It took over 11 months, but we finally found the worst take of 2019. Congrats.

You never took out a coin mid-hand and started flipping it 10 times on the table while everyone was watching?

You could develop an app that simulates flipping a coin 10 times, then spits out your decision. I would call it “the randomizer”

Folks, it also took 11 months , but we have a winner for Most Consistently Condescending Poster of 2019.

His clever tag line of "Try and keep up, ok ?" should be copyrighted or trademarked.

According to the USPTO, it likely is available ....http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfi...809:967yal.2.3

Also the fact that he's just plain wrong. I know plenty of online players that have RNG going on the side.

You do more research into my things than I ever would on yours

Son, of course they do. But the point is that the device is not making the decision. The device is there to balance the decisions for the percentage that you want. You are still making the decisions, it's just the balance that is randomized.

Try and keep up, OK?

Son,


It amuses me to layer a thin patina of research over posts which basically poke fun at your condescension, starting with your lament about your broke friends and cutting them off and the continuing smarmy tag lines

"Try and keep up...."

Well if you're old enough I guess everyone would be a son.

Well yeah of course, it just seemed you were talking about flipping a physical coin on the table in your original post. Which would be pretty funny

Did you just quote and answer yourself lmao

I have thyroid pain that's pretty evenly distributed, so at decision points I ask myself on a 10 point scale what my level of pain is and use that to randomize my mixes.

ahaha i saw that too and just wahlberg gif'd

I sometimes do this but the problem with this approach is the suits themselves are not unrelated to the correct strategy, because they contribute to equity and blockers that determine the correct mixed frequency in the first place. So you might decide you'll bluff with spades but then when the front door spade draw missed if you're holding spades you're blocking a lot of opponent folds so it's the worst suit to bluff with.

The whole thing is a bit silly because most non-toy game mixed strategies are too complicated to hold in someone's head, it only really makes sense if you're playing online and a "GTO scammer" using software, in live games I still think you should use reads and psychology to nudge in certain directions.

Also, I wonder how many players you play with enough/are insanely observant enough to notice when your mix is off. Like if you're in a spot where you're supposed to be betting 75 and checking 25, then the evs will be extremely close anyways. If you're just eyeballing it, or even if you just bet 100%, who would notice? Obviously if they have an insane database of a million hands you've played it might be evident/important. But from a couple thousand hands that data would be so noisy to the point of irrelevance. Especially for live players I think mixing hands or trying to use some randomizer is almost useless.

This post needs 10x WAY more love ....

I'll admit I passed it by earlier, but came back.

Oh you were talking to me, yes, I was talking about flipping the coin 10 times. But to save time, if it’s something you do 20% of the time, you could stop after 2 heads/tails, you wouldn’t need to use all 10 flips. The regs would likely catch on fairly quickly so I recommend just doing all 10 flips.

lol, @ requesting a table change for someone else.....

Is that the Will Kassouf rule ?

How are you going to convert the results of the 10 flips to percentage? Keep in mind the result distribution looks like this:

One time I was playing at a table where a guy actually did have a die that he rolled to decide how much to bet pre...if he was in the hand, his preflop bet was 1 to 6 bb based on the roll.

Nice, randomizing the one betting decision that doesn't need to be randomized.

Yeah, I was going to ask the same, but was still trying to get past the suggestion that someone would be flipping a coin ten times.