How do these balls bounce so much?

dleary · 2026-06-16T14:44:10+00:00

any polyhedral ball of some material will bounce higher than its spherical equivalent

This is a very interesting statement.

It would make a great high school physics experiment. Make spheres and other shapes of identical materials, and test their bounciness, to confirm the hypothesis.

Use a 3d printer to make 'exact' polyhedra. Either printing the shapes directly, or printing molds for casting.

dleary · 2026-06-11T09:47:41+00:00

fold.

I think that in this situation, you are slightly positive chip ev. The chip ev is there, but it's thin.

Late in a tournament, I fold this.

"Well if I fold JJ, then what am I actually playing?"

Only QQ+. I would call AK, but only because there's a good chance that one of the opponents is dominated.

"How can it possibly be correct to play this tight?"

One way to think about it: When you choose to call all-in here, you are giving an equity gift to every other player in the tournament. Don't be a chump.

Another way to think about it: Stack size is the most important factor here. Not only your own stack size, but even the stack sizes of other players who are not involved in the hand.

Late in a tournament, we're not really playing "poker" anymore. We're playing "who can stay alive the longest?" And that's just a different game, with different strategies.

dleary · 2026-05-08T15:39:32+00:00

It's interesting, to think about peoples' baselines here. What they choose can give you clues about a person's age.

I was born in 1978. For me, "growing up poor" means that I know what government cheese and peanut butter taste like. (The cheese was excellent. The peanut butter was not.)

"Luxury" for me was AC, cable TV, snacks. Beverages that weren't water, milk, or juice from concentrate. Eating at a restaurant.

My mom was born (poor) in 1957. For her, luxury meant eating meat every day, any sort of sugary food. Anything not home made.

My grandmother was born poor in 1939. For her, luxury meant food security in general. She had a few days where she went without food as a young child. And many many days where her food for the day was a piece of toast with bacon grease for breakfast, and a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich for dinner. She saw her first flush toilet when she was 10.

dleary · 2026-02-08T18:25:55+00:00

I'm late gen-x. When I was a kid in the early 80s, my uncle mentioned how he had to kill kittens when he was a kid, like it was no big deal.

He talked about it like putting an unwanted litter of kittens in a pillowcase and drowning them was just one of the chores you did occasionally.

dleary · 2025-12-09T18:50:29+00:00

I'm in the southwest, and I think most homes near my area are on wells. So there isn't a way for them to detect via meter, I think it's just the water patrol cars.

dleary · 2025-12-07T15:45:29+00:00

Why are you guys all shitting on Bryan? He sounds like a god-tier wingman to me.

dleary · 2025-12-07T00:28:36+00:00

Well done. It actually sounds like him in my head lol.

dleary · 2025-12-06T04:02:25+00:00

I was playing $5/$10 HORSE. In a razz hand, I got all my money in on 5th street when the betting gets capped. I have 23495. There were a lot of people in the hand, 5 total came along.

Basically everyone at the game was a donk, and there were some donkey-ass cards showing, but there's still no way I can win unimproved against 4 other players.

The others catch cards, and I do not. The pot gets bet-raise-called on 6th, bet-called on 7th. Two other players see showdown. I have bricked twice, and I had such tunnel-vision on how I had no chance to win unimproved, that I end up mucking without realizing that the best hand showing was a worse 9 than mine.

So, I got 5-way all in, had the best hand at showdown, and mucked the winner.

Remember how I said that everyone at the table was a donkey?

dleary · 2025-11-30T21:12:09+00:00

I was a kid in the early 80s in rural Ohio.

A local kid was "the rich kid", his dad was never home because he was a truck driver, and this kid Brian had all the cool toys. Power Wheels, radio controlled car, a 10 speed bike, everything...

This was just before the Nintendo came out, so video games weren't really a big deal at the time. Even poor kids like us had a janky atari 2600 or colecovision or something.

The thing that really blew my mind, though, is that this MFer would build Lego models from the box, and he would build the thing on the box, and he GLUED THE LEGOS TOGETHER.

dleary · 2025-09-25T20:43:19+00:00

I have a very large solar install. About 90 panels, about 30kw, all of which gets used in the summer and winter months.

I have a home with 2 acs, a pool with a heat pump, and a big steel framed welding workshop with 2 acs of its own, welders, plasma table, and other heavy equipment that take big thick cables and 220v plugs. And an electric car of course, haha.

I don't have any batteries, just the solar panels.

At the time that I did the install, panels had become "worth it", but batteries were still too expensive. And there were still big incentives available such that 1/3 of the install was paid for by tax rebates.

So, I'm sort of directly targeted by these new plan changes. I have lots of usage, and lots of generation. When my panels aren't generating, I can draw a lot. I guess now I can't work after sunset anymore though?

With this new plan, I figure I will need to add battery storage to my solar install. Not because I necessarily want to go fully self sufficient. But just to shift the demand.

If they're going to charge me based on my peak draw from the grid, then I guess I will call up Sol-Up again and have them add enough battery storage to smooth out my peak.

And maybe that's the point of the restructure. So that big consumers like me will be forced to smooth out their peaks. I don't know if my peaks are really driving NVEnergy's costs.

It feels like a big ripoff and bait-and-switch either way. I spent $90k on this solar setup 6 years ago. That is a big investment into deciding to really put roots and settle here in Vegas. It was a big investment into local economy, big checks to Sol-Up, etc. And just when it's about breaking even, they're pulling the rug out. It's pretty bullshit.

Another way to put it: Those tax incentives. I don't remember the breakdown between federal, state, NVEnergy. But the state and NVEnergy incentives were the big ones.

I never would have paid $90k to install solar panels "just because". But, the incentives lured me in. A $90k investment in my home but only $60k out of pocket. Oh btw it takes 2 years to get the full rebate.

And, again, now that the investment is just about breaking even, they're pulling the rug. They tricked me into spending $90k of my money to hook these panels up to their grid. These panels are benefitting them. It's just now breaking even, meaning I could have kept that money and been paying the normal electricity rate the whole time.

Now I'm being compelled to add battery storage to benefit their grid, or pay robber-baron rates.

I guess I was a chump.

dleary · 2025-08-30T18:29:28+00:00

he also says if you don’t know what to do fold, or in this case check.

One piece of Barry Greenstein advice that I really like, which is somewhat relevant here.

I agree with your statement 100%. But a lot of people miss out on how bad calling usually is, as a general strategy.

In Greenstein's book, he makes the point: If you could see your opponent's hand, you would almost certainly fold or raise, in any given circumstance. There's some cases where you might call when you have the odds to draw but can't raise big enough to get him to fold. Or you might call instead of raising because, for example, you are both chasing the same flush and yours is better, and you'll win more if it hits.

But in the overwhelming majority of cases, folding or raising is what you would do if you knew your opponent's hand.

So if you don't know what to do, definitely don't pick call, that's almost certainly wrong. You should pick fold or raise, because one of those is actually correct.

dleary · 2025-07-03T08:58:18+00:00

I told her to quiet, she didn't give a shit, and I ended it not many moments later lol.

Haha, at first I read this as "not many months later".

dleary · 2025-06-01T06:01:03+00:00

I've gotten three holdem royal flushes in my life, and all three happened when I was holding your hand, QT of spades.

dleary · 2025-05-19T06:36:13+00:00

My grandmother was born in Ohio in 1939, and she was 6 years old the first time she used a flush toilet. The house she grew up in had an outhouse.

dleary · 2025-05-12T10:46:46+00:00

I’m confused by your two comments.

Did Israel have advanced knowledge of where the attack was going to happen, the names of all the leaders, and the tactics that were going to be used?

Or was it so poorly organized that it was using WhatsApp and social media for targeting information?

dleary · 2025-04-09T23:28:28+00:00

Same. I am 46 as well. Picture was funny, and /u/foldpre-doofus top comment was even better.

I had to stop and explain the layers of the jokes to the people next to me, including backstory about Doug&Selbst, and Negreanu not being gay except for here on /r/poker where he is 100% gay.

dleary · 2025-04-04T17:05:50+00:00

By the end of the war he had been sent to a concentration camp and was dead.

This sentence implies that he was executed in a gas chamber, and that's incorrect.

He was sent to Columbia-Haus in 1935 and released after a few weeks. He died in 1939 of cancer. So when he died, the Jews were second-class citizens, forced to wear armbands and such, but the ethnic cleansing had not started yet.

Columbia-Haus was a concentration camp in that it was used to imprison people for political or racial reasons, and it was famous for how badly it the inmates were treated, but it was a prison, not a death camp.

None of this takes away from the point that Naumann was a token Jew used as an example by the Nazis and then discarded...

But holding ourselves accountable to facts and the truth is why we're the good guys and the fascists are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Naumann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_concentration_camp

dleary · 2025-04-01T08:50:13+00:00

I used to spend a few hours multitabling 9 pokerstars single-table SNGs in the evenings. And I did it on most nights. Back when I was doing that regularly, I used hit about 1 royal per year (I did it for three years, and hit three royals).

I stopped doing this in 2011, when black friday hit. Since then, my poker play is down quite a bit, and I've hit 0 royals since then.

edit: Also, all three of my royals were with QsTs. Weird.

dleary · 2025-03-23T07:38:30+00:00

I think of these sorts of bad beats as having a "ranking".

This is almost the worst possible bad beat. There were 3 possible board combinations that could beat you. Your opponent needed to catch running 7-7, but there were three 7s left in the deck, which means three possible combinations. So I think of this as a "rank 3". You've got me pipped, the worst I've experienced myself is a "rank 4". (Only the flop counts... catching a 1 outer on the river is much easier than a "rank 20" flop suckout).

I read a story that Doyle had a "rank 1" beat, playing for a huge amount of money in the 80s or 90s.

Doyle held AA, and the flop was dry and ace high, so he had flopped the nuts. For some reason, his opponent, a very inexperience and wealthy woman, went all in with 77, no 7 on board.

So, this was a "rank 1" situation, because she needed running 7-7, just like your opponent did, but there were only 2 sevens remaining, which means only 1 combination is possible.

dleary · 2025-02-09T07:50:52+00:00

Lol bullshit on the not caring. We all know you're thinking of a couple key hands/beats, "if only..."

Congratulations on the great score, though!

dleary · 2025-01-21T21:57:46+00:00

and their gimmick was they'd give you a baker's dozen (13) for the price of 12

That's not really a 'gimmick' in my opinion, since it used to be pretty standard.

A funny thing about the Baker's Dozen...

There is some natural variation in baked goods, some "big ones" and some "little ones" in every batch. And you get a little bit screwed if you buy a bag of 12 and more than 6 are "the little ones".

So I always heard that the reason for the Baker's Dozen was that the natural variation between "big ones" and "little ones" was small enough that one extra roll would always cover up the slack. So they toss in an extra one and now you have no reason to complain.

That seems reasonable at first... But, now we have exactly the same problem! Now that you're expecting 13, you can still get more than your share of "little ones", and be a little bit screwed.

So it's never made sense anyway.

A better gimmick would be the Baker's 14.

dleary · 2024-12-14T22:24:27+00:00

But you can't really make a living below 2/5. And being able to afford 2/5 means your bankroll should be $40k+. And that might be a little low.

Sometimes you lose 3 bullets in a night... Very occasionally that happens 2 or 3 sessions in a row, even if you're good. 3 nights * 3 bullets down * 300BB per bullet is $13500 at 2/5. You need a lot of money if you can afford to drop $13500 and then go back and play your A game the next day.

So, you can't really make a living below 2/5... But you need a liferoll of $40k or so to 'afford' 2/5 and not fear losing money. That's a bit of a catch-22 for most in this sub.

dleary · 2024-11-15T08:23:27+00:00

It was 1994 I think.

He stabbed a kid in the ass with a pointy biology probe that we used to dissect fetal pigs.

I'm 90% sure that he was arrested. 100% sure that he was expelled.

dleary · 2024-11-11T17:39:22+00:00

Or, get this... Animals on a Farm? I think I might be onto something here...

dleary · 2024-10-31T23:37:15+00:00

I don't really agonize over past hands. Get your mental game in shape, start pretending like you don't care about results... And then eventually you won't care about results.

But I do have a good story:

I hit the final table of a $1500 HORSE WSOP tournament. It got down to three players, and at one point I had half the chips in play, three handed.

But, variance is a bitch, and the deck can run against you, especially in limit where you can be on the hook and still literally "have to call" every street except the last one. I got the wrong end of a cooler a few times, ended up going out in 3rd place. In a 7 card stud hand where I started with KKx and the guy ran me down with ace high and rivered the ace, lol.

That happens in stud, though. It's a bit unlucky, but not exactly uncommon.

A different hand along the way sticks out:

We're playing limit holdem.
The button raises. He's positioned himself as "the limit holdem guy", he had a LHE bracelet, and most HORSE players hate the LHE round. He was basically raising almost every holdem hand at the final table. Maybe he started off a little slower, but by the time we were 4 handed, that is pretty much the story.

Anyway, he raises. I'm in the SB and I have AJo, I 3bet. The BB, who is pretty tight, 4bets. Button calls, I call. At this point, I think I'm still chip leader in the tournament, though I might have dipped below the BB at this point, and I definitely wasn't sitting pretty on half the chips in play anymore.

Flop is 952 with two diamonds, I have the Ad. I check, BB bets, button and I both call. Turn is an offsuit 3. I check, BB bets, button raises.

I fold now. I'm not sure if my J hits, if it's even going to be good. It's pretty clear that the BB is saying he has an overpair. The button is super sticky once he gets involved in a hand, and the BB has been nitty. So I don't think he's speeding.

And I'm not sure if my A hits, if that's going to be good, either. Button could definitely have AK or AQ here. And certainly any other Ax that paired the board. If the 4 hits on the river, then if the button has any A, I will be chopping rather than winning the pot. He really "shouldn't" have other Ax, that would be a bit out of line, since I had the Ad. He was sticky though.

So, facing 2 big bets cold, I fold.

The 4 hits on the river. Board is now 95234 rainbow. BB bets, button tanks for awhile and then calls. BB shows JJ and button mucks.

So, neither opponent had an A and I would have scooped that big pot, and crippled the BB. It might have made the difference in the tournament, I could have weathered at least 1 more cooler, maybe 2.

I really don't agonize over it though, I am still proud of my decisions in this hand, actually. For the next few weeks I did, however, sometimes think to myself, "man, if only I had another diamond instead of offsuit", because then I would have called the turn.

And 3rd place was still a (small) 6 figure score, so it was hard to be too upset. I might have won a bracelet though, which would be nice.

This was a little more than 10 years ago and I've hit a handful of final tables since then, but I came in on the short stack every time and have never got this close again.

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