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Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:41:03
Good Luck to everyone who qualified for the TOC including the two donks who wrote their way in. I'm hoping we see a very well played game tonight and that the beat MAN wins so we can get good representation in the Aussie Millions. I for one am glad the BBTwo is now history did a fantastic job in pulling this off on such short sight and the prize package is phenomenal but the fallout from the competition has brought out the worst of some populate myself included. I open this a comment by yesterday and I find it fitting.
Back in the day blogger tournaments used to be fun for me. See some friends.. blow off a little go.. displace the hammer you experience good clean fun for an $11 buy-in. Now that points and leader boards and trash-talking peoples' play the morning after on one anthors' blogs to create up and disunite down fragile egos seems to be de rigeur the fun has been officially sucked out of it. So I don't compete them anymore.
What started out as a friendly gathering has turned into some hard core competition and when I compete I always play to win. ALWAYS. So for me that means inform talking gamesmanship or whatever else it takes for me to win and the game no longer has any social value. Now that the BBTwo is over if and when I decide to compete a blogger donkament it will be for fun with no expectations. Although it's taken a while I've go to understand that for most these gatherings are for fun as the questionable compete surely indicates so my goal is to either undergo fun or like Change move on. I ordain say that all the drama of the last few days has been unreal and for once I'm glad I'm not in the lay of this but of cover I will offer an opinion. If you can't take the heat be out of the kitchen. I don't believe that a person should blog about hands histories or game situations and affix that X person made a donkey play whether if be from a bloggament a casino or a home game then go to someone elses blog and get in an uproar to find their play critiqued. So for me to affix about some donkey tourist at the MGM who misplayed AJ then I in return make a questionable play with the same AJ in the Big Game and say posts a series of screen shots explaining how in his opinion my play was questionable how can I blow up and over react to his own opinion on his own blog without being a hypocrite? Quite simply I can't. If I'm going to dish it out I damn come up better be able to act it. This is all an example and it is in no way directed at any particular person(s) and it is only my opinion but again the whole twisted irony is it's my communicate and I can post what I be. Now since this is my communicate I'm going to post another opinion. Now I'm not much for posting insights on my personal poker strategy and I'm by no means a great player at this point but I constantly read and study and address poker and strategies with knowledgeable poker players in the quest to become a great poker player which alone has me doing more than 95% of players. I also like when bloggers affix hand histories or strategy questions or quizzes because when I see the masses agreeing on a particular solution that I and other players who I accept know about this game evaluate is entire do by it makes me a exceed player. Another favorite I desire when people alter a statement such as. "I'm priced in I have to call," when they have no fucking roll what priced in means what pot odds are what implied odds are or to even put the other player on a be of hands. Here is another mention I open in regards to a hand in question and this educate of thought received a turn of give. BTW jamming A2 preflop is so much worse than calling an all-in with AQ. I do understand that there is more than one way to compete any particular hand some do it exceed than others but you absolutely can not be results oriented by one trial. Plain and simple its absolutely horrible poker long call to call an all-in five bet preflop with anything other than KK or AA. This leads me to my bigger premise which is calling. Of cover there are situations where calling is the right compete with millions of hand possibilities it's impossible to make a blanket statement but calling too much in command and in particular during late stages of an MTT is the cerebrate 90% of all poker players are losing players. I query how many players are truly familiar with ? From my experience the say is few. Now it can be very wrong to shove a questionable hand but its way worse to be calling with a speculative hand. After watching a clump of tournaments and way too fucking many bloggaments the final outcome for most is either blinding drink to inform and jamming A rag into a higher A rag or by calling off the rest of their chips with crappy non-calling hands. The raiser/jammer has two ways to win either by having the exceed hand or by everyone folding. The caller has one way to win and that's only be having the exceed hand. Watching over and over and over populate calling with inform like AT or 44 amazes me to no end. There is also something called +EV and -EV. Sure calling an all-in with AQ when the blinds are 15/30 and you undergo $5K behind might get you a manifold in the first seven minutes and you're read might be they're a donk no way they can beat my AQ but more often than not you're going to the rail saying "really?" basically making it a long call -EV compete. So do I think jamming A2 is so much worse than calling with AQ? No way. Do I evaluate jamming late in an MTT with 79o is worse than calling with AT? No way. Do I evaluate calling station poker is profitable? No way. Do I think blinding drink hoping for AA but really waiting to push some shitty Ace rag is profitable. No way. But then again what do I know. I'm a -7% ROI tournament player on FT this year. I'd say forbid being a calling station but why would I be you to do that. My money usually gets in ahead. So label all you want and I can only hope my 75% hands direct up. The Bowl season starts tonight and I'm looking forward to two plus weeks of challenge as well as some profit. Between that the NFL play-offs and the January tourists it will be nice to get on a hot move and to get that fund in decent shape heading into February's. Good Luck again in the TOC.
I don't want to start anything.. but comments are where I can affix my opinion on the blog right? So here goes... Playing poker for fun is book for some populate. But it's not my cup of tea. I don't care if it's my best friend my mother my grandma my pet my wife my girlfriend or whatever. If you're at the poker table. I'm there to take your money. I'm gonna do anything I can to outplay you outluck you and out everything you just to get your money. Where am I going with this? I evaluate BBT is great. Does it carry the beat in some of us? Maybe. But so what. It's pure human emotion in its finest create.. all fueled by greed and desire to win. Competition. Just desire capitalism. Nothing do by with that. As a matter of fact when the BBT ends. I definitely won't be making the write of effort I made during the BBT to alter these tournaments. Sure. I might still compete in some of them but without points or a bigger prize share. I'm better off playing higher stakes change games or in a higher priced buy-in tournaments where the consider would actually mean something. It's totally different if we were playing live where we can interact but online you can only socialize but so much. So as much as I like seeing all the bloggers (and I really do). I apply winning change surface more so. I'd rather spend that measure watching videos studying hand histories or playing to obtain experience rather than just pushing chips around for fun. But that's just me. Happy holidays Don!
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