The well: MTblue

[MTBlue]

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whats your opinion on bankroll requirements when moving up stakes?

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I'm not much of shottaker but I think a person can move up with 10-15 buyins as long as they are willing to move down if they lose some buyins.

[MTBlue]

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your favorite live poker hand experience? (ie. against a famous WPT pro or something in a 50/100NL super deep cash game). or winning a super gigantic pot with a pure bluff.

some favorite 2p2 posts? (and links)

thanks for doing this!

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My favorite live game hand was in a shorthanded 50/100NL game. Folds to me in the SB, I raise A7s to 400 and Kido Pham 3bets me to 1200. I 4-bet to 3200. He calls pretty quick.

Flop is Kc Qd 9d (6400)
I check He checks

Turn is a 7h

I bet 4000 He tanks and starts asking me a bunch of questions. Remember Caro's book of tells, I start yammering a bunch of nonsense. He tanks some more, then folds AA face up.

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so did u show?

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No, I'm not showing one of the best no limit players in the world my cards ever.

[MTBlue]

"you mean hand ranges, fold equity..."

Handranges and gbucks are the most important part imo.


"Why do you feel 6max is better than full ring?"

The shorter the game the better. If you are better than your opponents you want to give them the opportunity to make the most mistakes.


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4. At 116,000 hands at 2/4NL this year I've ran at 4.34 PTBB/100.
Any players than ran better than this over 80K+ hands at this level or is that a good number to shoot for?

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Probably, I think any positive number is good. Winrates aren't that great of a measurement of absolute ability due to variance, game selection, etc.

[loveinvain]

Any advice on how to control tilt - how to prevent brain farts?

It seems like almost every session I play I piss away one buyin doing something something dumb when I really do know better and I'm not sure how to stop.

Some thoughts I've had:

Never play for more than say 2 hours at a time.
Play less tables. I nov play up to 8 at mostly 100NL.
Force myself to wait at least 3-4 seconds before acting on big bets instead of say snap calling.

How do these sound? Any other ideas?

Thanks for doing this, I really appreciate it when good players do well's.

[aislephive]

So you were TheBlackDeath on Party? Interesting ..

Biggest downswing? Longest breakeven stretch?

Was there a limit that you just couldn't beat for a while at any time in your poker career?

How aggressive are you with your roll in terms of moving up?

I'll ask some more later, thanks for doing this.

[poker1O1]

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Handranges and gbucks are the most important part imo.

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gbucks?

[MTBlue]

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Any advice on how to control tilt - how to prevent brain farts?

It seems like almost every session I play I piss away one buyin doing something something dumb when I really do know better and I'm not sure how to stop.

Some thoughts I've had:

Never play for more than say 2 hours at a time.
Play less tables. I nov play up to 8 at mostly 100NL.
Force myself to wait at least 3-4 seconds before acting on big bets instead of say snap calling.

How do these sound? Any other ideas?

Thanks for doing this, I really appreciate it when good players do well's.

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I take lots of short breaks. It helps with tilt control. The other thing to realize is that all those good folds add up to real money at the end of the day. Usually when i have a losing session, its b/c I didn't fold some hands I should have.

Playing less tables and thinking your decisions through also really help.

If I've played 8+hrs for a couple of days straight, I also notice that I start to get angrier go on tilt easier.

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Handranges and gbucks are the most important part imo.

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gbucks?

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Search on bluffmagazine.com
Its an article written by Jman about looking at your implied results using your hand vs. an opponents possible range.


http://www.bluffmagazine.com/onlinefeature/gbucks.asp

[TwistedEcho]

Assume you have a choice of two tables to play at. One is a full 6max table, with yourself, another good 2p2er, a 40bb shortstack, and two fishy looking 40/10/2 randoms who open limp. The other is three handed with a fairly good but too tight 18/14/3 regular and a fullstacked 30/10.

Which do you play assuming you are already 7 tabling and want to play one more. (basically my example is based on you 8 tabling 6max, and one table breaking down to 3 handed - is it more profitable to find a new full table, or do you play 3 handed).

If you feel one is significantly more profitable than the other, by how much would you guess and why?

Oh and another similar question - you are 8 tabling 6max and one breaks to HU and the opponent is pretty bad. Keep playing him HU or leave and find a new 6max table with more fish?

[Gelford]

Theory question:

All poker begins as a struggle for the antes. If there where no antes, there would be no reason to play.
The size of the antes in relation to future bets determines how loose you should play.

Theory of Poker


This makes perfectly sense in a 7 card stud game, where you are likely to get one bet on every street and the ante is whatever, you quickly can estimate how much money you on average get in return on each hand, you have immediate pot odds and it dertermines your starting hands range.


But can this be translated into NL hold'em.

I mean, you are sitting with 100bbs, which seems huge compared to future betsizes, but !!!

There are dynamics to be considered. One is average potsize .... if it is a nitty rockish table

then average pot is small and you can loosen up

but when at a lagtard table, you should tighnen up, but be willing to push you pf edges very hard ???


A few words on these dynamics ????