the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Hello.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

What do you want to accomplish by playing poker?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Oh, cool. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

May as well get it over with.. who are you, what is your poker history, what are your greatest accomplishments, what/how much are you playing now?

And one of my own.. why did you choose MTTs over all other forms of poker? And how do you deal with the variance?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Carl,

please rank your top five Modest Mouse songs.

Edit: was 3, that was too easy.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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What do you want to accomplish by playing poker?

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I guess my goal is to make a lot of money aka financial freedom. The goal is that I'll have enough money that I don't have to "work" and that I can do whatever I want. I definitely at some point wanted to be well known and a "TV pro" but I don't really care about that these days. The closer I've come to that the more I realize that it isn't what I really want.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Oh, cool. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

May as well get it over with.. who are you, what is your poker history, what are your greatest accomplishments, what/how much are you playing now?

And one of my own.. why did you choose MTTs over all other forms of poker? And how do you deal with the variance?

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It's late tonight, I'll get back to this tomorrow morning.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Top 3 choices for living anywhere in the world - and why?


Also, how does KK not win vs Schaefer's AQ. What a luckbox, etc

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

carl, I'm interested in your top 5 list of your live poker tourney experiences.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

What events did you play at the MCOP and how did you do? Think I saw you at the Omaha event, but wasn't sure and couldn't find you at the break.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

What are the biggest leaks you think players that have a general idea of how the MTTs and poker are played but are very inconsistent in their tournament results?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Can you give us a simple 3000 word summary of your basic PLO strategy considering you are a Grand Master?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

You used to play online tourneys all the time, now you very rarely play them. Is it difficult to treat a 100-200 entry tournament serious now? What are the biggest changes you've noticed between online mtt's and the big live ones. Obviously the blind structures (especially in most of the 10k buyins) are much slower live, were u immediately comfortable playing this deeper stack kind of poker, if so do u have a background in games outside of online mttt's? if not, what have u done to became a better deepstack player.

If a guy flips over ak in the first hand of a 10K event, do u call w/ 22? qq? Does it matter if its the main event or a different 10k buyin?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

You are on the final table bubble of an EPT event.

A very tight player (some might say he's a rock) pushes all in on the button for 95% of your chips. (You both have below average chips).

You find AJ.

Easy fold, right?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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You are on the final table bubble of an EPT event.

A very loose player (some might say he's a maniac ) pushes all in on the button for 95% of your chips. (You both have below average chips).

You find AJ. guess hes probably got a low pair and decide that you need to call a coinflip if you are going to win the event?
Easy call, right?

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FYP

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Why do you own me every pot we play? On a more serious note I'd love to hear your thought process on the hand you call down Schaefer with K-hi heads up in the EPT. I'm sure you've run through this before but I haven't seen it. I remember seeing that hand on TV when I was still a fairly inexperienced player and being absolutely blown away (and even now it's still sick).

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

What do you think distinguishes you from the average, good, winning MTT player? Distinguish between live and online to the extent possible.

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Oh, cool. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

May as well get it over with.. who are you, what is your poker history, what are your greatest accomplishments, what/how much are you playing now?

And one of my own.. why did you choose MTTs over all other forms of poker? And how do you deal with the variance?

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I meant to write something general about my background before this thing started, but I'm lazy.

I started playing poker early in college (I'm 24 now, almost 25, I started playing for fun when I was 18). I always took poker pretty seriously but wasn't making anything significant until the very end of college, which made it easy to finish it out. I graduated with a BS in Biology. When I graduated I had about 15k and decided to take a shot at poker. At this time I had just moved up to 15-30 LHE with 10-20 SH being my main game. I had killed since I sort of "figured it out" around 4 months before I graduated.

With 15k I doubled my bankroll playing my regular cash games in a month and a half of being a "pro" before going to France for a tournament that I won seat for on pokerstars. I went with my friend Brandon Schaefer. He won and I came in second. It was an experience that I feel silly trying to sum up in a couple sentences. It was so crazy that afterwards we had a day in Paris and all I wanted was to get home to make sure it had really happened, that it wasn't a dream. We actually chopped the tournament when we were heads up with even stacks for 140k a piece. I have a trip report written up but don't have the link on this computer. Maybe someone else does.

After that I was hooked on tournaments. I had played them a little bit before. I had a couple decent online tournament wins, but mainly used them as motivation to play cash games. I've never been one to put in a ton of hours.

Ugghhh, I’m getting bored of writing this lol. Basically I played only tournaments for over a year and started playing cash games seriously again around 6 months ago. I play 5-10 and 10-20 NL. And while many people will call me a tourney donk I’ve been fairly successful at those limits. I still have the problem of not playing all that much though. I don’t have a ton of motivation these days, but I have a mortgage payment now and that helps I guess.

I’ve played a bunch of the big live tournaments and have had some success. Here’s my hendon mob page; http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/play...=r&n=39856

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Oh, and I missed that last part about handling the variance involved with MTTs. I guess it's sort of strange, but the variance has never bothered me with tournaments. I'm still not ok with the variance in cash games, but with tournaments I can go 30 without cashing and be totally fine with it. I'm not sure why that is. I guess thinking about it right now it might have to do with the fact that I rarely look at how I've been doing. I log every MTT I play but I don't add up how much money I'm up or down from them that often.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Top 3 choices for living anywhere in the world - and why?


Also, how does KK not win vs Schaefer's AQ. What a luckbox, etc

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1. Seattle, because I have too many good friends there along with my family. Plus it's a beautiful and vibrant city.

2. London. I haven't spent much time there but hope to soon. Seemed like a fantastic city though when I was there, though I think the fact that I had been in Spain for a month made going to a English speaking country that much more satisfying.

3. If I spoke Spanish it's probably Barcelona in the 3 spot. As is, maybe Vienna, maybe Melbourne. Rio should probably be up there too, but I was there when I was 17 and all I did was play soccer on the beach. Jesus christ that was fun.

Yeah seriously, Schaefer is the biggest luckbox of all. He just happily ships all his chips in the pot with AQ obviously knowing an ace is coming.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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carl, I'm interested in your top 5 list of your live poker tourney experiences.

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and you thoughts on cash side games during them [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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carl, I'm interested in your top 5 list of your live poker tourney experiences.

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1. clearly Deauville getting HU with Schaefer.
2. WSOP 2k TV final table.
3. 7th place Reno WPT.
4. 3rd place Bellagio 5k.
5. Heh, Pokerdome?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Carl,

please rank your top five Modest Mouse songs.

Edit: was 3, that was too easy.

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1. Lives
2. Karma's Payment
3. Custom Concern
4. I came as a Rat
5. The Good Times are Killing Me

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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What events did you play at the MCOP and how did you do? Think I saw you at the Omaha event, but wasn't sure and couldn't find you at the break.

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I think I just played the 1k and main event.

Edit: and didn't cash in either.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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What are the biggest leaks you think players that have a general idea of how the MTTs and poker are played but are very inconsistent in their tournament results?

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That's a pretty good question. I think a lot of people are good and solid players and do a lot of things right but then just have a break down at some point where they make a bone headed play. And I most definitely do this too. It's difficult to stay focused all the way through a tournament and not let the "[censored] it, let's gamble" mentality let loose.

Rizen of course comes to mind as I'm writing this, as someone who is extremely good at not letting this kind of breakdown happen.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Can you give us a simple 3000 word summary of your basic PLO strategy considering you are a Grand Master?

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lol stfu

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Do you feel like an old man whenever I see you (usually with other 21<'s)

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Biggest common mistakes you have noticed in other players? Have you ever noticed those same mistakes in yourself?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Colson,

1. How does it feel to get kicked out of the crown casino?

2. where do you see yourself in 5 years?

3. when are you going to be back on the east coast?

4. do you have any memorable hands or tournaments where things "clicked" for you?

5. why are you so good at coinflips?

6. can you teach me not to get sucked out on at the FT of a plo event?


Im sure I have more questions some of them real but I cant think of them.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

Thoughts on the Van Halen reunion?

Thoughts on The Police reunion?

Five favorite bands of all-time?

Best large-scale concert you have seen?

Three favorite movies of all-time?

Just how intimidating was it to sit at a table with me in Event 2 last year?

Why did you let that guy hit his 2 outter or whatever it was? PROTECT YOUR HAND! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Carl,

please rank your top five Modest Mouse songs.

Edit: was 3, that was too easy.

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1. Lives
2. Karma's Payment
3. Custom Concern
4. I came as a Rat
5. The Good Times are Killing Me

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Colson - Is Modest Mouse one of your favorite bands? I guess by the previous question that is somewhat of a given...

So how does "Talking [censored] about a pretty sunset", "Neverending math equation", "Life like weeds" and "Stars are projectors" not make the cut? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

How many hands do you have lifetime in cash games? I really struggle getting volume in, but it sounds like you may not be the person to ask about that.

Do you prefer, or seem to do better in, FO vs. rebuy tournaments or vice versa? Do you have a preference for either, and if so why?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

colson got kicked out the Crown?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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You are on the final table bubble of an EPT event.

A very tight player (some might say he's a rock) pushes all in on the button for 95% of your chips. (You both have below average chips).

You find AJ.

Easy fold, right?

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lol, have you ever been referred to as a rock?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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You used to play online tourneys all the time, now you very rarely play them. Is it difficult to treat a 100-200 entry tournament serious now? What are the biggest changes you've noticed between online mtt's and the big live ones. Obviously the blind structures (especially in most of the 10k buyins) are much slower live, were u immediately comfortable playing this deeper stack kind of poker, if so do u have a background in games outside of online mttt's? if not, what have u done to became a better deepstack player.

If a guy flips over ak in the first hand of a 10K event, do u call w/ 22? qq? Does it matter if its the main event or a different 10k buyin?

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I don't think I have a problem taking online tournaments seriously in general, but I do go through times where I'm clearly not putting in as much effort as I should.

I was definitely not comfortable playing deeper at first, and really I'm still not totally comfortable with it. I think playing cash games helps a lot because I've started to learn how hands play out with deeper stacks. It's really important to think about what's going to happen and how your hand will be read on the turn and river when you're making your decision on the flop. These kind of things are so different when considering playing a 20 blind stack vs a 100 blind stack.

In most big tourneys I would call for all my chips with 22 or QQ if they flip over AK. I would have a hard time doing it in say the 25k wpt championship since the structure is so good. I believe it is correct to do so, but it's such a fun tournament that I wouldn't want to bust out first hand.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Why do you own me every pot we play? On a more serious note I'd love to hear your thought process on the hand you call down Schaefer with K-hi heads up in the EPT. I'm sure you've run through this before but I haven't seen it. I remember seeing that hand on TV when I was still a fairly inexperienced player and being absolutely blown away (and even now it's still sick).

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I wrote a detailed thought process on it a while back. I don't have the link right now.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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carl, I'm interested in your top 5 list of your live poker tourney experiences.

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and you thoughts on cash side games during them [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Ha, was that in aruba that we played? Bugstud and I straddling it up?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Do you feel like an old man whenever I see you (usually with other 21<'s)

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Not really. It seems weird to me that there are U21 professionals, but I always have a good time with you and the other youngins.

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

I see you all the time in the 100r. Do you think there is still a decent amount of EV in the tournament? Do you think its gotten easier/tougher since party shut down? Who is the most difficult player you encounter in that field?

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

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Biggest common mistakes you have noticed in other players? Have you ever noticed those same mistakes in yourself?

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I'm not really sure what to say here, it's a little too general. But I don't make any huge mistakes that I'm able to recognize as being mistakes, except for mental lapses from time to time.

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Ha, was that in aruba that we played? Bugstud and I straddling it up?

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lol, considering the conditions, I'm pleased you remembered. I though the whole evening being a blur was likely.

having position was HIGHLY +ev [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: the well: colson10 (2.13.07)
 

What's your favorite meal? Also, what's your favorite dish that you can cook for yourself?

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Rizen of course comes to mind as I'm writing this, as someone who is extremely good at not letting this kind of breakdown happen.

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When talking about this subject, mattg and PearlJammer are the other two guys I mention along with Rizen. I don't think I've ever seen them do something silly and tilty to blow off a stack.