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Originally Posted by surf doc
You can sugar coat it all you want since this guy may read this and you still want action, etc but we don't have to. So we can sit behind our keyboards and say whatever we want. It doesn't matter if we accept his HU for rollz challange or not. His sizing and play is absolutely, unequivocally ****ing atrocious at every point where he Vpiped. The fact that he did it fast against someone who could read this and act on it just makes it that much worse. But, this is why reasonable sizing is reasonable. So we don't get our faces caved in after putting in 40 percent of our stack. I mean FFS the whole hand is just an abortion.
Agreed you can say what you want lol. And yes, his sizing (the first time around) was unbalanced in perception/it was too squeezy. The second time around his issue was timing mainly. And yes he could have gone smaller/not all but committed his stack lol, but the standard click back iso may have been too small since the all in was pretty much just a minraise.
Regardless, it's not like his play was super -ev imho. Being in position and aggro/sticky you can "go big" initially when stacks are deep. It would be smart to be somewhat more balanced (in perception) than he was when doing this with squeeze garbage, but either way, he just wins pre or post (with squeeze garbage) a ton of the time he does that I imagine. He got unlucky that a) I had a good hand vs squeeze garbage THAT ALSO has reasonable contingency equity vs good hands, and b) that I'm an lol soul reader who picks up on timing and movements and **** in slo-mo when I'm playing well (def not always), and c) that I didn't just say, "**** it, 8k is a lot of money for A9 I'll just fold and see if I was right when the cards get turned over."
Also, I'm just insanely anti-results oriented at this point in my career. And I'm still downswinging my balls off so I'm hyper-obsessed with all the different tentacles of variance every hand. I really feel like I'm on a tiny island wrt seeing the role God/the dealer plays in everything (even amongst very good/winning players). Also, as mentioned, one hand doesn't define a player. Nor does 1 or 2 playing leaks make someone who is good overall, suddenly not good. That's just basic. And I brought up the hotshots turning him down for hu to illustrate those points.
But seriously, in poker- where the prize for winning is money, and the more skill gap there is the more prize expectation there is, why don't people play the people they say are terrible? Not talking about you, just saying in general. I see it all the time, and it is absolutely mind-bottling to me how illogical that is. I mean, I could see Novak Djokovic not wanting to play me in tennis cuz I'm a hack and he has nothing to gain and I would never return a serve (or a return!). And I could even see in poker passing on playing someone if you thought you had an edge but it wasn't very big--> the other guy wasn't "terrible" by any stretch. But if you really truly believe you have a big edge/the other guy is terrible, you just gotta sit imo. Not doing so is just silly. And this guy has a pretty open door policy with that/he can't always get action even in the big boy casinos.