Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
There were some requests on another thread for more of my newsletters, so I thought I would open up this thread. Obviously, a lot of the stuff that is related directly to the club won't mean diddly-squat to most of you, so read it, don't, whatever. Postin's free.
I will preface this first newsletter. I will say right up front, in normal circumstances, I am all for random seating.
But I'm not normal.
Our group is comprised of extremely social players, and a dozen or so good ones. When I formed my first poker group (during the biggest part of the poker boom) I cleaned up - and I wasn't very good. I just understood that you don't always have to see a flop, while most everyone I was introducing to live poker was freerolling on Party Poker, P*s, and wherever else a free hand was being dealt. I rapidly got a reputation of being a shark and the game died. Completely. To this day, I cannot get another firefighter in my entire department to play cards because that word traveled fast.
I understand that poker has it's shady side, but I'd like to break through that barrier. To do this, I created the most unusual seating system known to mankind. It sets most of the inexperienced players at what has been dubbed the "kids table", while the majority of the good players are seated at the "big table". Placement is still random, but there are weighting factors that influence which table you will end up at. Also, other than the player seated at seat 1 of each table, all seats at the table are assigned randomly. Your placement relative to another player is still as random as anywhere. This system allows the more social player to survive longer than they might at a table full of sharks, and this system has prevented a loss in all but a few players over the years. I have hard stats that show that even good players starting at the Kids table in 2 or 3 table events don't have a better chance of winning compared to their results at the big table.
Since there is no advantage or disadvantage from this system, I have no intent of changing it. You probably don't want to do this yourself, unless you have the same demographic as I do, and even then you don't have my formulary that has been carefully refined over the years. If you choose to adopt it, let me know and I can help you out with my anti-collusion formula, my player strength formula, my OtM1P%, and the other (and this is no exaggeration) 10 spreadsheets, the biggest of which is currently 534 rows and 46 columns.
God, I love Excel.
With that in mind, I present to you the first issue (at the time I had no idea there would be more) of Inside the Zombie's Brain.
I will preface this first newsletter. I will say right up front, in normal circumstances, I am all for random seating.
But I'm not normal.
Our group is comprised of extremely social players, and a dozen or so good ones. When I formed my first poker group (during the biggest part of the poker boom) I cleaned up - and I wasn't very good. I just understood that you don't always have to see a flop, while most everyone I was introducing to live poker was freerolling on Party Poker, P*s, and wherever else a free hand was being dealt. I rapidly got a reputation of being a shark and the game died. Completely. To this day, I cannot get another firefighter in my entire department to play cards because that word traveled fast.
I understand that poker has it's shady side, but I'd like to break through that barrier. To do this, I created the most unusual seating system known to mankind. It sets most of the inexperienced players at what has been dubbed the "kids table", while the majority of the good players are seated at the "big table". Placement is still random, but there are weighting factors that influence which table you will end up at. Also, other than the player seated at seat 1 of each table, all seats at the table are assigned randomly. Your placement relative to another player is still as random as anywhere. This system allows the more social player to survive longer than they might at a table full of sharks, and this system has prevented a loss in all but a few players over the years. I have hard stats that show that even good players starting at the Kids table in 2 or 3 table events don't have a better chance of winning compared to their results at the big table.
Since there is no advantage or disadvantage from this system, I have no intent of changing it. You probably don't want to do this yourself, unless you have the same demographic as I do, and even then you don't have my formulary that has been carefully refined over the years. If you choose to adopt it, let me know and I can help you out with my anti-collusion formula, my player strength formula, my OtM1P%, and the other (and this is no exaggeration) 10 spreadsheets, the biggest of which is currently 534 rows and 46 columns.
God, I love Excel.
With that in mind, I present to you the first issue (at the time I had no idea there would be more) of Inside the Zombie's Brain.
I'm bumping it myself, just so I remember to add the next issue.
