seb do you think its cool when professional poker players are fully backed but represent the stakes they play as their own money?

whos the toughest between wrasse/matchpoint/oogee?

will you play any of them hu ever?

You and I have really different definitions of the word "professional"

My memory must be broken, I thought you guys actually met in person and I was there, must've been an odd dream

Seb why do you think an indian accent is so hilarious?

How did you get a roll to play 500/1k so soon =O *jealous*

I try to have 50 NL / PLO buy in, thats over 1000 BB for a limit but its still kinda short for the PLO

Yes I def increased my roll in relation to the stakes as I was moving up for 2 reasons, the more u move up the more agressive the games get (and so more variance) and also the bigger your bankroll, the more you have to protect it, going broke with 10k is no problem, going broke with 400k is a LOT more annoying.

When PS launched their team online they contacted me as I was already playing a lot on pokerstars, I sent the application back and I guess the fact that I am on a "niche" really helped me

Close between ceegee and chip reese IMO

I really sucked at HE when I started and decided to buy a book to imrove, I randomly bought SS2, read the NL part and also the TD chapter, thought this game might be fun and just fell in love with it so I kept on playing (also I was winning at it as opposed to NL

I spend almost 2 month a year in Vegas during the WSOP and after that I need at least another 10 month to find the courage to play live again

Also the games on pokerstars are pretty good right now so I dont really need to play anywhere else and on top of that I have good live game in france.

yup thats the coolest IMO

I would play anyone HU but oogee, I guess that also answer the first question

My definition of professional is to be the most efficient in your job as possible, yours seems to stop at "being polite"

Happy to know you sometimes dream about me and DD meeting up, for what its worth I had a dream of you meeting up with BOI couple nights ago ... and it didnt go well

For the second question just have a look at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw6RgIf6epQ

its really worth it

I dont have the roll to play 500/1k by my self yet but I am getting there.

Who is depicted in your avatar (or old avatar maybe)? It sort of looks like Stalin or soup nazi from seinfeld.

With out getting into specific strategy (as you've said you don't want to do) what are your general thoughts on 8 game? Any insights from a person of your caliber would be appreciated. For instance, the dynamics of mixing big bet games w/ small bet games and how the nl/plo guys might be expected to run more bluffs than they normally would.

Do you use HUD in any of the games?

Do you use anything to track dead cards?

Do you worry about collusion in big games on Pokerstars?

What SCOOP events and WSOP events do you plan on playing?

Why are there so many French fish?

Thanks in advance.

Which of the regulars at the 2/4 mixed Game in the ACF are winningplayers in your opinion?

- My old avatar was a random picture found on google by typing "iraq", at the time I wanted to steal some of BOI legendary luckbox, I figured putting an iraqi avatar might help.

- I am in a hurry now but will answer the second question later

- Yes I have HEM and use the HUD for the 4 tracked games

- No I dont have anything to track dead cards and this is very annoying, when I multi table there are many spots where I have no idea whether it was an obvious steal spot or not for vilain

- I will play the 50k 8game event and then all the 2500ish event for mix games and triple draw. I wont play too many SCOOP since I will be in paris playing live during that time but I will play the medium and high Badugi / TD / and all mix games + 5card draw

- French players are def awfull on average, probably something cultural, french ppl dont think very rationnaly in general.

more generic question but as a young player too, 21, i find it hard to deal with the swings and variance of the game, obv i am in no way at ur level of 400/800 and up 8game, badugi, 2-7, and horse. how do u deal with variance that u may still perform at the highest level? (i feel the biggest weakness in my game is tilt)

what aspect of the game do u like most in 2-7?

what games do u use HUD for? to my knowledge there is no HUD for badugi or 2-7, correct? I am highly in favor of no HUD no matter the game, would u prefer across all sites HUD be banned or are u a big fan? why?

I can't see how you having a backer/s is the most profitable way forward for you unless you have an unreal deal with them even if it does allow you to play the stakes you are. Do you think you have a compulsion to play the highest stakes possible even if it does effect your bottom line?

How many bets do I need to play the 2/4 game regularly that run on stars right now?

How should I overcome my laziness when it comes to learning other games?

If I am to play other games and the mix, how should I best go about learning?

How many vpp's you going for this year?

How do you think the new french law on poker will impact your ability to play online? Do you expect to be able to play on PokerStars.com in the future, in France / in Thailand?

- I try not to think of the money involved, I just set up montly goal that I try to achieve and this is all I focus on.

- The swings ! Also the game is a lot more complex than badugi imo

- I have a HUD for LHE NLHE PLO and o8, I have no HUD for TD or badugi, only pokerhands and I only use it to know my winrate. I hate HUD too, I think they help killing the game as it helps the bad NITs to mass table at the lower limit.


- First of all, I am now playing on my money most of the games I play, I only sell action for the 4/800+ games. Then yea it can be more profitable to be fully backed to play 2/400 rather than having 100% of 30/60.

Last but not least, sometimes I dont get to choose what stake I play, in a perfect world I would have 3 1/200 TD tables running at the same time, all the time but in reality sometimes the games run higher and I dont have the choice

I guess I also have a compulsion to play the highes stake I possibly can, but I dont want to be stuck playing poker forever, if I choose poker over a regular job its not to make 70k$/year, and as I said earlier, playing in the bobbys room is def an objective

- 500 BB sounds good but you have to be willing to cut down if you lose like 200

- Open a mix game table and look at the other players play

- Start playing 20/40 or something, nothing is better than experience

- I could do 500k based on what I did so far, but since I will be playing a lot live during the WPT paris and the WSOP I will settle for 400k

I'd like your thoughts on using green chat to steal fish from tables that have no observer chat. My thought is that is a completely unethical practice and I'd like your input before I email stars to complain (not that you can say anything to change my mind). Since people will probably not know what I'm talking about, Seb will come to a 100/200 8game table where there is a 7 deep waiting list and no observer chat. He will then challenge the fish at the table to HU of some variety, or a different limit, and last time this happened it broke the game.

I agree with others in this thread, you are completely unprofessional, unbelievable in chat with a giant ****ing ego since Stars signed you. Hopefully karma catches up to you one of these days.

Wow stealing buttons too? Enjoy that sponsorship while it lasts.

Hi Seb86

I'm a NLH player, and i make some money in 20$ and 30$ SNG HU.
Lately i was thinking about making the transition to 8-game SNG HU and cash. I played some microstakes levels and did well.
Do you think in the long run this will be profitable? There's so many ppl learning NLH, and 8-game seems a game with future (high skill factor\fun), but in other hand, i don't know if fish will like to learn so many games at once.
If you think 8-game have a good future, what are your arguments for it?

Thank you

BTW, what methods do you use to study\improve your game?

Most of the High stakes games moved to mix games already, I think we could see something similar with what happened with PLO : High stakes players start playing the game, the fish are intrigued and start playing and the other reg start learning it too.

Thats what I hope for anyway

Nothing beat experience I guess, watching some videos cant hurt either

You're a crazy man seb.

I'm definitely playing at the Bellagio that day to watch you take a shot.

Sorry if any repeat questions

Favourite city in the world?

Do you think talking trash at the table gives you an edge that you would not otherwise have or do you just do it to amuse yourself?

Who do you think is the best 2-7 TD player in the world? If it's you, then second best?

What's the biggest prop bet you have ever made?

When you take a shot at Bobby's room, are you going to choose a day and sit there regardless of who is playing or are you going to wait for the softest lineup possible?

Assuming an 8-game rotation, what long term edge do you think you have in terms of bb/100 at Bobby's room assuming an average lineup there?

Hey Seb,

Can you give me 3 pointers for Corcheval and advise what the most profitable time of day/night in ACF is for mixed and why?

Hello Seb,

do you mind when i PM you in my mother-language german and ask you some questions in private?

I came to Stars specifically to play 8Game and have since fell in love with triple draw and spend most of my playing time on that game.

My question: Being a Red Pro do you have any suggestions/influence that you suggest to Stars that would help lure more players to Triple Draw?

I know it's not a game that would appeal to TV audiences in the way that NL has.

On a side note, I am really surprised that Dan N doesnt play in the big TD games since he wrote the section in SS2 on it.

He has done that a couple times but understands that it is not his best game(bye a huge stretch) and he is basicly a fish in those games. It is not what he wants to improve on right now as I understand it.

Yeah, never having played with daniel I can only assume I would welcome him into any triple draw game that I'm playing in. It's just not possible to be very good unless you've played a game a lot, and a little bit of mixed game live experience just doesn't compete with tons of online experience.

I ll let u know for sure
- Now that I spend little time in it, I would say Paris

- I think both really, I know for sure it gives me extra action as it seems that some people think the best way to punish me for my behavior is to spew like crazy. Also it def amuses me

- There is a couple players I dont want to play HU, I dont really want to name them but I do consider my self top 3 on PS (dunno about the live regs)

- I never made any big or really interesting prop bet, I am such a nit

- Thats a good question, thing is I have no idea what so ever on what a soft line up is there.

I have no idea who plays that game on a regular basis, who is good and what kind of edge I am losing by playing live rather than online (I am sure I am a tellbox to good live player, esp in draw/stud game when you have a lot of stuff to do)

My wild guess is taht most players will be extremlly bad and that any line up will do, I will try to stay out of daniel alei or nick shulman but really thats gonna be the big surprise.

Regarding the winrate, if the mix is good to me (= lots of draw games) and the LU decent I probably could have 2 BB/100 but I am just speculating