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Originally Posted by SuperSwag
Every time Mike had a good hand he would start mouthing off, every time he bluffed he didn't say a word lol.
I saw at least two hands when he was bluffing and was talking, the 777xx board where she had AJ and another one that I don't remember the specifics of.
The problem for him was that he literally had no hands, or had a bad run out in a huge percentage of hands, so there was no real way he could play any kind of balanced strategy, e.g. bet big on the river when he had it or didn't have it or bet small on the river when he had it or didn't have it........ because he hardly ever had it.
So the best strategy he could have adopted IMO in both games, after he had gone to sub $8K in chips was to basically nit it up. Although even if he had done this the hole cards continued to be awful, but it would have at least bought him some more time and given him a better statistical chance of say doubling through twice from 4K to 16K in each game, particularly as the blinds were due to increase after a certain number of hands meaning that he would then have far more scope to apply some pressure with his short stack.
Yes I acknowledge that he did miss a couple of spots to bet his equity, e.g. betting a gutshot when checked to when his stack was ~15K but this I think falls under the category of him being a bit under prepared HU strat wise.
But overall, he was in a very tough spot in both games due to horrible hole cards and flops, and this was accentuated by Cate basically wearing a wire to her coaches thus gaining an additional advantage.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 03-20-2017 at 10:32 PM.