It happens in chess when a player thinks his opponent won't know how to respond correctly. A superior player will do this often against an inferior one. It will also happen between two GM's for surprise value, complicating a position etc.

How much is DN up since they started the second batch of 12.5k hands? What's his bb/100?

146.785

Hi gfm, the only metric that matters is the amount that DN is up since his last losing hand. As you suggest, he is not losing.

Doug won just over half a buy in, in the last session. Not sure that qualifies as a spanking.

Those are exploits against their opponents and are actually designed by the player because the player feels it gains them an advantage against their opponent.

My post was more so referring to these type of examples in incomplete information games:

1) a guy that never folds a hand preflop in poker because he feels like it.
2) a person that stands on a hard sixteen in blackjack against a dealers up card ten because they'd rather hope the dealer busts
3) a person that sees a flop with 78dd no matter the preflop price because it's their favorite hand
4) a person that folds a clearly profitable shove late in a tourney because they are scared of busting out and they'd rather wait and hope for something better.

The list goes on but the difference is these type of mistakes are often innately known by the player making them yet they intentionally make them anyway for a variety of personal reasons.

The same sort of intentional losing play doesn't really happen in chess because the player doesn't feel any difference in emotion from making those sort of plays because all the information is on the board.

the problem isn't with the terminology it's with how you frame "running bad". having a blocker is a small part of why he lost that much. if we wanted to be really anal, doug rolling a number on his randomizer that lead to him making a very low probability overbet is a much bigger deal than having the blocker (a relatively common occurrence).

... i think we're all a little bit dumber for having participated in this conversation.

LFG DP. Turn it uppppp

Vegas and the mirage awaits

Throwback for hype:

lol ready for another week of battling

Samba de Janeiro. Nice shorts.

Is that coke polk dancing?

Some big pots flying around tonight

Think this must be the session with the highest potential for big pots on both tables so far

Any further updates would be appreciated.

If you can, tune in, big pots!

+1

Best game so far, both sitting on 100k+

Doug probably up small/close to break even... Wild session though! Over half a million on the tables.

Doug just finished +73K

dnegs misses a few flush draws and he starts with the "I know it's not rigged, but...." comments lol

he says he understands variance but he sure as hell doesn't act like it

This Doug post game interview is so hilarious

Didnt watch any of them but i would expect dnegs interview to be 1000x funnier than dougs

Watched both post-game interviews and both Doug and Dnegs seem totally out of their minds

1.8 BUYINS!

i hope someone clipped the best parts of dougs interview

You can always go back and watch in its entirety on youtube