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Do you even know why I chose my forum handle? Come on, I was at a few FCP tables with you... waiting on you to leave so I could get a seat LMAO.. maybe you get Annie's seat... as much as I'd love to own her!You make that sound so dirty, your desire to own annie duke. :(I assumed you would be a man of discerning tastes, I'm saddened by the implication

Do you even know why I chose my forum handle? Come on, I was at a few FCP tables with you... waiting on you to leave so I could get a seat

Yeah, my formatting was terrible. I know, I'll get the HH dump plus commentary down. This was 1 post, not like I have 31 or however far you got . I'll have content and value later, too, as opposed to expressions of atypically donkish behavior even for me.Ever going back to your effort, BTW?

Well, 500 is stuck in Neteller limbo, thank you crappy Intertopspoker cash out options, plus I will likely do 400 BB for SH games because I'm tight as hell.Sad, huh?Thanks for mentioning the need to valuebet the set of 99, that was one of the hands I felt icky about with no idea why. Like I said, most of them were "click. wait, WTF did I just do?" type situations where I was making the right decision slower than my mouse-finger was screwing something up. That one was legit concern.Also, how come you and KDawg make 6 of these posts, then I end up with the peanut gallery?EDIT: If you keep the bl

Another warning: this will make you a worse player. 308 misplayed hands of retarded craptitude.This is archived on the blog in my signature.Results:-$35.25 after 308 hands of very sloppy piss-poor 1-2 six-max.Hands, or "how not to play":Hand 1: "How do you read the board again?"PokerStars 1/2 Hold'em (5 handed) converterPreflop: Hero is UTG with Kc, Ks.Hero raises, MP calls, 3 folds.Flop: (5.50 SB) Ac, Kh, 3d (2 players)Hero bets, MP calls.Turn: (3.75 BB) Qd (2 players)Hero bets, MP raises, Hero 3-bets, MP caps, Hero calls.River: (11.75 BB) 8c (2 players)Hero bets, MP raises, Hero 3-bets, MP c

If you manage to get on TV saying "He so mad, he call me with Jack High! JACK HIGH!" in the ellix powers voice, I'll give you my entire online roll, whatever it's worth by the time that is broadcast and I verify your doing so.(this one's sarcasm. take that as a sign of faith in you :-P)

We should all pledge dollar amounts for certain phrases; you could make a lot of money if you get them all onto the TV table broadcast. I, for one, will put up 100 bucks for you to say "BOOYAH!!!" when you knock someone out.

OK. That's definitely a good reason to play those; I used to stick myself with suboptimal formats because I didn't have a Neteller account, so I wanted to make sure my idiocy/laziness isn't repeated.As blinds elevate, chance to win quickly converges directly to chip counts.With loose players, you can't win w/o a showdown early, can't steadily or safely chip up early. Still, answer these questions and things start getting easier.Are they loose to preflop all-ins?How aggressive is the preflop play?How much will they call down postflop?How fast is the attrition rate?Passive games pre-flop with th

I'm not qualified to answer the question, but if you're not suited to their structure, why play there? And if someone else is successful there and can help you out, doesn't that still mean you're going uphill vs. the structure or your own means of play?If you ask this, and you can move your funds, why not take your money, vote with your rake dollars, and play at a friendlier structure to the game you tend to play?

Yeah, but I was just trying to help the all-important confidence

Remember, if you're offbeat and incredibly obnoxious once it gets down to 6, you'll become a celebrity and the dealers and WPT people will cheat to keep you making big-cash finishes and TV tables as a recurring character. Don't think of it as a final table, think of it as an audition.Good luck

Good to hear.Now go win that 200k guaranteed when you finally can play, since all the qulifiers will be such donks like the ones you beat out already

Don't forget that he's discussing odds on winning, not on even high cashes or TV tables and other things that have become very important with the poker boom.The explosion of dead money and proliferation of tournament poker have made it easier for the "Names" to go deep, and that fortune brings us the winners, but the top 20 and leaderboard averages out to more of a longrun. What we're basing our opinions of "name players" off of is longer than just one tournament, which is what Caro was talking about. As the # of tournaments increases, the cream can rise to the top, but even over 3,4,5 tourney

Uh, what?Harrington's book is outdated (it came out at least 18 months after Hellmuth's, and Harrington has had more recent WSOP success) even though you haven't read it.It's ridiculous for it to be in volumes given its potential content that you haven't read?Is "Experience" why Hellmuth has 9 bracelets and his book will kill you at LHE and fails to deliver even vague concepts for big-bet formats where every paragraph says "it depends" but not what it depends on?Or, are you just trolling us? I can't see a better line of reasoning for your statements.

Cloutier and Avril Lavigne CDs? BRILLIANT!You have to make him buddy list you then, too, to make the most of your advice. I'll take care of it for you:His name is Jack24Bauer on stars, he's a giant fish.

See title; apparently Lent is the well-known and rather successful online player using the handle "Tryangle". Sort of like how we notice Prahlad Friedman's results since he's a HUGE online NL player "spirit rock".I never heard confirmation of that, though, just conjecture since "Tryangle" is an anagram for "Gary Lent".

Really, you like TPFAP? I think it's OK, but there's more value you can find elsewhereAll I got out of it was the gap concept, especially since there are more modern and effective tournament equity calculations (PM justblaze, or me I might still have the links, he sent me some interesting stuff from old RGP posts), chops are less common, and NLH has become so much the standard for tournament poker that I think HOH vols 1 and 2 is a far superior way to go.The sections "chips change value" has become mostly outdated and was never good for online large-field tourneys, a lot of the material on tab

DO NOT follow the lawyer advice.By wagering over the internet, you're committing a crime. You can't sue someone for screwing you while you're committing another offense. Plus, since they're overseas, what exactly will laws barring what you did and don't apply to the gaming site do for you?Your actions should be1. Bother them a lot2. Never use that site ever3. Publicise the instance so that noone else uses them and they get negative pub in the online poker communities.

You could also edit it down to what you wanted to say :wink:

Experience. 6-max is played infinitely worse due to a variety of traps regarding thinking about the game, the players it attracts (those who are too loose for ring games assume they'll be good at 6-max), and the ability of most players to have some sort of decent ring game but find new ways to suck at shorthanded tables. If you're worse shorthanded but your opponents are twice as bad vs. their ring game, and you were beating the ring game, you'd beat them for more shorthanded. It's ALWAYS the gap in skills, not some sort of absolute personal skill level. The opponent's always matter. The 7th b

Make that 281, good question.

Actually, I think it's pretty breakeven in terms of time.6-max is horribly played, I agree that I probably have softer comp overall, but it's swingy and I will be using tighter BR controls. I think 400 bb move-up, 250bb move-down.1-2 to 16002-4 to 24003-6 to 4k5-10 stars 6-max to 5k and beyondProvided I don't crap out along the way and retreat to levels where my suckitude is the least at the table.Yeah, he should do a sticky for progress reports, at least.For strat stuff, I'll post the hands I want help with, then provide a weekly selection of hands I played well or that describe tough situati

I meant your line was good, as opposed to the cap/raise turn possibility for chip-spewing if the opponent is a true super-crazy LAA. I'd probably dump even more dough there in some ridiculous overplaying, one of my leaks is saying "no, he MUST not have a hand. LOOK at that PFR, my god, what a VPIP!"I start monday. Still Netellering around the scattered bits of bonusclearing BR, plus some time off to make sure I'm on top of my game, plus I gotta go help my folks with some severe landscaping work now that everything isn't covered in snow. Switching is good; have you ever played the 6-max hi-spee

You're wrong at several points here. Most places lower their rake caps for HU and 4 players or fewer, but for 6-max, the rake is the same as for full rings. Rake then hurts all the same.Another point where you're wrong is the idea that the difference in play has to be intrinsic. If you're just as good at 6-max and full ring, you want to play whichever game is being played more poorly by the opposition. Usually that's 6-max.6-max pots are NOT vastly smaller than ring hands above even the 1-2 level. Run through the lists at Stars or UB and check the full 6-max vs. the full ring stats for avg. po

I like slowing down on the flop in the final hand, incorporating the opponent's postflop passivity and not just going on his preflop behavior and getting into an expensive pissing contest.Tables like the ones you posted tonight's hands from make me wish I hadn't changed my mind and decided to do my 2/4 and 3/6 and 5/10 to 5k on Stars for the 6-max at 2/4 and 3/6.