I played with Paul in Indiana back in October in the event I got 2nd in for $39k. He was at my opening table and played real well to build a stack without going to showdown. He is very very good, no doubt, he just final tabled WPT commerce, got 3rd or 4th I believe. I havent played with Brian, but he is considered one of the top 2 or 3, probably 1st even best no limit online players.
I played with Paul in Indiana back in October in the event I got 2nd in for $39k. He was at my opening table and played real well to build a stack without going to showdown. He is very very good, no doubt, he just final tabled WPT commerce, got 3rd or 4th I believe. I havent played with Brian, but he is considered one of the top 2 or 3, probably 1st even best no limit online players.
Matt... I know there are certain things you just cant explain. Its like being a good athlete or a good doctor... certain things just come to people. Live play I can understand as you know exactly the caliber of player at your table, but what online do you look for? I feel I play avg online, but there is still something missing. What seperates the great ones from the avg ones? Thx
LOL... Rude I was actually in Biloxi, Mississippi... stayed at the Beau Rivage. About 24 of us make the trip every year. Great golf and gambling. They just built a new poker room after Katrina which was really nice. Had the time of my life as I do every year. Couldnt believe how nice the Beau looked after going thru what it did. Anyone else been there?
Damn Terps im just 90 mins from the Beau...It is nice though when i went there were a few to many chips on the tables for me.....Boomtown's a lil more suited for my roll..
Tell somebody where ya going next time, i coulda come down there and let ya buy me a drink, a meal..hell get me a new suit, rent me a car and even buy me into a few tournys.....Man we coulda had a good old time !!!! lol
Tell somebody where ya going next time, i coulda come down there and let ya buy me a drink, a meal..hell get me a new suit, rent me a car and even buy me into a few tournys.....Man we coulda had a good old time !!!! lol
Matt...congratulations on the great start to the 2007 year. You are well on your way to have a big big year. My question for you is...since you have had such a great start to the season in terms of money won...do you have scheduled vacations to get away from poker so that you don't get burned out or do you love it so much that are you able to handle the daily grind?
Keep us posted man!!
Keep us posted man!!
LOL yeah should have figured you were near the Beau PPP! would have been happy to buy you a beer! I like playing 1-2NL and was shocked to see there was no max for the table. I saw 3 guys with 2K in play. Usually the max is 300 and getting up to 2K is some really good playing. Finally in my 3rd hour, someone explained to me there is no max. LOL. pretty strange stuff, but i felt i could make a good amount in the long run as the play was pretty loose.
I would suggest staying away from the game without a max. I don't know why casinos allow this since big stacked players can just bully you. Now you can counter that by playing tight but then you are at the mercy of the cards. At 2k they will call any preflop raise since it isn't going to damage them yet if they hit....they check to you.....you bet out and they call or raise you...it may be a fustrating situation. I am just learning this NL game so my advice isn't gospel, simply my opinion in the matter.
Think of the best case...you start with 500. You are on the button with AA....there is a raise to 40 and 2 callers...you repop to 200...you get called by all 4. (pot has 800). You only have 300 left and if the board comes out scary you just put 40% of your stack in the pot. On the other end you can easily make a ton of money...but we are talking about a hand that only comes every 220 hands. No max tables are fine if you are able to match the average stack at the table.
I have "vacation" during march madness, I won't play the opening weekend of the tourney as I'll be sitting in my entertainent room thur-sun afternoon watching all the games on my 4 tv setup! Im used to teh daily grind and it doesnt affect me too much. I'll be out of town a lot in the next couple of months playing so that is sort of like a vacation, as I'll do a lot of other stuff in Vegas rather than playing.
Sorry, but just trying to pick your brain here. If you cap, and the flop comes K-7-3 (you have 53), and he leads, do you raise right there at least once to test the waters?
If you do raise, and he calls, and then leads again on the turn (say, turn was a blank deuce), what's generally your next move?
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