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When is Gambling Not Gambling?

Posted by Puyan on July 2nd, 2010. Tagged:

I had a conversation with my mom who has a rather conservative way of thinking. "So how is the poker gambling, are you addicted yet?" she patronisingly asked.
I replied, "Well firstly, I don't consider it gambling for me, more like game theory." Then I asked her, "Consider a tennis tournament where 8 players all pay $100 to enter, and the prizepool is distributed to the winner, is that gambling then?"
"No..."
[She changes subject]

Which got me thinking, where is the line drawn from what we consider to be gambling? And why are some forms of gambling more acceptable then others?

Money in a Cage

Posted by Puyan on July 4th, 2010. Tagged:

Yesterday was just one of those days. Looosing days. Yum!

And what hurts more is that it was on a Saturday, filled with fat, gambling, clueless donks. And I couldn't hit shit! Its like having money right in front of me and not being able to take it. Pownnnnnned!

I'm trying to be more anti red line, but here's my month so far, 271 games;
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Casino Donkfest Galore

Posted by Puyan on July 7th, 2010. Tagged:

I'm in Sheffield for a few days hanging out with a friend. Its kinda nice to get away from the usual surroundings and see how my friend lives his life. Of course, my laptop is insta-shipped also and I still expect myself to grind out my games. Its also going to be a mini experiment on how I can cope from playing my STTs on my small 15" screen without my external monitor, as I intend to do a lot of travelling this year - I've just booked a ticket to see my other friend who lives in Perth! So far so good!

The Whiplash

Posted by Puyan on July 13th, 2010. Tagged:

This month I have been getting crushed like never before. That is, numbers wise of course! Back in Feb I was getting crushed but I had no idea what I was doing, so this is quite different. Nothing can prepare you for a good ol' fashioned beat down by the Poker Gods!

My friend suggested that it could possibly be that last month I ran super good, and this month I'm running super bad, and the real EV is somewhere in the middle. My graph agrees, and I am therefore in submission to accept this nasty bit of variance.

My total EV (showdowns only) of $16s so far...

Take a Break or Grind Thru It?

Posted by Puyan on July 23rd, 2010. Tagged:

I haven't blogged in a while so I've decided that I will take a lil break from grinding the $16 Turbo STTs and write some shit down! Apparently blogging is good for you, in the book I'm ereading on my iPhone 4 (Snaaap!) called 59 Seconds.

Tilt Spending and Looking Back

Posted by Puyan on July 28th, 2010. Tagged:

So yesterday I played 2 sets and decided to record the 3rd one. I had been feeling a bit better after finally making some progress on Monday as my bankroll was moving in the right direction again. But low and behold, 18 tabling $16s I click the replay hand history button and everything freezes and crashes. After some frantic force restart, I login to Pokerstars to find that everything had been reset to default! This had happened before, so I quickly looked for my user.ini file that I backed up to my external and loaded it, before saving maybe 3 or 4 sets.

Why Positivity Rules, and Negativity Fucks You Up

Posted by Puyan on July 29th, 2010. Tagged:

My new computer has been working hard at importing my hands... only 8 hours to go!! LOL

Sooo I'm blogging again, but its cool I love doing it, especially now that I'm doing it more for me then you guys (though your fully welcome to read it!).

The last few days I've been really into something called "Real Social Dynamics".