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Originally Posted by jimmorrison1117
Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone has played talisain51 in HU SNGs on Stars? The reason I ask is because I played him the other night and noticed some strange play. I played around 3 SNGs with him so obviously my sample size is not huge but still noticed something strange about his play in this short time.
While playing him, I noticed that he limped something like 85-90% of buttons, and raised about 5% IP. That's pretty strange right off the bat for a huge winner at the game, but I suppose it could work. In addition, I raised about 85% of my buttons and got called down almost every time. I just checked the results again the ONLY times he folded his BB was when I had strong aces and once more with 2356ds. Given that it is a VERY small sample size, this detail really is not that revealing, but worth noting I suppose.
Also, our WTSD% was about 25% with his winrate around 70%. Given the small sample, this doesn't say much on its own.
The detail that irked me was that NONE of my bluffs were successful, including 3 barrels on straight boards to be called down with middle two pair and no lo. In addition, the times where I was betting out with (relatively) strong draws, I ONLY got calls from nut draws that have me in horrible shape. Not once did I get called down with hero two pairs when I hit. If this is too vague, I apologize.
I want to point out that the only times I won at show down was if we got it in on the flop (I was usually a 60-40 dog or worse) and if I was short.
Now I hate to be throwing around such harsh accusations before there is more evidence, but have any of the SNG regs played talisain51 and noticed his peculiar play? Again, if this gives me any merit for not being a whiny punk, I am not tilted by losing 2 out of 3 to him (it was only a mid-sized buy in), and I am not an SNG pro trying to flame the guy for beating me. I just thought I would share this situation and maybe it some light if something is wrong.
If it turns out that I am the only one who has had this experience with him, I sincerely apologize.
Tali is a huge annoyance to the other regs playing these because he is the only reg who doesn't game select, which reduces his own ROI along with everyone elses'. But annoying though he is he's not a cheat, he's just a good hand reader.
He limps a lot presumably because his edge is bigger post flop and he doesn't want to bloat pots. He specifically pays a lot of attention to how his opponents play high vs low and made vs drawing hands so he's liable to correctly call you down with second pair or 12th nut low from time to time but it's not magic.