Popular science why the male lead is destined to be out of play before sitting down at the poker table

Alford 2021-11-16 08:01:27

In the early morning, the male protagonist quietly took out all the savings he had hidden from his home, kissed his lover goodbye silently, and headed to the casino.

There are two obvious problems here:

1. There is a serious problem with the fund management of the male protagonist. If you think you can beat your opponents, then the average cash game player should have at least 30 buy-ins (this money must be separated from the money for paying the rent, utilities, food, drinking, and living). In the next game, we will see that the male lead's general hand is 2/5 or 5/5, so his 30,000 yuan is very no problem.

But the problem came after he put all his money into a game of cards: his current money management can't compete with the variables in the game of poker, and AA still has a 20% chance of any hand. If he loses all the money at once, he will not be able to use his technical advantages to make long-term profits for himself, because the money will be lost. (Of course, players like him do not generally have any'technical advantage'; but he can save up to 30,000 yuan by playing 5/5, which shows that he has performed well in the 5/5 game. )

2. The male protagonist hides money everywhere, indicating that there is no support from his family. And if the people around you don’t support it, then no matter what a person does, it’s difficult to sustain it for a long time. Kissing his lover silently goodbye is very telling. If he can make a stable profit through poker in his spare time for a long time, then his girlfriend should have nothing to object. Combined with his serious money management problems, the reason his girlfriend objected can only be because he has a serious gambling tendency, either escalating rashly, or squandering all the winning money to blackjack gambling games that players must lose.

Go to Teddy's underground casino/club

3. The problem with underground casinos is that if the money is too high, your technical edge (edge) will be greatly reduced in the long run. One of the most important qualities of a good player is to choose the right game. The hero has no idea about this.

4. Pick up one point, go to the underground casino in the early morning, what kind of fish do you want to eat? What fish will come to Teddy to fight in the early morning? Nothing to play with fish and big whales appear very rarely at this time and in this place. The host is in New York. If you want to try to upgrade to a big one, you should go to New Jersey, where there should be a lot of tables with low water costs and many whales.

Changing chips at the door, Teddy asked if you still buy 500 yuan, the male lead said 30,000, Teddy exchanged his chips, and then asked if you want to eat biscuits. The male lead casually replied not to eat

5. As you will see later, the male lead is playing 50/100 this time. He actually upgraded directly from 5/5 to 50/100 (!!!) I don't know what to say. I tried to upgrade and never had so many upgrades. He certainly has no experience in 50/100 games, and he certainly has no record of the 50/100 players present—that is, his opponents—so he won't know anything about these people.

6. Asking you whether you eat cookies is to test your basic line when telling the truth (similar to the principle of a polygraph). It is better to compare your reaction to you when you are asked at the table if your card is big. Even I know this common sense, the male protagonist obviously doesn't know this at all, and the essence of bad regular is exposed.

When I met Joey, I was a little embarrassed to have 30,000 chips in his hand, but I didn’t listen to persuasion.

7. Joey is a local pro. He estimated that he was waiting there to observe where there are fish. At this time, there are no fish, so he will not fight for the time being. In this case, the male lead should also think about whether he should sit down and which table he should choose. As soon as I came up, I looked for the shark table of Teddy. I just wanted to kill myself. If you upgrade, try to gamble and find a softer table...

8. If you don’t listen to the old man’s words, you are at a disadvantage...

Summary : To say that the male protagonist is a bad regular is a bit high. From the above reasons, he is basically a gambler, and he will fall back and lose his fortune as much as he wins. It is shown in the film that he has a'technical advantage'. In fact, this is meaningless, because money management, table selection, and on-site experience are all'technical advantages', and are much more important than the actual playing skills.

Note: "Fish" is someone like you and me who doesn't have much money, but still likes to play cards; "Whale" is the kind of big boss who loves to play cards and doesn't care about money.

(I’m too lazy to talk about the specific game, but A9 hits AA. You hit the top two pairs on the flop and the next double pot. After Teddy calls, you can still think that he is listening, which is really drunk. , So this is not a "enemy card" at all. Besides, the meaning of money management is to enable you to withstand such variables and contingency.)

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Rounders quotes

  • Worm: [to Roman and Maurice, chastising them for deliberately speaking Russian to each other while playing poker] You wanna see the seventh card, stop speaking fucking sputnik! I'm sure you guys were talking about Pierogies and snow but let's cut that out.

  • Worm: [Pretending to be a sore loser at the college fraternity game] Like my uncle Les used to say "When the money is gone, it's time to move on". So enjoy it, you secret handshaking assholes.