Airport vending machines
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Havenāt played any mixed wsop events, but seems those fields are obviously well tougher than your average nl event
Is this one still there? Thought it was the weirdest combo of vending machine and location Iāve ever seen.
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Thereās something about running super bad in Vegas that makes it way more painful than a big downswing in your normal game. I feel ya
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I donāt really feel pain. I feel super motivated to study.
Alrighty then. Any game you gonna focus on?
Iām going to do some thinking about split pot games, with a concentration on O8. My next poker trip might be to try to hit a tournament series at one of the Hard Rocks in lolFlorida since they often have a 400 O8 and HORSE aligned for an easy trip.
Nice, Florida games are always a good call
Iām happy to have met people from the forum and hope I didnāt come off too awkwardly. Iām an extreme introvert, but it helped that the conversation tended towards three subjects I am passionate about: poker, food, and politics.
Nah you sounded fine. At least you reached out to some people on the forum! And you take losing in stride apparently. Better than what I can say for myself 
I have zero sense of entitlement when I play poker. In theory, thatās good, but I wonder if that sort of emotional investment is what drives someone like Phil Hellmuth to be better than one would think based on their technical skill.
I mean Iām sure Phil has that āyou have to think youāre the best to be the bestā psychology stuff going on. But I think thereās definitely a lot more that goes into live poker than pure technical ability.
Iām definitely missing something. I never really learned how to pound people with bet-bet-bet lines during the poker boom and I default to passive action when I donāt know what to do or I think the options are close.
Tournaments probably arenāt best for me. I donāt pursue high variance strategies to build a stack and I donāt use a big stack as weapon if I do get one. If I do play tournaments, I am better suited to fixed-limit games.
PLO cash suits me much better than NL because raising preflop is often just increasing variance without changing EV that much, since hand values often run together. It gets a bit different when more pots are contested heads-up, but that rarely happens at the stakes I play. I might not be maximizing my EV, but I can be annoying to a smart LAG who hates having to be more careful when I enter a pot.
Oh, if anyone ever wants to play Greg Raymer HU4ROLLZ, his game of choice will be pot-limit archie.
Yea, that doesnāt sound ideal for tourney play! But even in NL cash, you can generate some huge pots just by selective aggression and bullying people in small pots, reraising light, sometimes floating with garbage to take it down later and showing, or whatever to give the appearance youāre pushing them around and you think theyāre weak. Certain players will eventually respond by doing terrible ridiculous bluffs to get you back. Itās so +EV.
And there is nothing more satisfying than goading someone into donking off their whole stack into you.
Iām not sure how well that correlates into PLO though!
In NL cash, it feels like my best skills revolve around squeezing people and finding bluffs in multiway pots. I donāt really bully people, but I find spots to float because I can scare people by representing slowplays.
My reg opponents at home donāt donk off stacks to me. Iām a tricky player who seems to often have a good sense of where I am at in a hand, so I can exploit that they never seem completely comfortable without the nuts against me. Any non-nut flush in NL is an easy bet-fold against several players because they are afraid to raise me without the nuts but also afraid to bluff me because Iāve caught them so many times over the years.
I guess I just donāt have any desire for big pots. Iām not afraid of them when I like the math, but I donāt seek them out. I am fine grinding out small to medium pots without ever getting it all in. I donāt crave action. I donāt force action. I donāt need the ego boost of winning a leveling war. If anything, I exploit the players who are seeking that by frustrating them and making the game smaller than they want so that the big pots come on my terms.
I just play poker and I just want to play it as well as I am capable of. Iām kind of a machine at the table, albeit one who will engage in conversation instead of staring at my phone.
Thatās fine and all, but avoiding big pots and referring to leveling wars and getting it all in as some masturbatory ego driven gesture, when in fact stuff like that is calculated and super +EV is very shortsighted on your part imo
I donāt avoid big pots. I just donāt seek them out. The big pots that I do build tend to be multi-way and not heads-up.
Fair enough, I was just pointing out that more aggressive play doesnāt mean ego driven play
Well, Iām going to Vegas for my birthday month trip in a week.
What am I most likely to bring back?
- A tournament win
- An STD
- Omicron
- All three
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