High Stakes Poker thread (10/21) (spoilers to come)

[stephenNUTS]

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Stephen,

Totally agree.

Let's invite Brandon and Phil to a LIVE HS DEEPSTACK poker game.
200/400, 300BB sound good?

Adam

ps. I'm stranded in a hotel room for the next few days b/c of fires in San Diego, but I can arrange a game up when I get back home.

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Admo,
All kidding aside...was your house involved in the Cali, fires?

Stephen [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[DevinLake]

I think I get dumber every time I venture outside of a strat forum to read some of this senseless drivel.

[cha59]

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Stephen,

Totally agree.

Let's invite Brandon and Phil to a LIVE HS DEEPSTACK poker game.
200/400, 300BB sound good?

Adam

ps. I'm stranded in a hotel room for the next few days b/c of fires in San Diego, but I can arrange a game up when I get back home.

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Admo,
All kidding aside...was your house involved in the Cali, fires?

Stephen [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I'm sure they'd let you buy in short stephen.

Hope your house/people are ok admo

[sapol]

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benyamine has lost


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I think he's one of the few who's an overall winner (not at NLHE of course)

[john voight]

no threads tilt me as hard as the HSP week X threads.

[cooker3]

Jamie Gold should learn not value betting your hands on the river when you are ahead 99% of the time while at the same time continually bluffing at every opportunity may be seen as exploitable.

[ChrisV]

lol. 90% of people commenting in this thread have not read the Jman NVG thread which was linked to, in which he explained:

- That he played pretty tight because he only had 720K with him. It's not that he isn't rolled for the game, but that he could only move 720K in time. It's not like you can just fly to Vegas and withdraw 1 mill from a kerbside ATM.

- That he only played FIFTY HANDS in his whole time there. I don't think you can draw any firm conclusions about him from 50 hands. People talk about how we criticise other pros on this forum on the basis of what we see on TV, but that's (mostly) actually HANDS THEY'VE PLAYED. You don't see me joining in on this nonsense about how Harman is a nit, for instance.

- That he would "salivate" over the prospect of playing virtually anyone at the table HU, live.

- That he has never been called a nit before in his life (usual epithets are more stuff like "station", "lagtard", etc).

The QQ hand was questionable, but reasonable. He didn't bet the flop because he was vs aggro players and couldn't stand a raise. The turn he was sandwiched in between Farha, who bet, and the other guy. He could certainly have played the hand other ways, but his line was reasonable.

You can't draw any conclusions one way or the other from his play on HSP, but the fact that he plays nosebleed games online and wins (and that most (all?) of the people at that table don't) is evidence that he's probably pretty good.

[DevinLake]

Chris...ur posts makes sense...get out of this thread.

[john voight]

no one said jman sucks.

ppl said thta when he plays tight no one cares, but when DN or Jen play tight its liek "OMG YOU NIT LOLOLO<>L"

[wins_pot]

Jman and I both played half sessions. We didn't see that many hands. Had we seen more, we probably would have leveraged our tight image. In live games, no one who has played with me could possibly classify me as a nit. Bottom line... trying to run over Sammy and Eli out of position is not a good idea. You will end up folding a lot of winners with big money in the pot.

Another consideration... I had about 550k at the cage at that time and I was one of the alternates for the 500k min buy. I would have bought in for more and played faster if that wasn't a concern. I think Jman had a similar issue.

The whole thing was a lot of fun for me. I watched all the stuff when I wasn't playing... the 500k min buy session is going to be the best poker TV of all time.

Brandon