Decision Science

Styled Blog Post The Road Less Traveled: The Psycho Path Ah, the poker life! The older I get, the better my past gets... OJ Simpson's 405 Freeway Chase , William Jefferson’s Monica Affair, and Ace Jack – The road less traveled: the psycho path! Ace Jack is also known as Slick Willy – The Bill Clinton. I don’t know why. Ask Monica or Hillary... oh wait... DONK! Ace Jack is my Monica, and like Bill Clinton, I too admit to having an "inappropriate relationship" with Ace Jack! It keeps screwing me out of money. The 3-Second Rule vs. LA’s 45-Minute One Car accidents and high-speed chases can wreak havoc on the freeway. I remember LA’s concrete jungle, the 405, turning into the world’s largest parking lot on June 17, 1994. People began talking about the “Remember the 45-m...

Comment | Copy This Free Roll Poker Tournaments--Scratch Out Tickets--The Poker Free Lunch Poker is, after all, anything you can get away with--and when you play free rolls, you can't get something for nothing. Most hands go to showdown, and there is first place and no place---coming in second, who cares. In No Limit Holdem, things don't even out with time, they even out with the number of hands you play. Sometimes nothing can be a good hand....but I am rethinking free rolls. Advice for limit applies to No Limit Free rolls: Free Roll Hold em is a game of high cards, and kickers. Likewise, in Limit Hold em, the number of players increases, so big cards must be played most of the time. Hand selection is very important since almost all the time you are going to a showdown---the one with the best hand usually wins; and bluffing is a rather hard thing to pull off, since it only costs one small bet for Deputy Barney Fife to "keep you honest". Likewise in a free ...

Flounders vs Rounders Flounders vs Rounders The Difference in Playing to Win vs Just Being Social For the poker Balla, nothing is better than when that average Joe Player sits down at a poker table. Why? Because he just sat down with money he intends to lose! There is no more +EV situation, and most tables in a live poker room are filled with players exactly like that. When you treat No Limit Hold'em as only a game of chance instead of skill, it is not a law of probability, it's a fact for games with negative expectations: Risk of ruin is 100%. Joes vs Pros Joe plays when he "feels" like it; a Pro plays all the time! Joes make shortcuts when losing, but Pros know that winning doesn't depend on cards—it depends on exploiting biases. Secrets to beating America's irrational poker players involve Behavioral Finance—part art, part science: Common Biases and Strategies Illusion of Contro...

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Keeping My Head Above Water Keeping My Head Above Water Here's your business-class ticket to cool , with complimentary mojo after takeoff. When your poker game crashes, this is the black box. One day, they’ll make the whole game out of that stuff. Build your game on POW—pearls of wisdom from the best damn poker blog around. The best things in life aren’t things. They’re people who write free advice on how to win at poker—a game of money played with cards, not the other way around. Pain For Sale — Don’t treat paper like plastic. Cash games aren’t tournaments. PAPER: The longest journey begins with... a cash advance from Bank of America. PLASTIC: “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy chips—which is kinda the same thing.” The sex of poker is really a game of mistakes. The biggest one? Pleasure. That fine line between success and self-destruction lives in one dirty (Harry) question: “Do you feel lu...

In poker, "The Nuts" refers to not only an unbeatable hand, It is also an unbeatable style of playah, a raisey-crazy one -man asylum., whose default mode of betting suffers from Jim Carey’s “advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.” An adrenaline junkie with demented energy, grandiose plans, he likes being feared. It imbues him with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. The Playah is inebriated by the looks of horror or repulsion on people's faces, as they fold with the best hand as you bluff--The poisoned joy to the poker world of depriving others of what you don’t have, a legitimate hand. The crime and punishment for playing with the Playah is a malignant optimism. He plays a one-handed game of "Good Cop, Bad Cop" with different people. Stiring the pot, triangulating and pitting one against another. Gossip may be false intimacy but Torture is the ultimate act of his perverted intimacy. A kind of Traumatic bonding...

Poker 2.0 · Field Notes Trials Are You Experienced? Probability and people equal poker. The cards create the conditions; decisions, pressure, position, and pattern recognition create the edge. Zero Gravity Thinking The Opposite See Full Image No Limit Hold’em Limit Hold’em Outs Position Process Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Opening Hand Limit is about value betting. No Limit Hold’em is about trapping. You spell Limit poker t-i-m-e . In No Limit, you have to do the math—the heavy lifting of pot odds, implied odds, and counting your outs. In No Limit Hold’em, things do not even out merely with time. They even out wit...

EK Version Vegas Version The Poker Years · Decision Science With Money On It Trials The S3X of Poker Poker without money is an opinion. No-Limit Hold’em turns partial information, pleasure, pressure, ego, and probability into a live audit of how you make decisions. See Full Image Eating What You Kill No-Limit Hold’em Partial Information Table Presence Variance Process Over Results Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The table does not care about your story. That is why it is such a great teacher. I had just busted out with Anna — ...