Patience, grasshopper(s)...
jbpatzer picked the finest publisher willing to take a flyer.
This means that there are several books in the queue ahead of this one, and the staff does them to a schedule.
If I had any influence on scheduling, I would suggest bribing me.
Come to think of it, why not give that a try?
Peace,
--VS
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Patience, grasshopper(s).....
hmmm.. Just having returned from a 10 day meditation course I'll have to mark my craving for wanting it now as a need to go back and mediate on that... 
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
If I had any influence on scheduling, I would suggest bribing me.
Come to think of it, why not give that a try?Peace,
--VS ♠_biggrin:
FYS
Originally posted by Hamishk
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Originally posted by mineriva
Can i ship u some PS/FTP for an ebook/pdf copy?No. We have a proper publisher, 20th century style, so you'll have to wait. There's no point in having a dog then barking yourself.
jbpatzer are you auditioning, perhaps sub-consciously, for the soon to open role of the next Dr. Who.
I would prefer a 21st Century publisher who can move from finished product to ebook in quicker fashion than those old 20th Century publishers....
Too much to ask?
Wrong century to ask?
i) I would love to be Doctor Who.
ii) I think the ebook will come out before the print version, but we haven't seen the proofs yet. I think it would be nice to see them before selling it.
iii) Accept my friend request.
iv) Start a blog.
Originally posted by deralte71
not your first book?
That's my namesake who used to be Carl Sagan, or possibly Jodi Foster.
I'm younger and less good looking, and not an alien.
We've started the process of adding some additional material to the web site for the book.
http://modernpokereducation.com/material.html
You may recognise them.
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Originally posted by deralte71
not your first book?That's my namesake who used to be Carl Sagan, or possibly Jodi Foster.
I'm younger and less good looking, and not an alien.
Oh I thought that was your father. No joke.
Originally posted by mineriva
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Originally posted by deralte71
not your first book?That's my namesake who used to be Carl Sagan, or possibly Jodi Foster.
I'm younger and less good looking, and not an alien.
Oh I thought that was your father. No joke.
He does look a bit like that.
I'm just about to make a spur of the moment trip to the casino. Wish me luck. While I was waiting I fired up an on demand Rush MTT, and am now sat at the final table as chip leader 
looking to win the princely sum of $39.05. I just hope it finishes soon......
Binked it like a bo$$. So now I'm guaranteed to run good at the casino, right? RIGHT!!??
Inevitable bad beat. Even though their website says they have an MTT on a Tuesday, they actually don't. Couldn't be arsed to wait for cash games to start, and DTD is closed on a Tuesday so I've come home. At least I showed a profit for the evening, even if it was only online. 
So, all our examiners' meetings are finished, and tomorrow is the last day of term, which involves handing out marks to crying/smiling (delete as applicable) students. Tonight mrsjb and I are off to a nice restaurant as it's our 10th wedding anniversary, and on Saturday I'm off to Mauritius for a week to do my arduous external examining job. I'll definitely be stepping down as Director of Teaching and Learning at the end of next month and taking over as Head of Industrial and Applied Maths instead, and I can feel a productive summer of research approaching, and, as if that wasn't enough, TT and Manu have invited me and mrsjb to Vienna in August, and my parents have agreed to have the kids for a couple of days. I'd say all is good at the moment. 
Running hot Vienna ftw!
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Originally posted by TwiceT
Running hot
I could have survived a little longer without that!
FALCO FTW !!! 
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Some run good right there jb and congratulations to you and mrsjb; well done both and have a great time with TT - did I really need to say that?
Originally posted by jbpatzer
parents have agreed to have the kids for a couple of days
HOLD UP
As always, let use use JBs poker theory blog to discuss one hand that was posted in MPM by sk345di ... I'm afraid he wont be able to dive into the discussion too much as he is currently ....
enjoying my last few days in thailand so not thinking too much about poker atm ♦
Here's the hand:
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/3576632_CA6AB4806C
His comments/questions:
is river a valuebet? also sizing?
was taking a shot at nl200 so no read/notes on opp rather then reg , player 4 [=SB] was a fish
my thoughts then were
since its nl200 regs are good enough to fold all worse hands then mine
they would play a flush the same way (flop and turn)
they might raise bluff the river with the A blocker
still not sure if i was c/c or c/f river (obv depends on betsize too)
prolly c/c just cuz i am a station
Before I start rambling about the hand I would like to see some opinions on this spot. Seems to me like a situation that comes up regularly and there is probably room for quite some discussions and different views on all streets.
Not only MPM members should add their thoughts, we are interested in various inputs (yes professor, you can post as well).
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BTN is opening a wide range if he's minraising, but he probably knows that SB is a fish, and he knows nothing about you, so when he flats your raise of a fish, he likely knows that you're unlikely to be bluffing, and yet he calls. He may play flush draws this way, because he thinks that the fish will call and give him the correct odds, but I would say he most likely has a hand that he perceives to be strong but not super strong, because if he had a set he'd probably raise, expecting you to be mainly value betting worse (I hope I'm not being affected by seeing the hand he actually had), so I would say he is likely to have a good top pair or better, with maybe a few combos of flush draws, but no hands better than yours. On the turn, since he mainly has the worse hand, and he's unlikely to turn it into a bluff, you can bet/fold, and the same on the river.
Written in some haste. Wedding anniversary + packing for trip to Mauritius.
Ok if hero has nothing on villain, how does villain know hero - and how can we think villain (probably) knows sb is a fish in that case? Don't get that bit.
I suppose an option might be 3bet pre hoping to iso the fish in the sb simply because 66 isn't great post 3way oop? Don't mind call/i3bet either way.
There is no check on river for me on a total blank, surely I have to bet river if I bet turn, villain could call with much worse than a set? 
I think not trying to get the money in is seeing monsters under the stairs. 
Anyway, my little pilchard view is get the money in as fast as possibles.
I don't find this hand difficult because villain is unknown, but then I don't play nl200 either! 
Will be interesting to see other views. I tried hard.
Villains range preflop is probably very wide but after he cold call our raise vs the fish we pretty much narrow it down to TP good kickers+ and draws (FDs + JT). Gutshots would be wishful thinking but let trow in some A :club:J, A :club:T in there as well. AQ is about the weakest I give him ever. The range is heavily weighted towards draws and weaker made hands because he did not wanted to go allin on the flop.
Turn is bad because it improves a lot of his draws and on the other hand it looks too scary for one pair type hands. Very questionable if we have 3 streets of value any longer. Problem here if we valuebet is that we may or may not get value from TP, overpair, 2 pair, pair + FD, pair + OESD but we are guaranteed a raise from flushes. Anyway betting seem to have no alternative, because he checks behind most of the weaker hands. Sizing is interesting because we want to get called and we have to protect at the same time vs backdoored FDs and gutshots. Folding to a raise here make sense (not in my arsenal though ) C/c and c/r make no sense to me with no info on villain and generaly vs his range. After getting called our suspicion about him having mostly the weaker part of the range is confirmed.
After the river comes blank we are playing vs one pair with busted draw, 2 pairs, AT nut straight with busted FD, busted JT and slowplayed stuff. We are ahead vs the range but its hard to get value from worse. Still he has a bit more top pair/overpair/ 2 pair that can call then busted draws (only JT) or pair + busted draw (A :club:J, A :club:Q) that may eventually turn into bluff if we check. That should make betting river better than c/c. If raised we are always beat I think so our sizing should target the weak made hands and leave us out of the stupid spot to have to fold vs river raise with 30-40$ behind.
