Bryce is "In the Well"

[The Bryce]

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"Simon later had an interview wherein he discussed a few hands where I ran a big bluff into a made hand and turned it into a tirade. "

do you have a link for this?

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http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/wo...-Society_01797

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what is your accent? haha, i cant pinpoint it

just watched your 200/400 hu vid, first i've ever watched of yours. very very awesome, i think the speed you talk is a definite plus. best vid i've seen.

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I was going to guess something obscure like his original language was French and was taught English by someone with an Irish accent.

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Well my grandparents on my father's side were French and on my mother's side were Irish. Neither speak with an accent, but that's kind of creepy [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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what do you think an NL player can gain/learn from playing limit (either 6max or HU)? Given that there are things to gain/learn (eg, you will get better at NL from playing limit) would you recommend playing or watching limit videos?

edit: I will likely be -EV playing, because I will have to play someone on ~ the same skillevel ("poker in general" wise). And playing players I will win $ from, having just about no limit experience, will be worthless.

Hope this makes sense. I have almost never played limit, but think it could be fun and would be more willing to play if you think it would help my NL game, in any area basically.

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Ultimately poker is just poker, but different forms of poker do stress different skill sets I suppose. Playing something like HU LHE would be great for developing basic instincts about when players attack / turtle etc. since it's a very information saturated environment where there's a ton of information exchange. I'm not sure if this would be more helpful than playing HU NL, though (where less information is exchanged but you're actually playing in a NL context).

Ultimately I do think that, yes, playing limit would help your no-limit game, but if your goal is simply to be better at no-limit I think the most time efficient thing to do would be to just play more no-limit and spend some time and energy thinking about what sorts of tools you're going to use to build / improve your game (so many people spend so much time playing and so little time thinking about how they're going to go about actually improving their play).

[bigshowmack]

Bryce what's your education level/academic background like? You're obviously a very intelligent individual, and I was just curious as to what your pre-poker background is like.


Also, what part of Canada are you from and do you ever play live/or in tourneys?

[The Bryce]

My formal education consists of high school + a smattering of morning classes I've taken at the local U. Edmonton, AB. I don't think I've even been in a casino in the last 18 months or so.

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What video recording software do you use?

[TheCutter]

Camtasia

[deluz35]

Bryce, thank you for sharing your thoughts on poker. Even though I only play NL, I found your thought process and approach to getting better helpful. I will probably go ahead and sign up for stoxpoker because of this thread.

Also, did you prefer FL to NL because there is more "information exchange?"

[nickabourisk]

Hey Bryce, I've been a member (lurker) on StoxPoker for several months now and your videos are my favourite by far. I also love your video blogs.

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My formal education consists of high school + a smattering of morning classes I've taken at the local U. Edmonton, AB. I don't think I've even been in a casino in the last 18 months or so.

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You are from Edmonton (originally)? I thought I heard you say somewhere that you were living in BC, is that where you are now? It's interesting because I'm living in Edmonton right now (I just got married at the end of the summer and my wife and I drove across Canada from Prince Edward Island, I believe we were in Niagara Falls less than a week before you were there). I came here to do my Master's in CS at UofA to study poker bots (they use them strictly for academic purposes and not online). They've recently solved an abstraction of HU LHE (simplified but very similar) with 10^12 states in the game tree while the full-scale HU LHE game tree has 10^18 states.

Have you heard of their bots and/or played against them? What are your thoughts on this research? Are you for it, against it, or neither?

[gregorio]

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"Simon later had an interview wherein he discussed a few hands where I ran a big bluff into a made hand and turned it into a tirade. "

do you have a link for this?

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http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/wo...-Society_01797



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He sounds like a great guy.

Schnibl0r had to accept some serious losses against The Bryce aka Freedom 25, who he had previously pretty much beaten. "There was nothing more I could do", says Schnibl0r, „he was tilting and whined the whole time he was in the chat, and then suddenly he started hitting cards. It was incredible. You just couldn't do anything about it".

Schnibl0r: Well, I might sound a bit arrogant and unbelievable since I am a bit down, although in heads-up I am still up overall. I think I am at least as good as FatalFog, Sassi and Hoss. David Benyamine, TheBryce and Patrik Antonius are a bit beneath me.