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TheIceman71

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  1. A lot of the posts say that a fold is worthwhile here so that we could stick around and learn from Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen. With all due respect to these two players, I believe I have entered this tournament to try and beat them and every other player in the event. I'm not saying I am better than them or many of the other players in the tournament, nor am I saying that I will beat them, but I am there to play against them and not with them. If I wanted to specifically learn from them, perhaps I could just pay them ten thou for a private lesson, or stake them for their entry fee and sit ove
  2. We all know that poker is a game of imperfect information, and here you have a situation where you have perfect information. You know for a fact what you have, what your opponent has, and what your hand's probability of winning is (AK off-suit vs. suited connector below AK = .60). We also know that ideally we like to have all our money in with the best hand. Here, we know we have the best hand. Also, we have overcards in case he spikes a Q or J on the flop, whereas if we saw his QJ and we were holding a pair of threes (where we have the best hand but we'd only be 50% to win), once that Q
  3. The only question you should be asking here is "Why can't I be the one who gets called by 2-3 when I have KK?" lolMr. 2-3 is invited to my table anytime. lol
  4. Just one suggestion:Please don't name your poker crew "The Crew". lol
  5. My two favorite moments are 1) when Jamie Gold lost a pot to Allen Cunningham because he called on a flush and Cunningham had the nut flush, then Gold went over to Chan to complain, saying, "I can't fold that hand." But if you watch, Chan never agrees with him, he just shakes his head and says nothing. I think Chan wanted to say, "if you were as good as I, then you could have put him on a higher flush or a full house and folded that hand." lol2) Prahlad Friedman's so-called poker rap. That was hilarious.
  6. Last night on ESPN's re-run of a day during the 2003 main event, Lon mentioned that Paul Darden said he would rather play against a bunch of quality pros than he would against amateurs because he believes that, since pros no how the game should be played, they are easier to read. Just an interesting piece of info I wanted to share in relation to this topic.
  7. How about you just switch to "Surely" instead of "Frankly"? It might take awhile for some people to notice and we could make bets on how many you get away with before someone starts to complain. lol
  8. I think the first step to recovery is to not tell bad beat stories, especially to other poker players who have most likely experienced them in similar amounts. Most players are gracious and won't say anything while one person is babbling, but on the inside they are thinking "I don't want to hear it. I've lived it already."The best thing to do is to act like you would in any other sport: be gracious in victory and gracious in defeat. Just know that bad beats are part of poker and, by virtue of the fact that they are bad beats, they will not occur as often as you winning a pot with solid play
  9. I agree with those who have said that "checking in the dark" is a position play. After using this move, your opponent now has to "act first" knowing that you have already made your play without seeing the flop. It seems to me that the dark check is used to either call or check-raise if your opponent bets. Doesn't make much sense to dark check and then fold unless your opponent pushes all-in and you cannot call him.
  10. If you feel your academic situation is hopeless, at least stick around for your high school diploma (you said you are getting one in October, correct?). That's the first step. I'm sure almost anyone (especially pro players) would advise you against turning pro, but if you really do feel passionate about it, then you should realize that it takes time and you won't just start making a living playing poker the day after you graduate from high school. I would say at the very least consider other things that pique your interest in life (are you good with computers, for example) and enroll at a v
  11. By 38% against 5 random hands, are you saying that if you have QQ and you enter a 6-player pot, you are 38%? Because I think if you are QQ heads up against a random hand, you are 80% to win, and, obviously, the only time QQ is truly dominated is by AA or KK (where QQ is 18%).
  12. Let's not forget that this country was founded because people who were unhappy with the way they were being ruled spoke up about it, and in turn they created a constitution that allows a citizen to speak out against their government if they feel it is not being run properly. I realize that every country on the entire planet is inherently prone to blind jingoism, but I believe that we must acknowledge that every government has faults and the people being governed have the right to criticize as much as they have the right to praise. If you are angry about paying exhorbitant amounts for gasolin
  13. I think every all-time list should have Doyle Brunson on it and every current list should have Phil Ivey and John Juanda on it.
  14. I love Phil Ivey's game and, based only on what I've heard from others and what I've seen on t.v., he seems like a very respectful and classy young man. He's fearless, has uncanny instincts, and his only weakness as far as I know seems to be Ace-Queen. How many times has he gotten burned by this hand? He will win the main event sometime soon. If Moneymaker didn't suck out on him in '03, I think Phil might have won it then.
  15. I have to say Goodfellas, Midnight Run, Back to the Future, and Buster Keaton's The General.
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