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Originally Posted by bulls_horn
Cheese and Rice, Brother. Talk to Mason, see if you can get a book deal put together. I'd read quite a bit, then started scanning down and realized how much you'd written. Whoo!
Funny you cite HOC as a big influence. I'd picked it up at the library a few days ago and started on it. Looks like I'll be bouncing back and forth between Harrington and GcluelessaboutdeepstackG, lol.
You're "table selection" section was a good read. One thing I'd add is trappy players. If I note someone that likes to slowplay or trap, I prefer to be on his right, as I'm more aggro, and would prefer to just lean into him and force him to react to me rather than allow him to comfortably play his game and keep me guessing.
I stopped reading @ "preflop". I'll come back to it I know, just need a break. I know one thing we disagree on is limping. I don't do it, and punish those who do when I choose to play a hand, while you'll happily limp along. This is a leak imo, especially deepstacked, where you'll just have too much trouble getting your stack in when you hit gin.
Congrats on your 1000 hours.
One question I had which I didn't see answered: you said you only play one night a week. Which night of the week is this normally? Friday or Saturday, I'm assuming, as most other nights at most rooms I've been to are usually reg-filled.
I do like HOC, and quote it a lot. It's not perfect though. I don't like the fact that it's example stakes are all over the place (I wish it would have just limited all of the examples to like 1/3 live). I think it's ideas are great, but I don't think it necessarily does a good job in some of it's examples using those ideas. For instance, there's a least one example where he recommends raising the flop with TPTK, which to me goes clearly against the "small hand small pot rule" (although, this might also really be overall style dependent; if we've got a nitbox image, we should probably never be raising here, but if we've got an aggro image this might differ). I also hate a lot of the weak game examples where we like flop the nuts and yet somehow we're not playing for stacks by the river. And I've also never randomized a preflop/flop play, although the idea isn't really that bad of one against thinking opponents. But overall, it's the nuts. Having said that, I really haven't read any books (other than Gordon's Little Green Book), so meh.
I don't agree with your thoughts on vs the aggro guy either. If he's deepstacked and aggro, I'd much rather be on his left (and I don't think anything else is close); this will enable me to pot control while also showing weakness and bluffcatching for reasonable pots that won't risk my stack. If I do happen to be sitting to his right, I actually take the exact opposite approach of yours and check/call my way to victory (bluffcatch against his super wide range instead of betting into him with our made hands and letting him play fairly decently against us). Each to his own, I guess.
I'm still a big believer in limping / overlimping, but I realize that's not going to be preferred method by most here. I could be wrong on this, but I just think many here come from a much tougher on-line background where limping obviously is dangerous; but in juicy moron infested live games, limping is where it's at, imo. And while deepstacked I might not necessarily be able to get stacks in, I can still fairly easily play for ~100bbs (which ain't chump change) with one postflop raise in position; besides, I'm not certain I want to play for 200+bb stacks with anything other than ~nuttish hands anyways.
I wish I tracked the day I played with my results (although I guess I could figure that out since I do record the date), but my guess is that it'll simply be to small a sample size and fairly useless to draw any conclusions from (~140 sessions, so on average that would be like 20 sessions on each day, so could we really conclude much from such a small sample?). Recently (since fall of 2012) I've been trying to get in my once-a-week session on a weekend simply so that I can get in more hours (usually a ~10:00am to 9:30pm shift). I actually rarely play Friday/Saturday due to family commitments. The Friday/Saturday shifts I have put in, I don't really notice much difference in the crowd; most tables I play at are reg-invested (thankfully, most regs are bad), and there are very few off-the-casino-floor-I-wanna-play-poker-like-on-the-tvs opponents. Course, I usually only play to 9:30pm, so there's a decent chance I might miss some noobish drunks sitting down after night clubbing or whatever on a Fri/Sat night.
Ggoodluckatthetables!G