Pads, I think I'm one of the few people who see what you are really doing…saving all the run good for the one drop. I have a feeling that KK<QQ hand so deep virtually guarantees a cash of at least 1 mil when its time for one drop. I think its a good strategy

On a more serious note, that really does suck. Keep your chin up and keep grinding. Best of luck!

Not read your thread before today, but its a really good read. Cheers for updates and better luck with the rest of the series.

Friend on another forum was asking about how I interpretate live reads etc and was that the reason the guy with 33 shoved on me. If I was giving reads off it would be that I was strong though obv.

In terms of live stuff there's actually something I've bought tonight that Timothee Adams told me about at football. It's the special thing Wushu uses that gives him amazing posture and it's supposedly very beneficial for live poker.

Things that I do are

1- never looking at my cards till it's my turn. If it's not my turn and I look at my cards it's my trigger that I'm being impatient and will often fold the hand if it's a close one to punish myself from looking

2- when in the bb instantly start staring at UTG and then every player until it's my turn. I don't stare anybody down pre flop except for that

3- if a weak player is on my left whenever I bet / raise into them I will stare them down until they fold/act

I know I have a really big tell which I can't say here for obvious reasons but whenever I have a big hand I keep trying to do the thing I do when I'm weak. When im weak and doing it naturally as soon as the player looks away I instantly do the tell to get it out the way whilst I can.

When I'm in a big unconventional pot such as leading flop, 4betting pre flop, c/r river etc if it's against a good player I can't help but just smile a lot. No idea why this is but it's definitely balanced. They are usually in wtf mode and just generally amuses me. I usually tell them that "I always smile sorry"

Whenever there is somebody very serious and who stares you down like Timex or just somebody wth a really good table presence I can't stare back at them I generally just try to look away/down at the felt and let them win the ego war pretty easily.

I talk a lot in pots, especially on the river I will talk very much and try my best to manipulate one way or the other. I'd say I talk in hands more than any other player I've played against, people might think it's a bad Thing but I'm pretty comfortable doing it.

If you had to tell me one tell you look out for when you're playing that you think is reliable what would you say it would be?

Swallowing hard when u have a big hand. Its extremely hard to control and i generally hide my neck or make sure they aren't looking.

This is a general tell against recs, fish, and primary online players: study their natural behavior (posture, facial expressions, how close they sit to the table, pitch in their voice, etc) as they approach the table and in a natural situation. When there is a change to this behavior in a hand its a huge signal, now you have to determine if its strength or weakness.

Another great post pads!

In regards to the other players thinking you are super aggressive, have you spoken to other close friends and seen if they have had similar experiences of players feeling different to their actual playing styles?

Keep up the good work, can't wait to sweat that bracelet win!

I tend to swallow hard when I m bluffing

What I had in Malta is that I actually struggled to breathe when I made big bluffs. I guess that's not unique so a good idea when bluff catching is to take a long time and watch the chest. I suppose when I had value I was breathing heavily but regularly and when bluffing my chest must have had the biggest range of movement ever

It's not just an ego war surely. If they can stare you down and you're giving up they may get some extra info. Even if it's just small things like a slight reaction to a turn card.

Live, I don't know his online results.

Frankenberger or w/e his name was had ridiculous results in live poker and he's pretty atrocious.

MTT results be it online or live mean nothing without a huge samplesize. How big can this guys sample realistically be?

Great thread, wish you the best of luck op

Obviously variance smacking you in the head is possible but more often than not good results indicates you're doing something right!

I mean he has 1 score over 30k I wouldn't say his results were anything special at all but I really don't care about it obviously. He's a nice guy, played well and outplayed me in this hand.

What was your hand?

I had KJ villain had KQ!

Nailed it (minus the he s capped part)

been trying to get this twitch channel banned for around 2 weeks now, after over 50 reports its still there and getting $ donations
right now hes streaming one of your videos with mpokerdonk as a modo



He even links to a cracked HEM2 version down in his infos and i can't get him banned.

3k 6max

Have amazing sleep. Get here, lost KK v A7 aip for 40bbs then grind back up. Get it in for really nice pot with Kjo vs T8 that c/r flop, bet/call all in on the turn on t98Q and he rivers a ten. I feel like ok trying to take these hands too well or something I'm not sure. Feels kind of ridic by maybe it's just normal. Incredibly annoying I guess. Not going to berate him or anything, think it's first time this summer I've just stood up and walked away without saying good luck. Wasn't intentional was just kind of in shock about this one, really expected to win it haha.

fwiw pads you can probably get rid of this just by sending a letter to Twitch complaining about copyright infringement

Lol wtf? So many scummy people about.

Funny night tonight. After the last few tournaments ending somewhat painfully decided to go to dinner with Rob to our favourite place to eat in Vegas. Food was amazing as always and then we went to the Aria, played Paigow (never played this before) which was fun, ran decently well, got a taxi to MGM and played blackjack which went decent.

We decided to play poker, Rob was pretty drunk, I was fine but going along with it all. We made it very obvious to the table that we were here to gamble and would be giving a lot of action. In the first hand I called off a guy with 76s for 50bbs and we were straddling/raising/calling a super wide VPIP. There were two women playing next to each other that were showing each other their cards after each hand and Rob and I were sweating each others hands at the end of all the action. Everybody knew we were the fish but it was fine.

Then it all kicked off..

Ridicuously bad reg opens to 15 (2/5) very, very greedy reg 3bet to 50 from UTG1 and he knew I really didn't like him because he was potting it against me when he had it and just opening to 15x so I wouldn't give him action. He makes it 50 and I have AA (showed down 73 and 76 so far in big pots) and make it 150. He is visibly distressed, I assume he has like ATo, or something and just "knows" I'm ****ing with him. He ends up folding and I squeeze out my cards to show Rob. The guy goes crazy "I wanna see those cards, show one show all" This may be the rule but we were just having fun, I told him that if I had to show him then we would leave the table immediately. The rest of the table pleaded for him to not pull the cards out of the deck, he grabbed them and turned them up, we lol'd and left and the table all started arguing and then all decided to quit and were being very angry to the reg. Pretty sad that guys like this can really spoil the game, pretty crazy.

Also WTF, how in the **** could he fold QQ? I was literally VPIP'n 80%. For the rest of the night I think Rob and I asked each other 30 times, "how the **** can he fold QUEENS?!"

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...k-plo-1541796/

feel good about this one..

From the way you write you seem to be a bit insecure , seeking some sort of acknowledgement from the so called crushers/sickos all the time (and i'm not sure why). All the name dropping (see the football game name mentions) the way you feel after you bust highroller tournaments (maybe you are too heavily involved in some in terms of $$ invested ? ) the way you approach them seems pretty bad . You should be there to make a bunch of money while poker is still profitable , try and set aside any sort of ego and just play your best game while trying to filter out any factor of turbulence. Fwiw this is just my opinion and for sure i appreciate you coming here and being honest/not holding anything back,your blog is always a good read, even the controversial stuff/things people might not agree with.

classic dime store bro-psychology

almost every successful person in any field is driven by something that can be broken down and described as unhealthy or as you so eloquently put it 'pretty bad'. To be utterly focused on being the best at something requires a commitment, persistence and tunnel vision that has to derive from a primal instinct or need. These can and do include anger, fear, greed, insecurity, the need for approval, love, sex, revenge, power or many other things.

This thread is interesting because the OP is driven to be great and is also highly analytical, self aware, honest and open enough to share his thoughts, feelings and motivation.

I know you're not being overly harsh and I also agree it's the interwebz so it's all fair game, but too much of that kind of preaching and criticism will turn this into a bog standard hand history thread and there's a mirrion others of those

I imagine very few of the sportsmen/poker players etc at the top of their relative fields are solely driven by the financial benefits.