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Caught Up in the Craze: Comeback Update: First Tournament Cash

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Sunday, December 09, 2012. Comeback Update: First Tournament Cash. In my sixth tournament since deciding in October to return to poker on a part-time basis, I finally made my first cash (aside from $225 in bounties from a couple of bounty tournaments). I got a remarkable comment. To my recent post about Poker Strategy. 90 Poker Strategy, Winning With Game Theory. Simple template&...

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Caught Up in the Craze: August 2014

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. A "Poker Showdown" on Andrew Gelman's blog and the problems with applying "Risk of Ruin" to poker. The two main influences on my poker presentation. From 2012, primarily Chen and Ankenmans Mathematics of Poker,. 160;and secondarily my friend Rick Schoenbergs Introduction to Probability with Texas Holdem Examples. Links to this post. Life of a Poker Player.

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Caught Up in the Craze: April 2012

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Sunday, April 29, 2012. Should Poker Players Want Jackpots in Their Games? Entering "jackpot" into the search field on this blog yields many instances. Of my bemoaning their existence in my games, but in truth my disdain for jackpots has waned recently. (This is decidedly not due to the fact that I've won a substantial amount from jackpots. 2 Having an enjoyable social experience.

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Caught Up in the Craze: November 2012

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Monday, November 12, 2012. After a long hiatus from poker and a brief foray into academia, I've decided to return to playing poker part-time. (Most of the rest of my time will be spent watching my two year old and three month old sons, and I'm also doing some politics/skeptic blogging. Not to mention my return to this. Live poker was legalized in Maryland casinos. Voted (I guess ...

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Caught Up in the Craze: Poker Presentation Slides

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Tuesday, February 14, 2012. I just finished the Mathematical Poker presentation. For Swarthmore College Mathematics and Statistics department. There were at least sixty people (I'm guessing), it went well, and there were some good questions afterward. Anyway, for those who are interested, here. Are the slides I used for the talk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Caught Up in the Craze: February 2013

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Saturday, February 02, 2013. Closer Analysis of Folding into the Money. Last post, I mentioned some lessons learned from my experience of folding nearly every hand toward the end of a tournament in order to back my way into the money. I think this strategy deserves a little closer attention. 1 How many more rounds will I survive by folding? For the tournament I have been playing,...

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Caught Up in the Craze: Why don't I play tournaments?

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Friday, March 02, 2012. Why don't I play tournaments? This is another question I got after my Mathematical Poker talk. Why don't you play tournaments? However, I stopped playing nearly as much once I got to Los Angeles. Some other factors I neglected to mention:. Tournaments just don't fit into a schedule very well. You might play for five minutes or twelve hours. I don't...I don...

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Trouble in River City | Easily Distracted

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Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects. Go Big Or Don’t Go. Etsy Education →. Trouble in River City. June 20, 2012. Let’s talk MOOCs, shall we? 1) Fad-Followers Are Wrecking Everything. Again. Are they creating content, practices and ideas? Or are they risking other people’s money, other people’s institutions, other people’s future and trying to buy something ready-made off the shelf? The wrong kind of people. 3) Maybe MOOCs Are an Exciting New Form of Publication, Not Teaching. A MOOC can f...

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Caught Up in the Craze: March 2012

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Caught Up in the Craze. Former Bicycle Casino poker prop making a shift to tournaments. Poker thoughts, analysis, and stories. Sunday, March 25, 2012. What are some common weaknesses of your opponents? This is another question I was NOT asked at my poker talk last month, but that I figured would make for an interesting blog post. This question is basically the same as the following: what do you do as a poker player that sets you apart from most other players and enables you to win? Finally, I think good ...