I can definitely sympathize with both positions in this debate as I kind of split the difference between SNE grinder and someone who spends time working to be the best poker player I can be. I do what I do to maximize my $/hr and don't fault others who do the same. What confuses me is when people make decisions which negatively effects their $/hr. When I see someone who game creates and is only on a couple tables leave a seat with position on 2 big fish because a decent player sits to their left, I don't get it. Similarly, when I see someone who plays close to a million hands a year not even spend a few hours a month to try to improve their game, I don't get it.

It is all about maximizing your earn rate (which obviously for those at small/micro stakes means primarily focusing on improving rather than 8 tabling etc). How that applies for different players will likely be different.

Ty dredok and allapologies,

I actually had a sick downswing to start the month, i ran really bad and just didn't table select or play that well (i came back to poker after like a one month hiatus and was just rusty).

Poker gods were kinder later on though:




I made around 2k in rakeback too, so a good month.

Stars is down for me, everything else is fine

wow congrats for the brag :P

1M views ITT

Woot.

November prop bet, anyone?

100k hands at $5/$10+ in 10 days. 1:1, negative win rate is a push.

Is this timed to get an extra hour when daylight savings time switches? Or do you lose an hour?

I never know since I live in Arizona and we aren't stupid and try to manipulate time.

great post, there are my thoughts exactly

make it 1:1 for at least -0.25BB/100 and I would seriously consider it

It would be more like Nov 19 through 29, so after Daylight Savings Nonsense.

GB, I will make a modest ($100) wager against. That would be very impressive/crazy.

too busy hating on mexicans to manipulate time imo

I bet 200 USD against you. 1:1 odds
I say you dont make 100k hands in 10 days at 5/10 or higher at stars with a winrate > 0.0
if winrate is 0 or below its a push (and you throw in one of your books ? ^^)


confirm if booked

meh, I'll take the bet for the same conditions for 123,45$ (without the book please)

would bet $100 against as well.
makes my head spin even thinking about it

If you're not getting promoted because of race or ugliness, that's a bad beat. Race is not the same as culture and ugliness is not the same as fatness. Conforming to your office's culture is part of your job.

Male dominated professions are typically male dominated for a reason: They involve things men are better at. Women who enter these professions as opposed to professions that are female dominated are failing to optimize their skills. There's no reason a woman can't work construction. If she chooses to and her strength limits the tasks she can do or her overall productivity, she should be paid less. Paying people based on their value: That's equality.

There are jobs women are better at too. Think HR.

Pushing people away from jobs they're not built for helps the machine run better.

It will either be good or bad for for your screen name.

Good post. The points GB makes about being a minority are somewhat valid, but an employer that picks an inferior worker because of race/gender/etc of the superior one is also making a fish move that is -EV.

This is a terrible post. Is there any particular reason to suspect that males are better at any particular non-physical labor job or that females are better at HR. I mean beyond crude stereotypes?

I have no comment on the HR thing, but taking 9 months out for a pregnancy lowers your value as an employee in any profession.

This adds to the phony $.72 to the dollar statistic (of woman in the same jobs.) I read somewhere how it was derived, but it's certainly dishonest because it takes the average pay including time off for childbirth, and it doesn't differentiate professions so it is thrown off by a handful of female CEO's making a few million less than their male counterparts.

A different study found that in many jobs, woman were actually making slightly more than their male counterparts.

Not to say that there are never any unfair things based on gender, but much of it is distorted out of proportion.

Yes. Men and women think differently.

ETA: The HR thing was ~50% joke. Women are better at reading body language and emotions. They're also better at BS'ing.

You guys are arguing way past each other and it's very annoying.

A woman with an airtight grasp of logic is very hard to find. I'm not being sexist, I've just encountered very few. Do they exist? Yes. The best/ most advance professor I had in logic courses was a woman.

Also, Venessa Selbts is really good at poker.

how about that local sports team eh?

Not really sure what this means.

But yea, **** like this is annoying in the regs thread where poker discussing is occuring. I was considering not posting, but boredom got the best of me.