maybe a bit late, but why did we need a new thread?

I thought you were supposed to start a new thread every year. :-(

And I like seeing my name instead of PS Melon's! :-)

I twisted/sprained my ankle helping one of my neighbors drive up an icy driveway. Ugh.

Gee... What can I possibly do while I'm stuck at home resting my ankle? Hmm...

Get crunk?

post pics of wife?

post pics of sandwiches?

Post pics of crunk wife eating sandwiches?

Post pics of sandwiches eating crunk wife?

pics of mrsfly in her mrs clause outfit

Shut up you guys all know what you really want is some sweet sweet Mrs. Fly Pr0n

Lol. So would I. :-)

just got back from AZ watching the packers put a beat down on the cards. home for a week before i head back there to watch it all over again. looks like it's going to be a good year...

packers lookign real good right now

Ugh. My ankle is super sore now. I think it's just a mild sprain tho (no sharp pain and I can put pressure on my foot (altho it's uncomfortable)). So I'm just resting. Anyone know how long this is supposed to last?

My wife sprained her ankle in August and only in the past month or so has regained full use of it, although just this morning she was complaining about it hurting. Someone else I know sprained their ankle and the doctor was not surprised that it was still swollen 9 months later. By all accounts, sprains are worse than breaks for the most part.

On the otherhand, Hakeem Nicks of the Giants sprained his foot and was playing professional football 3 weeks later. Full time world class physical therapy and powerful painkillers FTW.

Aw crud. I was hoping someone would say "a few days". It's depressing as hell being old sometimes. I went a looooong time without slipping on ice, and yesterday I slipped twice. Doh!

Anyway, I've been reading some posts on 2+2 and posted this in the one where people were talking about poker getting tougher. I'd be interested to hear what you thought, esp since I'm only giving myself another year to decide what I want to do for the next 15.

Speaking of poker thoughts, when does the podacst come out Ricky?

your analogy to sports pretty much sums it up imo. but i think that poker sort of has its own "survival of the fittest" balancing system. when the games get too reg infested, the worse regs aren't going to be able to keep making money, and when they die off the games get a little better since there is a higher fish:reg ratio. just my speculation though.

get a high quality ankle brace like this:


http://www.braceshop.com/productcart/pc/ASO-Ankle-Stabilizing-Orthosis-p831.htm

I rolled my ankle about 6 times severly spraining it several times in high school playing soccer and it continued (albeit less frequently) when I was playing baseball in college. If you can get a good tape job you can often play or work through any mild discomfort only a few days after the injury. But taping takes a ton of work and is hard to do yourself. However these figure 8 strap + lace up ankle braces probably work better than a tape job and can easily be done by yourself. Their easy to take on and off, washable, and can be tightened during wear if your movement loosens the hold.

swear to go these are a life saver, and if I ever go back to playing competitive soccer or basketball I'll probably just get two and wear them all the time.

I agree with your analogy. I think anyone who says the games are unbeatable or anything close to it, just isn't thinking.

If you take a look at the games of all the winning players in poker, you'd still see almost none that are playing optimally, in either an exploitative or an equilibrium sense.

The simple fact is that every player is still making huge mistakes, and probably not aware of many of them. I know from reviewing my own hands that I make mistakes constantly, and those are just the ones I can detect. And yet I, and the rest of you, still manage to knock out a positive winrate.

It really comes down to something we all heard near the beginning of our poker careers:

"You don't have to be the best to win. You just have to play with players worse than you."

Now we've all taken this to heart (and oftentimes to a fault), and this is why certain tables can have waiting lists 10 deep within minutes, but there's another side to this advice. Namely:

"Your opponents don't have to be bad for you to win. You just have to be better."

As long as poker, or any other game exists, there will always be people who work harder, who focus more intently, who think more clearly. As long as you are making better decisions than your opponent, you will have an edge.

NLHE is a long way from solved.

pizzle sup bud

Thanks for the advice, PF. If it looks like my ankle won't get better soon, I'll definitely order it.

not much. going to be in vegas MLK weekend. you going to be there? coming to boston anytime soon?

i don't like hearing this from you. I'd say you improved as much as anyone i played against regularly last year.

so if you don't mind quit thinking about these things, plz k thx.