ty. haven't seen you in a while, what's up?

took my $ off AP due to recent UB scandal. searching other sites and looking around. cake is ****ing rigged so i took my $ off there too. still in the midst of a horrible downswing so im hoping a new change of venue will help me.

DeltaK!

I've hardly played with you at all lately. I used to play with you a lot, however (at 1-2), and thought you were decent.

The thing about 2-4+ on AP is that you end up playing with the same people all the time. Figuring out how how the regulars play and finding ways to exploit them is going to be one of (if not the) the most important determinant of success. I can see having problems if you just try to break into the game while playing a bunch of tables - or not paying close attention. As you noted, just looking at HUD stats can be pretty misleading as guys like ikestoys and crush (and apparently maverick) can vary their games considerably depending on the table and their position relative to other players. I don't even use a HUD anymore.

Lucky

ty lucky. i probably should just take $5k or something and either figure 2/4 out or quit, but i'm so short sighted that i'd rather just beat up on 1/2 during that time than struggle and work on my game at 2/4. come to think of it, that's prob a bad thing, not only in poker but in life, too.

and for the record, i dont think i've been an ass on he forums anymore, so hopefully people let bygones go, etc. seems like they have for the most part.

There is certainly no shame in playing 1-2. I still patrol 1-2 for short-handed tables with weak players and good HU matches.

I don't know what you did. I never really had a problem with you.

Lucky

wow, didn't realize that...

UNITE TO TAKE OVER SSNL!!

(imo)

i buy in deep at every limit except for 5/10, in which i buy in for 100bbs. ive had alot more success with that than 200 so far. playin all over the place right now until i get my confidence back, on a pretty sick downswing. so i take it we have established lucky is tradebyday? his stats pretty much match what i got on him to.
what do yall think of artyom? googfart?

both are extremely nitty, but then they'll decide to do something ******ed. Pretty solid postflop play. You aren't going to make money winning large pots of them, gotta steal the little ones.

o and btw snatchel may be the worst reg on ap ever.

thats a good one, but he doesn't play above 2/4 much. REDDRAGON is prob the worst reg at 5/10

If I don't say anything you will assume that I am tradebyday, and I can't keep issuing denials because of the limited # of players. I will come clean; I am crush_a_lot.

Lucky

*I should of blocked out the stats.

nice run since dec, you still were very mediocre the last time you played 5/10 consistently (aka last summer/early fall)

ahhh yes, reddragon is sooo bad, forgot ab him.

who is pureklas?

Hmm - I was probably better than you are giving me credit for.

I had a 30k June playing mixed stakes (mostly 2.4 - but some 1.2, 3.6, 5.10, 10.20, and 15,30) and I was very flush. At the beginning of July I completely stopped playing 2.4 and under and sat in at 10.20 and 15.30 whenever they ran (with no game selection). After making 10k the first 2 days of the month I proceeded to lose approximately 25k monkey tilting (I suspect we played a lot during this stretch as I was sucking bad). I dropped back down to 2.4 and recovered enough to break even for July. I don't think I played any 5.10 until August when I pulled 18k out of the game in not very many hands.

My game last spring and summer was very different from what it is now, but it was still very effective when was playing well. When I was playing sensibly I was game selecting so I wasn't playing much 5.10 when the games were bad. When I wasn't playing well, I'd play regardless of who was sitting. Thus, I suspect that I ended up sitting with you more often when I wasn't playing well.

By late-September I was bored with Hold'em so I started playing PLO almost exclusively. In November I started to work my way back into the NLHE games, but with a very different style (more open) than I had been playing. It took me most of November to figure how to open up my game profitably. Now I feel like I have a handle on it. Honestly, I would have been fine if I never changed, but I get bored with poker and need new challenges.

The reason I don't play 5.10 much anymore is that I don't have to. 2.4-3.6 money is plenty good for what I need to do - and the games are generally softer. Also, I swing like a ****ing monkey and it is a lot easier psychologically for me to handle 2.4 swings. The 25k downswing hurt me bad and I don't want to go back there.

Lucky

I think I know, but I'm not going to out anyone.

Lucky

man I figured medevil had to have gone on a huge heater to be able to sit at some of the games he did in the past. He changed his avatar and it took me a little bit of time to realize he was back at 1/2.

lucky_mf. how do you have BBJ rake it PT? Mine doesnt do that.

Thoughts on balamut (possibly pureklas?)?

imo balamut is tough but not unbeatable.

forgot to mention that medevil wasn't too great


and lucky- i haven't played you too much lately but i remember thinking you spewed a lot, but tht's because i call a lot and ran hot those few k hands prob. you've moved up and i haven't so i can't say anything except congrats.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...3&postcount=91

No matter what time of day i log on, medevil seems to be at every single 1/2 table, nitting it up with his unbeatable 13/9 style. I'd say he was a bot but a bot would probably play more hands......

No idea on the BBJ thing. Maybe you missed a PT update or something. My results for yesterday have BBJ contributions so I know that they are currently being tabulated.

lol - It is ok that you think I suck. Like I said before - I'm a grown man with 2 children of my own. I've got more important things to worry about than whether people on the internet think I'm good at poker. Also - I probably do spew a lot - especially at 1.2 because it gets a little harder to care about the $ and I like to gamble.

Anyway - I'm not offended.

When he was playing middle stakes he said he did 100k VIP points (300K ARP points) a month which I think means he plays around 100k+ hands per month. Also - his former sn was "Kiladen". Some of you might remember him.

I actually don't think he is that bad considering he 8-tables and plays so many hands. I think he is a winner at 1.2, 2.4-3.6, and probably 5.10.

I was 8-tabling 50c.1 a few weeks ago - just to see if I could (I couldn't) - and was surprised to see him playing there. He said he lost some $, did a big wd, and was working his way back up. I expect to see him playing middle stakes again soon.

Lucky

8 tabling on AP is super easy after playing on party. I found 6 tabling hard there, but i can 8 table pretty easily (but really wouldn't want to). The hands/action moves so slow on AP that it really really tilts me. I feel like i'm playing half the amount of hands i was at party!

AP plays faster than Stars and FT. Of the US sites only UB plays faster.

Anyway - I can 8-table. I just can't 8-table and make the kind of money I can playing fewer. Plus I don't find it to be enjoyable as I just end up just playing my cards. I'm pretty comfortable with 4 opened progressively, but anything more than that is not good (for me). My MT-ratio is below 3 - mostly because I'm often doing other thing while I'm playing.

In general, I think most SSNlers over-estimate the benefits of 4+ tables.

Lucky

Hey guys I am DoeJai. Up 2million in rakeback this year. So yeah jokes on you!

Lucky how old are you? I hate playing with you now. Like really hate you. Go back to 5/10. ALso, pm me your guess.