The number of financially secure, not scummy live pros is in the single digits.
Lots of non-scummy live pros you’ve never heard of who aspire to be like Joey Knish.
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Well, zero is a single digit.
This is just too dumb to actually believe.
“Financially secure” and “not scummy” are highly subjective measures.
What in the hell are they wearing!
I think most of the Euros have been pretty clean? I think of the “big name” pros over the years the one who has kept the best reputation is Antonio.
unpossible she’s the worst of all time and a woman
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But I was assured she can’t beat 1/2. Impossible.
Being the strongest player at a low stakes WSOP event and being able to beat 2/5 Wynn aren’t exclusive.
I think Veronica was including herself as being weaker as well. Can’t Veronica play? I got the impression she could, but don’t know much about her beyond the Postle circus.
Edit: One of her followup tweets:
https://twitter.com/Angry_Polak/status/1534211922622459910?s=20&t=2ziURrdGgjzQF3HVZZqHcQ
That second tweet, if it is serious, gives me the impression that Veronica Brill is not a strong player.
I don’t know enough to comment on how good or bad PokerBunny is at poker but one thing I will say is that she at least appears to be putting in an effort to get better at poker which is already doing more than a lot of players.
Yeah, its a weird thing to say in is what I assume a ~$500-1500 tournament where the average stack is ~30bb pretty quick.
Quick scan would show it’s either the $600 deep stack or the $1500 6m.
I’ve genuinely never played a tournament and thought “my goal here is to outplay the other 8/9 players at my table.” That’s just…not a thing? And you just do that by memorizing ranges/calculating opponents ranges/better hand reading ability, which I do not believe is what she is referencing.
Sounds like the way MLYLT used to talk about her MTTs.
Really impressive how good Mariano become in a relatively short period. Running crazy hot lately too. Very much enjoyed this start to today’s stream:
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Doubt anyone care but Mariano really trying to prove himself as some Garrett successor.
YoH Viral (french high stakes player) opens to 300 utg AQo, Mariano 1k 78s utg+1, YoH calls.
Flop K83r, x/600/2800/c.
Turn 9, 3700/c
River 5, 28000/c.
Super weird board to triple barrel there and the 2x pot river bet but still sick call from someone who been playing 2-5 a year ago.
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As you say, impressive to improve and get the BR just grinding live games.
Mariano seems to have an incredible feel for other players. Feels like cheating to get to see his play for free.
I didn’t see the hand and I don’t know much about the other player, but that’s a weird board to check raise at a high frequency and there are so few value hands to check-raise if the opener would usually 4b KK. If the opener would 4b KK and only x/r triple sets for value, an 8 is a better bluff catcher than a K.
The opener’s opening range and continuing range against a 3bet are super important here, but if this is a full ring table K8s is not supposed to be an open and definitely not supposed to continue vs a 3bet, K3s is definitely not an open, and obviously 83s is not. KK is a 4bet. So the only 2p+ here is 88 and 33, and we block 88 down to 1 combo.
So the question is would UTG flat AK vs a 3bet (solver would flat about 2/3 of the time but a lot of players would always 4b it) and depending on that answer, would UTG x/r KQ into an uncapped range? I don’t think a solver would. BTW a solver would also flat the 3b with a majority of the KK and with some AA, but most live players wouldn’t.
Then by the river we’re facing approximately a 2x pot overbet, which is representing sets only.
Anyway, the point is this is one of those spots where he looks like a total sicko calling down, but if he’s played enough with his opponent to be confident KK+ is a 4bet and there aren’t many Kx hands check-raising and betting both streets, then getting to the river makes sense and once he does and faces that bet, if KK is not a thing, an 8 is his best bluff catcher because he’s only worried about 88 and 33.
Then the question becomes what are the bluffs and do we beat them. If A3s gets to this flop, that’s one. But it’s not supposed to get to the flop. Otherwise you’re looking at backdoors, so 76s could be one and that’s a concern since it got there. Small pocket pairs would be the other contender that would make the most sense, or like QJ/QT bdfd combos.
But of course this is all predicated on the opponent understanding how to construct the range and if he understands that, he also understands that if he doesn’t have KK in his range here getting to the flop he’s got problems building any x/r range on this board.
What was the result? Obviously by the discussion thus far, the call was good, but what did villain bluff with?
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My guess is that solvers need to balance 4b bluffing and value ranges. 4betting too many premiums leads to a 4bet range being too value-heavy and exploitable on medium and low boards while needing to have enough hands in the flatting range to check-raise the flop for value, but I don’t know if AK is usually a check-raising hand with TPTK on the flop.
I’m not sure if AQo is a good check-raise bluff candidate. It blocks AA/AK/KQ, but it also has showdown value and doesn’t have a backdoor flush draw.