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  1. But then again, if they call you just to try and flop a set (and you read that as the case) then chances are you take it down postflop with a continuation bet. I agree you'd rather they not call when you reraise with Q3o, but its not such a bad situation if the only hands they call your raise to 7k with (as opposed to reraising you or folding) are smallish pocket pairs. They're only going to hit a set roughly one out of 8 times and they're likely folding on the vast majority of other flops.I am assuming decent, tight players though, standard players in a high buyin live tournament. Moves
  2. Most obvious check ever in any deep stacked situation, not just at the final table. He'll probably make some kind of bet on the turn with ANY hand he would've called with on the flop, so you'll have to consider calling the turn, depending on stack sizes, how much he bets, and your read on him, and then go from there.And planning to checkraise here is almost as bad as betting. Its a clear check and then either call or fold scenario. There's no reason to try and build an unnecessarily big pot with top pair jack kicker at the final table against the other big stack. Same on the river, unless
  3. Don't you agree that reraising to 7k would be a better play than reraising to 10k? It looks a little more like AA or KK, so I think the chances that the first two players fold is roughly the same (even though the amount for them to call is less), but making it 7k has the added benefit of reducing the amount that you lose in case one of the blinds wakes up with a monster, or in case you misread one of the first players and they come over the top of you.
  4. One of the most important things about it as well is that its a way of disguising what he's calling with on other hands. Daniel calls a ton of raises with hands like suited connecters anyway, so he mixes in calling with big pairs to help disguise what he's calling with.Another big thing that's specific to his style of play is that he rarely ever reraises without big pairs when he and his opponents are deep stacked. So ... if he picks up AA or KK it'll send red flags and he's unlikely to get any more action. There's two ways to combat this: 1. Reraise with a wider range of hands, or 2. Jus
  5. The article is right, there's a lot of times when the best possible play is to bet into a dry side pot with 2nd pair, or even bottom pair or A high sometimes. The more likely the other players in the pot (that aren't all in) believe in this "never bet into a dry sidepot without the nuts" crap, the more correct it is to bet (and the less you need to bet) as its more likely to get them to fold good hands thinking you must have the monster. Even on the bubble, assuming that the pot is big enough to make a difference for your stack, its still the right play as long as you're playing to win and n
  6. Haha, you're not including me in that group, are you?Then again, you probably don't know much about how I play. I recognize your name and know we've played together quite a bit online, but not enough that I remembered anything about your style of play either.
  7. The answer is basically that there's a lot of luck involved in poker. They don't lose every night. They buyin for $100 or whatever and usually lose, but sometimes they go on a rush like you've described and walk out with $1000 profit for that night. That night then funds 10 more nights of buying in for $100.Obviously they're losing overall, but their paychecks combined with occasional lucky streaks keep them in the game, and because they occasionally get lucky and win a lot more than they bought in for on that given night they believe they have some skill at the game.
  8. FT has a better structure than Stars. Even Party sadly had a better structure than Stars. They have 12 minute blinds on FT, but the blind levels go up by much smaller intervals, and FT has bigger antes that more resemble live tournament antes, which benefits good aggressive players. Stars antes are pretty much a joke.They still should give this tournament more starting chips though. 5k starting stacks and 15 minute blinds would be great.
  9. I don't hate a raise, but if you're going to raise, raising to 7k is way better than 10k.Since that's not an option, I think folding is easily the best choice there is.
  10. No ... it really doesn't. Smallball players typically don't reraise with trash very often. They often get the image of a maniac because they play so many pots, but they actually are very careful to protect their stacks when they have big ones.
  11. Daniel himself says that he doesn't get strong (read: very reliable) preflop reads and is amazed at how John Juanda is able to. I'm primarily an internet player, so my reads mostly come from betting patterns, and the only thing you can somewhat figure out preflop from a standard raise and a call is a wide range of hands. There's no super specific reads possible from these results, and the post mentioned nothing about a strong physical read, just a general "feeling". This sounds more like a feeling that a player like Matusow or Juanda would act on, but not the type of feeling that a primaril
  12. I think I could be put into the category of online small ball players. It's definitely doable, and is my prefered way of playing either online or live, but it is hard to do in most internet tournaments due to the crappy structures and few starting chips.You can definitely do it in deep stacked online tournaments. In my opinion its definitely the best way to play them, given the low quality of players and good structure. Its also easier to do on sites like Full Tilt than on most regular tournaments on Stars, because of better structures and higher antes. Higher antes really help small ball
  13. Anyone saying to consider calling here is WAY over thinking this. I think you guys are just trying to think out of the box and wouldn't actually do this, but if actually would in this situation ... you'd always be a welcome player in any game I play in.Calling here with this hand would just be dumb ... no good small ball player, even those that play a ton of hands like Daniel, Hanson, Gavin Smith, etc. would ever call in this spot. Now with 98o that's a different matter ... and with a suited connector or small pair it'd be expected. But Q3o? That's just asking to give away chips. Raising
  14. LOL ... did Mike Matusow write this question?I don't care about "ruining" my table image (I usually have a crazy one anyway - which I actually like with a deep stack like this), but there's just no reason to risk making a play here for a measly 6.5k, which is nothing compared to your stack. I'd actually like the reraise more if you had a stack between 15-20k, in which case if you raised you'd be going all in and relying on your tight image to help you get folds. But even then there's no reason to risk it with this hand. Throw it in the muck and move onto the next hand. You can certainly fi
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