Re: 300/600NL: Something That Always Amazes Me (LC)
 

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Also, I think it is funny that Benyamine apparently thinks its ok to sometimes open limp a pocket pair, something that would normally draw criticism here.

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Out of the 2p2ers that have actually played with Benyamine almost all of them think he is terrible so its not like his play is necessarily good here.

Re: 300/600NL: Something That Always Amazes Me (LC)
 

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Did anyone fall out of their chairs on the Brunson/Gold hand flush vs flush hand? I cannot f.cking believe what an imbecile Jamie Gold is. I think I could play .10/.25 NL with Jamie Gold for a month and win his whole roll.


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Gold is terrible. His tells give away everything.

I think Brunson read Jamie correctly, in that Gold thought he had the best hand. Doyle forget that Jamie might think a 9 high flush was the nuts.

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Going along with what CDL said,

The 2+2er's I've talked with irl have all said Benyamine is probably the biggest loser in the online nosebleed stakes. I'm not sure how his live results pan out.

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Going along with what CDL said,

The 2+2er's I've talked with irl have all said Benyamine is probably the biggest loser in the online nosebleed stakes. I'm not sure how his live results pan out.

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in NLHE or LHE 2-4handed maybe

but he's up ~5million on the year at PLO and at HORSE, limit O8

Re: 300/600NL: Something That Always Amazes Me (LC)
 

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Did anyone fall out of their chairs on the Brunson/Gold hand flush vs flush hand? I cannot f.cking believe what an imbecile Jamie Gold is. I think I could play .10/.25 NL with Jamie Gold for a month and win his whole roll.


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Gold is terrible. His tells give away everything.

I think Brunson read Jamie correctly, in that Gold thought he had the best hand. Doyle forget that Jamie might think a 9 high flush was the nuts.

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as long as we are off-topic, this happens alot when I play live

I have a read that a villain really likes his hand. However, since the villain has little idea of what a good hand is, it does me little good

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Also, I think it is funny that Benyamine apparently thinks its ok to sometimes open limp a pocket pair, something that would normally draw criticism here.

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I open limp pp's sometime...I think it's a fine play.

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Slight thread hijack. Did anyone fall out of their chairs on the Brunson/Gold hand flush vs flush hand? I cannot f.cking believe what an imbecile Jamie Gold is. I think I could play .10/.25 NL with Jamie Gold for a month and win his whole roll.

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you tube link? it makes me feel happy watching JG play poker.

Re: 300/600NL: Something That Always Amazes Me (LC)
 

One other important factor that influences the dynamics of the High Stakes Poker game is the fact that there are also antes posted.

Re: 300/600NL: Something That Always Amazes Me (LC)
 

I think what you have to keep in mind when watching and and judging HSP is how incredibly deep those guys play. I watch it quite frequently and IMO it's a completely different game from what we play online. Therefore all this limping with 55, calling raises with 64os stuff...

P.S.: Damn true, David Benyamine is making a whole lot of money with PLO, HORSE and O8. And you have to give him credit, he is never afraid of playing the highest stakes at FT against everyone...

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I try to withhold judgment for the most part. We get to see 25 hands over the course of a season. Doesn't probably tell the whole story. There are surely on-line, mid-stack HU specialists that could clean their collective clocks at those games, but most of those guys won their way up to high stakes. They can't all be just lucky.