Archive for July 2008
Coming to terms with one’s own past
This week’s Sunday New York Times has a great piece by David Carr where he goes back 20 years in his life to when he was a crack addict. He investigates his experience through interviews with people that knew him, medical and arrest records, and most powerfully, people that took custody of his twin infant…
Read MoreThings that make me happy
My poker tutor doesn’t think I’m a complete idiot. He sat behind me today while I played a 3 hour session at my local cardroom and gave me a lot of really good advice, none of which was, "You need to go find a lower stakes game while you figure out how to play poker."…
Read MoreModeling $3/$6 players
I’m doing some math modeling of hand equity of various hands with pokerstove. What happens to JJ at a table when someone raises,and you’ve got 2, 3, 4 players? What if they’re solid players? What if one is a complete donk? Does the hand have a positive or negative expected value? If you were doing…
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