Expected, consensual and pleasurable (and not only the NC thread)

[OziBattler]

remy tough games....sometimes you cant avoid them totally. We non-primetime players often have to practice seat selection cos there often aint a heap of tables to choose from. fortunately I seat select goot

[Aaron W.]

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Im curious, how does the Stox book compare to HEFAP? Aside from what I gather in that it is more related to online play, is the underlying material similar etc etc?

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If you're not careful, Stox's book makes it feel like you need to be making all sorts of hyper-aggro plays and loose calls all the time. HPFAP gives the feeling that there's a lot of finesse involved in the game.

[bozlax]

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If you're not careful, Stox's book makes it feel like you need to be making all sorts of hyper-aggro plays and loose calls all the time.

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More or less than hands posted by Miles?

[Xhad]

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If you are CmnderMcbrag from PokerStars, please, go and kill yourself, you 100-tabling psycho nit. You are killing all the action and driving me nuts.

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What limits does that guy play? The name sounds familiar.

[RemyXO]

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If you are CmnderMcbrag from PokerStars, please, go and kill yourself, you 100-tabling psycho nit. You are killing all the action and driving me nuts.

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What limits does that guy play? The name sounds familiar.

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I see him in .25/.50 exclusively

[Gib]

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remy tough games....sometimes you cant avoid them totally. We non-primetime players often have to practice seat selection cos there often aint a heap of tables to choose from. fortunately I seat select goot

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yup Ima refraining from playing long sessions of 10/20 on our weeknights, it's bloody cost too much this month [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[tjfields]

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and oh yeah....

LOLLERCOASTER!!!!!ELEVEN!!!



the past 8K hands sure have been fun!

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I'll see you that graph and raise you this one:

[00Snitch]

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Can't wait to post the graph of my first month (10k hands) of 5/10 short-handed.

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[KingOtter]

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One interesting thing I realized while messing with memorizing hand grouping is the way memorization works, for my brain at least. If I try to cram everything at once it doesn't work. Don't memorize all 15 hands in group 8 at the same time, memorize them 5 hands at a time, burn it into your brain, move on to the next 5. Seeing patterns also helps.

Applied to my reread of HEPFAP, I see there's a lot of tactics in there that were not sufficiently burned into my brain before. This opens my eyes that HEPFAP has a lot of potential left in it that I would do well to tap and reiterate. I think I'll be rereading the book in segments burning portions of its content into my brain at a time. I have developed an understanding of the key concepts, but there are some subtle things that I had forgotten to burn into my mind.

My game is about to improve significantly, and between wanting to move up and average online tables getting tougher, I expect the content of the book to be much less situational than it has been in the past and used more frequently and commonly.

I'm sorry if this was too much content for the NC thread. lol

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I think when I was 'memorizing' these I didn't really expect to 'memorize' them. Instead I looked for the characteristics that determined the hands... suited connectors, 1-gap broadways, etc. I never memorized that KQs was group X, but I have a feeling of the relative strength of it... it's probably in the same group as AJs, but below it on the list...

(now I'm checking... BOOYA! I'm right! .. although I probably woulda hazarded a guess at group 3 and it's group 2..)

Maybe that was an easy one.

[KingOtter]

Since we're posting graphs..



P.S. that tennis chick was born in 1990. I've got underwear older than that.