Re: Alan Goerhing
Alan, I doubt your style would work as well in cash games, because a lot of your power comes from people being scared to put in their stack. I think there's a pretty easy counter to your min opens, which is just reraising you strong preflop with anything decent. Most tournament donks don't want to do this because they're committing a lot of their stack, but in cash games you can risk your stack and rebuy if necessary. Anyway, it would be fun to see, you should drop by a High Stakes Poker session some time!
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4. My style being compared to Phil Hellmuth --- we have somewhat similar bet sizes, but that's about the only thing that is similar. ...
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LOL, indeed. Phil seems to try to risk the minimum, probing at the pot to get people to define their hands, then only putting a lot of chips at risk when he's very sure he's way ahead. You on the other hand disguise your hand and try to catch people and you're perfectly willing to risk your whole stack if you think you have an edge. I think you float OOP with something like AQ because you know if you hit an A or Q they won't expect it and you'll risk a ton of chips there.
Seems like you have some of the "Gigabet" concepts at work, taking -EV risks in some hands to try to get a big stack, because your overall equity if you can get a big stack is better than just the chip count would indicate.
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