Jeff Rossiter

Love the series, like thinking about this stuff in general, but completely disagree with the comment that "owning things are what humanize you". To the extent that so-called normal people believe this, they are wrong, and would be better off re-evaluating their perspective on material products.

For some of the reasons mentioned here, poker players tend to be quite materialistic and shallow, since making money is explicitly what we do and obsessiveness is rewarding. However, all collected wisdom points towards the ownership of stuff being de-humanizing rather than the opposite.

Rather than be concerned about not fitting in with normal society, we can potentially lead the way in becoming more fully self-realized human beings since our job hopefully encourages us to be more self-aware, rational and sceptical towards accepted practices than other people.

Cultivating a non-materialistic mindset and understanding why a desire for "things" is artificially created is quite liberating. I'm not saying don't buy a house etc, just be aware that a lot of what passes for "normal" is not really so and actually makes people miserable. Embrace the "rogue entrepreneur" (like this term) outsiders' perspective instead.

I thought along the same lines but you're forgetting (or underestimating the effect) that just checking we have equity in the pot and hands below top 30% do better to check and realise this equity than raise and narrow SBs range and potentially get re-raised off our equity.

I think this is much more relevant that thinking SB can just LRR us more, it shouldn't be that hard to defend vs in position. On the button in both 6m and HU we are opening >>30% of hands and can defend fine vs 3bs. (Disclaimer, Sean is better at poker than me, so I'm probably wrong)

I'm not sure why you perceive people to always raise 87 on 882 vs your 3 way lead, I don't think people would perceive you to bet/call, x/c, x/c 55 and it makes a lot of sense to let you continue bluffing.

Did some maths and looks like you are right (not very surprising), the numbers seemed pretty close for even pretty bad hands so it's certainly important to make sure you aren't limp/folding too much 

halfway through, but if you are analysing the BBs raising range shouldn't you take into account that he will have some fold equity and won't need 55% equity (also not sure why this isn't just 50+ to start).