Currently starting a new Poker Bankroll Challenge on @GGPoker. A few days in with results already.
Let's see how far I can go this time.
https://t.co/GWqOobBSgQ
@JustinBonomo@ikepoker I mean, from the chatgpt response I would get that he is well respected but not really liked perse. But I can understand if you know him it's different. It's all cool though. I don't even know him 👍
@JustinBonomo@ikepoker Interesting, so it might be different in real life. From Twitter or reddit or other places he is generally disliked from what I saw. I don't know him but from the things I have seen him post or say/do, I generally don't like him as well. Given that is not much of course
lets talk tilt
twenty years at the highest stakes heads up, and two skills carried the whole run. game selection and tilt control. important enough that i named myself after both. tableselection here, tiltmenot at the tables. one of those i actually lived up to
everyone wants to talk solvers, gto, ranges. all of it wins you thin edges at the margins. tilt decides whether you keep those edges or hand them back in one bad night
trust me, everyone tilts. everyone
the only thing separating people is whether you can sit there mid session and admit it. im playing bad and the reason is me, not the cards. most cant. they grab the excuse instead. cooler. ran bad. fish spiked the river
as for me, discipline i had. a year of military service made sure of that, and most of the time it held. the problem was i could always talk myself past it when shit hit the fan. and i knew that going in
so i did what any normal person would do
hired a winning mid stakes pro from finland to watch my heads up sessions remotely, paid a programmer to wire a kill switch into my gaming pc
the finn had full authority to flip it, mid session, no warning, no appeal. and because i gave him a cut of my winnings, he was ruthless. id curse him, threaten him, beg him to plug me back in. even try to bribe him. never once budged. and after pulling the plug hed stay on for hours, watching me like a hawk to make sure i didnt sneak back
and it worked, most of the time. but down the road i learned my way around my own cage. in my worst moments i started to get creative. real outside the box stuff
id play it cool. thank him for the great call, tell him taking the night off was the right move and that hes doing an excellent job. throw in some small talk about the game of thrones episode i was finally gonna start tonight. really sell it
hed relax, sign off feeling good. and the second i lost him, id open the backup laptop and deposit on some alternate site. and spew
people hear this story and laugh at the kill switch. i get it, it sounds insane. but the insane part to me was always the opposite, how few people ever do anything at all about the thing they know is bleeding them.
i knew my leak and i was willing to look ridiculous to plug it. paid someone, wired my own off switch, handed him the button, still conned him sometimes
later dropped five figures on a mind coach to go after the leak itself. story for another day. but the cage was real, and i built it myself
@wazzo11@Joeingram1@VanjaPoker Genuinely curious since I play a lot of cash on gg. You mean because of the small chance you are against jj-kk and 3 aces fall? How big is the chance for that to happen.
@VanjaPoker I agree. I have swings of 6-8 buyins easily whenever I play cash games. I was mainly curious about how downswings can lasts years. No foul intended mate. 👍
@VanjaPoker I understand losing multiple buyins can happen, but usually downswings resolve pretty soon as professionals right? Or are they tournament players? I can understand those having way more variance.
@IterIntellectus Hi mate, there are a few people here claiming this is fake news. Rose and I were on Aussie national television this morning:
https://t.co/2ruE3LR4Wx
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get