an anonymous player pool with population tendencies to exploit.

That’s what I’m disputing. Whether or not it’s important/relevant/etc. is a completely different story.

Since you guys seem to think Dwan is overrated or something take Jungleman/Galfond. They were crushing pre Black Friday and still around nowadays. Yeah they’ve gotten much better over the years but it’s not like they’ve ever lost momentum due to things getting more difficult. They’re still among the best in the world- even today.

To say you would take a winning 200z reg over someone like that is insane. And it defies logic. Chess has also gotten much harder over time. For reference, I could beat the best chess engine in the 70s/80s with my ten year old self. Despite that resource, Fischer’s play in the 1960’s would arguably still make him one of the top 15 players in the world today. And Kasparov’s in the 90s would certainly crush today.

A lot of the reason why some people get worse as they age at anything strategical is because their priorities change. And they’re not as sharp. And they’re not willing to adapt. And a million other reasons that suddenly don’t matter I guess.

This is what us rednecks posing as real cowboys do to pass the time during this crisis. From yesterday.

100%. And i would make a million, zero doubt in my mind.

She's 62 years old now. Damn.

Thanks, I learned a lot. So it's more a function of profession rather than attire.

I went to the same elementary, middle school, high school and university as her. We also had the same piano teacher. Yet oddly never met her.

Oh yeah that's exactly why I got sad. He said it was him and a bud working spreadsheets and stove together to figure things out.

Can you guys who are sure we've moved that far ahead from 2009 knowledge about the game list out the leaks you have in mind? There have to be specific things you are thinking about.

I don't know about NL, but I think in limit those days winners were still not defending their blinds enough, weren't check raising flops that favored their range oop enough, and top players knew to three bet way more but your typical midstakes winners still weren't doing it. Plus only a select few of people had gotten their vpip/pfr up to LAG/LAGTAG levels to squeeze every drop of preflop edge. I knew solid pros still nit-tagging.

First casino poker in Macau was at Lisboa in 08, no?

There were a ton more punters. PF strat even at the high levels was pretty bad and very crude. People just weren't connecting the dots with the ranges much less worrying about balance in spots.

Unbridled aggression with a deep BR alone could get you pretty far. Evidenced w/ Isildur and Wilhasha.

Online poker update

Was playing a bunch of 10/25nl- up 10 buyins pretty quickly over the course of 3 days then got invited to play on an app with my usual group and been playing that instead.

Unlikely I play much more 100bb $10 and $25 buck buyins when I can play 200bb 5/10 with people I know. And really nice to quickly play 1000s of short handed play with the people I play with 99% of the time.


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I hit an absolute gold mine app 18 months ago when regs from my game organised a private club. there was a great reg/rec combo and we played 6 max 3/6 and 4/8.

Wasn't a giant sample size...think I played about 10k hands with them but it was weird...guys I thought of as solid regs and ok winning pros in my live games had these major leaks that became obvious playing more hands and having some topline stats on them. Actually really helped my live game vs them as well as winning vs them on the app

Online private games sound pretty fun.

"Let There Be Range" was published in 2008. It looks rudimentary now.

Repetitive Tourette's Activity?

Noticing the same thing. Also forced shotclock is really nice. I’ve always acted quickly so I think it’s benefitting my style more than some of the guys that take much longer to work their way through hands.


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FWIW I can say with a high level of confidence that current me would beat Durrrr or Isidul1 from 2009. Does that make me the better poker player? Well no, they were beating $200/400 when I was beating $2/4, you have to compare apples to apples.

But yeah if you just gave me a time machine I would destroy everyone.

Odds that U of M Poker is 67o's 3rd account?

Odds that they are all DreamCrusher?

100%

For your R&D team RTP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunk-a-roos

Also 100% believe.

joke is dead man

Garick, please keep posting this stuff in the future, this is my jam, will read it this afternoon once i'm done sparring with shopify

you really should post it on a friendly format like medium or something though

what are your thoughts on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_...spiracy_theory

as far as conspiracy theories go, it's probably my favorite