You have to have an idea or is this just for beer money?

C'mon man give us an approximate.

a lot of those sessions if they are hu have an hour or so break in the middle to collect my son from school but when i play mtts its 16hrs with no breaks at all, not fun food wise lol.

i was always quite good at math but i do virtualy no work away from the table, ill sometimes run some hands if i get into a tough spot but thats about all.

noooo i know i should stay in shape and i promise myself i will but i dont get anywhere near the amount of exercise i would like and my diets pretty awful although it was like that before i found poker, im pretty average size height/weight wise but its definitely looking like a losing battle unless i start to change!

when im backed for the hu games im very strict with the roll as a part of its not mine and im sure anyone thats backed me will confirm this, ill drop down if im not doing well and continue to grind and grind if i need to to get it back up.
when im playing on my own roll and a lot more careless unfortunately which is one of the reasons i prefer to play backed.
ive currently dropped down from the 570 hu games and im grinding everything from $28-215 until i get a bit of form and confidence again, hopefully by the end of the week though and ill be back up high.
cool questions!

no i make enough to live off and take a good few holidays a year, and bet a serious amount on sports.
i think the last time i tallied it up was at the end of 2005 and from memory id made about 140k although id had at least 4 5 figure scores that year.

i think its pretty hard to stick to hilo and make a serious amount of money so thats why i tend to mix in the nlhe mtts etc

I have a question although i appreciate that you may not want to answer it:



Whats going on with the high stakes SNG's on stars at the moments? it seems that LEVS.tv is completely crushing where as other top players such as your self and AJB are no longer making any cash.. perhaps your just not playing them anymore idk.
I hope this doesn't seem rude i am just interested - has he figured something out that no one else knows?
BOb

I have noticed that too and would love to know what mddgfc thinks about that!

My guess is that he puts in sick volume to achive so great results!

Hi bob
These past 4-5months ive only played the 9mans about 4 days a month so thats maybe why you havent seen me playing them lately. Ive noticed levs was doing pretty well and im not sure if ajbs been playing as much as usual since he became involved with pbt.
Im not sure if levs has a different strategy but i know that the games have gotten so so much tougher in the last year or two that its very hard to make any serious money grinding them imo.
Very interesting question.

I think he plays a lot but it could also be down to a good run just, no doubt though that he can play.

What kind of variance have you been experiencing in the $75 super turbo HU PLO8 tourneys?

How much of an edge do you feel is out there, with randoms and regulars being separate?

Why do you keep joining to play me in them?

the variance is crazy but with playing a lot of games im hoping it evens out, ive ran pretty bad at the 164's think i lost about 8 in a row at one stage.

your sacrificing a lot of your edge in most of the games but with the amount of volume you get i think its worth it, the traffic at the 215's and 570's are really drying up lately and ive no wish to play imsponsored pwmynuts tatta etc although i dont mind playing regs in the super turbos as much

im just trying to get a lot of games in its nothing personal lol

***borrowed the quote from another thread

perhaps you can give some advice in regards to a specific low-stake HU player type, that frustrates and often then gets the better of me-- the passive-non folder.
he doesn't raise, never preflop, rarely flop, but doesn't open-fold. they will call when you min. raise but rarely when you max raise. they limp and they call, they will fold to strength but not always, and as they very rarely show strength, when they do it seems right to fold generally without the nuts. and yet you find them calling turns light, so that when the cards get turned over at showdown you wonder how they didn't fold and wtf are they thinking. the strategy which i may not have described well enough, seems to make it very difficult to accumulate their chips, while making the game very long where the blinds have escalated mitagating a skill advantage.

and thanks for agreeing to do the well and contributing to the forum.

If you were offered a 9-5 paying exactly the same you make a year, would you take it? Assuming you get similar vacation/holiday time (but don't you get 6-8 weeks anyways over there?)

What are your longterm goals concerning poker?

What do you plan to do if the U.S. actually bans online poker (as in enforcing), dwindling the player pool?

No probs im enjoying doing it....

Firstly i hate min raising, ill only do it against very specific opponents and as this guy seems to call a lot i wouldnt be min raising against him at all, either flat call or max raise, eventually he grow tired of folding and revert to calling again imo.
I think against this guy it makes a lot more sense to play abc poker and only bet when you have really strong hands/draws although i wouldnt double barrel my draws most of the time as he will call regardless.
Its very hard to gain chips if the guy wont get involved but you need to punish him heavily when you have the best hand imo and take the free cards he will allow when your hand is just ok.
Id try this for about 5 games and see how you cope and i hate having to stop playing against players i think i have an edge on but sometimes there style of play just does not suit your game and its best to just avoid them as much as possible.

Noraml holidays are about 24 days in 9-5 jobs, id never ever ever go back to 9-5 unless i really had too even if they guranteed to double the money i make from poker i honestly just couldnt do it.
Im a single parent and my son lives with me for 5 or 6 days a week so every days pretty much planned round him which is why ive had so few mtts days lately. It can prove to be difficult around scoop/wcoop time but the rest of my family help out quite a bit and i normally get about 4 hours sleep a night during those periods.

my longterm poker goals are to crush the hu games consistently, win a sunday major like sunday mill etc and eventually to play a lot more live poker.
Id also love to see the major poker sites and tours doing a lot more to promote all games rather than just nlhe as the other games require as much if not a lot more skill imo.

That would be a nightmare for so many grinders and id hope with all the other stuff going on in the world that they see sense and try to fix poverty etc before worrying about people playing a game that has always been played.
As for what id plan to do then, id probally have to grind other games until omaha8 became more popular throughout the rest of the world

very interesting question ty

Do you miss mrRobert?

ive no idea who that is?

Really? ohh nvmd just a player that used to play the limit games on stars....

BTW its really cool how you are doing this one well...

Hope it runs long

Here is a random q:

Whats the poker related question noone has ever asked but u have acked to answer for a long long time....( if any)

Cheers its been fun so far.

Thats a really good question but i cant think of anything i really wanna answer thats not really been asked ill have a think about it though

What is your strategy in Super Turbo SNGs?

Great well, TY!



For the argument´s sake, lets say that I cans top my heavy tilting, finish the soft and the button for insta-closing poker-clients and really start concentrating on the game.
now, could you elaborate on, how would you start grinding up from micros?
First 9man sng-s and then HU, or full ring plo8 cash. Basically I did not enjoy limit very much.
On euro-sites when I found remains of former bankrolls, I usually sat in empty PLO8 games, and played until 3handed. I found that interesting and also it was easier than hu sngs, in which in tilted like crazy.
It may not be a very interesting question to answer for you, but if you still do it, Thank you!


Also, a travel tip for you:

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/music-world/...-the-black-sea

post a picture of your setup?

push push push lol

i would but ive no web cam, its pretty standard just a big monitor on with a desktop etc

The best way to grind up a roll imo is to put in plenty of volume at hu as there are some really soft games out there


if you gonna grind the 9 mans at the lower levels its best just to value bet when you make your hands as opposed to pushing small edges pre flop

ive never really done that well at cash games so im probally not the best person to give advice but id always tend to be pretty aggressive at these as there are some terrible players in these also

I find limit very very boring now and rarely play it

Perhaps the most important aspect of poker is to try and control your tilt and always play as close to your a game as possible. It sounds so obvious but i really see so many people doing crazy things over and over again that make no sense that i cant stress it enough.

Have you read Dan Deppens book on Plo8? If so what are your thoughts?

Fortune Rooms, Bangor, how are they still open? I know the law and im pretty sure they are the same as the cavendish/yorkgate etc but Bangor remains open.

Twice monthly in ards a bouncer was doing a £10 NLH 2 rebuys and £20 add on and was claiming the rebuys and add ons for himself (usually 20-28 runers with about 10 rebuys and maybe 8 add ons as average)
He didnt use trny director or anything and these were self dealt.
I seriously toyed with putting on a much better trny but in the end I valued my kneecaps more.
Anyway, ever think NI needs some sort of poker federation set up?

How much $$$/Vodka to watch you do a live sunday schedule?