DeathDonkey is in "The Well"

[DeathDonkey]

A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Wednesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer" .

The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on Wednesday? and the voice from in the well shouts back: Because on Wednesday, it’s your day in the well.

James asked me to make a well post and I'm happy to do so. I grew up in poker and in life from micro stakes, through SS, and on forward, I'm happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

Going to put this up and go to sleep and will get to all questions in the morning and keep up with this thread until the well dries up [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

-DeathDonkey

[ProfessorBen]

What do you do to compensate for your image when playing against 2p2ers?

[DeathDonkey]

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What do you do to compensate for your image when playing against 2p2ers?

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Value bet very thin and find creative ways to play a hand so that my hand range is balanced with good hands and bluffs. Use my LAG image but don't tilt and be vigilant of when they are ready to try and mess with me because I'm out of line.

-DeathDonkey

[Joe Tall]

As they ask the NFL/MLB rookies, "What was your 'welcome to the big leagues' moment?" as in, when was the moment that you said, "Ah, I get it, I can do this?" Such that, and influential post, a hand you played or something you read, etc.

[Xhad]

Based on our HU session, what limit should I be playing?

[DeathDonkey]

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Based on our HU session, what limit should I be playing?

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We played in the micro tourney right? If so you'll probably be fine up to 2/4 or 3/6 if you avoid regulars who will be LAGgy and frustrating. You just need to log a lot of hands and develop a feel for how often you run into pairs, etc. in certain spots so that your hand reading will be strong intuitively.

-DeathDonkey

[Xhad]

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Based on our HU session, what limit should I be playing?

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We played in the micro tourney right?

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Yeah, I was the one who played you in the HU quarterfinals and put up a fight right up until HORSE started and I decided paying attention to that was more profitable than trying to beat you. You had said "I played well" until that point and realized I didn't know exactly what that meant since you were playing against microers, most of them fullring players. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DeathDonkey]

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Based on our HU session, what limit should I be playing?

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We played in the micro tourney right?

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Yeah, I was the one who played you in the HU quarterfinals and put up a fight right up until HORSE started and I decided paying attention to that was more profitable than trying to beat you. You had said "I played well" until that point and realized I didn't know exactly what that meant since you were playing against microers, most of them fullring players. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Ahh I remember now. Well you didn't let me run you over as easily as the others did. You realized how difficult it is to make a hand you feel confident with and played back at me some and kept me off balance. I seem to remember you still making some simple mistakes such as choosing awful board textures to try bluffs on but in general you were more aggressive and less afraid than the others and that served you well. I think that shows me you will do fine at the low to mid limits as long as you game select well and could easily improve enough to crush everyone in those games and be ready for bigger.

-DeathDonkey

[DeathDonkey]

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As they ask the NFL/MLB rookies, "What was your 'welcome to the big leagues' moment?" as in, when was the moment that you said, "Ah, I get it, I can do this?" Such that, and influential post, a hand you played or something you read, etc.

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So many...I was playing 2/4 and 3/6 full ring on Party and there was no 6 max between 1/2 and 5/10, so the first times I took shots at 5/10 6 max and didn't get killed were pretty awesome. I felt on top of the world. During that same stretch I found an 8/16 on UB that was absolutely incredibly juicy and sat with a short roll and ran pretty hot and felt great and then 5/10 didn't seem so scary.

The first time I played 15/30 live (while playing micros online) and realizing my 1/2 full ring game online was tougher. Playing in an old 50c/1 2+2 game with people that were high stakes 2+2er legends to me at the time and having (I think Clarkmeister but it was sooo long ago) tell me I played a few hands expertly. Realized then how interesting poker is when you play against other thinking players and realized many of my opponents do think about poker in some fashion and life is easier if/when I understand how and what to do about it.

Josh / Sthief once made a trip report post about playing 7.5/15 in AC all night and being a degenerate and missing his GFs something or other, and how he was quitting poker and he felt awful. I always used that as motivation to be safe with bankroll management and control my play and never really felt too degenerate in all my pokering.

-DeathDonkey

[James.]

are you perfect at LHE? if not, what is the aspect(or aspects) of your game that could use improvement? anything specific you do(or are doing) to achieve this goal?

what other poker games do you play? which ones are you best at? how's the NL development coming?

what's the biggest leak you notice when reading posts in the small stakes(or any other) forum?

what's the biggest theoretical misconception that you notice in the small stakes(or any other) forum?

what is something most average 2p2ers fail to do that, if they did, would have the greatest positive impact on their game?