How far ahead of a soft table does "I have read one book and have done whole hours of directed practice" put you ahead? A staggering, staggering amount, even if the average participant theoretically has years of practice and is not, strictly speaking, unintelligent.
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(If you come for the software and stay for the poker, and not the other way around, the implication is that the variance of a single hand of poker swamps most of the variance in the candidate pool, assuming you've FizzBuzz filtered first.)
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FizzBuzz: No lie, if you were to ask "Before I let you go to that table, first: tell me any five cards which would form a flush" that would prevent at least some people from sitting down at the 1/2 tables. Sometimes they win a hand. Sometimes they even end positive on a session.
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Continuing the analogy: there are many more people that can talk at substantial length about strategy, sometimes at substantial levels of theoretical sophistication, than are capable of executing that strategy, or a markedly less sophisticated strategy, at a given bar.
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“All of our candidates who don’t wear sunglasses, that’s a red flag, cause whenever I see poker players on ESPN they are wearing sunglasses."
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I am so stealing this conceit for a future blog post/book chapter/training class session… what a great metaphor.
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Yes, but then you also have to explain to everyone what being "good at poker" means or the metaphor doesn't help, which opens you up to having to explain e.g. the gamblers fallacy.
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Makes me wonder what the tech equivalent of playing one hand late in a poker tournament would be like. It seems like the tech version of short stack play could be useful in gauging fundamentals of decision making.
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