Ask Yugo Anything!!

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Our main account in Irvine is Verizon Wireless. We handle all of their advertising for the west area (Hawaii, wash, ca, nv, some other crappy states) that doesn't involve TV.

Most of the stuff you see in stores, on billboards, are handed or whatever we have produced.

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1. Does "some other crappy states" include Colorado?
2. What are the chances they'll change their slogan? "There's only one reason to choose a wireless company - it's the network!" makes me feel like once I signed up they stopped caring about me as a customer. Calling up with any issues confirms it.

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lol I'm going to get some free advice, because I think you give good advice [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Muck this crap? - I did in this case.

I used to limp [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Raise it? - if so what's the plan for the hand...

1) If re-raised PF = fold?

If you missed the flop out of position

do you lead out c-bet it or check/raise or check/fold?

OESD on flop - what's your line? = Check/raise all-in?

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

Hero (t1720)
UTG+1 (t3150)
MP1 (t1405)
CO (t330)
Button (t1140)
SB (t1880)
BB (t3875)

Preflop: Hero is in UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">Hero
Flop: (t300) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="red">UTG+1 bets t100</font>, SB calls t100, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>

[The Yugoslavian]

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Hello Yugo and congrats.


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Thanks. I'm not sure about what so I'll assume you mean pwning at life. Yes, it is something I necessarily get much pleasure from! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Well I have a question on how to play a big stack with ( for example 6 handed )

Say you have 3800+, second stack has 2500 , then 2000 2000 etc.

Say blinds are at 100 or 150.

Do you change your strategy here ? Do you raise more hands?


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Getting into trouble is quite easy for the not best STT players here. Your position will be the most important piece of information here, followed by stack sizes, configurations, actual hand (this is very important but is the easiest thing to evaluate), players (this is the hardest thing to evaluate but isn't necessarily that important b/c most ppl don't have any useful player specific or table specific info).

At the 100 level I will raise more in LP. Since your stack is fairly big you have much more pot control options at your disposal so you aren't as worried about raising and instantly playing some marginal hand in a pot you really want vs. players you don't know much about.

The same goes for 150 now that I think about it, [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

I haven't incorporated or engage in too much minr nonsense which could possibly be effective at the 150 level with a wide range of hands but I'm not sure at how profitable this actual may be so I don't bother with it much.

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Do you make the same type of raise ( about 3 BB ) or little raise ? ( about 2 BB )


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I make a raise that is t250 or t400. Unless I have some loose foolios who will call a bigger raise when I have a v nice hand. Those are my standardish raise sizes but I vary here and there a bit basically randomly.

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I ask that because I think I don't play well when I have a big stack, I am in the main part, waiting a good spot.


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The best thing about having a big stack fairly early is you keep gaining EV by letting other ppl make -EV plays. It's okay that you seem to have fewer profitable plays than when you're a shorty.

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( Obv I steal blinds like a maniac near to the bubble ... )

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Yeah okay, I have no idea what this specifically means except that yes you need to "steal" alot but you also need to not be too aggro.

I tend to be a bit tighter than many when it comes to these types of situations and don't big stack bully a ton until it's at least 5 handed or 4 handed and the blinds are high, [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Yugoslav
Who gets comments on the bubble almost every time from a big stack or 2p2 saying "wait till I have a hand you are so bad" or "wow, way to pwn us on the bubble [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]"

[The Yugoslavian]

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Yugo-

I believe that you once told me that your mom was a newspaper columnist when you were growing up and much of her writing was about little Yugo. Do you have any links? I'd love to know what you used to yell before you knew the phrase, "Shipithollabitches!"

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Haha yes this is true. My mom (who is the nuts at writing...as well as my dad and especially my sister) had a weekly column in the Oakland Tribune that was sort of a "slice of life" piece. She'd write about normal things in the life of a middle-aged and middle class married woman with a family. One week it would be about having to fix something in the house and the next it'd be about the goofy (but completely awesome) haircut I got (that article won her a few hundo actually).

It was mainly in the mid/late 80s and early 90s when she actually wrote about me and none of this is linkable stuff unfortunately. Actually I have read basically none of what she wrote about me....but she has the actual newspaper clips somewhere at her house and I should copy the ones about me - I think either writing them up or just having them to show hot batches or my eventual kids would be sweet.

Yugoslav

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Thanks for the avatar change! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Mucho hottness!

Who is the most annoying poster on the forum?

Who is the most underrated player on the forum?

Who is the most overrated player on the forum?

[The Yugoslavian]

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How is corporate MN so different from corporate CA?

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Lol, yeah, somehow I was thinking "I'll mention it but maybe someone won't ask."

Okay but before you read be somewhat warned that I'm going to make sweeping generalizations (that happen to be mostly true) and that of course contextual calibration is necessary in evaluating any sort of human interaction.

The people in MN are quite passive/aggressive in a way that ppl on the west coast are not. For instance in N CA people are quite straightforward compared both to S CA and MN. However, people in S CA are much more straightforward than in MN. In MN people are more straightforward in the twin cities than in the countryside (this seems to hold true throughout what I understand as the Midwest).

This was most obvious to me at college where the population was highly MN but not too much so. It was v easy for me to spot the "locals" as they tended to have this niceness about them and "inability" to bypass it at times directly towards people. The west coast ppl and east coast ppl had much less trouble directly speaking their mind and having (in my mind) authentic conversations (of course to a degree - most ppl are v bad at authentic communcations).

So in the corporate offices I worked in in MN people had a very set idea of how everything was supposed to "be." It was all about job security, paycheck, working for the man, having a house in the suburbs and kids and a pet, talking about weather, not getting into trouble, not getting fired. Now this is present everywhere but like there it's very thick in the air. Thus, people have a hard time taking any sort of course of action that hasn't been explicitely encouraged or demanded. If you work at a creative ad agency then you are allowed to do certain things, if you don't then you don't dare to even attempt to do truly creative stuff.

There are layers and layers of political stuff going on that could easily be resolved or avoided if the players talked with each other rather than taking subtle barbs and mention to their own "minions" about "what a big swinging dick xyz thinks he is." People had a hard time working with me until I adjusted for them. When things make no sense to me I ask about them....if someone is unwilling to help me with something I do it myself (and get into trouble b/c either it was their job).

It took me almost a full year to adjust to Campbell Mithun - MN and even then I was like 25% of what I am in the Irvine office. Here I let it all hang out and have the sophistication (lol yes, there is a somewhat method to the yugo madness) to pull it off.

I go around our office wearing paper burger king hats having everyone call me "the king." When the ceo and pres from MN came to visit I ended up bringing up blow jobs as a topic of discussion in front of the layers of bosses I currently have - and it was natural and ppl were fine with it. In MN, I finally had to develop a method by which I would talk with person X about whatever it is I had learned they found exciting (95% of the time this topic was extremely lame and they were unable to convey enough outward excitement to overcome it when talking about it) then I'd add actually exciting content/ideas to the conversation and ultimately win them over and get work done/tell them awesome stories they wouldn't have been comfortable with otherwise/etc.

Okay, I should write an article about this b/c whatever I just wrote is likely not even close to optimal, [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

Oh well, let's find another question!

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Yugoslav

[The Yugoslavian]

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Are you still playing SnGs?

How many of them and what stakes these days?

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Yes. I "started again" at the beginning of June to help pay off the rest of my student loans and car debt. By the end of June this goal was realized and I am now completely financially solvent, [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img].

I'm playing the 55 speeds right now and have played one set since the last party "upgrade." (the disappearing buttons/inoperational buttons thing seems to hit me v hard)

Couple quick thoughts about the 55speeds:
1. Devin lake is the best player in them atm.
2. I am likely second or third
3. At least half the regulars are garbage and I see them making extremeley -$EV plays at my tables every once in a while....not somewhat -$EV plays every once in a while...*highly* unprofitable plays.

Yugoslav

[The Yugoslavian]

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[I expect you to be dominating the highest levels of STTs within a month, [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].

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W00t..

Will people at higher stakes respect my raises?

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Yes...but be warned: after your first 500-1000 a lot of your FE will be dried up and you'll decide that you're now running bad.

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Yugoslav

[cha59]

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Will the T-Wolves win more than half of their games this year?


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Yes

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- follow up - Will they make the playoffs?


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Guhh......[censored].....this is all dependent on KG. He may end up in jail soon due to a homicidal rampage where Mark Madsen is gutted and the following message is written in blood: Get me some real [censored] help mchale!!!


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so maybe this would actually be more dependent on McHale, since KG would have no real [censored] help without McHale getting it for him?

also, can McHale trade Marko Jaric and receive more than a used jock strap in return (without giving up ANOTHER #1 draft choice in addition to Jaric)?

[The Yugoslavian]

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What are your opinions of Snarf?

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I dig your style dude.

To get much deeper is tough b/c you are a complex dude who has a great silliness about you but also has a way of communicating that is enjoyable and entertaining and may definitely be taken seriously.

Historically (like in the past) I get you and onaflag confused and have no idea why b/c you both seem quite different and have completely diffrent screen names.

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Yugoslav

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I used to get Schnarf and b33nz confused. This bothered both of them greatly.

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b33nz is EZ....he is like 2 days late to every party and shows up grunching which makes it even funnier to me.

I like his posts though....and love this style he uses, it's a breath of fresh air.

Yugoslav