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Thank you for the amazing opportunity to speak to your team on Monday night. It was a great turnout and I enjoyed every minute.
Everyone had awesome thoughtful questions so I wanted to pass along, for those interested in one-on-one consulting- our studio is at 228 Columbia Road in Hanover and our dietitians are contracted with the following health insurances: Aetna, BMC Healthnet, BCBS, Cigna, HPHC, Always Health Partners, Tufts and United. Most insurance companies are great with covering nutrition consulting for endurance athletes who just want to learn how to eat better (they don’t need to have a medical condition in order to be seen). Our team can assist with figuring out each athlete’s insurance benefit details.

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Just to give you a little info on what to expect when meeting with one of our RDs- we would sit down and discuss goals/what each swimmer is hoping to achieve. Our dietitians map out a personalized plan with realistic action items to work on each week. Very similar to Monday night but in a more individualized way. If someone is struggling to feel strong when completing a workout- we take an in depth look into why and help them start to feel better immediately.
As we talked about, learning how to fuel properly for endurance exercise is so so crucial and important with helping swimmers feel strong and energized. Please let all of your swimmers and their parents know that our team is so excited and happy to help in any way we can. And I hope to have the opportunity to come back and chat with everyone again soon.

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Drew: Bro this seat 2 has been out playing me left and right. Kinda sick actually.
Me: He’s not bad. I saw him squeeze with K7s the other day and I was like oh okay he’s got plays.

Drew and I are sitting at a new 2/5 game on a random Wednesday afternoon, texting back and forth. There are no promos going on, so the room is pretty dry for all intents and purposes. The player we’re talking about is someone I’ll call Unconstructed Calculated Reg (UCR), a younger Asian kid. He’s relatively new to the room, as far as I know, and he is the most feely feel-based player I have ever seen play the game, playing nearly 100% of hands on the BTN, squeezing at a high frequency and for huge sizings, and almost never folding to 3-bets. A new-age DGAF.

UTG opens 15, +1 calls, and a short stack calls the CO. UCR calls the BTN, and I’m in the SB with A♠️3♠️. A passive rec is in the BB and the short stacker is there in the CO, so I call, and the BB comes along as well. We’re 6 ways to the flop, which comes T♠️3♥️2♦️.

I check and think about whether or not I’m calling or check raising to a reasonable bet depending on which player it comes from, but then it checks to the CO who just rips in his remaining $90 into the $90 pot. UCR calls, and I think that even someone wild like him would have to have a sensible hand here to call with 5 players left to act. I fold, and the rest of the table folds as well.

The dealer puts out the turn and river, a 9 and a 7 respectively, and the CO shows his cards: AKo. What the hell…?

UCR tables his hand: 62o. What the HELL?!

Me: Okay I’ve never seen him play this ool
Drew: No he will get ool but its calculated in his own sick way.

Sick indeed.

An hour or so later, UCR opens first to act, and a fish calls in the middle. Drew thinks for a little bit on the BTN and then squeezes. Action folds back around to UCR who puts in the 4b. The fish folds, and the action is on Drew.

“God, why do I do this to myself?” he groans before mucking. UCR mucks his hand face up: 72o.

“PAY UP!” I say, tossing UCR $20 in reds. I tap the table in his general direction, and we share a laugh.

For a game as complex as the one we play, I think it’s fairly easy to sort out the different types of poker players into two main categories: those who are trying to win, and those who are playing for fun with aspirations of winning, but no real intent of doing so. Of course, there may be those who are trying hard to win and still losing in the game, and those who are not trying very hard at all and still winning in the game. There may be those who are aggressive, spew-monkey whales trying to dust it all off and playing in a super tight game where everyone is overfolding. Naturally, this dichotomy is a gross oversimplification of the pool, but c’mon… just go with it.

UCR is rather unusual. I titled him Unconstructed, Calculated Reg, but I don’t really know if that’s an appropriate name for him. He doesn’t tilt, at least not that I’ve seen. He plays some hands with reckless abandon, calling to hit two-outers, and other hands snap-mucking pre vs. action players. And I’m really not bothered by it, except I’M TOTALLY BOTHERED BY IT. Like, why am I not able to make any sense of his strategy? And why are we so cool with each other? Here’s a great hand he played:

A loose-passive player limps the HJ, and it folds to UCR in the BB who bumps it up to 30. HJ calls.

The flop comes T♥️7♦️3♣️. UCR bets, the HJ raises, and UCR calls.

The turn is a Q♦️. UCR checks, the HJ bets, UCR shoves, and the HJ beats him into the pot.

“SNAPPIES!” I say.

“He SNAPPED!” UCR replies.

“You’re dead, bro. Dead.” As I’m saying this, the whale shoves his chips into the middle of the pot and tables his hand: T♣️7♠️.

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“Dead?!” he says quietly to me. “What do you mean? I’m ahead!” UCR peels his 7♥️7♣️ for me as the dealer puts out the river: the T♠️. He instamucks his hand and bemoans loudly. “It NEVER comes! So many outs, and I just can’t get there!”

Here’s a hand that I played against him:

UCR straddles the BTN, and it folds to me with K♣️Q♣️ in the CO. I make it 30, and he calls.

FLOP: J♣️6♠️3♠️ / POT: 60

I bet 35, and he calls.

TURN: 9♦️ / POT: 130

No idea what to do here, but in game, I thought my hand would like betting more than check-calling, so I put out a bet of 100. UCR calls.

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RIVER: 5♥️ / POT: 330

It’s definitely possible that he made some straights and two pair on this river, but he also just has a ton of one pair hands and some whiffed nut flush draws that beat me, and I want to put pressure on that range. I still have the overpairs, sets, J9, and maybe even AJ/KJ for value here, but I’d probably check-call some of those hands on the river, given how many floats he has on the flop and how many draws miss on the river, so I’m probably imbalanced towards bluffs in this spot, and I can’t go for it with all of them. Blocking his best Jx and unblocking spades is kind of nice though. I fire out 250.

UCR is in the tank, and I’m in pokerfacemode. He’s thinking, he’s thinking, he’s thinking, and I’m mentally preparing myself for either result. I have no idea what the equilibrium play is here, but I know I probably should bluff a little bit less given his propensity to bluff catch. Either way, I’m too stubborn to check, and honestly, I feel kind of confident regardless of the outcome.

He finally puts in the mega-sigh-call, doing a one-chip flick, and he holds his hand over his cards, sliding them across the line as if to muck. I look at him and pick up my cards, showing him my whiffed King high, and we both start giggling like little school girls. He shows me T♦️6♣️, and we laugh rather maniacally. I muck without showing, and the rest of the table what-the-fucks at us. Calculated in his own sick way. He’s a maniac, but I gotta say, I kind of love him.

So what’s his deal? Does he play poker for fun, or does he hate himself like the rest of us? Does he just think he’s so good that he can get pretty out-of-line pre and make up all the EV post? Or does he just not care? Is he playing to win or is he playing for the thrill of making a sick play, regardless of how much he may lose in the process? How do we figure players like him out? The decision tree is so vast and expansive, and playing live, it’s difficult to be able to know where a person is overcalling or over folding or over raising in a nuanced spot, let alone what on earth they may be thinking from hand-to-hand.

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I guess that’s the beauty of poker.