RE: Ironhide8 Mar 2022 21:12
A movie worth watching for financial plays & players, is Molly’s Game.
Gives a good insight into how the psychological profiles of the various players get influenced & changed, when there’s cash involved.
Molly, a bit of a maths whizz, describes how the player Harlan is the best at the game, of how his normal style of play is a quick in then quick out, which earns him the most financial success but is universally disliked by the other players, courtesy of the long game never ‘evolving’.
It could be surmised that Harlan generally just plays the 10% options. Somewhat similar to some on here. And for the past 14 months it could be described as the only play on this table, hence the most profitable. Under Molly’s description of what constitutes the best player then could be argued that Ironhide is on a par with that accolade with his constantly seeking the dips.
Where it gets intriguing is when the game changes such that the normal routine of counting the cards/dips & cross referencing against players behaviour, then gets unexpected inputs: Harlan believes that the player Bad Brad is holding a trio of kings courtesy of his ‘chearful’ demeanour and with what he expects from the remaining cards. The end result being that Harlan whilst holding a v.good hand then loses to a pair of 9’s. The loss combined with some humiliation then sees Harlan going full tilt ie he totally loses the plot.
Is an interesting psychological trait which perhaps has also been seen several times on the bb’s: LB was notorious for playing for 10% & occasionally going full tilt (still does on adfvn). Same could be said of CC & his infamous going full tilt shortly after Jan 10th RNS as the sp went down instead of up. And of course Ironhide is a regular full tilt. All 3 players enjoying playing the dips.
Where Molly got it wrong, was that Harlan was being propped up by one of the table’s movie stars who was then playing the long game & taking 50% of the earnings. The ‘most successful’ player is then relative: short term or long term. No need then for the cheap insults as seen tonight and which have been rebuked by a significant number of readers.
She was correct though that Bad Brad was really bad, not only at cards but also he was the hedge fund manager who eventually stitched her up.
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