RyanGabriel

Well, this is really a simple situation, and your play against a maniac like this should really be ABC poker, and strategy should only change with the number of people left to act after you, and any other calls he's gotten. Assuming there are only a couplepeople to act after me and I'm not cold calling, against a player pushing every hand, I'm calling with any Ace, any King, any Q above Q8, any pp above 77, any suited connector above 67s, and any two cards above 9. Against a random hand, I believe those hands are +EV, and I'm supremely glad that he's sitting at my table.

I will almost always stop playing for one of two reasons-A) Something else comes up where I cannot dedicate myself to the tables. With a 6 month old baby in the house (my son), this happens frequently and as a result I've all but stopped playing tournaments.B) I'm playing sub-optimal strategy due to emotional variance. I'm tilting. This usually only occurs after a few rather extreme bad beats, similar to what happened earlier this morning. In under 10 minutes: I lost with QQ to QJs after getting all the money in preflop; lost with AK to AJ after he spiked a set of jacks- alsogetting all the mo

Yeah, Cool, your basic gameplan was spot on, there were just some plays that you could have tweaked. On a TP table, you should be more willing to bet, and less willing to call as a general rule. Reason being that people will fold to your bets more often, but seldom bluff so you can be more certain that they have a decent hand when they bet. The opposite is true for a LAG table. You want to tighten your play and punish their looseness with super aggressivness when you do hit a hand.edit: Let me just add that the adjustment to a TP table should have a larger emphasis on aggressivness, as opposed

Another "lucky" winning hand, in my opinion. Based on the play of your opponents (and some of yours), I assume this was a $5 buy-in Sit-N-Go. Sorry if I seem harsh, but based on the plays that you made, I can't see you making a profit in the long run. You won this one (amazingly I might add), so kudos to you, but it just seems like you played a lot of it totally backwards to how "they" say to play it. Not sure that "they" are always right, but "they" are certainly better than me, and I do pretty good at these levels. I should note that I, too, am assuming that you're playing the $5 or simi

Hey, Cool, welcome to No-Limit. Here's my tak on your plays-Hand1: Preflop- UTG+1 at a tight table, raising QTo is just asking for trouble IMO. First ask- what are you going to get called with? Generally, only hands that you are a dog to. Then ask- what are you going to get reraised with? You only raised 2.5x the BB, indicating a marginal holding for your position, and if I'm sitting after you with AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ, JJ, I'm coming after you again and hard. And there goes the hand, you just gave away 75 of your chips. You're not in any kind of position to steal here, so throw the hand away

Umm, Did anyone bother to notice that it comes with free shipping? How can you pass that deal up? :!:

Yeah, eight-thousand dollars would have been nice.. But when you say bad luck, I'm not so sure. I know I've never won $500 when showing down with the third worst hand. Something to think about.