Recently I had the thought to check up on a player that my reader Pat pointed out to me back when I made this series of blog posts. Here’s their recent graph at Sharkscope: Still a pretty steady graph. And still consistently losing. I’m curious as to what they played at around 1,700 hands for [...]
When I was in fifth grade marbles were a big thing in our school. But we didn’t have the ordinary marble games where you chase each other around by trying to hit your opponent’s marble, or trying to knock other marbles out of a circle that’s drawn in the dirt. Our marble gaming area was [...]
This from the Monday, November 16th, 2009, edition of the comic strip Blondie. I could link to it but I don’t know if it moves. They do have their own website; www.blondie.com. In the first panel Dagwood is lying in bed, apparently worrying about their financial affairs, and says: “We need to come up with [...]
I’ve had arguments with people over the use of the term “gambler” in conjunction with playing poker. Because you can define “gambling” as doing anything with an element of chance and a risk of loss, then poker has to fall into that definition. On the other hand “gambling” can apply to buying meat at the [...]
Someone Stumbled a post that I made, but after they did so I discovered that the post had been given a number rather than a proper name. I renamed the post but apparently now the Stumble link doesn’t work. So for those of you arriving via Stumble, the post is now located here: http:/www.anon-poker-blog.com/2009/09/problem-gambling-part-ii/
715 sit and goes played, ROI -80%, total losses $722. For every $100 that they have paid, they have lost $80 and recovered $20. All in a period of about a month. Can something be done for this person? Should we even be feeling bad or feeling concern for this person? If we do feel [...]
715 sit and goes played, ROI -80%, total losses $722. For every $100 that they have paid, they have lost $80 and recovered $20. All in a period of about a month. Can something be done for this person? Should we even be feeling bad or feeling concern for this person? If we do feel [...]
Pat, who is a regular reader of this blog, sent me an interesting question. Pat discovered that one of the regular players in the circuit is losing money, a fair amount of money, and in a short period of time. Here’s a graph and some results: Across the top summary line you can see 715 [...]