OK folks. I sat with biood for TWO GAMES and that is what I saw in TWO GAMES. No data-mining, just fun.
For the record, I would call biood with anything even half-playable from any position in any game I think.
I mean a cpl days ago I'm saying how I don't like 4 5 (4 6) utg and was implying that I would read the play (as in surely not scared of aces lol) and call with a huge range. I would have been disappointed in myself if I folded A 2 3 X vs biood and as it turned out, I'm slightly better than a 3-1 dog for high and will make a winning low hand ~ 50%.
So hand 1 is standard, sure, nothing to report, other than showing the continued trend of utg shoves with a huge range and road-running the board. Should be noted that when we include the 3rd player, biood is actually a 65/32 dog for high and will only make nut low 2% while the opposition makes it 55%. So all things considered, I actually got in AHEAD in this hand and biood was in LAST. No wonder sensai juicy doesn't like it, he only ever likes getting all his chips in behind, especially vs me.
Amazes me JJ has any criticism of any loose play considering I know for a 100% fact that JJ has never folded A 2 3 X in any game, at any stakes, in any situation. Juicy, when I see you perpetually shove 2 3 4 K utg with > 20BBs (outside HTs) and shove any 4 on button/SB, quite frankly my dear, if you claim a fold here, you can go **** yourself. And if you did fold there, as circumstance would have it, you would have folded the best hand.
ANYWAY, THIS IS NOT THE POINT.
I was trying to do biood a favour (yes, really) as I don't have much of a hate towards him (as opposed to say, juicy_j or billygofish haha). If I'm being honest, I never considered him a threat at any table. Sure, I am well aware he could bust me at any moment, but post-flop play is non-existent and it's not hard to pick up on the shove-rhythms.
I was trying to make the point to biood that auto-shoving mediocre hands utg is horrible under most circumstances. That the objective of the HT game is not to LOOK for 50/50 flips all the time but to try and engineer an edge like in any other game, or to use controlled aggression to position steal, maybe occasionally use the raw aggression to stack-rape the field if circumstance permits.
IMHO, I see little difference between biood and juicy and know for a fact that both would be better players if they just diluted the aggression factor by 20% (OK maybe 40% in biood's case). I mean HTs are barely even poker. Why are you guys (as self-certified pros earning a living from the game) not in there winning slow-blind MTTs or cash games? I'll tell you why. The psychology of what you guys feel you are ENTITLED to at the tables along with your general honey-badger levels of aggression really negate any possibility (barring huge luckboxing) that you will beat any solid field with confidence in their own abilities - abilities they test to the limit far less often than either of you do.
As for you BillyGfish - that's now 3 posts of mine you choose to troll since the last warning. In the weekly 215, you put all your chips in when behind (A 2 3 Q vs A A 3 5 or similar?), all be-it with a good hand. I got all my chips in ahead with a LARGE margin (I was > 3-1 to scoop with A 2 3 Q ds vs A 3 6 J ss) and bust. You deserved to bust, I didn't. That's the difference. You can claim bad luck, a set-up, waaaaaaaa, waaaaaaa, I put him on the correct RANGE - I was watching the hand and I knew exactly what you both held. Open your eyes fish and dial in your range-radar.
As for HTs and SnGs generally - you haven't been able to beat them over a calender year like juicy, wadzon, biood etc, so s t f u man, seriously. You put in the NUMBER ONE 500 game streak last year and then didn't even end up profitable for the year. Just wow. You can't beat the 18-man SnGs either, or cash, or even MTTs really, so what is the point of your existence? Thank you please for keeping your LOLtard thoughts to yourself