The actual NEURONS of fishiness

[JimmyV]

This is a good piece I encounter this morning (through aldaily.com) after three frustrating weeks of treading water multi-tabling the 15/30. (I'm down $2K over lots of hours, if you must know, after being up $10K the previous two weeks.) It comes at a propitious time: I just took a day more or less off to evaluate myself, and intend to take a more disciplined run at the game in the next couple weeks: fewer hours, more note-taking, fewer teeth-gritting reraise-and-call-downs.

The applicable (as opposed to merely intriguing) elements of the article:

1) There's a physical connection between greed ("gotta call, I could win the pot") and fear of betrayal ("He's not gonna bluff me out").

2) Not even the psychologists consistently think long-term (i.e., spite has a long-term EV function in the real world that they neglect).

3) Quit playing shorthanded at more than one table (okay, I didn't get this from the article, but I'm applying it anyway).



Article worth reading, I think:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5570554/site/newsweek/


JimmyV