Indy's Interview Series with the top HU-ers: The Camel

[Leo Doyle]

Camel,

Yorkshire. that's me North yorkshire (Skipton) to be precise. (I'm currently concentrating on heads up way down at $10 level.) Away from heads up though I've been looking into playing live games, play the game in the flesh so to speak. I only really should stake up to a £50 in a night, and was wondring where nice to play was, not too bothered if it's a cash game or small tournament, just wondering if you could point me in the right direction.

Leo.

[The Camel]

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Camel,

Yorkshire. that's me North yorkshire (Skipton) to be precise. (I'm currently concentrating on heads up way down at $10 level.) Away from heads up though I've been looking into playing live games, play the game in the flesh so to speak. I only really should stake up to a £50 in a night, and was wondring where nice to play was, not too bothered if it's a cash game or small tournament, just wondering if you could point me in the right direction.

Leo.

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Hi Leo,

The best place to play live is Aspers in Newcastle IMO. It is a lovely cardroom and really well run. They used to have £100 freezeout on Sunday afternoons which was great. Not sure if the still do... give them a ring and I'm sure they will fill you in with the details.

Other than that, there are small rebuy tournaments at Grosvenor and Stanleys in Newcastle and Gala at Teeside Park. Someone told me they have tournies in a casino in Sunderland too, but I'm not sure about that.

There's a festival at Napoleons at Sheffield coming up in couple of weeks too if you fancy playing a little bit higher.

Hope this helps,

Camel.

[Leo Doyle]

Thanks for that, much appreciated, I spent a couple of years in Newcastle before finding cards so probably concentrate up there.

Cheers.

[cwar]

You said that you have a 5% ROI at the 1000s, is this normal for a strong winning player? Are there people beating them for higher? Is this PS or FT (obviously has a huge effect on ROI and hourly)? If your not at the higher possible winrates, what has been holding you back and what are you doing to actively improve if anything?
Thx
Cwar

[ChicagoRy]

He's in the top few people for average profit. I don't think many people are beating them for more than 250 dollars an hour single tabling.

[Nichomacheo]

Camel,

Everytime I log on to play I see you sitting there in the $500s, $1000s, and sometimes the $2200s. A true grinder...

So here's a question or two for you:

Level 2, even stacks, aggressive SB raises to 90. You have the choice of three hands:
a. 86s
b. A7s
c. QTs
Which do you choose and why? What do you think of the other hands?

Say you have 86hh, and the flop comes J82 or something random like that. You check, SB fires 3/4 c-bet. What factors do you look at to make your next decision?

Thank you much.

[Svarog]

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That stretch was the hardest period of my poker career. It was so frustrating it almost drove me to tears.

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Some questions about the emotional side of the game:

-If you had another stretch of relatively poor results, do you think you'd be able to handle it better?

-In general, do you find that your emotional control improves constantly with experience? Or does it plateau at a certain point?

-Can people tell from your demeanor whether you've had a winning/losing/breakeven day?

[ChicagoRy]

I have another question.

Have you played HUSNG at these kinds of stakes on any other sites?

If so, how do they compare to PokerStars in terms of the positive and negatives?

[PureDiesel]

Can we stick this too?

[ChicagoRy]

Yea, I'm going to gather threads from the last few months, including this one and some of the articles written by players and send to Leader for the sticky.