tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post4690674523002307494..comments2024-03-05T08:25:01.029-05:00Comments on Poker Grump: Annals of nittiness, #1Rakewellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873391354585352712noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-59446903607841644092009-12-03T10:42:29.955-05:002009-12-03T10:42:29.955-05:00Oh come on now! That's so unfair. Surely he dr...Oh come on now! That's so unfair. Surely he drives his car because it is functional enough and he still enjoys it ( or at least doesn't dislike it so much to justify buying a new one ).<br /><br />I think you are mixing up being a nit with just being rational and not wasteful.astrobelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-1984135936779845502009-12-02T23:41:58.166-05:002009-12-02T23:41:58.166-05:00No. I can't see the difference. I have always...No. I can't see the difference. I have always thought of you as a nit, but that doesn't mean anything bad. We are in a recession right now and there's nothing wrong with a little nittiness.<br /><br />You drive a 17 year old car that you bought new= DEFINITION OF A NITAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-58482418501282182392009-12-02T23:25:59.777-05:002009-12-02T23:25:59.777-05:00You honestly can't see the difference? OK, let...You honestly can't see the difference? OK, let me spell it out. I put very little effort into getting free stuff. I get emails offering them, and if there's something I'm interested in, I either sign up for it on a web site or make a phone call, and it's done. I have invested about 2 minutes. <br /><br />The guy I saw, while fancying himself a professional poker player, chooses when and where he plays not for what will have the highest expected rate of poker income, but where he can play that will save him $6 on a buffet the next day. If he's any good, $6 ought to be a nearly negligible fraction of his daily income from poker. Yet in order to get it, he chooses to play at a place and time that is SURELY suboptimal for poker income--nit central at 3 a.m.<br /><br />What comps I might earn are way low on the priority list of things that I consider when choosing a place to play. Profitability is first, followed by convenience and comfort. $1-2/hour just shouldn't be an amount sufficient to tempt one from a more lucrative time and place for playing to a less lucrative one. Of course, if the EV for every place and time were the same, then it would be rational to go for the place and time that gives you a little extra. But I promise you that the Rio at 3 a.m. on off-peak-season weeknights is not the most profitable time and place for NLHE. <br /><br />Along the same lines, somebody suggested that my dilemma about using up Binion's food comps is kind of nitty. But I think it's just the opposite--it's anti-nitty. I don't TRY to accumulate comps; they just happen as a by-product of playing. I didn't have even the vaguest idea how much Binion's credit I had until I checked yesterday. Nits keep track of those things to the dollar, or penny. The problem of how to use "found money," so to speak, that one has incidentally built up is entirely different from focusing on how to wring every comp dollar from the system that one can.Rakewellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873391354585352712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-59600422523469855202009-12-02T22:27:15.580-05:002009-12-02T22:27:15.580-05:00You never fail to tell your readers when you get f...You never fail to tell your readers when you get free tickets to something - and how much you like said free stuff - so why are you spewing such negativity about someone who is, in essence, doing exactly what you do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-42854396508477195142009-12-02T10:43:50.411-05:002009-12-02T10:43:50.411-05:00Stud 8 or better is the home of nits... overheard ...Stud 8 or better is the home of nits... overheard years ago "I don't buy diet coke at home I get it free at the table"geezerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062173958381062515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36880087.post-70770120478101372692009-12-02T08:08:34.556-05:002009-12-02T08:08:34.556-05:00Well, I get your point but look at it from the oth...Well, I get your point but look at it from the other angle. The casino is after everyone's money. They angle shoot the rake/comps in every way possible. So, he found an angle shoot of his own. That can make some giddy.<br /><br />Personally, I'd rather have crab legs than a baseball hat.KenPhttp://www.pokerperambulation.comnoreply@blogger.com