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Originally Posted by private joker
I sympathize with the desire to put your headphones on, bury your head in the sand, and click buttons with your chips as if you were in front of a computer.
Sigh, I know, right?
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Originally Posted by private joker
But if you took the headphones off and listened to the painfully inane blather that your live opponents emit between hands ...
1. Is it really worth it to take off your headphones and turn off your awesome music (Wu Tang is here forever!) if you're going to be barraged with said painfully inane blather?
2. Is focusing on live tells really this beneficial? I hate to lend so much credence to lolbody language, especially when you're drawing these conclusions based upon a pitiful 35-40 hand/hour sample. Hard to extrapolate much ironclad information when you have like 300 hands total experience against a guy (obv reg v reg will give a much more significant sample, but in general ...). However, even from my more limited live experience, I've been able to deduce the meaning of certain lines of certain unbalanced people at a near 100% clip, simply by hand reading and racial/age stereotypes.
Also, I'm afraid of "false tells", which might be totally in my mind, but I'm a basement dwelling online hermit ldo so I can't read body language ANYWAY and it seems like paying too much attention to it could only mess me up. Thus the headphones.
Though I actually don't really hate the flop play in your HH. Your equity isn't gonna be terrible (assuming the guy never donks the Ac like you say), you're in position (you can even lolcheckback turn in certain spots, which is always gonna look dumb but against fish it might not matter so much), loose fish is gonna take 2 sb to the face with any reasonable club anyway, so ... eh. If it's a mistake, it's gotta be a pretty small one. I'd probably just call but it's not worth fighting about, imo.
Last edited by DrElo; 02-13-2012 at 07:24 AM.