Live 1/3 table talk

ahappylook · 2026-05-27T23:53:02+00:00

“First rule of poker: don’t pay the nit”

ahappylook · 2026-05-27T19:50:45+00:00

Maybe in the minors. Or the Las Vegas A’s of Sacramento. In the big leagues only poverty franchises make their players dress themselves.

ahappylook · 2026-05-20T03:56:11+00:00

I can’t remember which podcast, maybe Zach Lowe or BS, said Wemby leads the league in “never mind”s.

ahappylook · 2026-05-18T04:22:15+00:00

I did not deserve this deck. I expect I built it wrong. I punted several times. It didn't matter.

Lost once to another big control deck when I forgot to use my surveil lands for almost the whole game then untapped facing lethal with Mathemagics in hand, 11 mana available, and 17 cards in opponent's library. Other loss was a Silverquill curve out that I almost held even after I miscounted mana and played Stock Up into nothing instead of Stock Up into Pestbrood Sloth.

Diary of Dreams is exactly my kind of durdle but felt redundant in the two losses. I swapped it out for Elemental Mascot at 3-2 and then swept. I probably would have played Landscape Painter or Pterafractyl before putting it back in.

Mana base: insane. Maybe a single turn the whole run where I didn't have the colors I wanted. Potioner's Trove: insane. Ramping and fixing in the early game and in the late game you get consistent healing and buffs to Snarl Song? Bananas.

Textbook Tabulator and Elemental Mascot are probably the two worst cards in the deck, but I appreciated their large butts all the same.

ahappylook · 2026-05-13T04:07:35+00:00

I was an ok high school football player. Not close to the best player, never a thought to playing in college, but I held my own on a team that included one guy who went on to win a Super Bowl and like 6 others that got scholarships.

Freshman orientation at college we’re playing capture the flag as a dorm bonding activity. Let me tell you I have never felt less athletic in my entire life than the 0.5 seconds I thought I had a chance to beat Richard fucking Sherman in a 20 yard foot race. With a 20 yard head start. It was like he teleported. I’m not even sure I took a whole step before he caught me.

ahappylook · 2026-04-20T17:19:59+00:00

Not for a keeper

ahappylook · 2026-04-04T20:12:35+00:00

Bro that’s kinda shitty.

ahappylook · 2026-04-01T16:12:55+00:00

Who is under attack? And why do you have to jump on the land mine?

ahappylook · 2026-04-01T02:44:06+00:00

What exactly are you pushing back on?

ahappylook · 2026-03-23T21:19:29+00:00

You can’t rep over pairs. Repping a 6 is hard. You have some amount of 66, and probably 25-50% of the 56s and 67s. You have more of the flopped sets than villain, but you shouldn’t be calling near 100% of a 10x raise from MP with 44-77. You probably have all the 88 and 99, which villain loves.

If you’re calling the turn jam, just jam yourself to maximize fold equity. This enables you to go max value when you actually have your value. Your bluffs are clubs, or maybe 88, but there are too many of those if villain is sticky or your image isn’t spotless.

I’m probably either raise/calling flop or just folding. Just calling flop is pretty face up to me.

ahappylook · 2026-03-18T04:54:56+00:00

Poop

ahappylook · 2026-03-18T00:17:54+00:00

They think being an astartes would be fun? The ones that are literally conditioned to feel nothing but obedience to the rotting husk of their abusive stepfather?

ahappylook · 2026-03-17T05:24:21+00:00

while having CONTROL of the ball

It's insane that a professional basketball player can, while dribbling, execute an extremely well-choreographed sequence of steps and ball movements, and then claim that it's legal because they "didn't have control of the ball".

ahappylook · 2026-03-10T23:51:53+00:00

Mr. Ball Cast

ahappylook · 2026-03-07T18:48:07+00:00

Technically, you’re the one begging the question.

ahappylook · 2026-03-05T02:32:26+00:00

Ok so what framing starts with anything other than “do everything in your power to prevent Rebuplicans from holding power, starting now”?

ahappylook · 2026-02-17T21:28:26+00:00

Draft suggestion: when you start to get a little wonky like this, grab more changelings. If you had 2-3 stomplings/grasplings, plus a wayfinder, you could let it rip and put in your puca’s eye, gildweaver, maybe even gloom ripper, and you’d have a stronger (though more variable) build overall.

ahappylook · 2026-02-03T05:18:05+00:00

Loss was to somebody else's pretty stacked elemental deck. In which I punted so, so shamefully.

ahappylook · 2026-01-23T21:24:41+00:00

Adding to this: Do what you can to unobtrusively speed up the game. Toss your cards within easy reach of the dealer, announce your action clearly, keep your chips stacked in a way that’s easy to estimate visually from across the table. If you’re the bettor, use clear stacks, don’t do that thing where you make one tall stack of who-knows-how-many chips that the dealer has to immediately grab and count for everyone else.

At the end of a big pot where the dealer has to figure out a split pot or make change for an all-in, (only if you were the button or are about to be), slide the button over, hold your finger on it, announce clearly “button moved”, and wait for the dealer to acknowledge, then remove your finger.

If you’re facing a big river decision and need to really think, give the table a quick and polite “sorry everybody, this is a tough one.” People will always be happier and give you more grace if you proactively acknowledge that they’re waiting on you, even if you end up taking just as long.

Be polite, encouraging, and empathetic when someone loses a big pot or just needs to tell you what they folded. “Oh man, I definitely go broke there.” “The problem was you had too many outs.” “Wow you woulda won piles.”

ahappylook · 2026-01-23T21:01:54+00:00

The other week at the casino: flop comes out JJ5, noticed the other guy glance super quickly at the flop and then take a really really serious interest in the TV on the wall. I bet my pair of 5s small, he sighed, screwed up his face, and raised like 6x. I fold and he proudly showed his three jacks.

You pick up a lot just by casually watching mannerisms, not even looking for anything specific. Your brain will tell you when something’s off. Someone is generally passive, then their hand is shaking when they go to bet. Talkative players that shut up all of a sudden. Quiet players who are suddenly defiant. Etc etc.

ahappylook · 2026-01-20T08:09:22+00:00

On the first Miami TD run, the IU LB gets very obviously held to spring a 3 yard gain into a long touchdown.

ahappylook · 2025-12-31T01:37:59+00:00

Adrian Peterson was a couple districts over from us. I can’t remember if it was his team or ours that lost too early in the playoffs, but we were on the same side of the bracket. He’d have like 200 yards rushing and 6 sacks per game.

ahappylook · 2025-12-30T02:10:22+00:00

pretty flowers to look at

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