Nerds Playing Poker

[ratnix]

Lessons learned:
Only UNIX nerds would try making the blinds be the Fibonacci series.
Only UNIX nerds would be so bad at Excel that they'd fuck up the columns.
Only drunk UNIX nerds would detect this well into the night, and then argue for 20 minutes about what the blinds should be.

The Indian guy who's never played before probably hasn't learned

Comments

[an13743]

And only a geek would remember the best and worst hands. I can't even remember the hand before.

I think your better awareness comes from spending time with a girl and not a machine ;)

[cai]

You should consider joining the local poker league. I'm sure there's one there. homepokertour.com will list the leagues near you. Mark and I play in two tournaments a week (it's not for money, but for chances at prizes and then to move up the chain to qualifiers and so forth) and we have a money game we play each month with a pretty nice pay out. We are poker fiends.

[randomdreams]

Did I post about having had a job making (well, technically finishing) american indian jewelry and beadwork for several years, and doing a lot of fibonacci beadwork? Somewhere out there are some amused mathematicians, I hope.

[jodiamonds]

Cool. I had not ever heard of using Fibonacci for blind raising. Seems inconvienent, but probably not terrible overall.

Sounds like you play with total chumps inexperienced players. Most telling is being able to fold pre-flop. That's the difference between having a whole lot of chips and going home broke.

I get minorly annoyed sometimes by really bad table ettiquette, like folding out of turn or being utterly unaware that yes, the action is on YOU, just like the last three times there was betting.

I'm still too call-heavy, personally. I've gotten better, but the goal is certainly to fold more than you call and raise more than you call. If you call more than either one of those, something is probably wrong. (This is even more true for no-limit, which you were apparently playing, rather than limit.)

Mmmm, poker.