some personal odds and ends

- so I'm 170 lbs. and diabetic, go figure. it's a by-product of my eat-like-**** years. it's a bummer and i hate pricking myself with needles every day but it must be done. might be psychomatic but i've been feeling particularly fatigued of late and can't motivate to do anything

- my job got slightly more annoying. trying to find a way to parlay this into more money

- i'm stuffing a lot of money into the stock market, buying blue chips on dips and hoping it doesn't all crash

- i need to do some serious study, haven't played for a couple weeks and haven't studied for even longer than that.

Baud,

how do you balance eating healthy and taking your shots while playing so many hours live on the weekend?

it ain't ez

There's a lot of stuff I don't/can't eat. There are decent choices at Borgata, although apparently not up to Daniel Negreanu's standards.

I get the vegetarian soup at Noodles of the World, get salads at the bar at Bobby Flay's and seafood at various places.

I've been trying to play shorter sessions with 40-min breaks here and there, once a day I zone out for a few hours in my room and even occasionally sleep 6 hours.

I got diagnosed recently as pre-diabetic. I pretty much do the right thing - eat well, exercise, etc. And I'm thin. Seems sort of random. Fortunately I don't have to use insulin but I have to watch my diet even closer than I used to.

Good luck on the job thing. I can relate about not liking your job.

Everybody has their own stock buying philosophy but I really like high dividend stocks and equity funds. They stay pretty stable price wise and the dividends beat any interest you can get anywhere.

GL on the poker.

played 3/5 all night. ran like total crap, lost 200 in 9 hours. i got it all in 4way. i had AA vs QQ, AQo, and AQo and lost. unreal.

i lost another one when this monkey called my turn shove with AQ on a KT74 board. jesus.

another hand i raised to EIGHTY preflop and got 6 callers!!!!! lol!!! 4 people had stacks of like 200. ldo my AK was no good

Monkey is a racist term

i'm starting to realize how much i overrate hands like qqjt and 8876

they can flop sets and wraps but do neither as well as qqtt or 9876, and then you hit the pairs a lot and you almost don't want to

8876 on 772 or 67j or anything without an 8 or 45 on it are bad

I like QQJT > QQTT but like 9876 > 8876

i agree^

Too many cards.

You want the pair on the low end right? So like 889T rather than 8876.

I have 2% of my friend who is CL of LAPT Panama High Roller event. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

edit: final table

yeah, theres no reason to buy non dividend stocks, they have the same roi if you look at long term trends but much much lower varience

as if variance is a bad thing

volatility being a bad thing is a fundamental concept in economics (and is fairly intuitive)

Bitchi is claiming that CAPM is wrong which is probably somewhat true, but either way I agree that dividend stocks are an important part of a portfolio

you want gaps on the low end

not sure about pairs

If you're dollar-cost averaging and not planning on using the money any time soon then volatility is not really a big deal.

If someone in 2008 had just held on to whatever they had instead of panicking they'd have made a ****ton between then and now and found amazing buying opportunities.

(I haven't actually checked but) QQTT might have better hot/cold equity but QQJT definitely plays better on more flops and probably sets you up for more crushing/freerolling flops (for instance, Q98).

btw i think i'm starting to feel a lot better, based on the past couple of days.

There is another reason volatility is undesirable; let me illustrate.

Say you have two securities that average a 10% (simple) return per year for 5 years, and you compound every year. One is a flat 10%, no variance. The other gives you:
20%
-10%
15%
25%
0%

You invest $1,000 in each, at the end of 5 years the no variance one is worth $1,000 * 1.1^5 = 1610.51
the other is worth:
$1000 * 1.2 * 0.9 * 1.15 * 1.25 * 1 = 1552.5

Both have an average* return of 10% per year.

*The geometric mean of the second is only ~9.2%.

So if you have an investment that has an expected ROI of 10%, the smaller the variance the higher is compounded rate of return will be over time.

So the check for my MTT stake got here today. Not sure if I am starting tonight, tomorrow, or thrusday with the MTTs. Will go see what is available in a bit.

I know AAKK ds > AATJds both HU and against a random hand, so I think your intuition of QQTT being better is probably correct.

Not sure QQJT plays better though.

I think in general TTJQ is better for crushing flops (non sequitur there). And in general you prefer your pair on the lower end of hands like that so when you hit a set and a wrap, you have the high wrap.

Hey Baud,

Do you want to quit smoking? (curiosity question, I don't have a method in mind).

What do you think about vaping? Jury is still out on if it is less unhealthy, but it sure as hell seems like it is intuitively.