Los Angeles, CA ~ Mid City
Love your work and dedication. As for constructive comments, I never criticize the chef who just served dinner, right. Love the broad range of topics, the depth of analysis, and the good-natured degen life of fun you explore.
I do want to make a quick comment on show #364 and on the topic broached by Adam Sobolewski. I quit online poker about 4 months before black friday (my most positive EV play of all-time
. I could see already how software was ruining the game. I have a pretty extreme sense of justice and always play every game with that mindset. ALL poker software cheats the game...unless every single player has the EXACT same set-up. I think the guest said that if he didn't have the all the software and played an unknown player without much data, he'd beat them most the time anyways?? What?? If a top player sat down (unbeknown to him) and played him, and had never been on the site, that would certainly not be true. This type reasoning is falsely justifying all this software. 2nd, yes memorizing all that the push/fold ranges, writing down notes, basically all manual labor is "the work". If i quit my full-time job to memorize everything, that is called dedication. For players who don't have time vs. players who put in thousands of hours, that should be the only difference. HUDS themselves create an uneven playing surface for everyone. Imagine Drew Brees dropping back for a pass, and in his helmet he has a screen overlay that showed him the coverage patterns for the last 5,000 pass plays he had against this team or that formation...all from computer memory, would he have an advantage over the other quarterback who memorized everything? Of course.
When any player in any game has different equipment, unfair knowledge, or has help from outside source, it's called cheating in every sport that i can think of. Even in poker there is a rule "one player per hand". A computer becomes a player and to me is 100% cheating. Put in time, memorize, get better, play fair.
love to Canada...and if you want to edit this all down, by all means do.
Cheers,
Herbert Bennett
BTW, is Terrence a bot? Good Luck in your fight!