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Andrew and Nate ring in the new year with a discussion of goal-setting and their own resolutions, both in poker and in life. Plus how to take notes in live poker, first impressions of the (relatively) new poker room at the Maryland Live!, how to take advantage of weak players trying to play well, and even a bit of PLO8 strategy.
The organizational tools Nate mentions are Trello and Getting Things Done by David Allen, which we also discussed with Roy Bhasin.
I just wonder how Snowy ratings translate into PS real-money rates.
I do not know about 6-max.In case of middle-stake HU I believe that Snowy extra-terrestrial status did NOT translate into extra-terrestrial $ rates.
Executing some moves which Snowy grades as EV blunders will rather improve your $ rate against both real-money players and Snowy.
My favourite episode in recent memory.
The “well I made it clear I had an overpair” phenomenon I liked to think of as live players playing this collective game called “let’s find out who has the best hand” where preflop play weeds out who has good hands and then postflop play resolves the question. Live players play a lot of weird games at poker tables, including my other favourite, “did I win?” Also known as playing the river in position.
As far as notes, I take them on an old iPod, since I don’t have a phone, but I do have pen and pad paper everywhere I go, so that includes poker tables, as a backup. Since my iPod is so shit in battery life, its 6 years old #nitcast, I can’t always rely on it for a longer session if I didn’t remember to full charge it.
Gareth,
Poker players are often asked about “epiphanies” they had while learning the game. I remember listening to the “Did I win?” game discussed on one of the earlier episodes of the TPP when I was starting to take the game more seriously. The segment served to illuminate important opportunities to make better value bets on the river and get over the fear of value betting the worst hand. This was over a year ago by now I would guess and it still feels both hilarious and true.
I wanted to thank you for that and wish you the best of luck in all your travels.
I think 1000 words is a pretty punchy goal – not impossible but equally not easy. I guess spreading it over different formats will make it a bit easier. Gogogo. You hear rumours of real outliers, but 500 words per day seems to be about a standard rate for academic writing for many people. As with many things: the more you do it, the more you do it, so it’s good to keep in the practice of writing something, anything, often.
Ian: agreed. FWIW I settled on 300 dissertation-words and 300 non-dissertation-but-really-writing words per day. I’m allowed to get ahead but not to fall behind. Also, transcribing/updating stuff from old papers counts as dissertation-writing.
So far it’s going well. It’s definitely caused me to write on days I otherwise wouldn’t, and I don’t think it’s discouraging me from writing more on days when I would have. I might tweak the system in various ways, but the basics of it seem sound. If I didn’t have a job I could write more, I’m sure, but this seems ambitious enough for my current situation.
Thanks as always for the input. FWIW–I like your blog!
Regarding the equity discussion about Q5s vs. J2o, might you both have been thinking of something like Q2s vs. J5o? That hand is about 61/39 (and drops to 59/41 if the Q2 not suited). The dominance of the second-highest card makes a big difference – i.e. whether you have the 2 or the 5. Great podcast as always!
Andrew, congrats on giving up plastic bottles. I take my own water in Klean Kanteen bottles and also use then when I drive, fly, etc. Even if it wasn’t for saving on tips I would still do it because of the colossal and unnecessary waste of plastic bottles.
Agreed. I feel bad that it’s taken me so long to do this, but better late than never.
Yeah, I think this is something I can do with relatively little effort, too.
Nate’s plan to trade time for money and vice versa is certainly Carlos approved. I mostly just go the nitty route when it isnt that bad for me. Sleeping in the truck was actually quite comfortable, but I wouldn’t sleep outside for example. Well, there was that one time on the bench next to the homeless dude but I didn’t have a choice in the matter.
Currently, I need a new (read: salvage yard) radiator in my truck. Pie Farmer said I could try to do it myself, but I’d rather pay to have it done since I suck at stuff like that. I’m sure I would cross a wire or something making the choice to drive it later an existential decision.
Also, I stopped grocery shopping for salads. Now I go to the salad buffet for $7.50 every other day and absolutely gorge myself on 3 plates of salad. It’s roughly the same price or less per salad. Plus, they have more variety and I dont have to do any work. (Nate: protein sources are now peas, nuts, seeds, beans, broccoli, spinach, yogurt, and occasionally…ice cream)
Great episode. A lot of useful info in here. I’ll have to listen to this one a couple times and take notes.
Yesterday at the grocery store I bought two of an item that was supposed to be two-for-$4. They rang up as $2.50 each. I was debating how likely the cashier was to be able to fix the problem himself vs needing to call and wait for a supervisor. I decided to point it out, and he bumbled around for like two minutes and then told me I’d need to go to the customer service desk. I didn’t, and I imagined you looking over my shoulder and shaking your head in disappointment.
Sometimes it’s a 2 for $4 or 1 for $2.50 deal. If so, he should be able to explain that and I would accept it without a problem. It’s just a volume discount.
Now the other day, I bought an order of bread sticks that comes with 2 of them for $1.59 and asked them to add one more. They did and on my receipt the extra one cost me $0.70. I pointed it out to the lady and had to explain the math obviously. She finally understood and was nice about it so I didnt make them do a whole refund/new order.
We also have a place here where if you walk in and ask for 2 waffles, you’ll get 2 singles for like $3.99 each. Those of us who know better just ask for the double which costs $4.99 and get the exact same product others pay $7.98 for.
Ok, last one. Don’t buy lemonade at a place that has free water with lemon and splenda.