The Well: MrWookie

[yellowbluebus]

What does your typical daily routine consist of?

What other sites besides 2+2 do you visit on regular basis?

[knockonwood]

Mr Wookie, what limit do you think is the toughest to adjust to for the typical player: 0.5-1 to 1-2, 1-2 to 2-4, 2-4 to 3-6?

Do you get paid to be a moderator?

[jaxUp]

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Do you get paid to be a moderator?

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lolz

[Guruman]

more poker:

have you ever given or recieved coaching?

what in your opinion is the best methodology for the administration of coaching and who is the best coaching value you know of?

if you were forced to learn a non holdem game starting tomorrow, what would it be and what stakes would you strive to play for?

how far up in limit holdem do you think you'll go before deciding to quit climing and start spreading out?

do you still check the bb if the sb openlimps?

assume you're learning a new form of poker (say razz). Would you learn the game quicker with a book of fundamentals and a lot of headsup play plus coaching, or a book of fundamentals and a lot of full ring play plus posting?

do you vote?

[Evan]

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Gotta keep up on the gossip, dude.
+evan -relevan -evang -evans -evanc -castlevania -"evan williams" -evanjc

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nh lol

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Something tends to get added to that list every couple months. For some reason there was a castlevania barrage a few months back.

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] evan.

even though he went to unyn.

wookie,

8. what's the status on your micro survivotr with titlat?

9. who do you think cpudld topple me in micro survivor? i posit no one.

10. what did you think of my eassay in the NC threA?D

11. ouza? que piensas? it's the only 80 proff that i can ddrink straight.

holla.

[Aaron W.]

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I'm currently working my way through <u>Misquoting Jesus</u>; it's a literary criticism of the bible, as we now have it, based on the errors, omissions and edits that were made to it along the way by scribes (among others).

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While you're at it, you should also read a careful criticism of the book. I know it's long and technical (and HEAVILY footnoted), but it's worth reading if you want to give yourself a detailed understanding of the issues at hand.

[Wetdog]

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OK, we'll start out with the nursing, math-light discussion, and then we'll add some more math if desired.

At its heart, electromagnetism is about fields. The electric field is denoted E, and the magnetic field is denoted B. At every point in space, a magnetic or electric field will have a particular strength and a particular direction. See what happens when you scatter iron filings on a sheet of paper above a bar magnet:



The orientation of the iron filings is parallel to the direction of the magnetic field at those points, and the density of the filings is related to its relative strength. The electric field works in pretty much the same way, except it is created by charges. You can see the electric field in a similar manner by rubbing a balloon on your head and holding it away from your hair.

Now, we can figure out what the electric and magnetic fields are. There are four fundamental equations that describe how they work, known as Maxwell's equations. Interestingly, he didn't develop them. All he did was make a small correction to one of them, and then he got his name on all of them. He did, however, show that the interaction of these equations demonstrates the necessary existance of electromagnetic radiation, which is what we're talking about here. The first of the two equations we're be most concerned with is Faraday's law. Faraday showed with this law, to the suprise of everyone, that the electric fields and magnetic fields were linked. He showed that a changing magnetic field (either strength or direction of the field can be changing) will generate a current in a coil of wire. This is how a generator works. Steam, water, or a zealous person on a bicycle can spin a coil of wire in the middle of a magnetic field, and the changing magnetic field (relative to the coil) generate a current in that coil. The current is caused by an electric field that wasn't there when the coil was still, but is created when the coil starts spinning. No balloons necessary. Pretty cool, eh?

The second equation we care about is Ampere's law, and this is the one that was corrected by Maxwell. Ampere originally developed his law to describe the magnetic field that's formed by current flowing in a wire. This law describes how one can use a nail to pick up paper clips by wrapping a coil of wire around it and connecting the wire to a battery. Here's what Maxwell saw. Let's say that we put a small break in our wire, and on each end of the break, we put two parallel metal plates close together, but not touching. This creates a basic capacitor. If we keep running current through the wire, the moving charges (electrons) in the wire that make up our current will get stuck on our plates and start accumulating. Well, we know what happens when we have charges built up. We get an electric field, just like our balloon, but since we're constantly increasing the charge in our capacitor, our electric field is increasing. Now, we already know that our wire with its current is generating a magnetic field. What about the space between the plates? Does the magnetic field suddenly just vanish since we have no more current? No! Instead, what Maxwell showed is that this increasing electric field will generate a magnetic field in exactly the same as the wire. Pretty cool how that works out, huh?

But wait a minute. Doesn't that sound familiar? We already knew that a changing magnetic field will generate an electric field, and now we have a changing electric field generating a magnetic field. Hmmm. That sounds a little circular, doesn't it? Couldn't a changing electric field generate a changing magnetic field that creates a changing magnetic field that creates a changing electric field right back again? Yes! And that's why Maxwell got his name on all the equations. Right after he made his correction to Ampere's law, he saw this very connection. He tied these two equations together and showed that the electric and magnetic fields can, and must, be able to oscillate together in a wave. Just as in the ocean, the water will move with crests and troughs, the electric and magnetic field strengths will cycle from strongly up to strongly down and so on. What's even more amazing is that Maxwell worked out exactly how fast these electromagnetic waves travel based on the collection of constants in his equations, and it worked out to be exactly equal to the speed of light. No one, up to that point, had any idea that light was at all related to electromagnetism, or even waves! Newton even thought that light was just a collection of particles, something like atoms. And yet here we see that light, unequivocally, behaves just like a wave, just like sound, or water, or sending a series of whiplashes down your garden hose. But not only that. We saw that the same stuff that picks up paper clips, that makes your hair stand up, that makes current in wire, and the stuff that lets you see it all, all of which were thought to be radially different phenomena at one point, are in fact all unified. Demonstrating the existence of electromagnetic radiation, its relation to light, and the beautiful elegance behind it is one of the greatest conquests in physics.

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tl;dr

So, anyway, have you played any NL tournies? If so, what was your ROI? If not, would you consider playing donkaments?

[MrWookie]

--What does your typical daily routine consist of?

Wake up. Shower. Go to lab. Do some work intermingled with 2+2 browsing/posting. Come home. Reheat leftovers. Play some poker. Go to bed.

--What other sites besides 2+2 do you visit on regular basis?

questionablecontent.net
some friends' blogs
Some places StumbleUpon takes me.


--Mr Wookie, what limit do you think is the toughest to adjust to for the typical player: 0.5-1 to 1-2, 1-2 to 2-4, 2-4 to 3-6?

There was something of a jump from 0.50/1 to 1/2. The next really big jump was 3/6 to 5/10. The others weren't really all that noticible if you table select well.

--Do you get paid to be a moderator?

JaxUp answered this one.

--have you ever given or recieved coaching?

I've coached a few players. I've never hired a coach, but I'd consider it after getting some experience at 10/20.

--what in your opinion is the best methodology for the administration of coaching and who is the best coaching value you know of?

I really like sweat sessions as far as giving coaching. I like the immediate interaction and discussion, and I like that you don't get to choose what hands you have the coach look at. For hired session reviews and such, people tend to pick sessions where they ran bad, or perhaps even ran good. I like that a sweat session is truly random. I don't get a coach to find problems I know I have. I get a coach to find problems I didn't know I had, and those tend to crop up when I'm not looking for them. I can't comment on who's the best coaching value, because I haven't hired multiple coaches for comparison.

--if you were forced to learn a non holdem game starting tomorrow, what would it be and what stakes would you strive to play for?

I'd probably take up Omaha, because I don't really like Stud. I'd pick pot limit, I suppose, because limit is pretty stupid for Omaha. I'd consider a game like Crazy Pineapple or TDL, but those aren't as universally available at many sites. My ultimate goal would be somewhere like in NL - 3/6 to 5/10 blinds.

--how far up in limit holdem do you think you'll go before deciding to quit climing and start spreading out?

Probably 20/40, but maybe 30/60. I just don't have much desire to play in the 100/200 game. Call me a wimp, but I'm just too risk averse to have that much money flying around.

--do you still check the bb if the sb openlimps?

Yes, against players for whom it's the best play.

--assume you're learning a new form of poker (say razz). Would you learn the game quicker with a book of fundamentals and a lot of headsup play plus coaching, or a book of fundamentals and a lot of full ring play plus posting?

That's a really tough question. I've always considered that if I was going to really teach someone LHE from scratch, I'd start them with HU play. I haven't tried it, though. I'd probably become competent faster with a book and full ring play, but I'd probably become an expert faster with HU play.

--do you vote?

Sometimes. I may skip out on this latest primary because the list of names just looks like a bunch of nobodys and the incumbant. I'm not educated enough to really want to say anything other than mindlessly picking the name I recognize. I'll probably vote in November, though.

8. what's the status on your micro survivotr with titlat?

It's going nowhere. Forum survivor has been strictly outlawed.

9. who do you think cpudld topple me in micro survivor? i posit no one.

Miles could take you in a heartbeat. Jax used to be able to take you, but he hasn't been posting much strategy. Boz could take you if he hadn't already sworn this place off. Really, I think Buzz, Aussie, HouseCalls, Eeegah, and a number of others could, too. Most people in this forum nowadays just know you as the guy who posts in the NC thread while drunk rather than the guy who posts good strategy AND posts in the NC thread when drunk.

10. what did you think of my eassay in the NC threA?D

Didn't read it. It looked long and pretentious.

11. ouza? que piensas? it's the only 80 proff that i can ddrink straight.

You're telling me whiskey works better, and you can't even drink it straight? Now I know for sure that you're a pansy.

[MrWookie]

--So, anyway, have you played any NL tournies? If so, what was your ROI? If not, would you consider playing donkaments?

I've played in a few, mostly the KOTKP tourneys. I won the won two tourneys ago, and finished second in the last one. I have no idea what my ROI is because I haven't kept PT logs of most of them. For the most part, I think donkaments are retarded when I'm not playing them against you guys for fun. I don't like amassing a large pile of chips only to have it evaporate under large blinds, and then I go all in correctly and earn nothing for my time. Sure, I miss out on some huge cashes, but I much prefer cash games where I feel like I'm better in control over what I've earned in a given time period of play.

All,

This is going to be the last call for questions. If it hasn't been asked by the time I wake up in the morning, then I'm under no obligation to answer it.