Lol. Has to be about three weeks ago now when he did a "how would you play it" post in the chat thread about a hand between us, but he told all what I had claimed at the table that I had, and didn't reveal his hand. Turned in to a leveling war in the chat thread. Starts here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=33149
Best: Cash: Sit down in a 1/2 game with two pros and two fearless (and somewhat gambooly) regs all sitting 500BBs deep, and somehow I become the table captain with my 100BB starting stacks, and cash out for 500BBs at the end of the night.
Tourney: Play a casino donkament, which I almost never do, for fun and because it actually had a decent structure. Get several compliments from pros/semi-pros who didn't expect much from an unknown 40-ish white-guy. A grinder who is a (low-level) friend of Ben Lamb's offers to swap 10% with me in any future tourneys we both play, to reduce variance. I took sixth, after the last drooler in the tourney l/cs my 99 shove with A2o and binks an ace, but I didn't much care. I was just happy with how I played.

Worst: Sit down at a table of loose-passive idiots so bad that I go over my normal stop loss and lose 375BBs.

Quitting: When my OL roll got down to less than $1 and I was losing to droolers in NL100 home games, because I wasn't adjusting and was playing exactly like it was OL, and then paying off their redic 2-pairs and draws. Fortunately, I was crushing charity tournaments at the time, so I was able to keep my head up about my play.

Going pro: Never considered it. I did (before I got more experience) once think I might go semi-pro once I retired from the Air Force, but once I put in enough volume, I realized that I wanted to keep my hobby fun, so I cut back.

So mood dependent. Two go-to's that never disappoint though: In Germany, Lohrer Urtyp 1878, which is a mix between a pilsner and a marzen in style. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3426/7995 In Colorado: Pikes Peak Brewery America the Pale, Dry-hopped American Pale Ale. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pikes-p...utiful/146517/

In honor of my well hitting 100 posts and 2K views, before it dies I'm putting a bounty on it. 2 best questions (one poker-related, one not) in my well in next 24 hours get $10 in cash monies on Merge or PayPal.

gogogo

(don't want the $10)

what do you believe to be the most overvalued poker concept?

what is the worst behaviour you have ever seen in a poker room?

the three biggest pieces of wisdom (life, not poker) that you would want to hand down to your child

How do you run less than a buck up to four figures?

Why do you think feel wrath doesn't want the $10?

The most respectable behavior you have witnessed at a poker table, or outside.

Inspiration that makes you look forward to the next season, every season. I didn't say everyday because that's very different than something slightly further down the road, and it isn't something way down the road like a life long dream or something.

How has poker helped you in the real world? What lessons can you take from the table and apply to the real world? Vice versa, how has the real world helped you on the felt? Can you credit how you were raised to be a mostly calm and collective person at the table or would something else like the AF be the reason?

Betting "to see where I'm at." I was going to say "it would have been a few years ago, but even the fish lol at that these days." Then I played a session tonight, and half the players were doing that and discussing it like it was a real thing.

I've never seen anything too crazy. Seen a lot of throwing cards at the dealer, arguments between two players, angles and such type stuff, but never any fights, or puking on the table, etc. The worst I think I've seen is an off duty dealer "going north" above the max BI to cover a fish, and the dealer on duty letting him get away with it.

Good one! This will take me a while to answer well. I will come back to it.

I wish I still had my stats, but I lost them when I changed computers. IIRC, 20 cent SNGs until I had $10, then took a shot at a $1 SNG and binked it, which allowed me to keep playing those until I got rolled for the $5s. Was stuck at the 5s forever, but when I finally got back to the $10s they seemed easier than the 5s. Then the 10+$2 bounty SNGs came out, and they were like printing money. Everyone wanted the bounties, which made getting in to the money pretty easy as they all played crazy early.

Because he's not on Merge and "lol tendollaraments" for regular monies?

The next two are also going to take some thought, and I need to call it a night. I answer those in the the next batch.

Why in God's name did you offer money, thus ensuring you would have to review like 50 questions tomorrow?

What is the best thread you've seen on 2+2, and the post that was the most helpful to you at the time?

I liked Pike's beer the time I had it. I am not sure how national they are.

Cause it's for the best questions, and I'm hoping to get some more valuable and interesting stuff ITT before it fades away. Plus, I'm pretty jazzed that this thread worked out, as I was very on the fence about a guy like me with no particularly impressive results doing a well. Almost didn't do one at all.

Not only are they not national, I don't think they're even know throughout Colorado...

I'll answer the rest (and any more that come in today) after work and determine the winners.

Have you ever been to GABF? Can you write a fake trip report that involves bringing APD along with you?

During your travels, how would you approach playing someplace new? How would you adjust to the local game? Was there ever a game you couldn't "figure out"?

your porn name would be?

Oh, man. And that question snuck in right under the deadline...

Where abouts in Colorado?
Thinking about coming home for Christmas, would I be able to find a home game?
Family lives in Ft. Collins

Well, first would be "use back-up contraception," because I didn't have any children... that I know of.

Seriously though:
1) Bad things happen to everyone. Failures use that as their excuse and bemoan their bad luck. Successful people get up, brush themselves off, and move on.

Only you are responsible for what you do. If you do good things, it generally works out well. Sometimes though, things go wrong. You are still responsible for you, you just have a bit more to work on now.

2) If no one is dead, and you don't have to wake up the president, it isn't really an issue that ruins your life. Be diligent, but don't stress over the small stuff.

When I was flying recon missions, we had reports called CRITICs that had to be on the president's desk within 10 minutes. I can't get into what met those criteria, but you can imagine. I was involved in three of those during my flying days. After a while, you got to the point where crap like "there aren't enough lunches for everyone on the plane" just aren't that big a deal. You make sure the most senior and the most junior people get lunch and you eat some jerky and cope until you land. You won't starve.

3) Quality, leadership, etc are not programs. They are attitudes.

Quality doesn't come from a fishbone diagram, or a spreadsheet, or a trendy diagram of a "continuous improvement process." It comes from a commitment to doing good work. If you have the right people, these programs just slow the group down and depress people. If you have the wrong people, at least the programs will keep them busy enough to minimize their impact and give them guidelines to follow that keep them from screwing up too badly. That's not quality, though, it's just mediocrity.

Leadership is much the same. You don't learn it from a checklist or a PowerPoint slide. All you need to know is how to focus on the main goal and take care of your people. All the rest is just practice and following the model of leaders you respect.

Lance Prius

I'm too tired to answer any more tonight, sorry. Work has been kicking my butt. I'll get the rest and choose winners when I'm not so brain dead.

Ship me the money already. Wtf is taking so long.

Woah, the interpretation I made just has to be wrong.

It's a hybrid, baby!

9 millimeter or shotgun is your backup?

I've seen a few players push the pot to another when the other person showed a winner, even when the first guy could have kept in on a technicality. I've also seen (and done) suggesting to a very impaired player (drunk or tired) that they should pick up. Both good game integrity moves, imo.

I don't do that very well, actually. When the next season comes along, it always takes me by surprise, and I wonder where the last one went. I usually have a hard time looking more than a few weeks ahead.
Mentioned before on page one, but they deserve another shout out:
Now that I know what I'm doing, I always satart by playing ABC and a bit weak/tight while I figure the table out. I often run one bluff early based on my perceived nittiness as a white guy nearing middle-age, and if caught use the image change to my advantage. If not, I let it go for a while, and then start working the FE.
Local games that have a small player pool can be figured out quickly. Just watch who shows down what against whom and, very important, pay attention to how they needle each other.

When I first found 2+2, I couldn't figure out "limp/call-huge-raise-for-15%-of-stack and then play fit-or-fold post flop" games, or which I found many. There was no LLNL forum back then, and these games made no sense according to what the best poker theorists were teaching me. I eventually figured it out, and even made a theory post about it on here some time ago.

I think that's archived by now, but the cliffs were: Raise PF huge for value. c-bet flop with air for a small % of pot a very high percentage of the time, as their calling range is very bet inelastic (they have a calling hand or they don't, as long as your bet isn't redic small or large, the sizing matters little). Give up unimproved if called OTF on a dry board.

If you flop TPGK or better, bet a large % of pot and often bet all the way for value against their TPWK and even 2nd pairs that will call three streets. Accept the variance that comes from running into their silly 2p hands when they pair their crappy kicker.

I don't think contraceptive means what you think it means...

I live in Colorado Springs. We could find you a home game, but it would be a long drive. I'm afraid I don't know the home game scene in Ft. Collins. A couple of very good breweries there, though.

Nope. Been to many smaller craft beer festivals, but never the zoo.

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