Lol. He's not Scotty.

not scotty. played a million hands with him though. hes one of the orignals from the old HP 5-5 game.

not sure i played w/ you much if at all...from 2005-2007 i was like 95% on-line and home games.

my identity isnt really a secret. everyone who has paid the $125 an hour for lessons knows me. ive went to a couple 2+2 functions organized by matt flynn or sunny. but considering all of the ******s on-line and how unstable they may or may not be i dont go around advertising that im the d-bag from 2+2 who thinks deeply about the game and spooks their holecards lol! ive also been very honest on here and since alot of my income (even gambling income) is outside the casino im probably better off staying lo-pro.

Since this is kind of turning into a well...

How old are you?

How many hours do you book a week on average?

How much of your play is in the casino versus private/home games?

Do you see a time when you will no longer play poker as anything other than recreation? If yes, what else would you do with yourself?

I don't know why people are all up in arms about the seeing holecards thing.
it's a game of information. everyone has access to the same information.
if you are more aware than others and see more of that information, then that's fully within the game.
why is this worse than noticing if someone always wets their lower lip with their tongue when they are about to bluff? should I tell them they are doing this and not to do it anymore?
it's like in any sport, no one gets mad at the dback that watches the quarterback's eyes or overhears him talking about the count on the next play.

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20-25

right now im only playing in 2 weekly private games but i just found 2 more so that might change dramitically soon. i usually play 1 day a week at commerce and 1 day a week at HG. i also play online mtt's while being forced to watch american idol.

NOTE ON PRIVATE GAMES: most here in l.a. and elswhere that are easy to get into are just small businesses for some degenerate that rakes the shyt out of them...but all is not lost. ask the degenerate host if hell give you rakeback at the end of the night for staying a certain number of hours and being a "sport" with the other players...alot of time theyll say yes and give you $20 an hour or something back.

nah, ill always play poker and ill always play to win. i SAY dont really like poker much anymore but whenever i dont play for a while some new idea pops into my head and im off to the casino to give it a try.i spent so much time becoming good at this poker thing that to quit would sorta make all that time a waste and it beats every other job ive ever had. also poker is intertwined with alot of my other business dealing so to avoid it altogether would be impossible.

if somehow i could play pro golf (LOL!) poker would drop to like 8 hours a month.

and also claimed back pain or pinched nerve or whatever in order to avoid a bludgeoning on the golf course.

lol...i still felt bad about fleecing you the 1st time.

haha. it's ON this summer baby. i can actually break 100 now. (well, on a good day lol.)

reading comprehension ftw.

PICTURED him as scotty....i know he's NOT scotty...that is just the image i have in my head.

i knew he's not actually scotty cuz scotty always buys in deep, never for 70bb.

not that your ego needs massaging anymore but was a very nice read limon

thanks

scotty generally buys in cold for well under 150bb's usually closer to 100 (if not exactly 100).

dudes like odie buy in deeepp (or jason back when he was the man) then they get themselves in horrible situations and make bad choices.

I replied because I know it isn't Scotty and think it's funny that Scotty would even come to mind when imagining who he could be.

not the worst guess...visually way off but,

scotty has played the same game as me for a long time
scotty bets sports
scotty plays/bets on golf

soooo...all in all not too bad a guess.

well done interesting read limon

ya i have no idea what you look like, but those were the exact reasons i always pictured scotty.

also, odie doesn't necessarily get himself in bad shape cuz he is deep, he gets himself in bad shape cuz he's not good.

I thought this was a really cool post. good read.

Thanks for the great post, Limon.

yeah i was suprised that the holecard thing got the most play so far as well. i expected more pushback on the assertion that the big name pros are boring and just play ABC poker 99% of the time. i guess i would have if i put the post on small stakes instead of highstakes...i suppose most of the actual highstakes players figured this out long ago.

Did you buy Berkshire Hathaway before or after the crash and the ConocoPhillips deal? If before I feel bad for you, if after I feel extremely jealous...

i don't want to be sanctimonious about it, so i'm not calling limon out or whatever, but repeatedly taking advantage of others exposing their holecards goes against MY standards of fairness and imo violates the spirit of the game. there's a difference between the defense back reading the QB's eyes, and bill belichick videotaping the opposing team's drills to steal their signs.

ive been buying berkshire for a long time. i started w/ the class b's and worked up to a's. conoco sucks but he more than made up w/ it on the petrochina play. berkshires biggest liability right now is all the derivatives he holds that require the stock market to increase and hit certain benchmarks. BUT, if the market does hit those benchmarks berkshire is going to double the s&p in a bull market. even if these bets dont pan out i still think berkshire is undervalued. the gm, goldman and wells fargo, mcd's and coke holdings/deals are all gold.

There's also a difference between videotaping the opposing team's drills to steal their signs and them being too dumb to conceal their signs, thus simply seeing their signs in front of your face.

I'm still indifferent about the whole thing. I certainly would never go out of my way to look for people exposing their cards, but I also don't think I'd go to hell for inadvertently noticing an opponent's cards using it to my advantage.

yes, the second is wrong because belichek is then getting information that not everyone else has and that is cheating. it's similarly unfair to set up a little camera to see the other player's hole cards because then you also have info that no one else does.

but if the information is generally out there for everyone to see then it is just part of the game to see it and use it.

whatever though I don't want to make a big deal of this because in real life seeing people's cards really is a very small part of the overall game as it should be

great post, thanks. Limon's stuff is always a 'must read' for me. Loved the gypsy stuff, so true. Just watch out for the gypsy curse.

in LIVE poker their are alot of ways to win. you can be a master at discipline, lines, reading people, correlating info, creating an image and much more.

some people are just awesome at knowing when their opponent wont play for stax. the thing that is great about them is when the stax are shallow they raise early and when the stax get deep they wait and raise late or even make small bets with the intentention of bloating a pot they are going to bluff later, they want to get maximum value on their bluff. (note: most people who do this are just spewtards who put everyone on the bottom of their range (thats why it doesnt work). the real masters do it rarely (thats why it works) but are almost always right. sometimes they get crying called by the hand they had put the player on but had picked up a draw and i can always see them cringing.)

noticing small changes and correlating info is my strongpoint. im one of those dudes who is all over continuity errors on tv and movies and see them everywhere. my wife is always like how did you notice that? and then shes like why would you notice that? lately im annoyed by the weight watchers ad where jillian is throwing the football to golic and marino. i once went through like 30 hours of tivo to find an old taco bell add to prove the voiceover changed from melted cheese to melting cheese.

because this is what im good at, to tell people that i am watching them very closely is giving up too much.