alchemy of poker

Originally posted by maniac
Dear Alchemists,
I have decided to fill my blog in the future not only with more or less diary entries. I would like to try in the future at least to improve my writing style and offer you at least a little bit of content.
For this reason I have decided to choose a topic, if I have the time, and write a short text about it.
As a topic for this blog I somehow found this topic good: What are the similarities and differences between our general life and GTO.
As you know, in poker language GTO means Game Theory Optimal, now if we relate this to our life, GTO could be called the life we generally call "normal".
Nevertheless, this raises the question of what lives are "normal" in this day and age?
Are they the lives that have grown up in a post-war model of family consisting of husband, wife, at least two children, dog and marriage? Many would have answered "yes" to this question in the past and couldn't be further wrong today. Of course, many may share the values of that time, but not the love between exclusively a man or a woman is more than overflowing, but this also conveys an intolerance to the general love between two people. Nowadays, does one really still have to build a house in the Swabian tradition in order to live there, or can't life in a city be just as attractive?
So, if we call these old-fashioned values GTO, nowadays appropriate behavior would be much more exploitve play, as we are moving more and more away from these old notions of a family.
Of course, these adaptations from the alleged norm also allow again that we ourselves are exploited, which is unfortunately even sadder in our society. Thus, in our society there are people who are homophobic or are attracted by their lateral thinking rather to the conspiratorial racist theories.
It is always easier to believe what is put in front of you than to make the effort to deal with deep concepts of poker or politics and our general coexistence.

Nice, are you going deeper into this or is it just to trigger my mind?

Well maybe. I will try. I am learning writing by this. Thanks man

Dear Alchemists,
today I would like to continue my mini-series and again link a worldly topic with poker language. After talking about general life and GTO last week, today I want to write about love and Equilibrium. Having come out of a toxic relationship myself a year ago, it is natural to assume that this could not have been the end of the line. So if you realize too late in a relationship that you have not improved your skills enough and are ultimately being taken advantage of, you should first get back to a more normal level, with or without help. Today, fortunately, more people are also getting help from the head and not just the body for illnesses.
If we break down this state, which I called GTO last week, a little further, we can rightly say that we have reached interpersonal equilibrium. So if we conduct a relationship on this basis, no one should make a profit or a loss. Now let's ask ourselves the consensus question: Do we want to have a relationship at all, in which even no one can hurt or be hurt?
Sounds good in principle. Unfortunately, we do not take into account that it is precisely the emotions that make up love in the first place. But emotions are by definition not necessarily to be pressed into a structured framework, which is why it could be assumed that we vary slightly from the equilibrium, which of course leads to friction, which makes life worth living for many.
Let's think this a little bit further and look at such an equilibrium in detail. In poker we used the term equilibrium mainly for the proof discovered by Nash. This originates from the mathematical field of topology, which he connected game theoretically with poker. Here, he correlates the quality of a strategy with many other avoidably better or worse ones, which ultimately leads him to an equilibrium. That is, a strategy that can no longer be improved.
In the poker literature one uses for this e.g. Shove and Calling Ranges and lets for example a Range push and another call too little. However, if the caller knew how much the shoving player was pushing, he would have to increase his calling range, since several hands would be profitable. If the shoving player knew that the caller had adjusted his range, he too could do so, as certain hands also take from in or out of the range. This process goes back and forth until there is nothing left.
Yep, exactly you can already think it, an equilibrium.
In a relationship we certainly don't change to take advantage of each other, on the contrary, we change either out of love or to adjust to the new life situations or both. It is certainly not so clear to separate. At least the same is that we use both adjustments in poker and in life out of pure opportunism. We want to win more in poker and we definitely want to get along better with ourselves, our loved ones and our environment in everyday life. As is said to have been written on the temple of Delphi, "know thyself", and learn.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3516.44
Today's Bankroll: $6516.44
Goal: $15000

Dear Alchemists,
this week only a small post, because I'm still on vacation. Unfortunately, I have not had so much time to play poker during the vacations and therefore not so much to report. Nevertheless, it does not go completely without poker then nevertheless. I am currently reading Modern Poker Theory by Acevedo, which I can recommend to all of you. It is super comprehensive and very enriching. I wish you a nice rest of the weekend.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3516.44
Today's Bankroll: $6516.44
Goal: $15000

Dear Alchemists,
this week I managed to play a bit more. I'm already working on the next video for you, which will end our preflop single raise pot series for now. I am very excited to produce more videos and have also made a plan which ones I want to do for you next. In addition, it also goes forward in the private context. I have decided that will run a half/full marathon in October. I think setting more goals and achieving them will do me good. In any case, I am super motivated to make progress and will keep you up to date.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $118.87
Overall Profit: $3635.31
Today's Bankroll: $6635.31
Goal: $15000

Dear Alchemists,
this week I don't have so much to write, because I have to work a lot for my PhD. I'm spending the rest of the time working on and focusing on my own game. I'm recording the next two videos for our series this week. If you want to hear about specific topics, just write me.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $255.19
Overall Profit: $3890.5
Today's Bankroll: $6890.5
Goal: $15000

Hey guys,

this week I have unfortunately not so much new. Had unfortunately because of my doctorate super little time to grind. Soon are fortunately vacations, because that is finally different again. I hope that my video will be out soon for you. Greetings and see you soon.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3890.5
Today's Bankroll: $6890.5
Goal: $15000

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thanks man

Hello Alchemists,
unfortunately I had little time to play poker in the last two weeks, because I had to work a lot for my PhD. Together with the end of the school year I unfortunately didn't make it. But to show you what else I've been up to I've written an excerpt of my talk at the GdCP (Society of Chemists and Physicists). Feel free to write your opinions, if you think it's cool or rather nonsense.

Writing about: Collaborative, creative, transparent, and test-proof use of generative AI in teaching-learning processes.

"The team of authors from schools and universities is researching the transparent use of artificial intelligence (AI) at all levels of the educational process. Students in a specialized didactics seminar are to use generative artificial intelligence to research and compile information, translate texts, create graphics, and develop media for a series of lessons at the Europaschule Bornheim.
It is important that this is done in a collaborative and transparent way.

Students work together in server systems that provide AI tools (e.g. Discord), exchange their prompts and results in the seminar and document their objectives, approach, decisions as well as test results in a portfolio.

These portfolios clearly summarize the results of the collaboration between humans and machines and make the origin clear in terms of testing law. They also form a data basis for the qualitative evaluation of the deployment concept for generative AI. This is flanked by the interviews of the students and surveys of the students:inside of the European School who work with the AI-generated materials."
Looking forward to your opinions. See you soon

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3890.5
Today's Bankroll: $6890.5
Goal: $15000

Dear Alchemists,

today a little post from my vacation. I am eagerly reading into the next video about defending for you and will update everything as soon as I am back home. Greetings from Rühen. The place where I grew up.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3890.5
Today's Bankroll: $6890.5
Goal: $15000

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Yep there is a reason why I moved to cologne I guess

Dear alchemists,
this week I have little new news for you because I am on vacation. I am very glad that I have overcome myself to go away. I have noticed that the load with work promotion and coachings was very high. Nevertheless, I have prepared a new video for you and look forward to your great feedback soon. That's it from me for today. Greetings from the beach and good luck at the tables.

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $0
Overall Profit: $3890.5
Today's Bankroll: $6890.5
Goal: $15000