You act as if OP plays in nosebleeds or very tough reg infested games.
He doesn’t. Gii’ing here when your avg live reg 3b to a sizing of 4x after you iso, UTG +2 vs UTG + 1, will hardly ever be a great situation. It’s probably slightly +EV. Hell even if he folded in these spots everytime he still could be a huge winner in the games easily
from what i can tell OP seems to be making decent $, which probably most players/lurkers here cant say for themselves. Yeah sure OP plays a good amount of hands poorly but i respect that he has the balls to post them even when he knows the forum will flame him, and especially him. But i can guarantee every poster here plays hands terribly on a regular basis, whether they want to admit it or not, and many will choose to omit posting them to avoid flame
Today’s live games are extremely juicy. They always will be. You could avoid flips for the rest of your live career and still making a killing at the tables. They’re literally waiting to donate money to you, saying that avoiding flips means you are 100% a losing player or breakeven, or the occasional scared money, is absolutely ludicrous. If someone isnt making money it’s because they have a bunch of very huge EV dragging leaks not bc theyre afraid to flip
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Originally Posted by XtraScratch8
Huge +1 to all of this.
This is all seriously so accurate.
I get frustrated with some of the juicy spots that DT posts b/c they feel rare for me lately, but I also legitimately respect that he keeps posting them when he knows that he’ll get flamed for his play.I also totally agree that you can make good money while avoiding flip spots, you just won’t maximize your WR. On the other hand, you will make less money more consistently.
+2 avoiding flips levels out your variance and in the short run hurts your bottom line very little.
it also gives you a tighter image if your in a game with the same regs routinely giving you the chance to steal orphan pots and make up the difference anyway
what people are trying to highlight is OP is trying to apply a deepstack theory while sitting on a shortstack instead of adopting a shortstack strategy