MaxfordAndSons

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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Minimizing your losses is essential; so is maximizing your gains. TBF, in a tournament there is something to be said for biasing towards loss minimization because of the need to preserve your tournament life resulting in chip value being no
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
> Democrats, despite winning the popular vote in all but 2 elections since 1988, are pretty much completely out of power This shit pisses me off so much. Why can't they play by the same rules? The supreme irony is, if Dems were will
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Incidentally: Chamath plays a fair amount of high stakes poker recreationally, including on various streams and/or filmed poker content. I forget if it was on twitter or a Reddit AMA or what, but he once gave a blurb about what he had
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Trump seems much more like a specialist to me.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I'd push back on the idea that gambling is inherently harmful. Gambling can be done at a scale where it is essentially play. It is particularly gambling against corporations or other non-individual actors, in games that they rig to be
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Not really? It's more like saying alcoholics take the fun out of going to a restaurant that happens to have a bar.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I know what I'm talking about - this thread was about someone who admitted to running a BOT online for real money. Like, fully automated no human in the loop. Which again, is just straight up cheating people out of their money. That&#x
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
It's a wild false equivalency to imply that using GTOw or Pio as a study tool is the same as using them for real time assistance. And even if bots are imperfect, people and especially recreational players, don't sign up to real mo
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Yes in the fullest. For one thing it's against the ToS of every site. But it's also just plainly unethical. Even the most elite players are merely reaching a moderately accurate approximation of optimal play, which completely pale
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Oh, so you cheated people out of their money. That's not cool.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Curious what do you mean by "I ran a bot"? Like, you programmed and/or operated a bot that played on real money sites?
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
> Personally I would rather take the luck out of it and attempt to normalize (perhaps by playing duplicate hands) There's something called "match poker" which does exactly that.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
It does, but there is a crucial difference between poker and most of those other forms of gambling, in that it's possible to be a long term winner at poker, as opposed to games that structurally favor the house. So, you have to be du
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Yea, it certainly isn't all one or the other, but people are on average quite bad at estimating the precise degree to which we have control over uncertain outcomes, and tend to wildly over or under estimate based on emotions, biases an
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that's the crash GP was referring to. It sort of looks like he could have been going into a barrel roll.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Yea the "optimal" solution shown by the default input is pretty silly. You're giving everyone 5 chips with which they can post blinds, and they're going to use 3 of them per turn through the blinds, so after 1 turn throu
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I don't think people are scared about it, it's more of an annoyance. And it's not being wildly exaggerated. In NYC nowadays it's more common than not when walking anywhere to get at least one strong whiff of weed per tri
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I really can’t conceive of a way in which depression helps humanity survive. Just because we have a trait doesn’t mean it’s adaptive. More likely, it is a dysfunction of a related emotional state with actual utility (pessimism, paranoia, et
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
ISPs knew this would happen if Trump lost in '20, they never acted on it's repeal in the first place. We'll almost certainly get to see what the no-neutrality internet really looks like if Trump wins this year...
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I agree with this. I this misunderstanding is the root cause of, well a lot of shit, but particularly the increase in belief in conspiracy theories by members of the public. Most people lack a conceptual understanding of emergent behavior i
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
It doesn't have an inherent negative moral connotation when used amongst gamblers. It's been reclaimed, so to speak. But I suppose we're not amongst gamblers here, so, fair enough.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I guess you're getting downvoted because people think you mean HN by "here", but you meant amongst gamblers. And you're right, it is the most apt term gp was looking for.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
+1 to this. As a long time cannabis user who is quite skeptical of many of the purported health benefits, this is one I’m not at all skeptical about. It’s actually just the other side of the coin of the degraded short/mid term memory t
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Yea I recognize it's probably been greatly reduced generation over generation, it was already being addressed systematically when I was a kid ~20 years ago... but saying "eliminated" seems like it must be an exaggeration. Tho
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
> bullying was eliminated from schools It was? Not that I've been in primary school in a few decades, but I find this claim exceedingly hard to believe.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Funny, "Wind River" is also a film that bordered on traumatic to me.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Maybe that was the going rate at the time, but GP's estimate is roughly accurate for contemporary retail prices.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Unlikely; if it were lower stakes, maybe, but even high end poker houses are not such high margin enterprises that they can afford to comp $10k to an angry customer because of dealer error. Maybe some smaller comp, but not the whole pot.
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
I mean, there are gangsters that play poker, and there are private games run by gangsters (I imagine), but the idea that the poker world is highly entangled with the underworld is pretty outmoded at this point. High level pros like Junglema
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by MaxfordAndSons 3y ago
Funny that the top comment here is about poker - there's a rumor in the poker world that SBF was a whale in some of the biggest private app games, and owed the game runners north of $10m when he went down, which the winners in that gam

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