DERB

[YoureToast]

My turn to chime in....I watched a couple hundred of his hands....Granted only those hands that go to showdown....But this is how he seems to do it -- and this is based purely nonempirical data....He is hyperagressive preflop, ie 3 betting with hands like KTs and A6s...He value bets like crazy....He slows down on the river when he may be beat....No one is willing to be aggressive against him (probably because (i) he is so aggressive preflop, and (ii) he is so aggressive postflop and is completely fearless to 3 bet a draw or an average made hand)...And, most importantly I think (and this is similar to the value bet concept), because of his looseness, nobody folds to him even when they are clearly beat. It is very easy to see how he just destroys weaktights. I firmly believe he takes advantage of the fact that most 3060ers are thoughtful players in that they know enough to know hes a little crazy -- in other words, I don't think his play would be nearly as successful at the lower limits.

[Ezcheeze]

I agree.

[QTip]

Thought this was interesting as I read this:

"Inside the Poker Mind" - pages 54-55

"Why do so many poker players point to one of these rather loose, fast players when they try to identify a great player, even the best they’ve ever seen? I have a little theory about that. I believe that these freewheeling, aggressive players support a wish held by many players. May players wish that it might be possible to play that way and win. They wish that they could do it. And when they see someone appearing to do it, it gives them hope that just maybe they can. Wouldn’t it be fun, after all, to be able to play lots of hands and to run over the games, reading your opponents so well that you win far more than a normal good player’s share of pots while avoiding trouble with uncanny consistency? How nice it would be to score big win after big win and achieve hourly rates well in excess of what is supposed to be possible. I think this is what typical players dream of doing. That is their long range goal. If they could never identify anyone who appeared to have such abilities, they would have to conclude that maybe their dream was based on fallacious thinking, that maybe it was not a possibility. And that would be a painful loss, a loss of hope. Thus illusory heroes of poker are created in the minds of those whose study of the game has been insufficient."

[A_C_Slater]

When John Feeney wrote that he was talking about a player that he saw in a B&M that would secretly add chips to his stack from his pocket when everyone would watch the flop.

This combined with his loose aggressive play/boisterous personality made it seem that he never lost. This guy is not adding chips to the table, unless he is somehow rigging the PT stats of other players to make it look like he's a winner to a bunch of internet players whom he will never meet face-to-face. This is over 150k hands!


Has anyone ever seen this guy chat?

Maybe he's the worlds first superbot programmed by NASA to help fund their space program.

[piggity]

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Maybe he's the worlds first superbot programmed by NASA to help fund their space program.

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If that were the case, I think he would be timing out all the time due to crashes.

[QTip]

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When John Feeney wrote that he was talking about a player that he saw in a B&M that would secretly add chips to his stack from his pocket when everyone would watch the flop.

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Page 53-55 That's not mentioned anywhere in the text...just people's perception of a loose, fast player with a win rate over a given period of time. He wasn't referring to any one particular player...perhaps another story is in the text that I've not gotten to yet as I've not finished the book yet.

[NLSoldier]

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Has anyone ever seen this guy chat?

Maybe he's the worlds first superbot programmed by NASA to help fund their space program.

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DERB chatting

[Tim H]

I have played this way for the last month at 10/20 around 20k hands and am up significantly. Yeah I know ... not enough hand to be statistically significant. This post is just to maybe enlighten you on what I think his playing style is. Not to prove playing this way is successful.

i have a little higher VPIP ~ 34% and it sound like we are playing the same way as my stats are about the same ... junk hands (high 1-2 gappers/2 flush cards, little pairs etc).

Basically, I bought in shortstacked with $50 (last ditch effort and have held that mentality throughout) and played 2/4 to $100 then 3/6 to $200 and moved immediately to 10/20.

I've gotten a br as large as 4k only to have it dwindle to 400 the next day, then the next run up to 2k etc ... to my current position of 7.5k

It all depends on 1. luck/cards etc ... 2. texture

I would ask you all ... are u "honestly" not changing your game when you enter a pot with him. Do you find yourself not betting for value on the river or isolation pf? Are you checking the turn too much or betting a weak hand on the turn too much? Are you folding because your relative position sucks when he raises (fearing re-raises behind)?

Are the majority of his hands against weaker/tighter players? This is probably the biggest influence on how my sessions go.


This is added only for X-file value so take it for what its worth:
One other things I will tell you and its probably just a factor of "running hot" but after abandoning an account with this particular online site after awhile i opened another and this one is hitting draws like a mother.

This can also be seen in online MMORG games. Sometimes accounts (for whatever reason and through no fault of the programmers/site operators) just have better "luck".


edit: personally i'd sit on his left and try to isolate pf and on flop. then call down your good hands and reraise your strong hands. my biggest losing sessions is when the table as a whole becomes calling stations :/

[MoreWineII]

Is it in any way possible that he's just somehow manipulating PT software to reflect tampered-with stats?

[Gamblor]

Maybe DERB just has the new log12 good pattern map.