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Originally Posted by AuroythmiX
Good thread. Cool quote from FWF at start.
I played 25/50 live against a few guys like MoneyMaker and Masa Kagawa (Japanese business man who was playing 300-600 vs Ivey etc at Aussie Millions) during AAPT in Sydney (they were happy to play bigger but no one else had any money) and at one point MoneyMaker basically tried to tell me what he had during a hand because we had been friendly, joking around together, drinking together etc. and he liked me. I was too stupid to realise what he was talking to me about, but nontheless, I think it was definitely hugely +EV to be nice to these guys.
its actually a thin line, you don't want to be too friendly with the fish to the point that they don't want to play hard vs you and are content to soft play when in heads up pots with you.
i had a situation where we were playing 4 handed 50/100 and there was uber mega rich fish in the game.
we were super deep and i was stuck, but i was being nice to the kid (he was mid 20's) and we get HU in a raised pot.
i have 66 and call his raise OOP.
flop is T66.
i check he chks.
turn is some brick i bet he calls.
river is another brick i lead for pot (keep in mind we are like 40Kish deep and this guy has been just donking off massive amounts of money with like 2nd pair) and the dude looks at me and says "you know what bro, you're stuck and i like you and since you've been so nice ima do you a favor....i just call"
as he tables TT.
i've never been on such raging tilt from winning a pot in my life.
and no joke he proceeded to lose his 40K stack 3 hands later with AQ on a Qxx board in an unraised pot................,