Poker player, writer, and coach. Co-host of the Thinking Poker Podcast. He/him. https://xitter.cf/t.co/UlN6V8NF1V
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Andrew Brokos retweeted
I set out to write the best poker book ever and, while that may or may not have come to fruition, I’m fairly certain that it’s the most unique one ever written.
It’s been a long process writing the book which I’m now pleased to share with the world: the Khemset Holistic Poker Codex.
In this three-volume codex, I go through first principles and poker theory before shifting the discussion to my views on philosophy and the nature of reality, ultimately tying them together with the goal in mind of sharing a practical and actionable holistic perspective for poker as well as life more broadly.
I wanted the Holistic Poker Codex to be memorable and feel special, and so I decided to print a limited luxury hardcover collector’s edition of 500 copies, each with a gold ribbon bookmark attached. I am likely to print it as a softcover version with a lower price point in the future if it’s well received, but I won’t be printing this particular version as a hardcover again, so it will remain unique.
It’s funny how writing a book teaches you more about yourself than you might realize going into it. It’s a rewarding and fulfilling process, and one which requires an immense amount of care, attention to detail, and willingness to spend time on tedious tasks alongside the overall bigger-picture creative vision needed to conceptualize and put it together in the first place. I’m very glad I decided to undertake this project and quite pleased to have finished it as well!
The book is set to be delivered to me in around six weeks’ time. I’ve just sent off the manuscript to the printing company and I decided to begin accepting pre-orders now. If you’re interested, check out the link below for more information.
🤖 Made with AI
Andrew Brokos retweeted
"I think also that TV played a very major role. Because now you were having brought into every living room in America the brutality of the situation. So I think if we had television fifty years earlier, we would have gotten rid of lynching fifty years earlier."- Bayard Rustin
Andrew Brokos retweeted
@HipHop101Trivia and I aren't just podcasters, we're also 🐐herders. Check out our interview with @steveodwyer on the latest podcast!
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Andrew Brokos retweeted
Villain bluffs 98% of the time if they hold a weak hand. But they only hold a weak hand 1/3M times in this spot.
Do you call your bluff-catcher facing their bet?
Andrew Brokos retweeted
You want the bad news first?
The bad news is I have a 290 page novel about my time on the world's best card counting team.
This is a story about two friends raised in Vegas who went from stealing chips in the cafeteria to stacking chips in High Limit. These are stories of locals who you've never heard of, counting cards in ways you don’t know, in parts of casinos that have no online reviews.
Unfortunately, it would be easier to get the Palms to split aces five times than it is to convince these guys to work together and release this book. Say what you will about the world's best card counters, but their lawyers won't let you.
But, the good news?
The good news is you're still getting a book. A collection of short stories I've been writing in the early morning, before the crash of the work day. A few of these you've already read, but many you haven't including stories about a 1990s Canadian hockey fixer, my LA AA group, my experience fighting Topps over a five-figure baseball card, and certainly a few homages and shoutouts.
“American Dynamism”
Pre order available soon
Andrew Brokos retweeted
I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
Holy hell, what is this format?
13x higher variance per knockout compared to a standard PKO.
And that's one elimination. The effect compounds through the progressive aspect of the bounty tournament. Total player variance will be astronomical.
With all the talk about the new Ocean KO I need @tombos21 to come in with the math to see what the variance will actually look like.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering.
But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
After recent events, we've open-sourced our superuser detection pipeline. No model training required, and it's available now on GitHub.
We're open to working with operators on implementation and hand review.
Full write-up and a case from the attack: quintace.ai/blog/superuser-d…
A new tool to fight online poker cheating has been released! 🛡️
Following the recent superuser scandal, AceGuardian has made its detection software publicly available to help poker sites identify suspicious play.
Learn more👇
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Andrew Brokos retweeted
Man camp update:
While I celebrated the relocation of several excavators, I had to see for myself.
Nothing else has changed. Drone security was the most aggressive yet.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
Thank you Laiken for an excellent interview and all the work you've done!
I was thrilled to share a bit about our historic victory stopping wall construction across the Big Bend region live on @DemocracyNow early this morning with the legendary Amy Goodman.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
Many thanks to the Thinking Poker team for having me back on the show!
Bryan @devopoker Devonshire is back! Join us for a conversation about defending Big Bend, appreciating the night sky, stripping on stage, and what it looks like when poker players grow up, on the latest Thinking Poker Podcast:
thinkingpoker.net/2026/10/ep…
Bryan @devopoker Devonshire is back! Join us for a conversation about defending Big Bend, appreciating the night sky, stripping on stage, and what it looks like when poker players grow up, on the latest Thinking Poker Podcast:
thinkingpoker.net/2026/10/ep…
Andrew Brokos retweeted
No matter who you're voting for, make sure you can vote. Know where to vote & what's on your ballot. This site tells you all you need. They tried to tell me I couldn't vote once! (Luckily, @barbs73 advocated!) It is crucial to check your voter reg before your state's deadline
TODAY: Early voting begins in Maine and California, and the process has already started in many other states across the U.S.
Are YOU registered to vote?
As the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on voting, it’s time to check your registration status: demdock.com/4gRtE8P
Andrew Brokos retweeted
listen i’m as critical of the atlantic as they come, but @ibogost’s piece is not wrong
end times and millenarian cults are two sides of the same coin that perennially emerge during any time of (real or prospective) social transformation, and are additionally a fundamental part of american culture — including (if not especially) american tech culture, from y2k to grey goo to social media to AI, since the sector’s very foundation is the radical transformation of society (and itself) through innovation
the extensive anthropological literature on these ‘great transformation’ movements ubiquitously captures a certain ‘joy of dread’ of people who adhere to these beliefs, not least because it imbues one’s life with a sense of meaning and historical centrality (a literature *especially* relevant if you want to understand Safety as a social movement)
“YOU are SPECIAL, part of a WORLD HISTORIC IN-GROUP, with UNIQUE POWER AND KNOWLEDGE that will CHANGE THE WORLD. YOU MATTER.” — it’s a very seductive narrative. and it is foundational to how many in the community see themselves and affirm their identities.
Embarrassing for The Atlantic tbh, couldn't go one weekend without some nonsense xitter.cf/TheAtlantic/status/210…
Took me a minute to realize this wasn't a poker tweet.
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel
ft.com/content/97d8d346-519e…
Andrew Brokos retweeted
this is a good example of some SV-AI thought-patterns that irk me:
(1) so much of it exists in the realm of pure speculation on subjects with long histories and deep debate, with no engagement with prior art, (2) the safetyist inversion of the null hypothesis always annoys me — it’s a mockery of the scientific method, (3) a religious leader making doctrinal judgements off the core principles of the faith is treated like a social media influencer to convince to shill a product, and (4) on the subject of not being remotely curious about other fields, as someone who trained in neuro (and *SPECIFICALLY* dove into sensory substitution/augmentation), statements like this
“we will never know what it feels like to experience the world in the echolocating chirps of bats or an eight-eyed spider”
drive me a little mad because not only do people have and use echolocation (those rattling sticks blind people use! knocking on a wall to see what’s behind it! etc etc), but also because we can and have literally given people net-new senses like ‘chemosensation’ and ‘radar sense’ thanks to the brain’s fantastic plasticity
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Andrew Brokos retweeted
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
Andrew Brokos retweeted
were it genuinely true that sam has deep discomfort with “a surrender of human judgment to AI models”, the product would look very different indeed, maximizing *useful* visibility into the product’s decision chain and providing radically greater practical control over what the machines are doing and are permitted to do,
instead of (1) incentivizing users to just trust the machine to make all the decisions and leave longrunning processes to do god knows what in the background, (2) making the experience of access requests so frictional (and contrasted against “just permanently grant access”) that users are pushed to ‘yolo’ away the sandbox and grant ubiquitous access to all data, (3) making *revocation* of previously-granted access perniciously opaque, (4) overwhelming the user with so much information it drives them to passivity, and (5) making explanations of what the machine is requesting access for mindnumbingly opaque.
just yesterday I had to go ask a model what file to change (ftr ~/.codex/rules/default.rules) to revoke access I had granted accidentally-in-perpetuity since there was no such flow in the tool itself; I have recently found myself having to build so much infrastructure / observability tooling / monitoring daemons just to try to even marginally correct for the many adversarial design choices of the labs and it speaks to a serious issue in some of the most fundamental beliefs and design choices of the businesses.
