{"id":364,"date":"2025-03-24T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:09:19","slug":"a-punt-a-day-sam-greenwood-opens-his-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/a-punt-a-day-sam-greenwood-opens-his-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"A Punt a Day: Sam Greenwood Opens His Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post A Punt a Day: Sam Greenwood Opens His Playbook<\/a> appeared first on Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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High end advice articulated crisply<\/h2>\n

Poker\u2019s newest content creator is none other than Canadian high stakes beast Sam Greenwood, who just launched his new series of Substack articles entitled \u201cPunt of the Day.\u201d Five times per week, he will revisit the blunders that he has made on his way to winning $40m on the live felt. He will try to explain his mindset and thought process in key moments when he failed to execute to the best of his abilities.<\/p>\n

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I have started a poker blog called Punt of the Day, where everyday I review a hand I blundered and analyze my mistakes. Since this site throttles links, I will post link to the first post and a link to subscribe in the replies.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sam Greenwood (@SamGreenwoodRIO) March 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Having been given a sneak peek of what is to come, the striking thing is how approachable Greenwood\u2019s thought process is. He is a natural communicator, dropping pearls of wisdom that apply to everyone\u2019s game. There can be no doubt that it is high-end advice for high-level thinkers, but it is also articulated so crisply that I suspect that it will find a wider audience.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this series is going to be how it will show the difference between having knowledge in a vacuum and being able to deliver on that knowledge under pressure. VSO News <\/em>sat down with Greenwood to talk about his new venture.<\/p>\n

Q&A with Sam Greenwood<\/h2>\n

VSO News<\/em><\/strong>: Do you think there is a perception that the top players don\u2019t make mistakes and is part of what you\u2019re doing here an attempt to show how that isn\u2019t true?<\/p>\n

Sam Greenwood<\/strong>: I do think that there is a perception that the top players are so well-studied that they never make mistakes. I\u2019m definitely trying to show that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

In my time in poker, I\u2019ve seen two types of errors from casual players. One is they see a top pro (everyone always picks Chidwick here, pick someone else \"\ud83d\ude02\") make a play and say: \u201cI know everyone says he\u2019s the best, but I don\u2019t believe it.\u201d But there\u2019s a slightly more enlightened level of incuriosity that is: \u201cThat play doesn\u2019t make any sense to me, but X did it so it must be right,\u201d without even considering the chance he might have made an error. That sort of incuriosity bugs me.<\/p>\n

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the insights that I have, shortcuts that I take, and the blind spots that I have\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The beauty of poker is that, in any given hand, one player can outplay anyone, so of course it\u2019s possible that top pros have a bad read or misapply a theoretical concept. It happens constantly. My hope with the blog is that over the long run readers will not just learn poker fundamentals, but also get a window into how I think, which includes the insights that I have, shortcuts that I take, and the blind spots that I have.<\/p>\n

VSO<\/em><\/strong>: What would make this a success for you as a project? Is it about gathering a large following\/subscriber list to your substack, or is it more about satisfying a personal objective to do some writing?<\/p>\n

SG<\/strong>: I like writing and always have. I love making videos for RunItOnce, but when I speak I can be digressive so I like the discipline of writing something short and focused every day. However, if this were just about personal growth, I would be doing it in private. I absolutely want to gain subscribers and build a community.<\/p>\n

VSO<\/em><\/strong>: Define \u201cpunt\u201d for me as distinct from \u201cblunder.\u201d<\/p>\n

SG<\/strong>: Once a mistake is made in poker, it cannot be undone and, for me, the word \u201cpunt\u201d is so evocative. You can spend days making careful, precise decisions and then one decision blows it all up. I played rugby in high school and writing about \u201cpunts,\u201d I\u2019m just picturing a ball flying high into the air floating off into the distance, never to be recovered. Now some decisions covered in the blog will be blunders and slip-ups and not, strictly speaking, \u201cpunts,\u201d but I liked using punt in the title.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Dwyer and O\u2019Kearney weigh in<\/h2>\n

Fellow high-stakes circuit regular Steve O\u2019Dwyer thinks that Greenwood\u2019s articles are going to hit a sweet spot. Speaking to VSO News<\/em>, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Sam\u2019s new Substack blog is an innovative idea in the realm of educational poker content. Sam is the first person I seek out on tournament breaks when I want feedback on a hand that I\u2019ve played. He\u2019s got an incredible mind for poker and always does a great job explaining his thoughts in a way that a dumb guy like myself can understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another of poker\u2019s great strategic minds, Dara O\u2019Kearney, applauded the structure of Greenwood\u2019s breakdowns and said how he particularly liked the \u201cwhat I got wrong section\u201d. Speaking to VSO News<\/em>, O\u2019Kearney also commented on the integration of the background sims used:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the short explanations of why the solver advocates certain things are very valuable. It\u2019s so important to relay the reasons behind what the solver does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Different subscriber tiers<\/h2>\n

Poker players at all levels today run sims or at least grapple with solver output. Greenwood\u2019s breakdowns are going to be a daily treat for those players. His first entry<\/a> is a hand he played versus the talented young Bulgarian Boris Angelov at the Triton Jeju $20,000 buy-in a few weeks ago. At the end, he grades his line as a D+, believing that he botched two of his four decisions.<\/p>\n

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so that we never bungle, blunder, botch, slip-up, fail, err, mess up, or punt ever again\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the introduction to this series of articles, Greenwood lays out his tongue-in-cheek mission statement: \u201cMy hope is that you\u2019ll gain some insights from my mistakes and we can all learn something together so that we never bungle, blunder, botch, slip-up, fail, err, mess up, or punt ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Punts may be inevitable, even from the best, but as Greenwood confesses more and more of his poker sins, his subscribers will be the beneficiaries, learning from one of the game\u2019s great strategic minds.<\/p>\n

As a cheeky tempter, unpaid subscribers will get access to one free post per week, whereas monthly plan subscribers will receive every post, plus the ability to comment on the Substack. Premium subscribers will get access to every post and access to the \u201cPunt of the Day\u201d Discord server, where they can see the original sims that Greenwood ran and delve into some additional analysis.<\/p>\n

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