Third Man Walking

(0:00) Introduction
(0:15) On losing gracefully
(12:29) $5/$5/$10 session
(13:09) 75hh on Q64hssKx8x
(15:27) 43dd on T53ddx
(17:53) 88 on 982r7ccJccc
(21:04) A4dd on K52ccx3ccc6x
(22:50) ATo on Q88rAdd3x
(24:05) DBPLOBP: TT74xccc on T53r9dd and AJ5ccxKx
(28:29) KJcc on Q92xcxJdd
(29:55) DBPLOBP: 9955 on QJJr98 and KJXT7
Your correspondent thinks about how to lose gracefully … or, how not to lose disrespectfully. Along the way, he discusses a wildly tight fold he made at $5/$5. He then reviews a swingy $5/$5/$10 session.

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:15) $5/$10/$20 session
(2:51) QJo on 943hxxAhh
(5:17) 9s9x on 885xssQsss9x
(8:09) KK on 999
(11:45) QTo on 883r6r7
(13:49) AJo on J95hhxJddAhhh
(16:13) 66 on J73r6ccTccc
(18:22) 85o on A86ddx7x6x
(21:00) KJo on 653hxhJxAx
(23:35) A7ss on Q75dxd3xTx
(26:27) AcJx on AJ8xccTccc5x
(29:20) AJdd on AA8r7dd9ddd
Your correspondent plays a big game and gets opportunities to play much more exciting poker than he's otherwise played recently.

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:15) Living through variance
(16:35) $5/$10/$20 session
(17:08) KhKx on Q76hhxQss9hhh
(18:51) TT on J98rTrQ
(20:25) AQss on K83sxs9xJx
(22:08) QJcc on Q74xxc8cc8x
(24:21) KhJo on AK6r7hhAx
(25:25) AKo on Q43ddx
(28:38) AA on K72r9hh8x
Your correspondent discusses living through variance as a major challenge to playing poker professionally. Along the way, he talks about getting insurance as a poker player, and why so many pros seek out side hustles. Then, he wonders about how he’s playing after a $5/$10/$20 session.

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:15) Two possible paths
(4:39) Garrett Adelstein's "Beneath the Cards"
(14:49) $5/$5/$10 hand: TsTx on K97sss5ssss6sssss
(18:07) Jesse May's "Shut Up and Deal"
Your correspondent thinks about two possible paths to success in poker, represented, in different ways, in two poker books: Garrett Adelstein’s recent “Beneath the Cards,” and Jesse May’s “Shut Up and Deal.”

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:15) "Bet Raise Fold"
(12:36) $5/$5/$10 session
(12:49) K9cc on 974r7dd5x
(14:37) KJo on K88rQhh7x
(15:49) AA preflop spot
(17:26) AKo preflop spot
(19:21) J7cc on AJJrA. (The river was a brick.)
(22:37) From a later session: AKhh on AKJxdd5x
Your correspondent reviews the 2013 poker documentary "Bet Raise Fold," wondering what it means that poker today exists in the shadow of the poker boom two decades ago.

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