If you want to have fun when you play, you have to try to win.
If you want to win the max when you play, you need to have fun.
You might make some money just finding a good game and clicking buttons, but it's not a good use of your time.
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I’m going to take a break from CoinPoker.
I just want to say a couple of things first.
The new rake structure has effectively made heads-up unplayable for me against recs. I consider myself a strong HU player, but there’s a limit to what even a strong player can overcome. I don’t think I can beat tables without the battlecap. I tried.
Look, I love CoinPoker. It’s actually been the only site I’ve played on for the past couple of years.
I don’t know what went into this decision. I’m sure there are things happening behind the scenes that I know absolutely nothing about.
Maybe they were forced to make certain changes. Maybe there are business considerations I simply don’t understand.
And that’s fine. I don’t pretend to know how to run a poker company. And they don’t owe us anything either.
But this time, the change hit my little corner of the client really hard.
Especially Heads up.
I’m not interested in turning this into some campaign against CoinPoker either. I don’t believe in that approach, and I don’t think it helps anyone.
And I still love Coinpoker and respect the people there, I just don’t agree with this particular change.
I just want to be honest. This one really hurt me. All my volume basically disappeared over night.
I obviously hope there’s room for some kind of compromise down the road. Something that would at least make heads-up playable again. But if that doesn’t happen, so be it. Life goes on.
CoinPoker has given me so much over the past five years. It’s been an amazing poker site, and I wish them nothing but success. I do believe they have the potential to become the biggest poker site in the world. Always believed that, still do.
And to be fair, I needed a break anyway. I’ve been working incredibly hard these past few months.
I just hope that one day I can come back to the site I’ve enjoyed playing on more than anywhere else.
I wish you all the best. I really do. 🙏
Carl
♥️
If you want to become a poker pro, do NOT start by quitting your job.
Take a couple weeks of vacation and live/play like a pro.
Study. Play. Follow a schedule.
A surprising number of people discover that they don't actually enjoy poker when it's their job.
Phil Ivey wasn’t always worth an estimated $100 million. When he started playing poker, he sometimes lost so much that he couldn’t afford the 35-cent toll to get home.
In the video below, he talking about sleeping on the street and pretending to drop coins into the toll booth to get home without paying.
Before the big games and sponsorship deals, he travelled around looking for poker games. Some nights, he left with nothing.
A couple of times, he missed the free bus home and couldn’t afford a hotel. He slept outside under the Atlantic City boardwalk until he could leave the next day.
His parents opposed his decision to play poker. Even after becoming one of the best players in the world, Ivey admitted they may have been giving him the right advice. Most people who try to make it in poker never do.
He also gives timing some credit. He was already playing when poker took off on television, and his early success helped him benefit from the boom.
Asked what those nights taught him, he says: don’t miss the bus. When the interviewer suggests he must have learned never to end up broke again, Ivey answers that he hopes so, but you never know.
Is Phil Ivey really a genius and the best poker player on the planet, or was he simply in the right place at the right time?
Today we are revealing how GTO Wizard AI computes ICM for large tournament fields, and publishing our proprietary algorithm, free, for everyone.
Traditional ICM calculators top out at a few dozen players. In 2024, we showed that ICM for thousands of players can be computed in seconds, a problem academia still considered intractable.
We are sharing it because we believe in contributing to research, and because we want others to build on it, in poker and well beyond it. The same math applies to ranking problems in many other industries.
Behind GTO Wizard is a team of researchers and scientists who built the state-of-the-art poker AI and work closely with @MIT and other leading universities around the world, from guest lectures to joint research.
This problem was cracked by the brilliant Wataru Inariba (@b_inary). Wataru, thank you for your outstanding work.
Read the full paper on arXiv 👇 https://t.co/gfLLbTQXAB
5k Turbo Scoop 2nd chance 🤮🤢
1st: 103k 🥇
2nd: 80k 🥈
3rd: 62k 🥉
Preflop: Limp,3x,call
Flop, bet 33%,call
Turn, bet 50%, call
River, all in, Hero????????
BUT WE ARE TOP OF RANGE
HUGE SUNDAY AHEAD!
Best of luck to all the grinders out there!
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