I see.
I think this is a fundamental problem with sites like two plus two. Mainly, actually, two plus two specifically. I wouldn't want to post a question like the OP here if anyone i played with knew who i was. And, by the same token, I would not be likely to answer it very specifically if i was known by some of the regs on this forum. Where does that leave us then?
Maybe the best way to use this forum/site would be to get a private study group together, particularly with players you don't play with/don't know that you play with.

I thank you for giving me what seemed to be straight answers at the risk of exposing thought processes to those who might know your online ID.

On another topic, that recipe was especially helpful. At first I didn't see how it applied to poker. Then i served it at my weekend home game and I just WRECKED SHOP. The recipe has a proprietary "tilt inducing" blend of ingrediants. Thanks a million.

Just stick to the micro forum.

How many online hands have you played at 100NL+?

I've never been one to hide my online pokering ID. Anyone who has played against me knows it is me, even if I don't know it is them.

Frankly, I don't really care. I think it's something that isn't going to matter enough to worry about. I don't play HU much at all, and only a little bit of 6m here and there. At FR, you just don't get in to enough non-standard spots vs other regs with enough frequency to matter.

There is a reason ABC, with some hand/board reading ability, wins at a decent enough clip on it's own, without relying on FPS play in stupid spots against regs who in most situations aren't even going to be good enough to notice that your play is FPS-y in the first place, because theirs won't be. Or, if they do notice, they most likely just think it is bad but can't reason out exactly why it is bad/FPS-y.

At micro and small stakes,in my experience, most regs, not all but most, are relatively uncreative and don't recognize spots to BE creative because they lack something. Usually some combination of theory/knowledge, experience, ranging/board reading ability, or confidence/conviction in their own ability. Lack of creativity means they play in a highly predictable way which can, of course, be exploited. The also play on autopilot far too much, and miss nuances of how a hand is playing out.

I'm no great theorist or great poker player, so don't mistake me for being a big winner or anything, I'm not. But I like to actually think about the game, and not just push buttons. I can get D3 for that.

this is a "system" and doesn't work against thinking players who hand read at a basic level.

also, you seem very hostile against this forum despite the loads of free advice you've been given (even if you have to use your brain to separate the troals from the non).

this right here is a golden nugget of information. a good response from you would have been a bunch of why's and why not's regarding these numbers, exposing your own thought process as detailed as can, and being gracious for any answers given trolling or not, instead of getting pissy about something unrelated.

this is a good template you can use to respond to meleab if you want:



you seem to think you're owed something. you're not. the poker world's very different than it was 2 years ago, just as it was before that and so on. it's tough. you need to sack up if you want to cut it and carry yourself better too if you want respect.

there's a lot of good threads in the archives. and once you get good, or at least more acquainted with the online poker world, which is very different and more awesome than any other world that currently exists, you'll find the humor in many of the posts you find insulting.

(donovan, assume the board read Kc 5h 2d in your free template)