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by erby

I probably made one of the worst poker plays yesterday when I called off an all-in 3-bet on the river with the high straight on a paired board. So why am I so happy about it? Because after the hand was over I knew it was bad. I was able to look over the hand and come up with a much better line. I posted it on the DC forums here:

Link to botched hand-

I feel like I’m playing with much more awareness than I used to. I need to work on taking my time at the tables. I snapped called this, but in the future will work towards taking my time on big decisions. I know now that I can definitely raise/fold certain rivers and feel pretty comfortable about doing so.

Despite that hand and getting all in KK vs. 77 on a 762s board for 100BBs, I still managed to end the 905 hand session up (+61.22, 13.53BB/100). Was fortunate to get cards against some really big fish, so that helped!

As mentioned, Karen and I went climbing on Sunday and it went really well. The new shoes worked out great and the harnesses were much more comfortable than the rentals. We were able to climb 2 5.8s together and I was able to get a third 5.8, although I took so long that the gym closed before Karen had enough time to tackle it thoroughly. I think she’ll get it next time.

Algebra exam was okay. There was actually a very tricky T/F section at the beginning. The proofs were a piece of cake. On one question where we had to prove that Z[\sqrt{3}i] was not a Unique Factorization Domain, I used the fact that 4 could be factored into irreducible elements (2)(2) and (1-\sqrt{-3})(1+\sqrt{-3}). To show irreducibility I used that the norm of a complex number is 1 if and only if the number is 1,-1,i,-i, and that 1,-1 are the only elements that are in the domain under consideration. Since N(a)=4 (where a is a factor of 4), if a factors in Z[\sqrt{-3}] it would have 2 factors of norm 2 (not possible) or a factor of norm 4 and 1, hence one factor would be a unit. This is a fairly standard proof I think, but I neglected to mention that N(b)=1 implies b is a unit by property of the norm function over the complex numbers. The ambiguity could lead the grader to thinking that i was using N as a euclidean norm, which was not my intent. We’ll just see how he grades it.

Anyway, that’s it for now! RUN GOOD PLS!!!
Erby

March
12,645 hands
$317.57 profit
5.02BB/100



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