1. This year I've been playing almost only 2ks and 5ks, as many tbls as possible without table selecting for super long sessions, not that smart and it sets you up for huge variance or plain losing. I have had great results on ftp and cash so I'm good on the year.

2. Talking and playing with him and watching him. Pretty sure he makes no mistakes and plays very close to optimal at superturbos, and seems unbeatable. Serkules makes some mistakes. The reason his roi is better is because r-quaresma plays like 4-8 tables and almost only 1k, which has a tougher field of players. R-Quaresma has also played cap nlhe cash up to 500/1000 and is considered 2nd best out of everyone there.

3. I never studied the game much, just played a ton and I would automatically think about it and come up with things when I wasn't playing, I seemed to figure a lot of stuff when I was done playing and tried to fall asleep. I've recently gotten a subscription to bluefirepoker, which is phil galfonds site. Its for cashgames but his videos are plain amazing, very good material.

So we're gonna see u soon on Poker after dark or sth together with Livb

wp Dracula

- Are there any distractions when u grind?

- How often do u take breaks?

- How often do u play your A game?

Favourite song?

In a superturbo, do you ever fold a hand at the bottom of your open shoving range because of gameflow considerations?

Example, 8bb effective, you're dealt 57s. You just shoved 4 buttons in a row. You get the feeling you might get looked up light. Do you sometimes muck it?

57s plays pretty well AIPF

okay, say a hand like Q3o instead.

Thanks for the well! Very interesting.

criteria to donk readless?
hokie and mers seem to think gutshots are the only donk worthy hand readless but from what i've read it seems like you would be in the c/r school of thought for those hands (and likely have no readless donk rangeE)

I have donkbet about 20% over the 40k hands I've played on lock since bf...def donking read less.

when would you recommend switching from single to multitabling st when climbing stakes?

-would you rather go without sex for the rest of your life, or only be able to have sex with rosie o donell?

-If you stumbled across a magic lamp and only had 1 wish what would it be?

-superman or batman?

-If you werent a poker player, what would you do for a living?

-Who gave you the most trouble when moving up stakes? When you finally became one of the best were there any players you went back to and made their lives miserable just for fun, like when waiting for tables?

-What group of players do you think transitions best into HUSNGS? Which group of pros do you resent playing most (i mean, Im sure youd have a winning roi, but which group would it be lowest against; i.e. cash games hu players, MTT players.. etc.)?

-cats or dogs?

-If you could eat one exotic animal, what would it be?

-Most embarassing song that you like

-Who is the player(s) that you learned the most from?

-Do you fear that one day there will be too many regs at your stakes, or do you think that at your stakes the game is constantly adjusting and self-regulating (like not enough room for the both of us type stuff)? Or do you think that most players eventually get burned out and eventually transition into other things once they master their craft (like spamz, mers and skates)?

care to make any comment about your criteria for it, or do you do it just at times to make it harder for villain? imo there should be no inconsistency in a readless strategy except between stakes, so im thinking there is some right answer on when to donk readless, but im just not getting it fully.

I take five minutes break at least once an hour, helps to reset your focus. I think because of this I hardly get distracted, if I do I quit usually. Nonetheless I don't play my A game that often, but its fine to play worse if you still think you beat the field and it leads to a larger total profit.

Across the universe by Fionna Apple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ5WPXxNzPU

or maybe "Turn Turn Turn" by Judy Collins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DejUPN4SksU


Almost never, only in the rare occasion you face someone that calls 100%

This hand also never under what you can shove it for, because it doesn't matter if they call lighter then they should against your Q3o shove, because that only adds hands in their calling range that you're ahead against.

Donk criteria I think has to be based on your opponents cbetting tendencies rather then just hand strength. Say your opponent cbets a face up and polarized range or fails to cbet certain boards enough then that could be reasons to start donking.

Dunno if you missed the Q in my PM, but why do you think FT will be ok?

Do you think you'd fair better in a fistfight again one horse sized duck or 20 duck sized horses?

Worst hand you're calling a 75bb open jam first level of a turbo vs an unknown?

Why are they going to stop selling weed to tourists in amsterdam coffeeshops?

Favourite alcoholic drink?

Most hilarious drunk experience?

Which opponent did you harbour the most hatred for at any point?

How much money would you need to be paid to work in McDonalds (or similar) for 6 months and not get fired?

What is the best traditional dutch meal? Didn't like the food much in Amsterdam but I'm keeping an open mind

Why are dutch people f***ing crazy?

gl with college

You are saying that u didn’t study the game much, but how did you learn, assuming you were a player who played his game more in the gameflow/timing/psychological-way, to switch to the logical/ranges/theory-way (switch as meaning in more balance between those)?
Did you play soccer when you were younger? And do you like to compare it with poker?

- Coolest thing you have used poker money on ?
- biggest winning/loosing day
- highest amount of winning/losing days

- Without

- A pill like from the movie 'Limitless', that allows you to use all your brain capacity.

- Batman, he's more courageous then any other superhero because he doesn't have special powers and can actually die.

- College

- I can't think of anyone that really gave me trouble while moving up. I ran really good at the time I moved through the stakes. I can imagine some players, maybe livb wouldve given trouble if I didn't run so good at the time.

- I guess there are similarities between mtts and husngs and the players that play them, but in general mtt players are just really dumb and ******ed. I think nlhe cash players transition best, particularly cap players obviously, and I hate playing them most to.

- Dogs

- I have no idea

- Haha that's a cool one, "You're still the one" by Shania Twain, so corny.

- r-quaresma, spamz0r, livb

- I think most people will get bored with husngs before they actually dry up, I've kinda quit them to. If you look at every year's leaderboards on sharkscope most guys stay around for 1-2 years max. Only person who's been playing consistently for more years is livb.

I'll get to this in a bit.

I know this isn't really helpful but I would always think about improvements automatically whenever not playing and things would come up by itself and thus for the logical/ranges part I only had to force myself to think in that direction.

Obviously I'm really bad at any sport.

- I bought a harley davidson for my dad
- +80k, -90k I think.
- I've had a few weeks where I would literally win 20-40k every day for a week straight. Biggest losing week backing and playing combined I think -275-300k.

That must hurt a little... When in downsing that big, could you do other things and not think about it or would it just consumme your mind entirely?

I'm not good at treating poker like a job so that really killed me, never felt more on the bottom of the world then that, makes you cry to yourself what the hell you're doing and why.

Everyone says this but its good to have something besides poker, if poker is the only thing you get your self-worth from you're basically putting your self-worth in something that you don't have control over.