Competition Time........Moorman's book

[TightEnd]

redsimon's contributions to

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=63148.105

converting VHS copies of the programmes onto youtube, posting them on forum

[TightEnd]

Dimsum's staking thread

Witty, original, inventive, and he won (chopped) the Tourney.

If you have not read it, take a look, sets new standards.

 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64450.0


followed up this weekend with another score at DTD in another staking thread with a difference

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64472.msg1972879;boardseen#new

[TightEnd]

Thing is on big life decisions like buying houses and choosing a career over poker you're almost never going to get an unbiased answer.

Everyone that views him/herself as a smart, rational person (which pretty much everyone does) will find a way to justify their mistakes to themselves when it comes to big life choices because the alternative is to alter the view that they are a smart and rational person.

I think its reasonable to assume that some %age of people make the wrong choices, but almost everyone seems so sure that they made the right choice. Most of them probably did, but the ones that at some point knew that they didn't (and these people just have to exist) aren't consciously lying, its just the way that the brain works. Its so much easier to justify our decisions in any way possible than live with the turmoil (dissonance) that results from knowing that we made a bad decision.

Its something that I've been reading about a lot recently and I think its pretty fascinating stuff. I'd recommend a book by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson called Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me). The slight trade off is that after reading it you won't want to believe anyone's opinion on anything, your own included

Back to the question, in the past you were adamant that the whole freedom thing was really important to you. Has that changed? If not then I think that your decision is a clear one.

My biased belief is that there is still plenty of money to be made in poker if you really want it, and your last blog entry reads as if you have a lot less confidence in your game than you used to. Plough the hours into studying, use stuff like Odds Oracle an CardrunnersEV. Be the guy making the long and detailed posts about how many bluff combos you should have in this spot and what hands you'd be using for balance, working out for yourself what the close-to-GTO play could be as well as your exploitative adjustments. Thats how you get some confidence back and I think you know that if you were feeling really confident in your game and your ability to make a good amount of money in poker you wouldn't even consider giving it up for a desk job which I think not many people would dispute is what you're looking at for the first x number of years of your venture capitalist employment.

The psychologists answer would be that it doesn't really matter which you choose because you'll justify whichever choice to yourself and others either way

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51305.17745

[TightEnd]

If the following could let me have an address, or details of another recipient if they wish sonmeone else to receive it


LilDave
Ed Gascoigne
Tom prawnidentity
Simon Slipping down the league
Dan Morgan


i can do the necessary

thanks

[Tal]

Good choices, panel. Fine work, chaps.

[cambridgealex]

Dimsum's staking thread

Witty, original, inventive, and he won (chopped) the Tourney.

If you have not read it, take a look, sets new standards.

 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64450.0


followed up this weekend with another score at DTD in another staking thread with a difference

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64472.msg1972879;boardseen#new

Does it count if "hero" is claiming the second win isn't on the stake?

And the first thread was started before the competition as you said!

Prose from a poshboy has been buzzing thanks to me

"Blank Canvas" you said...I demand a recount!

[TightEnd]

well, somebody posted that Tom had another result, on his staking thread

i took that at face value.

[cambridgealex]

well, somebody posted that Tom had another result, on his staking thread

i took that at face value.

OK fair enough.

I'd still like to officially appeal please.

[strak33]

Have these been given out yet?

Dan Morgan has contributed a lot to at least 2 important threads on here recently. Along with every post of his that i have seen has been at the very least interesting.

No idea if there is a vote but just putting this in here.

[tikay]

Have these been given out yet?

Dan Morgan has contributed a lot to at least 2 important threads on here recently. Along with every post of his that i have seen has been at the very least interesting.

No idea if there is a vote but just putting this in here.

LilDave
Ed Gascoigne
Tom prawnidentity
Simon Slipping down the league
Dan Morgan

[dreenie]

Yet again no females getting a mention

#pokerisamanssport

[edgascoigne]

OiOiiiiiiii

[theprawnidentity]

Yet again no females getting a mention

#pokerisamanssport

If only there was a category for worst post of the week this might have been in with a shout.

[Rexas]

Yet again no females getting a mention

#pokerisamanssport

If only there was a category for worst post of the week this might have been in with a shout.

That's one of the nicest things you've ever said about me

[dreenie]

Yet again no females getting a mention

#pokerisamanssport

If only there was a category for worst post of the week this might have been in with a shout.

LoooooooooooooooooooooooooooL

Chill yourself Winston, it was a joke. #Manbelittleswomanbehindthekeyboardshock