u/biotechnes

playing private game with some friends(we'll be 3 handed) who are not very good and have money to throw around. i want to play as well as i can but i also want to be fun to play with and I think having a limping range from every position could be +ev because they probably won't punish as much with isos like a solver would. what would a limping range look like from each position? how can i go about mixing premiums in so its not too obvious?

I moved to a country where people speak a lot of languages I don't understand and im too lazy to learn them fully so it sent me down this interesting rabbit hole:

It is generally agreed upon by most linguists that every language theoretically has the capability to express any proposition/thought you can think of. Different languages have different numbers of words. There must be a language with the lowest number of words, which is most likely not maximally efficient(some words with synonyms). I think I have a decent framework for a more rigid version of what im asking but im also on a lot of adderall so its probably cringe:

*definitions:

1. definition - a definition D(W) of a word W is a composition of functions on a subset of words D_s that produces equivalent meaning to W. *

Does there exist a set of words in english(could be any language but lets just go with that because im a dumb american tourist), let's say A, such that for each A_i in the set, there exists no D(A_i) where for each word in D(A_i)_s, A_i is not used in D(D(A_i)_s_j)) and a certain set of functions(im sure the minimality of this would be much more straightforward) together with A can map to all possible propositions? People have definitely tken a crack at this before, who's said some interesting shit about what this could be and why it could be that way?

the problem with trying to make this so rigid is that theres no such thing as a "semantic evaluator" really when it comes to certain things, kinda gotta go eh close enough. idk. it does provide a pretty good one for testing minimality ig but another problem is you could get stuck in sets that arent as minimal as they could be kinda like local minima in machine learning ya know ok i gotta go do somethig else

basically, at least the people i've talked to, everyone seems to know a guy who knows a guy who took a bunch of acid and turned into a glass of orange juice. this is a play on that:

"When i was 13, my mom told me a story about how she had a long lost brother who did a bunch of acid and thought he turned into a glass of orange juice. A few years later, my dad caught me smoking weed and he said I better not be doing other drugs then told me the exact same story, about how he also had a long lost brother who did acid and turned into a glass of orange juice. So that's how I found out my parents were siblings. And I didn't know what to do with that information except a fuck ton of acid... cause I'd much rather be a glass of orange juice than an incest baby."

been sitting on this one for a while cause i know i would roll my eyes if anyne but me posted this but im drunk enough to take all the criticism bring it on gto bros. basically i was on a long plane ride with no headphones because im a big stupid idiot. i was thinking about poker, didnt have any way of studying tho. then i came up with a game: i made a set of sets of possible attributes, something like ("over/under")("folds/bluffs/calls/raises/checks/thin value bets")("action/reaction")[if reaction]->("check/earlier call/earlier raise/bet/raise") ("oop/ip") ("pre/flop/turn/river") ("aggressor/defender") ("static/dynamic") and used a random number generator on each to generate a random leak and then i wrote down on pen and paper all the ways i could think of to exploit that leak. i have no evidence that this helped me as my destination was somewhere it's illegal to play and im still there but i think it must be a valuable philosophical exercise because most people don't think too much about the indirect consequences of leaks and how to maximally juice that EV. only problem is theres no feedback to tell you if the leaks you come up with are actually good, i was going to post the list i came up with on here and ask about my logic but i lost it and dont feel like doing it again. but yeah if you're bored try it sometime, also open to suggestions on adding/removing features to make it better. maybe a bit over engineered but i think this is somewhat helpful particularly if you play a lot of heads up. heads up makes it really easy to notice your opponents tendencies so if you want to crush them you want to train yourself to find all sorts of creative ways to steal ev|tendencies(lack of rigid feedback is a BIG problem though)

im in singapore for work all summer, anyone know where the mics at?

do you find that people who "get" a certain area of math a lot more than the other areas seem to cluster around similar personalities? im 4th year math undergrad and i've certainly seen some patterns. which ones have you seen? my sign is combinatorics btw

here are my ratings of each attribute of the pizza i can think of, in order of how important it is for me personally:

1. crust: the crust is very nice texture wise. super structurally sound, crunchy, crispy, almost flaky. the flavor is good, but it could be saltier. nice and thin,for frozen pizza this is very solid, 7.7/10

2. cheese: the cheese is where things start to get bad, very gummy yet grainy texture and not too flavorful. the flavor is not BAD, there is just not much of it and a bad texture. however, the amount of cheese given is very generous and in line with what i'd want if the cheese was good. so good cheese to dough ratio i guess. 3.8/10

3. sauce: the sauce is pretty bad as well. I do not taste much tomato, I taste MSG and battery acid/actual garbage. The texture is fine, not too liquidy and not too pasty. But there is also too much of it on the pizza, I think they could do with a bit less sauce on this one. 3.2/10

4. pepperoni: decently crispy, good saltiness and seasoning but a little fake tasting. distribution is generous. solid 6.5

Overall, I'm going to give this frozen pizza a 5.5/10. The crust is good, but everything else on it is mediocre or bad.

I've been trying to incorporate more unconventional zero equity bluffs into my game, let me know if this is a bad example. 50NL 6max 80bb eff

CO limps in, I raise it up to 4bb with 6d4d at the BTN. I know this is pretty loose but this was a super good game and I was stoned so I'm just trying to play anything decent. SB and CO flat.

(13BB) flop comes 9h4hKh. SB leads for 4bb, about 1/3. CO calls and I decide to put in the raise to 15BB. I think most players' raising range here is strong made hands that want protection from a 4th heart, flushes, and bluffs with high single hearts. If I include this type of hand in my raising range, I can still have bluffs when the 4th heart comes out whereas most players will not. I also like using this hand because it blocks pocket 4s, basically the strongest made hand besides a flush that CO/SB can have and one of the only non flush hands that will peel on a flush completing turn. SB calls, CO folds.

(47BB pot) turn is 3h, SB checks and I bet 19bb/40% pot. He folds. I think I don't really need to bet much bigger than 40% with this bluff because there's only a couple cards in the deck that will call and I'm more likely to have all of those. So it should get through pretty often. By that same tken I think with this bluff I would pure give up if they called this turn bet.

Thoughs on this bluff/gameplan? I think doing it multiway was definitely pretty stupid but yeah. Maybe heads up it would print?

friends were watching me play 50nl last night, they clowned me for making this fold. 6max ~120bb eff

open up Ac8c to 3bb in the LJ. BTN, SB, and BB all flat.

(12bb pot) flop comes AdJhQs. Action chekcs to btn who bets 4bb. SB folds, BB calls, and I call as well. I think it's generally pretty unlikely that A8 is the best hand here but BTN is a maniac and BB also knows this so I call.

(24bb pot) turn is Ah, checks through. I don't think I should have any leads on this card after I flat flop.

(24bb pot) river is 8d. BB checks, I bet about 10bb hoping to get called or raised by whatever bullshit BTN has. BTN does indeed raise to 53BB, dollar signs fill my eyes but then BB rips in his remaining 115BB. I think nobody is ever bluffing in this spot(at least at 50NL) and they're not doing this for value with anything that isn't a boat. He can only have Ax boats (88 wouldn't have made it this far, QQ and JJ would've 3bet pre) so it's either A8 of spades, AQo or AJo. Not getting the odds so I just fold. BTN tank calls, BB has AJo of course. My friends said I was stupid and a nit for folding this, I think this has to be a super easy no brainer fold right? How did I play the hand in general?