Old versus Young in poker

[kinboshi]

I agree kids generally have the time and willingness to dedicate to intensive learning and thus have a better opportunity to nail optimum theory. But that's to say optimum theory is the only attribute with value in poker. Older guys with decent theory might well have better patience & emotional control at the table. So if they both sit down to play a single live MTT across multiple days who is better equipped for success? It's about having the right blend of ingredients and I don't think the perfect blend is associated with either age group.

surely optimum theory takes into account patience and emotional control? Otherwise - it isn't optimal?


If they're not taking in to account all the variables then they're just doing sub standard maths.

When my mrs was learning to drive she absorbed every bit of information about how to drive a car safely on the road, she read the highway code cover to cover, and passed her theory test with flying colours.

On her actual driving test she was very nervous and drove out of the test centre and into a lamp post.

<insert sexist joke here>

[theprawnidentity]

I agree kids generally have the time and willingness to dedicate to intensive learning and thus have a better opportunity to nail optimum theory. But that's to say optimum theory is the only attribute with value in poker. Older guys with decent theory might well have better patience & emotional control at the table. So if they both sit down to play a single live MTT across multiple days who is better equipped for success? It's about having the right blend of ingredients and I don't think the perfect blend is associated with either age group.

surely optimum theory takes into account patience and emotional control? Otherwise - it isn't optimal?


If they're not taking in to account all the variables then they're just doing sub standard maths.

When my mrs was learning to drive she absorbed every bit of information about how to drive a car safely on the road, she read the highway code cover to cover, and passed her theory test with flying colours.

On her actual driving test she was very nervous and drove out of the test centre and into a lamp post.

It came from nowhere!!!!

[Honeybadger]

I'm on a table with 8 guys over 50 all of which are bad holder.

Doubt you ever get a table of 9 young guys who are all bad.

Young people tend to be better at making posts from their iPhones. But this is a huge generalisation, as evvry pst froom Plenu1 prouves.

[kinboshi]

I'm on a table with 8 guys over 50 all of which are bad holder.

Doubt you ever get a table of 9 young guys who are all bad.

Young people tend to be better at making posts from their iPhones. But this is a huge generalisation, as evvry pst froom Plenu1 prouves.

WINNER!

[EvilPie]

I'm on a table with 8 guys over 50 all of which are bad holder.

Doubt you ever get a table of 9 young guys who are all bad.

Maybe because most young guys who aren't trying to make a living out of poker have got better things to do than sit at a poker table for 12 hours a day?

The proportion of pros to recs is obviously much higher in young people because let's face it poker as a hobby is not a young man's game.

Drinking and shagging is what young guys should be out doing. Old guys have been there, done that so they can afford to waste their free time partaking in what you might describe as a massive sausage fest of a hobby.

[Woodsey]

I'm on a table with 8 guys over 50 all of which are bad holder.

Doubt you ever get a table of 9 young guys who are all bad.

Maybe because most young guys who aren't trying to make a living out of poker have got better things to do than sit at a poker table for 12 hours a day?

The proportion of pros to recs is obviously much higher in young people because let's face it poker as a hobby is not a young man's game.

Drinking and shagging is what young guys should be out doing. Old guys have been there, done that so they can afford to waste their free time partaking in what you might describe as a massive sausage fest of a hobby.

[rfgqqabc]

I'm on a table with 8 guys over 50 all of which are bad holder.

Doubt you ever get a table of 9 young guys who are all bad.

Maybe because most young guys who aren't trying to make a living out of poker have got better things to do than sit at a poker table for 12 hours a day?

The proportion of pros to recs is obviously much higher in young people because let's face it poker as a hobby is not a young man's game.

Drinking and shagging is what young guys should be out doing. Old guys have been there, done that so they can afford to waste their free time partaking in what you might describe as a massive sausage fest of a hobby.

Even playing poker for 12 hours a day leaves 12 hours for non-poker too. I mean look how lucky Tight4better was he got to #girl2 #girl1!

[titaniumbean]

theres a lot of good players over 35, just the other week Rick Trigg got 2nd at DTD.

not enough love

[Doobs]

Was just stood railing Tikay.  There was a one drop table behind me.  I turned around and would say 7 out of 8 were under 25 and I didn't recognise any of them. If you'd push me to put an age on them, if they weren't sat at that table, I'd put 4 of those at under 21.

Absolutely astonishing them flinging $111,000 at a poker tournament when that young. 

[SuuPRlim]

Was just stood railing Tikay.  There was a one drop table behind me.  I turned around and would say 7 out of 8 were under 25 and I didn't recognise any of them. If you'd push me to put an age on them, if they weren't sat at that table, I'd put 4 of those at under 21.

Absolutely astonishing them flinging $111,000 at a poker tournament when that young. 

I think we all know that very very few of them are flinging $111,000 at a poker tournament right now

[T8MML]

Old guys rule - ask Reverend Gascoigne

 

[neeko]

Old Brits 1 - young Brits 0

[Ironside]

Old Brits 1 - young Brits 0

r u calling barny old?