Over 300k, I'm relatively confident they will return though, not worried.

I played a 50/100 game in pounds against a saudi arabian oil sheik, where he sat at the game with a group of bodyguards that really just looked like some mob and they searched me before I could play in the game.

makes me happy

Because r-quaresma does it. I think it creates a more advantageous stack/pot ratio postflop for you and its harder to 3b bluff.

Against bjoerni I screwed up, but he makes a ton of fundamental mistakes.

would you ever consider doing an ST hu4rollz?

Huge difference, 500$ regs will often play sloppy, take a lot of suboptimal lines, get in tough spots and fail to make overall gameplans. I think the good 5k regs are extremely confident in every spot and have an effective plan how to beat their opponent.

I assume superturbos will always keep running, or at least outlast yourself, can't imagine anyone not getting bored with them way before they dry up.

How much $ do you live on per month?

A businessman approaches you and asks you to flip for everything you own. If you win, he gives you 10x your net worth, if you lose, you're out on the street. Do you take his offer?

^hahahah too sick


btw... <3
I hope our HUPLO session was the catalyst of you becoming best HUPLO in the world

When are you coming to visit Austin?

What kind of career do you plan to pursue once you graduate college?

What do you think is the biggest thing holding me back in my poker career ?

didn't you feel kinda small making a well after JackTheShipper made one?

How much money in poker do you made lifetime? If you don't mind answering, of course.

Strengths: recognizing opponents tendencies and defining ranges accurately and not doing dumb ****.

Weaknesses: Playing too long and not table selecting at the end of the sessions, I've played so many 10h sessions this year and start with a 4tbl battle after that, that's just bound to go wrong.

Three "aha" moments:
- The first when spamz0r taught me some of his game, basically to let go of any set of rules I had from reading 2p2, like never folding 2 pair, not bluffing against fish etc and really start thinking and being confident in your reads.
- Second when r-quaresma beat me for a lot of money on fulltilt, realise I was playing very poorly and had to start focussing on correct ranges and overall gameplan instead of playing every hand individually, learn to multitable.
- The third when I met heybude and his brother and they taught me cashgames and the correct barrel ranges in those, and that they don't apply the same for husngs. For example, in a husng a K22r board is a good board to checkraise because your opponent is cbetting this board a lot and because the stacks are always shallow you can easily be checkraising K3o here. In hu cash however you don't have a lot of offsuit kings in your range OOP and you don't want to put 100-300bbs at risk with every king you hit on this board, so you can't rep that much with a checkraise. A 567 board on the other hand, is great to checkraise in hucash because you can apply a lot of pressure with that many bbs, and in husngs this is obviously a bad board to craise bluff.

I don't drive a car.

Learn myself, just think of what the optimal game would be. Shortstack hold em seems like a solvable game, just try to think of how a super computer would play it.

That guy is flatout terrible lol. I don't hate him or anything but that guy's just a total idiot.

Sounds pretty gay

Like 500$ lol. I'm gonna move into my own appartment when I start college though. I currently live with two friends for free pretty much.

I'd hate it but I would feel like I'd have to take it because I would be able to make it again in a year or two if I lost, whereas if I would win I'd be settled for life.

850k in husngs/bonusses
250k in cashgames

lol, epic

can you pull up a hand vs me in your database where i stacked you w/ JJ in a deepstack (i would but its on a computer back in the states). What was your thought process here, or was it just because you were rly messed up at the time? You did make some allusion to that but I didn't know if you were being serious.

Should I move in w/ sick cashgame player in London for 6 months or start HUSNG grinder place in Australia? I know where I'm leaning, but what do you think is more +Ev from a purely poker standpoint. obv life considerations come into play as well.

I'd love to pursue a career in mathematics/physics after graduation, but that's like wanting to become a pro soccer player. It's not impossible though.

It doesn't seem like much is holding you back, I think you do very well. You've made a lot with poker, with both playing and coaching etc.

Hu cash vs Hu sng's what do you prefer the most and why?

Sounds like I made some dumb play and there was not much thought behind it, other then being tilted because a 500$ game took so INSANELY long.

I'd go for australia, husngs are gonna be more profitable then live cash and london is a very expensive place to live. Live poker may be fun for a change but it really won't make that great of a life.

no no no, live has no bearing. hes high stakes online player.

Oh I see, london sounds like more fun then a husng grinder house.

Are there any swings you feel like you aren't able/don't want to handle? Or do you figure as long as you're making money it's all relative?

I finally know how to deal with any swings. I've had a few 150-200k downswings and those struck me insanely hard, you go from being on top of the world to feeling like you will be depressed for the rest of your life. Its never the money that gets you but rather the thought that you're one of those guys that beat poker in 2008 and is losing it all now to the new line up, and its all your own dumb fault because you're too arrogant and fishy to move down, tighten table selection and improve your game.

Before anyone asks, top 5 turbo regs:

1. livb
2. riyyc
3. rquaresma/skaiwalkurrr
4. heybude
5. I have no idea who would go here... all notably mentions are: bjoerni, berndsen, isildur, luckychewy (although he never played many), iftarii.

You talk a bunch about learning about hand ranges and learning how to play your own range optimally instead of every hand optimally. Do you ever feel that by optimalizing your game in this way, you have lost a part of your edge vs fish as to how you played before.

If you have to judge your own game in weighing your strongest points, would it be the '''feeling'' part, or the ''heybude'' part.

how much time did it take you to become a great player by your standards?

how did your parents reacted to you playing poker? winning so much money?