baronzeus is in "the well"

[baronzeus]

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How good is PapaWarbucks? How have you done lifetime vs him HU?

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He is one of the better players on stars. As far as his HU game goes though, its not as refined as mine, since I play a lot more HU.

[baronzeus]

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we began posting on 2p2 around the same time. seems like i remember you went from playing 3/6 to 50/100(poss. slight exag.) in a relatively short period of time. what's your story there?

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I basically game selected really well at party 3/6 and 5/10 and built a roll for 10/20. Then moved to absolute poker where 10/20 and 15/30 were the softest games on the net at the time. It's all really simple. Play in good games, win a lot

[baronzeus]

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What does baronzeus mean? Are you the Stanford Welshing Pigeon? What is this?

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Both of these essentially mean nothing

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How often do you play poker? What is the longest single session you have played?


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I play poker usually every day or possibly every other day. My sessions are pretty short, but sometimes I'm bored or stuck and want to play more. I think once i played for 8 hours.

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I think I remember reading an old post that said you were currently playing TexasLimitKing. If you didn't, please disregard these questions. What limits did you play TLK? What was playing him like? How good do you think he was?


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I played 1k/2k and 500/1k with him. It mostly wasn't heads up, but I wasn't super impressed with his play. I didn't win much, probably broke even.

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Who do you think are the best LHE players in the world? Online and live. Who are your poker idols?


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I think it's pretty well accepted that the best heads up players in the world are Joe Cassidy and Hoss_TBF. I also think Joe's ring games is one of the best in the world. Schneids also has a pretty solid ring game. Unassigned/Rearden metal also has one of the best heads up games IMO.

For myself, I think I'm somewhere in the top 10 in short handed or heads up games. My ring game isnt nearly as good bu tI'm working on it.

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Do crap players you encounter in high middle and high stakes games beat low middle and small stakes game?


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Probably not, because of the much higher rake in low games.

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What winrate do you believe is possible for big online and live games today? If a good online high stakes winner played a couple hundred K hands at 5/10 online, what do you think his winrate would be?


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I think 1.5BB/100 is relatively doable. His winrate at 5/10 would probably be very low, at least at first, since the games play so differently.

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Do you think LHE is in any way a farce? Possibly in regard to results.


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only half of the time

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In HUHU games, what kinds of stats (VPIP, PFR, and AF) do gun high stakes players have?


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most players have a vpip of 80 to 90 and an af of around 2. i personally have a vpip of 80 and an af of around 1.5

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WITHEG recommends default open-raising from the button with a certain 41% of hands (22+, A2s+, A3o+, K2s+, K9o+, Q5s+, Q9o+, J7s+, J9o+, T8s+, T8o+, 97s+, 98o+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s+) in full to 3 handed games. What do you think of this?


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I would raise with any of those hands on the button, in addition to A2, K8, K7, K6, Q8, Q7

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Have you read Mathematics of Poker? If so, what did you think of it? Did it improve your game?


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I tried reading it once, but got bored and put it down.

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What kind of coaching have you received during your poker career? How much did it help you succeed? How important do you think hiring a coach is to a poker player's development?


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The only coaching i got was from All1n. It happened to coincide with a huge upswing so it was probably a really good idea. Getting another's perspective on your play is really important

[baronzeus]

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hi baron, at what level did you start playing LHE (live and online) and how did it take you to get where you're at?

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I started at .5/1 party. It took me about 6 months to reach the mid/high stakes

[baronzeus]

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Playing live, what's the most bets on a big street (aprox. if you don't remember) you've gone without the nuts.

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Ive never really played live, but I cant imagine going more than 4 bets without the nuts against a non-idiot

[James.]

Another one. You've already stated the importance of game selection. What other aspects of strategy would you say an aspiring small stakes player needs to focus on to step up his game?

[Sushiglutton]

1) Is there a story behind the name 'baronzeus'?
2) Is limit holde'em dying like some say?
3) What is ur general opinion of stox book if you have read it? Do u beat him at the tables?
4) What's the weirdest place you have ever played poker in?

[MitchL]

How many hands did you play in your jump from .5 to the midstakes on Party?

[lippy]

What is the biggest difference between 3/6ish levels and 30/60-50/100?

[ledfoot]

What advice would you give to a small stakes player today on the basis that today's online games are more challenging than one and two years ago?