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Originally Posted by pokerinmind
which validates the reasoning as to when these players bust out of tournaments they tweet good luck to everyone else still in the tournament. Trust me if she had 70 to 100 % of herself the last thing she would give a crap about is kudos to the rest of her buddies still in it. I know if i bought in for 2 bullets or more at $3300 to 5gs and busted i would slam chairs and exit out of the casino in a very pissed off mood. Sure life is wonderful playing pressure free when you know your tourney is riding on other peoples $$$
Agreed, but in her recent Tweet she says she plays on her own coin for $5K or less comps and only has some backing for $10K plus comps. This fits in with both what she said on the podcast for the WSOP 2016 and her tweets offering action in the $10K at EPT Malta 2016, although a previous poster said something about her offering action for a $1K at WSOP. Maybe she changed her mind about that comp and kept 100% of herself.
More interesting perhaps is her risking a third to a half of her roll at WSOP. It was spread out over many comps so it might equate to more like 2% to 4% of her roll per comp.
What I got from that podcast, which was only 7 months ago in May of this year, is that she sounded very, very rookie and green, such as asking Ryan Fee if 3 bet strategy should be altered dependent on stack sizes. I mean this is such novice stuff that an average small buy in on line player would never have asked that question. So it was strange that she would even ask that question as if she wasn't 100% sure of what the answer would be.
Having heard that podcast I am now not as confident as I was that she is a very good tournament player, unless she has gone through an extremely fast learning curve in the course of 3 to 6 months.
A possible theory as to how someone very light on know how can achieve good results is not just the obvious one of running well above expected EV, but also perhaps that if you only know say half of the theory but are strong in other areas such as temperament and picking up live tells, that you might be a difficult opponent for good players to play against because you are playing quite a few spots in an unorthodox way.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 12-18-2016 at 08:19 PM.