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@ heis --> why you want good players at the table !? good table selection


Intelli Poker owns stars 1/2 !? they are a plague

they whore themself out for like 10 FPP per week?
most of them at low limit are not good players (say 80%)

but whats the deal with the shortstacking supernova elite players?
do you get more action because of a small stake?
does this compensate for the lose you have in multiway capped pots?

Seriously.

I just hate that they're all awful in their own way, and the mental associations of avatars and awfulness doesn't work with these guys.

Some of them are ok, but there's a few that specialize in capping the turn with overpairs that are obviously no good and other intermediate spew.

yeah MI2 has been buying in for the minimum at all his tables last couple days. Not sure what's up with that? Maybe cause people usually give excess action to short stacks? (cause their ranges are usually wide, unlike someone intentionally shortstacking :/)

any1 have any theories?

what's the deal with thisishui ? today he 3bet my button raise from the BB with 86o. His straight was pretty good vs. my top set... I know doughnutz plays like that, but it seems most players who try those things are pretty bad most the time. He any good?

His screen name stands for This Is Heads Up Idiot, which should explain things.

Sorry. I just woke up and don't have anything meaningful to contribute. Maybe he thinks you play very fit/fold? Certainly an odd play.

.double postage.

If he's done substantial work on these situations, he probably has a decent edge amongst limit players. Also by reducing the number of decisions in a hand he can play more tables and make more VPP. Is MI2 a winning player? I always assumed so, but maybe most of his $$$ comes from SNE.

MI2 is sort of an enigma. I'm not sure that the reason he's shortstacking is because he's done any kind of math relating to how to play a short stack or anything like that. I think he may have read it in a book that a short stack has certain advantages, and just went with it.

I think when MI2 goes on a downswing he just changes things up. Whether it's stakes, style of play, or amount buying in for....He's always trying something new

a thisispew...

yeah hes not that good, but hes not terrible.
Id play him HUHU and I dont play players Im not 90% confident I can beat significantly.

One hand in particular that struck me as bad was, me him and a super fish.

Fish limped UTG, I raised on the button, he 3-bet in SB, fish called

Board was 478 with two diamonds,
He bet, fish called, I raised, he called, fish called

Turn was J of diamonds
He checked, fish checked, I bet, he raised, fish called, I 3-bet, he called, fish called

River was blank
I bet and they both called

He had AJo. I had flush.

So either he thinks I play beyond terrible ,or he can never fold a hand.

Sure I may spew HU or attack if I think someones weak, but anyone in my spot with half a brain knows he's not bluffing, knows that fish wont fold and is still re-raising after 2 big semi bluff draws were completed? Pretty easy lay down.

Weird example, Heis

I´m playing at PS 1/2 and i think games there are very soft.

The rackback structure is bad imo but we cant ask everything i think

I'm surprized that you think a fairly good player would lay down TPTK vs. you. I mean, if he's very good he may realize you aren't getting so out of line in a 3way pot with a fish, but if he pays any attention he knows you are capable of getting way way out of line in certain spots, so considering this I feel that he balances his strategy pretty well by not raise/folding TPTK to you.

When you have a passive fish in the middle who will call down A hi when 4 people are capping every street, it keeps people in line no matter how tricky they are, as long as they arent stupid.

The only bluffing that I guess can be done is by "bluffing" a hand like mid pair, hoping to fold villains top pair and get fish to call with a worse pair.

But I guess this was a bad example because you guys probaibly wouldnt fold that hand to me either lol. He's played many hand poorly, but for some reason thats the only one that stood out in mind.

I wouldn't have folded vs. you, but I don't think I would have raised that turn card either.

did I just misinterpreted the latest Stars Promo statement or do they cheat us out of the second week of 2x FPP?

What they wrote on their site (shortcut your way up the ladder) was related to the VIP Freerolls.

slimfast - 0.5/1 player. Worst TAG ever to play this game?

do u guys also think that the stars tables $3/6 + $5/10 sh are getting worse from day to day especially in the noon and afternoon european time?

They're normally pretty bad at those times though it varies a lot. I don't think its getting worse in general but it was a lot better during the double pot promo.

Guy 12 tables i think at least. Ive been 8 tabling .5/1 and hes usually on at least a few of my tables. I thought he played decent until he made some pretty atrocious plays against me. Prob werent too bad if he thought i was just a random .5/1 tard but he should have know better by then.

Anyone have anything to say about me. Im popeye18 and just got back into the game so i know im not playing great but im improving everyday imo. Mostly .5/1 but ive played some 1/2 as well in the last few weeks.

He does funny things like capping 33 pre-flop multiway just because I 3-bet him. He really likes to try and be fancy with me, but everybody else as well. There is no indication that he can read hands at all and I think he just randomly chooses strange lines post-flop.

As for popeye, we haven't played much, but I looked up a few hands. You 3-bet my CO raise with QJo (standard) and sucked out on me (standard), but then just called 1.5 in the SB against a TAG with KQd. I'm just going to respew cap my entire range next time.

Yea i just looked you up and i only have one hand where you went to showdown and that was the hand where i 3-bet you with QJo. You were actually on the button. It looked standard for both of us.

On the KQd hand the raise was from mp. I think i pretty much always just call there. Im not sure if i knew mp was a tag or not. i dont have a hud right now so im playing pretty blind except for the regulars and anyone who i notice playing really really bad.