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offsuit 8 sorry

Lies. Total lies.

Whats your thought on shortstacking? Do you consider it unethical?

Should sites make the minbuyin larger for all tables?

You've made reference to your dislike for live poker, also the fact that high stakes provides you with the meaningful tension required to play your A game. If you could regularly get a seat in the Kenny Tran game (an were bankrolled for it) would consider making it your primary game?

now i realize why he stopped replying to this thread

Love the new avatar lol stevesbets

Ariel - this is random, but I was the guy who won FX your (my) senior year. Got 9th the year before, obviously knew you were the **** and was blown away after the f-up in semis. After my speech in finals ("What role now for Russia in the arena of world affairs?") you came up to me and said something along the lines of "good job, that's the right way to give an extemp speech". It was a great gesture, you seem like fundamentally a nice guy amidst all your success (which is reinforced by your 2p2 posts, etc.)

- John

Here is an interview with him......the best part is (imo)

DS: How did you get your rep being the go-to guy for flips?

FWF: I made a couple different BBV threads asking people to flip, in which I flipped and lost like $10k each time. Then I'd see people post like "anybody want to flip?" and it's always for some small amount of money that I think it would be funny to flip for.

So I'd go to some guy's table and flip for his $25.37 roll on Stars or something.

That and I'm always sitting at empty tables waiting for action and people will sit in and ask to flip and I will always say yes if I don't have games going because it's boring just sitting and waiting for somebody to play me so it's a good way to keep entertained.

I guess the TL;DR version is that I am just always down to flip and thus end up flipping all the time.

Part I

Part II

lol.

Did you go and woke up Emil or was it the camera guy?

Emil was indeed woken up, as can be seen in the video: High Stakes Poker part II

so whats new?

nice thread!

Just read through this thread again. (I think i read it back in 2008 aswell)

This is such a good well by foxwoodsfiend, it's pretty amazing how spot on he was with so many concepts 6 years ago.

For example:

i'd say that this is one of the toughest spots in NLHE and that the best way to avoid having trouble with it is by playing tough enough out of the blinds that your opponent can't barrel you (show him some postflop slowplays, float oop to c/r bluff the turn, etc). the less your opponent thinks he can **** with you in position the less you have to worry about getting run over and the easier it is to get to showdown with the marginal hands. i'd say i slowplay and take unconventional lines with big hands more than most opponents precisely because it makes me more likely to get to showdown and slow my opponents down.

This is basically how every good HUNL plays OOP in 2014 to protect against getting barreled HU when they have a defined range. Back in 2008 everyone was playing 20% flop chk raise etc.