November 12 - Practiced some analysis

I think she had an "ohhh" moment that broke down a mental barrier with the math. Suppose in some river spot we're last to act and are getting 3:1 pot odds on a call but think we're 2:1 against winning. She could explain the math in terms of why a call was +EV (because on average we'll win 3 units once for every 2 times we lose 1 unit, etc.), but I don't think she felt quite right about it. So I gave the example that we were given pot odds of 1 billion:1 and were 100:1 against winning. I think that made things click pretty well.

I've also noticed that in life she's probably never had an opportunity to really challenge herself analytically and I can see her start to panic sometimes when she doesn't immediately understand something or know where to begin in some situation I give her to think about. In other words, this is becoming more life +EV as well.