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Originally Posted by Lionelhuttz
That is clearly true you, were a winner the whole time, but c’mon you came up live playing a $200 max buy $5bb game and IIRC you posted some terribly played hands in those and the $500 cap games.
I mean Limon said that short buy 3/5 game was unbeatable for a decade on here. You beat it for a solid hourly, went on to beat 5/10nl, and have Russian regs sitting out against you.
Yeah I was a bit rusty at the start of the thread and I did improve some, that's true.
Limon is dead wrong. Short buy 3/5 is very beatable, it just plays very differently from 100bb games. You just have to play very very tight. Like only raise TT-AA,AQ,AK basically. Throw a few other hands in on the button but that's it. Limp with medium pocket pairs sometimes. I definitely know I can beat that $200 game. And it's kind of like Negreanu said "more rake is better", in that game the quality of player is generally very bad. All the pros are sitting at 5/5 and 5/10.
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Originally Posted by water69
If you say you have poor work ethic, what do you attribute your ability to beat tough online games to?
I’m assuming your not doing a lot of studying or running sims or whatever. Tough to imagine you could beat guys that are studying/improving without doing so yourself.
I put my skill down to intelligence and experience. I've played poker since 2003 and when I do play I'm trying to think and put myself in my opponent's shoes. And while I've never ran any sims myself I understand the concept behind the sims. For example if I bet pot on the river I want to be bluffing about 33% of the time in order to make my opponent indifferent between calling and folding. I've understood this concept well before the introduction of sims when I read about pot odds in The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky. And I wouldn't say I do no studying, because I watch a lot of poker content and absorb a lot of knowledge that way which is definitely studying. I watch good players on twitch and listen to their thought process and I watch youtube channels like "finding equilibrium" that dive into sims and stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by Bananasplit
I don't get it/must be nice
I don't get it either. How can 7 people in a row all fold for $2 into a $69 pot? One of these days I'm going to get them all to fold for that amount and it will be glorious.