Chris M, aka Persuadeo

Culture

mittwiddens027069 Has Concerns

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date April 11, 2023
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42 min read

There I was, watching videos of cats, tasteful interracial porn and Phil Galfond, you know, a normal day at the screen, learning how to value bet, supporting centrist politicians against the literal Nazis in power and making sure that new, clean nuclear reactor is built in a less important state, when I came upon this terrifying tweet. Oh. My. God. Where were you when Steven Braddip shot […]

Culture

They’re Killing Online Poker Faster Than We Can Do It

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date April 9, 2023
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57 min read

My name’s Dilbert Howard, and look, we need to talk. You probably know my two brothers better, but I in fact have an even cooler, hipper blog and an even more sophisticated MDA extraction technique on the way. Now, while my brothers and other important people in the poker community have made it an absolute priority of late to information dump as much as possible without thought […]

Fragments

Travis Duck, Seat 3 Idea Man

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date April 7, 2023
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12 min read

An employer invited six people for an interview at 7:00 am. They arrived, all dressed sharply and just before the call time. The employer told them to wait. By 6:00 pm everyone had left but one. He got the job, because the interview was a test of PATIENTS. Did you hear that, it was a test of PATIENTS! Because it was not a job interview. It was […]

Culture

People Who Don’t Read People

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date April 4, 2023
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159 min read

Every community is different – culture exists, or I should say is a thing, for you online poker players. However, the rules governing voluntary communities are always the same. (It’s always Tolstoy, innit.) One rule of every community is that the moth is always drawn to the flame. Poker, in other words, attracts the vast majority of its adherents not from people who are good at what […]

Notes from the Cage

Conflict Resolution, part I

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date March 29, 2023
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229 min read

My mother does everything slowly. It’s not an affectation. She is old. There are things that don’t need to be done, however. Today, she’s taken the white meat off the rotisserie and placed it on a sheet pan in order to oven heat it. I’m reluctant to touch the so-carefully destroyed slices of chicken. I don’t want to sense the inevitably disappointing dryness, the futility and waste […]

Notes from the Cage

Long Nights

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date March 7, 2023
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267 min read

The Russian isn’t really a Russian, just a local comic books guy who plays poker well and comfortably. He drinks and enjoys himself and loses his accent, if there ever was one. He likes to berate others, especially when they don’t play like he wants them to play; to hear his barbs is to hear a thin compliment; he uses laughter as a manipulative signal rather than […]

Culture

Quick Poll

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date March 5, 2023
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18 min read

You’re 300,468 from the money in the combined superfinal tournament championship satellite put on by WSOPGG88CHATGPISKYNET, you have AK in the BB facing a jam with three blinds left. Losers are gravitationally compressed to a string of information in the form of non-binary characters and inserted into a strand of the Phil Hellmuth Foreverbot’s ear hair where they listen* and vibrate whenever he praises himself; at that […]

Notes from the Cage

Keeping it Together

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 28, 2023
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190 min read

What a winter. After pulling out all the stops at the tables during a summer that featured more hours and daily discipline than I have summoned in years – even experiencing actual rungood during one extraordinary three week stretch – the door was shut hard on my slow return to form and financial strength. Of course, I stubbed my own toe and banged my own head on […]

Fragments

Big Bet Bob

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 21, 2023
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108 min read

From the first, talking came easy to me. I was garrulous, and most of all, great with detail. “You have the gift of gab, Bobby,” my mother would say to me absently, in the middle of one of my endless stories or to encourage me when I was suddenly shy. Didn’t matter what I was going on about, I can see her now: school, the gang, girls […]