The Well: Aba20

[aba20]

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Aba,

thanks for doing this.

Can you give us a quick summary of your poker career? How did you move up? Did you have a certain number of buy-ins for each level or just take a lot of shots? When you first moved up did you feel like you could beat the high levels, or were you outclassed at first and had to improve?

At SSNL I feel like 90% of my profit comes from targetting fish and maybe 10% comes from bad TAGs, does that balance change at high levels? eg. to beat 25/50 do you have to profitable vs. the regulars, or is it okay to just be break-even against them and make the profit from the fishes?

Did you play rugby for SB? Are you injured? (I played wing for SLO)

It also seems like at the highest level a lot of the +EV situations come when someone like Matusow or Mahatma go on mega-tilt. Do you have any tricks/rituals to keep yourself off tilt?

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I summarized my career in a bbv thread "My story", I am sure someone can link it.

I think every player has weakness which can be exploited. Obvously some players are much more easily explotied than others. Finding a good fish is always nice but palying in tough games is a necesity as you move up. You need to beable to beat the regs to have good consistent sucess in the games. That said there are those who jump up when there is a big fish in the game and drop down when the game is tough. This is fine, but you will never be a top level player if you can't beat the tough opponents.

I played rugby for UCSB for five years, but I am no longer eligble. We had some great matches against you guys as you were always the team to beat in so cal.

They can be profitable when tilting but they are still good players even when on tilt (Mike less than mahatma).