Only gambling content in this thread. I figure my Bar is better suited as a life-related kind of thing and hangout place, and in here all my gambling degeneration should be posted.

This place will be a hand-dump, thoughts basket, blackjack strategies and sportsbetting lines etc.

And of course, my Bar will remain open. Too many good stuff happening in real life that I'd like to share.

Let's see if I can at least post once a week in this thread. GOGOGOGO!!!



To start, here's great quote from someone I admire:

Earlier I used the term winners instead of good players because I think many winners are very exploitable. In some cases, even more exploitable than certain types of fish. This can get in depth and complicated but the main reason for this has to do with predictability. One analogy I like to use is with school. Everyone knows that there are plenty of people they were/are in school with that got very good grades but that they don't necessarily think were very smart. Those people worked hard, and essentially kew how to work the system. I see many regs in this way. They have "figured out" how to play but can't really think on their feet, don't play particularly creatively and revert to very predictable patterns when they are challenged or presented with plays they are not accustomed to seeing or expecting. I make a lot of mistakes when I play but I can make up for them by playing unpredictably, creatively and by understanding the rational foundation for how most people think about what they're doinrg.
Spelling issues aside, I have felt I've known this since forever. Its nice to see it written by someone else.

I've been struggling with confidence issues. It seems confidence is indeed wtf poker is about. I've known this, felt this, reasoned this, but have been unable to come up with a countermeasure.

For me it looks like this: beat this issue, beat the highest stakes imaginable. Its simple, really.

tbc.


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