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Mount Robusto

My platoon appears to have formed, and we have had some general introductions by email. We appear to be a mixed-game/stud group. Even our Sergeant doesn’t know who our Colonel is; I guess it will...

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Innovate Rather Than Imitate

I read. I read a lot, actually. And allsorts of books too, but with a tendency towards serious novels, short stories, and books that fall at into the political and social science genre. And poker...

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Going to Paris... [please help]

I’m going to Paris to watch my brother run in the marathon this weekend. I’ll be there for four nights, and am staying pretty centrally. Sadly, my French language skills have eroded to the point...

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Academic Earth is Awesome

At the beginning of March- I made a post that linked to Ben Polak’s excellent economics course on game theory, part of the Open Yale Courses project. This course really is the nuts for the neophyte...

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Big Brother is Watching You (Dropbox is Awesome)

I am not really playing any volume of poker at the minute. I have a real-life commitment that is leaving me with very little free time to play in a focused state of mind. However, I am remaining active...

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What Time It Is

My Mount Robusto platoon is global. We eventually managed to organise a home-game last Friday, but I managed to goof on the video (too long, too large, computer said no). Sadly, we only have...

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Sleep, Sheep, ...

This evening my Secret HQ group had a two-hour Skype conference where Wojtek (FullTimeSmile) and I were demonstrating the methods we use for counting hand combinations in NLHE, mostly for the benefit...

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Maths of PLO (on hold)

I will not be finishing my Maths of PLO video series in the next couple of months. I am trying to finish writing my Ph.D. thesis. Producing poker videos (on top of managing a coaching group and playing...

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is awesome. You probably don’t realise quite how awesome it is, but trust me, it is more awesome than you think. It is also free. FREE, as in speech. You can do what you like with it....

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Free 4-bet/jam Calculator

I wrote a simple 4-bet calculator in Excel2007 to teach my students how to react to 4-bets. I put it under the GNU Free Documentation License, so you can do what you like with it. I'll let you...

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NLHE HU Video - 2 tables

I made a 2-tabling HU video at play money with one of the guys from my Secret HQ group. Hopefully he learnt something from it, here is the video. There were some preflop rules:You cannot fold or call...

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John O'Groats to Land's End 2010

My brother (JPD) is attempting to cycle from John O'Groats to Land's End with one of his work colleagues (JMG), starting tomorrow. For those of you who don't know, that is the length of Great Britain....

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Better Betting 2 - Bet Sizing Calculator (Long Overdue)

A long time ago I wrote an introductory post addressing some technical aspects of bet-sizing, with an emphasis of betting to get all-in by the river. I introduced alpha, α as the ratio of the...

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HandConverter.com (Paper Edition Lite)

I've been playing a bit of live poker recently. Jay posted a live hand history converter on his blog a few days ago and it inspired me to create a Lite version so that I can print out several copies...

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Extinction Burst

I read an article at youarenotsosmart.com, which outlines a behavioural pattern known as as the Extinction Burst. The ideas hail from the 1960s and ’70s and are attributed to Burrhus Frederic...

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Chrome and goo.gl

This post will save you time. If you aren't using the Chrome browser from Google already then you might be beyond help; if you are, you probably aren't using the goo.gl URL Shortener extension.The...

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HandConverter.com (__PLO__ Paper Edition Lite)

I made some extra Paper Edition Hand Converters for PLO. See this earlier post for details and Texas Hold'Em edition.Here they are:1 x portrait(PLO) A42 x landscape(PLO) A4

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3-Handed 6-Card Ante-Up PLO with Discards is a Sensible Game

The game is Pot Limit Omaha. The table is 3-handed. The BTN is god. We weren't having much fun because most hands went like this:BTN raises, SB fold, BB foldGreat. Self-dealt home games are meant to be...

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iPod shuffle, without iTunes

To use your iPod Shuffle without iTunes, use this script : http://goo.gl/ZntiCopy Script to iPodCopy music to iPod Run script<<Database builds (songs retain their original filenames and...

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September. Whoa

Whoa where the hell did that month go?Crazy work irl (finishing writing my D.Phil. thesis). I have so much to write about poker right now but it has to wait. Broke even on WCOOP playing only  8-game,...

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EPT London Cancer Research UK Charity Event (and Twitter)

I finally got around to sorting out my Twitter account so that I can update from my mobile. I'll be giving it a test run today whilst I play the Cancer Research UK Charity Event at EPT London.

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Pickled Ginger Moments

I have been listening to a podcast entitled This Developer's Life; the latest episode was all about being mean and is very much worth listening to. That is, if you are interested in the lives of...

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Draw Games on FTP

Well I was meant to do some work today..... but then FTP updated and put draw games on their site.

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Lowball27 Evaluation in Excel

I have been working on a Lowball27 Hand Evaluation library in C#. I have now exposed the methods from this API as a set of User-Defined Functions in Excel. You can follow my progress in this thread on...

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Good Morning

It's been a while since I updated this blog. I've been busy with writing my thesis and looking for work in the real world. I'm going to try and get back into posting poker ideas and analysis. I have...

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