Ok I was gona ignore some of the sillier dumber stupider trolling flaming posters posting about my vids and hands in the vids and other things.
But to many people are believing them,and taking them seriously.So its time to correct things and to clear the air about things.
first off about the vids:These trollers and flamers posting this crap,is just that crap.I mean cmon 24 betting 4 high?first off no one 24 bets,the only way to do so if 2 players were to go back and forth like its a limit poker game,and I have only seen that once over the years.2nd I wouldnt play 34, or 24 etc,unless I was on the BB.3rd,I wouldnt be betting it post flop unless I had made a straight,or had trips,or had 2 pair,or if I was on the river facing a showdown and I had no showndown value,and I had been playing tight and hadnt bluffed in a while,then I might bluff bet it to take down pot and not goto showdown.
Another is the trips K's thing.There is absolutly almost no way I am going to fold trips K's,unless its in a situation,where there are multiple straight and flush possibilities and multiple raises and reraises by at least 2 other players,and that those players would have to be non donk good players,unless it was extremely obvious that they were on the draw,and had made their draw.
Another is that I am not a min bettor,I have always told others this:if you bet the mininum you will win the mininum and if you keep on doing so every street,every hand,you put yourself into position to lose the maximum.
And another thing is that I dont shove all in on no pair or no draw or bottom pair.The exceptions are if I am very shortstacked and I need the pot super badly enough,to shove the bottom pair to make a stab at picking up the pot,if I have the table image and tightness to do that,and if I have seen others fold to me and others.
So either as 1 other poster has said,either these are vids by someone else and not me,or some of the trolls and flamers are lying and making up these ridiculous things that I have supposedly done.
Also another thing that some trollers and flamers and even non trollers and nonflamers do,is that they comb extremely carefully thru the whole vid,looking for the 1 or 2 or a couple or a few hands out of 50 hands or 100 hands or 500 hands that look silly or ridiculous,and say "hahahaha hehehe lol look at how much Mike DH sucks because of this hand"
They dont bother watching the whole vid as if they were playing the tourney.They dont watch the nuances,situation,and think,why is he making that move.The moves I make are based on nuances,situations,table conditions.For example to prove a point.In a tourney at Quest casino in spokane,wa,I bought in for 700 chips that cost me $13 while everybody else paid $50 for 4500 chips.There were 100 players in the tourney.I doubled up on AQ.and then again 1 more time.So I had about 2000 to 3000 chips whn I hit very card dead.Folded 17 times in a row.Now when I shoved a A10 hand in late position to pick up a small pot to keep me floating,another player shoved.then yet another.And everybody folded.And then I shoved again,and another shoved.Again more folds.And then a 3rd round of shoving.And then me and that other player who shoved,decided that they weren foldin because they were not picking up hands,they were folding because they were that tight,and would only call if the got AA or something.So me and the other guy Started going all in every 3 to 7 hands with any 2 cards an nobody ever called us.And Btw I went on to win that tourney for a $675 cash.Now thats the only time I have ever done that,and will probably never ever do it again.But it was right at the time,because of table conditions.Table conditions are EVERYTHING,and they should dictate how you play,to a certain extent.
So when you watch a video watch pay attention to table conditions.And also watch for the many hands I do play right.No player is perfect.And I have even seen pros misplay hands.Example would be the JJ hand that Annie Duke played in the main event.She played it so horribly.She 2.5 times raised it,which is not a big enough of a preflop raise,ad ten she slowplayed it to the turn,against a straight draw and a flush draw against to other players.And then she was losing to a straight or a flush or trips on the river and she raised medium size,and she got reraised back,and then she shoved all in,and then she sucked out a miracle J on the river to make a full boat to win.
Now if she were to go undercover and make a vid,and lets say that hand I talked about was in the vid.Most of you would make fun of her and say "wow what a stupid player" and not look at all the hands played right.
Also even though I was a average player for many years who just got lucky to have lots of early offline and online success and had many extreme near misses that cost me making lots of money and plaing on tv,I am a much better player now.I have reread full tilt tournament poker book.I have read Phil Hlemuths book(forget which one)And I have read Hoh(harrington on holdem,ut only the tournament edition book and not his other books.I have read Sklalansky's book,but that was a very tough read,to much math formulas equation,and I stopped reading it.I hav read the full tilt poker articles.I have watched te training vids at full tilt and other sites.I have been coached by a successful player.I have listened to and learned from posters here,just not from everybody,as some made sense to me and some didnt.And I dont hink its coincidence that after all that,I had even better success offline then even before,where I have cashed 23 out of 57 tries this year,and where I made 2 $15 stakes go up to $80 2 times playing the $1 sit n go stakes.And after this time I made better videos that were of better quality play wise than past vids.I also passed on what was learned and taught to me on to beginners and to 1 or 2 mentee's,to hlp them become better players,and they did become better players.
And so after all this and that,I went on the biggest bad run I have ever been on.This was not caused by bad play.But altho thats the case the bad rub might have caused me to slip up play bad occasionally without realizing it,which may might pobably have extended the bad run and make it last longer and be even worse.
So thats why I am trying to sharpen up my play,to turn my bad run around.
And to do this,I on need trollers and flamers,trolling ad flaming.I dont need people misreading and miunderstanding and assuming and jumping the gun to conclusions.What I do want and need are constructive discussive,debative,logical,reasonable,convincing, persuasive post.
And just because some peoples post dont make sense to me,o just bcause I question some people post to me,and just because I dont agree with some peoples post to me doesnt mean thats the case with all.Already there have been 4 or 5 post that I have listened to agreed to,and will try to apply.
But nobody sees or remembers this,and only remembers wht I dont agree with,or when I put the trollers and flamers in their place.thats why I have when I agree with someone and say I will try something,I saracastically say "But I dont ever listen or agree with anyone and never try anything"
Now I know I can be extremely wordy.And that some of you dont want to read my post and would rather assume.Well if you dont want to read everything thats fine.But if yu dont want to read everything I say,then dont assume.If all your going to do is assume,or misunderstand,or jump to incorrect conclusions,then dont be suprised when I dispute.
And also its not forbidden to disagree,is ok to dispute,Question,discuss,debate,convince,persuade, converse.
And so if a person cant handle that,then I suggest they stop bothering me ad others and go pot elsewhere
But if they want to post here they can,they have the freedom to do so,just like its ok to dispute,question,discuss,debate,convince,persuade, converse
This is how me and others learn the best.When something is logical,and reasonable,and makes sense to me,then I learn it and apply it.
And thats why my coach was so good.he listened,he explained,we discussed,debated,tried to convince and persuade each other,conversed.And because he did that,he convinced,persuaded me,with logic,and reason,that I was wrong and needed to change some of the things I was doing.And I agreed,because what he said made sense.
Mike
