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Gareth Chantler calls in from a hostel in Phuket, Thailand to discuss his latest travels, his second-place finish in a $215 TCOOP tournament, and the plight of the Rohingya people.
You can follow @GarethChantler on Twitter, read his final table write-up on the PokerStars blog, and read more from Brad Willis on his excellent blog.
Timestamps
0:30 – hello and welcome; catching up with Gareth
45:58 – strategy: playing Jacks against heavy action
Special report of Thailand’s Rohingya linked above^^.
As mentioned, Al Jazeera does good work on the issue: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/rohingya/.
Bangladeshi PM on Rohingya, (There is a longer interview ~22min I can’t find at the moment — this one is painful enough though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IF_wu4dxUk .
On the journalists and Thai censorship
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/22/world/asia/thailand-media-defamation/ .
The clash between Rakhine and Rohingya, the Thai elections, and some of the other aspects to the story I don’t have a quick ‘fill you in’ link for, but those first two things at least are important in unraveling it all.
I haven’t done much on this in the past 2 weeks, but I did go to Phnom Penh’s Khmer Rouge genocide museum yesterday. What a barrel of monkey fun that was.
Great point about looking at your own HUD stats to see how others are seeing you. That is something I rarely hear mentioned in strategy discussion.
I love the limp lead that Nate talks about in the second hand. I do that a lot.
Also, Andrew’s comment on karma for stalling is interesting. I would always stall for a pay jump in that dude’s spot. I know it’s against the spirit of the game (ala Arthur Chu) but is it unethical? If not, I dont mind some bad karma and chat grief for a few months of rent.
Congratulations Gareth!
Well done Gareth! Congrats on all your success.
Congratulations on your success in poker, Gareth. Good luck on your reporting and be careful. It sounds like you will be able to team up with some other people to raise awareness of that situation.
Andrew asked if being short on sleep affected my play and I said no, I mean this is not quite true. One of the reasons I dealt three handed when I did was being conscious of being in a fatigued state.
Also he asked if I listened to the courcheval episode…. of course I did! I dont know if I didnt hear this question on the line or just chose to go on another tangent.
Typical Brad Willis painful and gutty post, http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2013/11/06/carry-me-home/
Carlos, re stalling. I think I had an edge in the tournament and I want to win and max my EV. So playing as many hands per level is what I want to do.
I am actually quite intrigued by Nates argument regarding completing in the hand in the small blind. Because this player folds Q2o on J77 and checks that back and I have to assume calls allin with it preflop. Nate makes some pretty compelling points that shouldnt be dismissed I dont think and I wonder how many quote unquote bad hands would play better against a certain villain type as a completion.
ty Shaft and Dan, appreciated
Be safe, Gareth.
Congrats again Gareth. So fun to see an up and comer moving up in the world. Good on you, as you enjoy success writing and playing poker, to stay interested in other meaningful things.
Gareth’s use of stats is sending me back to an earlier episode with him were he talked more about his HUD and stats he likes to use.
Gareth be careful over that part of the planet. Human life means nothing as i am sure you are well aware, so just be careful letting your heart rule your brain re these camps. I would not encourage taking photos overtly btw. All through that part of the globe including where Au Sung is from (run by ‘The Generals’) any perceived or real threat to the Boss’s rule is squashed. Mind you, you navigated your way thru Sth America with all your limbs and life intace so you must be aware of this, but i am just saying as i would hate any harm to your personage, especially as we are all following your travels etc and there is nothing worse than reading a great tome, only to find that someone ripped the last 300 pages out.
I picked up the Mark Maron podcast recommendation last week. I’m always on the lookout for new listening material, so thanks. It’s a bit of a culture shock to my limey ears so far. Right now I’m starting a new job in a new town, so I’ve been listening to the nitcast and other podcasts while wandering the (record breakingly rainy) streets of Cardiff for the half of the week I’m away from home.
Does anyone have any other good recommendations? I’ll add a few of my own that might be of interest (for the non poker side of the thinking poker audience):
– The Bugle – uk oddball news based comedy by John Oliver (from the Daily Show?) and his old stand up partner.
– Crossing Continents – current affairs programme from the BBC with a global perspective. Introduces issues from around the world that probably escaped the mainstream media
– In Our Time – again BBC radio, a group of academics get together to discuss a topic, typically philosophy or history but not always, for a more general audience. There’s a huge back catalogue of topics.
– LSE public lecture series – academic seminars on a wide range of topics. Some are great, some are not.
– The Partially Examined Life – some ex-philosophy grad students read and discuss philosophy texts
I like the Stack Overflow podcast for geeky fun. It helps if you already care about Stack Overflow, though.
Hanselminutes is good on techy subjects; there are tons of interviews and I think most people here would care about at least a few of them.
Up & In is still the best podcast I’ve ever heard and the best resource for learning about baseball I’ve ever come across. Very much an inspiration for this show. It ended two years ago, but it’s still relevant.
I spent some time in Thailand in the border of Burma in Chang Mai. History goes back thousand of years. A very difficult and complex history. Yet those people do not value life any less then we do. And are very proud of their culture. We cannot forget our own history a mere 180 years ago during the time of the Indian Removal Act and consequently the Trail of Tears. In my home in Hawaii less than 1% of the population is of pure Hawaiian ancestry when in the late 1800’s over a 100,000 flourished. Yet these things go by unnoticed. Thanks Gareth for making us aware that there is still work and consciousness raising to do.
Podcast wise
Dan Carlins Hardcore History is phenomenal
The previous series Wrath of the Khans is enthralling.
I always love gareths episodes, but this one was pretty special imo.
stands out in my mind for the next best of podcast list that gets compiled!