SCOOP 2024 - The Middle
As I looked back on my second week of SCOOP, I often found myself expressing the thought that a lot of the people I played against were fools who didn't know what they're doing, and if you listen to any group of poker players freshly busted from tournaments, you'll probably hear a similar sentiment. And yet, this perspective typically comes from the players who are out, the players that have not won. A few weeks ago I was playing a live tournament and a friend, 'Brentos', was sat to my immediate right. In one hand he gratuitously doubled me up, blind vs blind, by misplaying absolutely every spot in the hand. In fact, apart from folding pre, I don't think he could have made a single worse decision on any street throughout. Afterwards, I was winding him up but he stuck to his guns and justified why he played the way he did based on how he expected me to play, despite me not doing any of the things he imagined I would do. Our cognitive bias makes us unreliable nar...