In a recent hand I played at 5/10 I was coolered but learned a valuable lesson. Against the same villain as in this interesting spot, I three bet a premium over a standard open and a call, and only picked up said villain, the original PFR. On J73cc, I cbet and was raised all in…
Short term results spread over months are hard enough to take, but a single evening of negative convergence can be terrible on the mind, especially when every hand is a buy in. The image of Mason Malmuth in lotus position and a loin cloth, floating on a deck of cards, is probably not going to…
The player complaining that a table does not have action is never giving any. Show me a thread asking about win rates and I’ll show you the worst thread in that forum. No one who announces they are “priced in” ever knows what the right price for their holding is. A player who is all…
Fiddy-dolla-uba-balla takes a break from rakeback grinding and wonders: Can you write a post that discusses the relative value of the fold equity we receive from being an early position opener with a large c-betting range versus the value we receive from having position on our opponents? I think this is an under-discussed aspect of value…
2:21 pm 100′ Hose: Post Incendium curre bene…? 4:22 Persuadeo: I just woke up and you are hurting my brain. 4:22 Confector Acervorum: Bust 4:22 C.A.: Didn’t work out. 4:23 100′: Sorry. That sucks. 4:24 P.: Oy. 4:24 C.A.: Eh 4:25 C.A..: Kinda unraveled there at the end 4:26 C.A.: Down to 30 people had about…
Among a mountain of hands to review from this week, including three very poorly played ones from a session where I felt out of sorts and it showed in my handiwork, cuddling my opponents with small ball plays, going Dutch pot control, and caressingly missized raises, this one example illustrates very strongly how I really…
As I’ve written before, the august Banker, Prince of the Village, has taken the tack of avoiding confrontations with me. This was a regrettable development, but who would blame him? He collects chips like interest from his adoring Smurf clients by just sitting in the games, and his invincible reputation must be valuable to him. …
Women, being at once the ideal and paradoxically the consolation, the raison d’etre and easily forgotten, but in fact more important, raison de mourir, have long been the most natural subject of the Image. The Image, being so powerful, is forbidden in totalitarian cultures, or even more sickly, replaced entirely by aspiring idols. There is…
There’s this moment in a recent Louis CK special where he steps out of his self-abasement and into some very creative sadism. He’s up on a Sunday morning, looking questionable and sitting outside his own apartment building as if he’s a bum. When an upright resident is upset by his presence, Louis recognizes the perfect,…