Andrew Brokos
@thinkingpoker
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Poker player, writer, and coach. Co-host of the Thinking Poker Podcast. He/him.
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Turns out there were outside agitators after all.
Chat logs leaked to the Washington Post show a group of billionaires who wanted to make sure the NYPD crushed student protests on the Columbia got a private meeting with Mayor Adams a few days before the NYPD crushed student protests at Columbia:
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Alright here's some red meat for the haters. Ferguson was on phone and didn't have blind/ante up. I said, "You owe us some money Chris." No love from the table so posting here for validation.
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Man answers phone at poker table on Valentine's Day. "I'm... I'm... just pickin' up a couple things. For you. Then I'll be over."
<hangs up>
"Does this place have a gift shop?"
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Folds to SB, who looks at his cards.
BB: Protect your hand when you look at it. I saw your cards.
SB: OK thanks. Call.
BB: Raise.
SB: Call.
BB: Did you hear me? I saw your cards.
SB: I just want to see the flop.
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Hot take: If you're shoving blind in a $10K, you should be allowed to do it pantsless if that's your jam. We're all adults here
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The Onion's humor is consistently edgier than any right wing publication's flailing attempts at comedy. It's proof that skilled humorists can still joke about anything, even in our allegedly PC culture. Subject matter doesn't get you "cancelled" (criticized); bad arguments do.
"It was a tough decision, but boy, did it pay off big-time!" – Cicero Thompson
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. It's honestly overwhelming how many people were cheering for me on here. I think a lot of you are more disappointed than I am. Thanks so much - it means a lot to me. Look forward to sharing all the details with you.
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Bagging 895,400. Forgot to take a pic before bagging but there might be one on
@pokernews
?
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Problem: You like bluff-catching a lot more than your opponents like bluffing.
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Day 5 of the Main Event. I'm excited, not ashamed to admit it. I don't need to act like I've been here before, because I have. Three times.
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3 weeks into the WSOP experiment. A multitude of skilled professionals have lost with AA so far.
Hard to get much better evidence exposing lack of benefits of AA...and/or lack of benefits of skill.
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The mainstream poker media wants you to think AKs is better than AKo. But I checked my databases - by the way, these are the best databases, ok? You should see them. They're yuge. Beautiful databases. I checked my databases, and I've won nearly 3x as much with AKo. No collusion!
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Was explaining WSOP to my uncle yesterday, how it's a whole series of tournaments and how some people feel like bracelets are devalued now that they give so many each year. Then he asked how many I had, and the fact that he didn't intend it as a needle only made it more savage.
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When you lose a flip deep in a tournament, remember that you won more than your share to get that far. But then also remember that so did the guy who just busted you, and he just one a fucking nother one. Fucking guy.
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@JuliusGoat
It's totally reasonable to want it back, IMO. Expecting reality to bend to your wants is the presumptuous part.
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Dealers are taking a significant pay cut this year, & while I feel bad for them, they are taking zero shit from players, and it's pretty great. After tanking flop and turn, players quickly checked river. Dealer: Wow, that seemed like a perfect card for another two minutes each.
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Walked into poker room as old man was walking out and he told me, "There's no money left. I took all the money."
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Old guy: How much you playing?
Young guy: Only about ten. You don't have to worry about me.
Old guy: Oh I am worried about you. Your whole generation is fucked.
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Been playing games with a six year old who gets upset when he draws a few bad cards in a row. His parents told me it was a phase and he would grow out of it. I assured them this was not a guarantee.
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6yo: Why do you like poker?
It makes me feel smart.
Why does it make you feel smart?
Other people are trying to be smart, but I win because I'm smarter.
Why do you want to feel smart?
...I don't know.
Then you aren't smart.
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4.45MM at first break. Just two-outed someone on the river.
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If this happened today, we'd be inundated with commentary from supposedly sympathetic moderates about how it was divisive and counter-productive and couldn't she have found a way to make her point without inconveniencing everyone else on the bus?
On this day in 1955, civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. She got arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws.
Before Rosa Parks, there were other women who refused to give up their seats.
A THREAD!
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I mostly think of The Sopranos as a show about late 90s/early 00s America, but Tony thinking of himself as "the strong, silent type" while he's actually a raging, emotional mess feels very relevant in contemporary America.
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Might be a rough ride today but my goal is to conserve my chips while pursuing a policy of aggressive expansion.
#SpeakSoftlyAndCarryABigStack
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Monopoly is a terrible board game but an excellent capitalism simulator. 6yo wanted to play and in his second ever game he discovered it was more fun to give me "deals" instead of bankrupting me, leaving me just enough cash to limp around, collect my $200, and pay him next round.
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Me playing an ACR tournament: I should check the lobby. We're probably getting close to the bubble.
Lobby: Late registration (7 levels remaining)
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"OK Mr. Brokos, we've got you booked through Monday, and I assume you're here for the poker tournament?"
"I am."
<grim nod>"Well. If you find you need to check-out early, just let us know by 6pm the night before, and we can get you refunded."
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Tournaments are fun I don't know why everyone complains about them
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It's helpful to remember that while professional poker players are skilled in risk analysis and logical thinking, we are also strongly self-selected for individuals who harbor innate resentment for authority and anyone telling us what to do.
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@katiedimartin
There is indeed a lot of misogyny wrapped up in the discourse around this incident, but your summary here is not accurate. No one thinks she made a good read and played well. It's only a question of whether she cheated or made a huge mistake and got lucky.
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9.48MM going into Day 3 of 888, about 90 remaining. Roughly 2x average?
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RIP
#TexasDolly
. The one and only time I played with him was Day 1 of the Main Event, almost exactly ten years ago. We never got to interview him for the podcast, but I fired a few questions at him as we played and live tweeted our exchange.
Thread:
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I love the strip. Shady-looking dude just stage-whispered, "Hey! Hey, man!"
I looked over.
"You wanna buy some string cheeses?"
"Huh?"
I thought that might have been code, but he repeated, "String cheeses, man," and held up a handful of string cheese.
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Dealer, distracted by football game, made a small error. "Sorry, guys, I got money on this."
"How much? We got 1100 on this. You better have at least 10K on it."
"It's 100K if I win my fantasy league."
"Shit. Alright. I wouldn't even be here if I were you "
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Checked out of LV house today.
Cleaning lady: Did you win?
Me: I did.
CL: Oh! Congratulations! I just cleaned a condo another poker player was in. I guess he won too. He left quarters and dollar bills all over the place. It was like $150!
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Did you all know
@NateSilver538
used to be a professional poker player? And still plays seriously when time permits? And has great taste in poker books and podcasts? We talk to him about it on Episode 318:
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@LandonTice
Was sitting next to a man in a wheelchair who seemed to have very limited use of his hands/arms. He asked if I would help him out with something, and, eager to be accommodating, I said I would. He nodded toward his phone. "Take a picture of that waitress's big ass titties!"
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Guy I played with yesterday just approached me and was surprised I didn't cash. "Let me tell you something. You're a very good player. Just little too aggressive. Lower that aggression just a little bit, and you be great player."
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I was out walking with my sun shirt and my resistance band when some teens drove past shouting. I think they were trying to make fun of me but I couldn't hear them over the Dungeons and Dragons podcast I was listening to.
#winning
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Guy 3-bets, gets a fold, shows KK. "I didn't want a call. I want to stay in a little longer, bust tonight. My wife's in the 1K. If I go out now, I gotta deal with the kids."
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Dealer thanked me repeatedly and enthusiastically for a tip on a small pot and now I am wondering WTF I gave him.
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When I bink on the turn, I consider myself entitled to the pot and do not appreciate you re-sucking on the river.
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Ya it's so frustrating when people impose simple narratives on complex issues to manufacture support for their shallow politics.
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I would not fold it to Fat Mike
I would not fold it at the Bike
I would not fold on a stream
I would not, could not in your dreams
I would not fold it here or there
I do not like to fold top pair!
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Tourney. Folds to SB. "Chop?"
I seethe & ignore him. Then I feel guilty. He's a customer here to have fun. My job is to provide that, not to condescend his idea of fun.
"That chop still on the table?" I say through gritted teeth as I fold to his flop bet.
A piece of me dies.
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I had just been 4bet while holding Aces, 500 blinds deep, when this was announced. Won a ~10K pot simultaneously.
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@Paul_Romain
@michaelmezz
Hmmm you make some good points as well. I'll have to think on that.
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There are no "correct" pre-flop ranges. There are no "optimal" pre-flop ranges. There are no "solved" pre-flop ranges.
There are solver-generated ranges that are very close to optimal in the absence of any insight into your opponents' (or your own) exploitable tendencies.
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I made the mistake of trying to explain the J4 hand to a non-poker person and now I am getting replies this:
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Me after fifteen months of isolation, two days with a six year old, and one alcoholic beverage.
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Losing will be a constant companion on your poker journey. You can't make the journey without him, though, so the sooner you learn to get along, the better.
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One of my students told me recently, "I don't think I'm totally on board with playing correctly."
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A: Raise.
B: How long have I been at the table?
Dealer: 8 minutes.
B: Re-raise.
A: What was that? Are you using that as a random number or something?
B: I just like to make sure I 3-bet in the first ten minutes.
A: Call.
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4yo: Do you have any clothes that are cute?
Me: Not really. It's a lot easier to be cute when you're 4 than when you're 37.
4yo: You're still cute.
Me: Thank you.
4yo: Look at that smile.
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Over 100k. Won some small pots, then dude on my right gave me a full Vanessa.
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Even amidst all the poker world's casual misogyny this stands out as especially heinous. I never listened to his podcast or watched his stream anyway, but I hope others will reconsider watching/listening to/working with him.
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Sure sign I'm exhausted is when I get emotional easily. I just saw a woman wearing a shirt that says "Be the person your pets think you are," and got choked up. Going to lie down on break.
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Last hand of night.
Me: Raise.
SB: Call.
Me: Alright! I might get over a million after all.
SB: Fuck. You.
Flop: Q97hh.
SB: Bet.
Me: Raise.
SB, showing a Q: Just... just take it.
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Shelby Wells
@lorenshleby
was a humble dealer and poker enthusiast until winning a Main Event seat from a Twitter contest. Now she's made Day 6, cashed for $70K, and played with Negreanu at the feature table. Her story on the latest Thinking Poker Podcast!
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Now dealing: Mal. New player arrives at table and passes over entire wallet with DL inside for verification.
Mal: You just gonna give me your wallet?
Guy: I been here five and a half weeks. Ain't fuckin' nothin' in there.
#Withered
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Just chopped the ACR Sunday Special heads up for slightly more than second place money (I was very short). This has been my white whale: I've had deep runs in the Warm Up, the High Roller, and the Second Chance, but never the Special.
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New podcast with
@ikepoker
! Releasing early because although we recorded before Hellmuth's comment, we do discuss why he's still masking. Plus the limitations of solvers, finding edges on world class players, and much more.
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I used to call it The Walk of Shame any time I moved 10/20 to 5/10 but I just did it while wheeling a cart with my food and my chips on it and then my pants started to fall down and when I stopped to pull them up I spilled my chips so I guess I'm going to have to retire the name.
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Haughty ass Wynn patrons gawking like they never saw an undead trucker squatting by a faux potted plant charging his phone and munching carrot sticks.
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The Thinking Poker Podcast turned ten years old this week! Join
@HipHop101Trivia
@NateMeyvis
and me in looking back to our very first episode and considering how the show and the poker world have changed in the last decade:
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Sneaking off to my bedroom to do drugs at my mom's house is nothing new, but now the drug is acetaminophen and I'm sneaking to avoid a lecture about homeopathy.
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@JuliusGoat
says better what I was trying to say on
@AskTheMathDr
pod: "what such people are actually advocating for is not to use sunlight to disinfect our society of bigotry, but simply to have a society in which bigotry is free to dance in the sun."
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Woman checking IDs for Colossus seat assignment has a pattern: verifies info, hands license back, says "You're good".
I use my time in line to prepare some witty banter. When it's my turn, I hand over my ID. She looks it over and gives it back. "Here you go."
"Damn right I am."
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New table in 8-max absurdly slow. I politely suggested we all try to act a little faster.
Old guy: It's just a game. It doesn't matter.
Me: OK. I'd enjoy the game more if it went faster.
OG: It doesn't matter. At all.
Me: Nothing matters. I'd just like to see a few more hands
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There's a funny dynamic where nosebleed professionals talk up the intelligence of rich whales on social media so they keep getting action from them but other poker midwits don't understand what's going on and are convinced the whales are actually geniuses.
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You know how adding more flop betting options to Pio explodes the size of your tree and makes the sim take way longer to run? That's why you can't be out there getting the corona virus. You become a new node that will branch into many new infections.
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Do you all have an Android charger I could borrow?
I'm sorry, sir, unfortunately we don't have chargers.
Do you have a lost and found?
Yes.
I lost my Android charger.
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I'm working on a poker strategy book. After drafting, I set the manuscript aside and spent some time writing and studying fiction. I've just started revising the book and am finding a lot of ways to use what I learned from fiction to make the prose tighter. It's very rewarding!
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When I started coaching poker ~13 years ago, I was generally trying to show people the game was more complicated than they thought. In the last 2-3 years I've increasingly found myself doing the opposite.
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Dude at my table is deeply, existentially unsettled by another player, not back from break, missing hands. I mean, he sounds haunted. "He never will know what he fold. Never in his entire life."
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French reporter just asked my name and I took out a copy of my book to show him how to spell it. 🏀🏀🏀
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Whoah.
p.s. if you're looking for poker study material that incorporates insight from GTO solvers, I thought these 2 books from
@GTOPoker
(not yet published, I read an advance copy) and
@thinkingpoker
were pretty darn good:
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600/1200/1200, all in for 300, I iso w 77, he has 74o. Whole table argues about what he can win as board comes KJ593.
A: He can win 900."
B: 1200.
C: He gets the ante plus 300 from the bet, 300 from small blind, 300 from big blind.
D: So he gets 2400.
Me: He gets 0, guys.
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Guess I should salute him with a poker quote, since he has a great one, while robbing Marlo Stanfield's poker game at gunpoint: "I dunno about cards but uh I think these 4-5s beat a full house."
#ripMichaelKWilliams
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Remember that one time we were worried about a thing that ended up not being too big a deal? Let's never take any precautions about anything again ever.
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Goddammit he even looks like me.
37-Year-Old Worried He Might Have Missed Boat On Becoming Child Prodigy
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EVERY SO-CALLED GTO CHART YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT IS AN ABSTRACTION WITH LIMITED BETTING OPTIONS. THEY CAN'T MODEL NO LIMIT SCENARIOS TO TWO DECIMAL PLACES OF ACCURACY. ONCE YOU RECOGNIZE IT'S A CLOSE DECISION, PURE BETTING IS NO MORE EXPLOITABLE THAN SOME ARBITRARY FREQUENCY YOU
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Me yesterday: Poker players are such suckers. Bracelets are just marketing tools, they aren't "prestigious".
Me today: OMFG
@HipHop101Trivia
won a bracelet!
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There's no such thing as raising "as a steal". Every hand you open derives EV from both folds and calls. It's a spectrum, with some hands benefiting more from the former than the latter, and you do yourself a disservice when you think in terms of "real hands" and "steals".
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Fifty-year old poker book with a chapter on game theory (only a couple of pages, unfortunately).
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Even when I'm taking a break from poker, I just can't stop contemplating ranges.
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2.5MM couple good things happened. Of course it all starts with a good rail.
@bikeking_19
@HipHop101Trivia
@emilyabell
@claytoncomic
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