Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Glantz
It's is important to realize there are many different ways to win at poker. Most big winning players have sound fundamentals and take what are considered by most of us as 'standard' lines almost all the time. But there are other big winning poker players like Andy, Grinder, Hellmuth and Gus Hansen that come to mind. These players rarely take the 'standard' line and are successful due to things that are harder to quantify, but just as effective.
Whenever I see any of these guys make a play that I don't understand and it looks bad on its face, I always try to break it down and figure out what they were doing. Obviously everyone makes mistakes and sometimes the plays are just bad, but most of the time I wind up coming to a conclusion that further educates me about the game.
This x 10000
I am amazed at the hate/jealousy towards Frankenberger itt. sure he's butchered a few hands along the way (unlike everyone itt of course) but he's clearly doing a lot right, hence the continual strong results. It's just that he plays a very unorthodox style, and appears to play on feel a lot. Not suprising that internet crowd struggle to get this.
His utter crushing of Feldman heads up (loved it when he folded pre flop like one time, and Feldman happened to have AA) is one of the most soul-owning displays I have seen in televised HU play.
As for the qq fold, i think people are being really harsh here - yes it was not his finest play, but he's still pretty new to the game, right? Flanked either side by world class players, utg Mizzi opens, Frankenberger 3 bets from utg +1, timenshenko stays in play. frankenberger presumably manages to convince himself that he's up against AA/KK after such strong early action hasn't chased everyone else out of the hand. I know that he still has to call given the pot odds alone, but as said, he appears to play primarily on feel - and it works for him. (Disclamier - not excusing the play, just trying to understand his thought process.)
I'm a fan. just imagine what a beast he could become once he gets his fundamentals right - that's the easy part. the part the he already seems to be strong at, well..... hard to teach that shi-iit