B,B, or V?: lilholdem interview!

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I used to think he made those weird raise sizes to make them look bigger than they are, but then I realized he just can't do math.

[d2themfi]

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So what's the hightest cash game level he could beat right now?

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I have no idea but I would guess a lot of ranked mtt players wouldnt be able to beat 5-10 over 100k hands on stars or full tilt. Could be completely wrong tho.

I have seen him at the 10-20 Hu tables on full tilt occasionally, so maybe he can win at cash, or maybe he blows his mtt winnings there, who knows

[Jeffrey Dahmer]

Last post in this thread. He calls a huge all-in with a low open end straight draw, and nothing else. These are the BS hands he makes that allow him to win. Hopefully this starts a run of bad luck and he realizes that he sucks and is nothing more than a lucky POS.

PokerStars Game #11280153127: Tournament #56608935, $150+$12 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2007/08/02 - 23:02:21 (ET)
Table '56608935 3' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Starsky25 (8532 in chips)
Seat 2: escazu41 (15047 in chips)
Seat 3: MINOTOR55 (10353 in chips)
Seat 4: Destok (7183 in chips)
Seat 5: lfunk11 (4045 in chips)
Seat 6: lilholdem954 (11298 in chips)
Seat 7: the3gs (9636 in chips)
Seat 9: JSHEP_2 (1724 in chips)
Starsky25: posts the ante 15
escazu41: posts the ante 15
MINOTOR55: posts the ante 15
Destok: posts the ante 15
lfunk11: posts the ante 15
lilholdem954: posts the ante 15
the3gs: posts the ante 15
JSHEP_2: posts the ante 15
Starsky25: posts small blind 150
escazu41: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
MINOTOR55: folds
Destok: folds
lfunk11: folds
lilholdem954: raises 511 to 811
the3gs: calls 811
JSHEP_2: folds
Starsky25: folds
escazu41: calls 511
*** FLOP *** [5h 4h Jd]
escazu41: checks
lilholdem954: checks
the3gs: bets 2000
escazu41: folds
nordeste is connected
lilholdem954: raises 8472 to 10472 and is all-in
the3gs: calls 6810 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5h 4h Jd] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [5h 4h Jd Ks] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lilholdem954: shows [3d 2d] (high card King)
the3gs: shows [Jc Kd] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
the3gs collected 20323 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20323 | Rake 0
Board [5h 4h Jd Ks 9h]
Seat 1: Starsky25 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: escazu41 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: MINOTOR55 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Destok folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: lfunk11 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: lilholdem954 showed [3d 2d] and lost with high card King
Seat 7: the3gs showed [Jc Kd] and won (20323) with two pair, Kings and Jacks
Seat 9: JSHEP_2 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[Ship Ship McGipp]

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So what's the hightest cash game level he could beat right now?

discuss

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I have no idea but I would guess a lot of ranked mtt players wouldnt be able to beat 5-10 over 100k hands on stars or full tilt. Could be completely wrong tho.


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If by a lot, you mean 5ish, then yea.

[d2themfi]

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So what's the hightest cash game level he could beat right now?

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I have no idea but I would guess a lot of ranked mtt players wouldnt be able to beat 5-10 over 100k hands on stars or full tilt. Could be completely wrong tho.


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If by a lot, you mean 5ish, then yea.

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Wait AE, are you actually defending ranked P5's players, and saying the play good?

[Ship Ship McGipp]

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So what's the hightest cash game level he could beat right now?

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I have no idea but I would guess a lot of ranked mtt players wouldnt be able to beat 5-10 over 100k hands on stars or full tilt. Could be completely wrong tho.


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If by a lot, you mean 5ish, then yea.

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Wait AE, are you actually defending ranked P5's players, and saying the play good?

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I'm saying 5 at the most could beat 5-10, so I guess i'm defending 5ish players?

[ike]

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he's putting in a [censored] of volume this month to hopefully let me ride his coattails for like 10kish and I bet if you stalk anyone in this competition you could make 100 posts a day on each person of their badbeat HHs.

Also, ike is dead on as expected

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what is ike even trying to say? I'm very confused. That lilholdem is a better tournament player than me? lol, that is obviously not true. I can't really tell what he's trying to say.

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yah, thats what i'm saying. you could write a better book on tournament poker but i think he's lightyears better than you at actually playing.

[d2themfi]

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So what's the hightest cash game level he could beat right now?

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I have no idea but I would guess a lot of ranked mtt players wouldnt be able to beat 5-10 over 100k hands on stars or full tilt. Could be completely wrong tho.


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If by a lot, you mean 5ish, then yea.

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Wait AE, are you actually defending ranked P5's players, and saying the play good?

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I'm saying 5 at the most could beat 5-10, so I guess i'm defending 5ish players?

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Haha, ok I misunderstood,that makes more sense, and I completely agree,

[mastr]

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This thread has somehow turned into an awesome litmus test for 2p2 posters. Everyone I already thought of as self-satisfied, closed minded prick who's not half as good at poker as he thinks he is, is coming out of the woodwork to bash lilholdem. All the posters whose opinions, poker and otherwise, I usually respect are defending him. If AEJones wants to start playing tournaments, I'll crossbook his action against lilholdem's in a heartbeat.

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100 % agree

[Dangeresque]

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In the interview, it was stated that he dropped out of school in the 7th grade. Then, he apparently was in some trouble and spent time in jail. Then, he discovered poker, and cleaned up his act, so to speak.

Well, if that is true, then it makes sense that he is not well educated. And, just b/c he isn't, doesn't make him an idiot (just maybe not a good interviewee).

Obviously, the interview was comical from a poker content perspective. I mean, he is not good at articulating how he plays and whatnot. But, he obviously must play good. And, maybe, in some weird way, he can see things in poker that educated people cannot. I mean, this kid has a whole other realm of life experiences that none of us pretty boy college types could ever really understand.

He's sort of like that amazing guitar player you know that can't read a note of music, and has no idea about music theory, other than the names of a few basic chords. But, he can somehow rip out any type of music better than anyone you've seen. Somehow, he just has it. And, "it" is something that the general poker population wishes they had.

It is frustrating and difficult to admit that after all of the time you have put into the game, this uneducated idiot with a grill will always be better than you.

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he's the stu ungar of online mtts

(fwiw i believe it's totally possible to be a good player without being able to articulate it, and that some people do have much more of a natural instinct for the game)

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I agree, but I think that even Ungar could articulate why he played as well as he did to a more exact degree than this guy... though to a large extent his brain seems built for teh hold'em tourneys and more power to him as a result.