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So safe to say it wasn't a very successful professional poker career?

The goal is usually to grow one's bankroll, you achieved the opposite. No surprise with your mindset; factoring in a $1 rake differential into your bet sizing is beyond laughable. Can't believe you would brag about it here like it was some next level strategy. Are you sure you aren't actually Rice?

ELD should just keep his car in the Council Bluffs parking garage then take the $20 airfares back and forth when the $10 Vegas rooms become available and on the weekends and convention days plan out the $20 flight to the Council Bluff's airbnb.

fwiw with chip's dealer experience it's come as second nature where he'd know the precise amounts in the pot and at which points additional rake was taken

i also don't think he said he did it every chance possible

so i'm assuming it's more of a thing that sometimes comes into play like a thin value bet on the river where standard size would be 10 but can instead go 9

Nope. I wasn't a success. It wasn't the poker. It was the $80k. It was the hookers and drugs.

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This would be insane and so much fun if he did this

I'd say more than likely it was a mindset thing.

Penny wise and pound foolish; describes a lot of poker players. Going to great lengths being a nit just to save $1 here and there, but then proceed to blow half their bankroll in the pit or on strip clubs and hookers.

no, you're exhibiting a classic results based fallacy - you're only thinking of when you win when you indeed lose quite often

this is overly simplified and assuming a heads up format for simplicity

the gulf between a 53.5% win rate to break even vs 54.8% is massive - it doesn't seem like much, but Federer only won 54% of his points, the people who become millionaires off sportsbetting win at 55% etc etc the difference between the two is insane

i'll let gale explain it

let's say we're crushing in this spot and winning 80% of the time - over a 100 hand sample where we win 80 vs lose 20 it's only a difference of $20 profit

yes that's doing quite a bit better but not massively different

but let's dial that back to a more realistic crushing winning rate of 60% and now you can see just how stark a difference it is

or try 55% which is very reasonable for a winning player

now, i fully agree, that if someone is focused on that stuff then they're very likely doing it at the sacrifice of more important metrics like "should i raise 20 here?" or "should I check to induce?" type stuff

i also worry that someone with this on their mind as a priority will probably miss out on some big pots - particularly if they are raising on the flop or turn

but there absolutely is a massive amount of EV to be gained in situations where adjusting your bet ever so smaller (than it would normally be) to ensure the pot doesn't get another dollar raked out of it

if i did a $39 pot vs a $40 pot it'd be even more extreme but alas there are no 50 cent chips so in reality it's not a 39 vs 40 but a 38 vs 40 or 39 vs 41

Makes sense, you're saying the impact of $1 extra rake moves the break even % by 1% which is actually a big difference for pots when you don't win.

But in the real world the only time this will have a huge impact are pots that don't make it to showdown, so basically C-bets and turn bets in small pots should be like $4 or $9 increments instead of $5 or $10 increments.

Interesting.

ELD flys the Vegas entourage in to Council Bluffs but Herbs and Rye has a delayed flight causing a fools errand for ELD going to the airport and instead the meeting occurs in where else, the Council Bluffs parking garage. To document the arrival in Council Bluffs, ELD also posts on twitter a picture of rice with shredded cheese and a plastic spoon obtained from the Council Bluff's Laurel Lounge.

LOL at sizing your bets so you keep the pot below max rake thresholds, that is some next level nittyness/gain the system obsession Diesel style. Wow, just wow.

Amazing that Rice dwells on minuatia and misses the big strokes.

Lol Yes.

Yeah. Either going to a strip club or paying a hooker every night definitely took a toll.

You guys are really ****ing gullible.

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Lol. He didn't fly them in. No way.

But today we learned he has more than one friend.

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His beard and cheek patches are out of control again. Amazing the difference when he was well kept and working.

Rice is correct and you are all wrong. Did you all forget rice makes like $5 an hour these days, if that? That dollar he's saving on rake is massive to his bottom line.

Did you notice the massive bald spot on the back? No wonder he always has a hat on.

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Hard to get around the annoyance and time waste of forcing the dealer to make change, but I would absolutely try to minimize rake if you forced me to play 1/3 for a living. Poker players aren’t busy, they have time to think about these things. Figuring out an optimal bet size for a few common spots doesn’t prevent you from studying other things.

He’s not a poker vlogger. Who cares?

plenty of people, as evidenced by this thread, including you

Does Trooper Thursday still happen regularly? I assumed the insider got their info dealing at the TT table because Trooper whines, gripes, and overshares at TT. When the inside info dried up, I thought TT was dead.

Diesel hits his flush on the river against his opponents top two. He knows villain will pay him off so he carefully calculates the pot and it is 39. He proudly bets 30 and quickly gets called. Diesel grins and is incredibly proud of himself for saving a dollar. Lol

Plot twist: dealer maxed raked anyways cause they don't pay that close attention to actual pot size like diesel. Diesel doesn't notice because he was too busy patting himself on the back for saving a dollar.

How does that make you any more money? If you win you make 9 more either way. Maybe go the other way and bet 11?