1. The last time you did this, it turned out great, so I'll give you a different challenge: Rate how good the 2012 presidential candidates would be as poker players, without being overtly political. If you can't do that, then rate the Avengers (in the upcoming movie).
2. If you were to create a fantasy poker league, what would it be? How would it work?
3. Watch an episode of the WSOP on ESPN and describe how different it is on TV than real life.
4. Compare LA and SF. (Culture, not traffic.)
5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? (No, I am not interviewing you for a job.)
6. How did MIT prepare you for a life of poker playing? Did it? If you went somewhere else, do you think you'd be doing something else?
2. If you were to create a fantasy poker league, what would it be? How would it work?
3. Watch an episode of the WSOP on ESPN and describe how different it is on TV than real life.
4. Compare LA and SF. (Culture, not traffic.)
5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? (No, I am not interviewing you for a job.)
6. How did MIT prepare you for a life of poker playing? Did it? If you went somewhere else, do you think you'd be doing something else?
So here we go...first, let's dispense with the politicians. I don't really follow politics, and I'm not saying that in a "it's cool to be disinterested" or a "I don't have time for that" way or anything. I really just...don't. Maybe it's because I find it difficult to get unbiased news, or because I simply don't read that much, or perhaps I just don't care. I wish I was more involved, it's a real shame that someone like me simply stands on the sidelines, but that's the way it is. Moving right along....
I'm pretty sure fantasy poker leagues do exist for specifically the WSOP. My understanding is that you have a draft and everyone just picks players and you score points for cashes, final tables, bracelets, and total dollars won. There are probably bonus points for guys scoring points in multiple games, etc etc. This is the most practical way to do it, and has been used for many other domains, including US Weekly. The obviously problem here is that you don't have "positions" in the same way you do for other fantasy sports. One way to solve that would be to have say 6 NLHE players, 2 stud specials, 2 draw games guys, and a wildcard or something, but that's just not really practical because lots of these guys play lots of different events and it just wouldn't work. A more fun way (and completely impossible) way to do it would be to set up a league at your home casino with your friends. Six of you set up a draft and can select anybody you want on Earth. You keep score by who wins (or loses...that'd be fun also) the most money over the course of each week, playing head to head games just like fantasy football. The problem of course is that tracking results is impossible, so this is just pie in the sky type stuff. Back when online poker...existed...you could have done a draft like this using PTR as your source of truth. In fact, that'd actually be close to viable.
OK last one before it's time to watch the Steeler's game (which kicked a half hour ago but damn it I simply cannot watch commercials anymore) and that's describing the difference between playing poker on TV and in my world. I've watched a fair bit of the broadcasts and the differences are practically too many to enumerate. The pace is much slower on TV. That's partially because they are playing NLHE, and partially because it's TV, and partially because of shuffling machines. The banter on TV is just not there. Try watching some of the old high stakes poker episodes (like the one where Hanson quads up on Kid Poker's top boat) to get an idea of how it is in my world. A big hand will happen, and at least half the table will be talking about something completely irrelevant. Everything runs smoothly on TV; the dealer never fucks up, there really aren't any arguments, basically nothing goes wrong. I'd say something like that happens several times per hour in my world. There are no seat changes on TV; in the games I play players come in and out of the game constantly, and there is lots of seat changing. The Oaks 30 game was more like you see on TV the two days a week it was pre-scheduled, with 10 players bunkering down and nobody moving for a few hours. In the course of a 5 hour shift I could change seats up to 4 or 5 times depending on what goes on (or I could stay in the same seat...you never know). And the douchebaggery; nobody other than Helmuth is a shit head on TV. Half the people I play with (at least at Commerce) are.
OK that wasn't really everything but it's time for some football.
4 comments:
Hm. Very disappointing.
Also, you say "luck", I say "good scouting".
Do the people you routinely beat in poker label you as "lucky", when, in fact, you're just better than them?
Yeah to be honest my heart wasn't in it. I'll try to do better with 4-6.
As to being lucky it varies wildly based on the opponent and how I run in the small sample they play with me. There are players who've basically seen me lifetime heater them who think I'm the biggest luckbox on Earth. This is basically the same relationship you and I have in fantasy football. Others think I'm a hopeless retard and wonder how I dress myself in the morning. I guess we have that relationship also....
Wait, am I the retard, or are you?
You view me as the retard. I think you're the biggest luckbox on Earth. Neither is more than like 30% true.
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