A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Thursday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer" .
The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on Thursday? and the voice from in the well shouts back: Because on Thursday, it’s your day in the well.

I'll start it off:

How did you start out?
How long are you playing?
What's your favourite game?
Non - poker background?
Favourite site to play at?
What games are you currently playing?
If you had to choose only one going forward, would you play only live or online?

Thanks for agreeing to host a "well," Shaq.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.

How long have you been playing poker?

Why Omaha-8?

Buzz

first, let me start by saying im flattered i was nominated for a well. i've really only been playing professionally for 9 months, and i consider myself to be a good player, but by no means great, so it's nice to hear that other people have taken notice of my play. lord knows i've worked hard at this game.

btw sorry if this first post sucks, im kind of drained after a marathon session

Love this story

Do you still play non 08 games regularly? If so:

1) How does your 08 winrate compare to other games?

2) How much of any difference do you put down to being better at one game yourself, and how much to particular game types having more/less equity in them generally?

Edit: Just reread that and realized it's about the worst written question ever, sorry. I think I'm saying something like, did you choose 08 because you have a particular talent for it as compared to other games, or because you found there's more dead money compared to NLHE/PLO etc - or both?

How does it feel playing with LeBron and do you hate the weather in Cleveland?

i wish i could avoid live poker! but i like casinos and spas and ****, maybe i just need my passport so i can travel to non casino resorts

biggest score?

Interesting view about "live poker"....I purposely build a bankroll playing PLO8/NLO8 so I can have a 4 day stay at Vegas....spa...good food...strip...something about vegas....

oh sorry for hijacking thread.....carry on pls

How do you adjust your PLO8 strats from cash to tourneys, as far as aggressiveness factor early on, and does the number of entrants affect your play in a PLO8 tourney at all?

Ive played sessions with you on absolute, cake, pokerstars, fulltilt and bodog...which site do you find the softest?

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I've played in live $25/50 games that are softer than online $.25/$.50 games and it wasn't even remotely close. Plenty of rich people come to the casino and don't mind losing thousands and thousands of dollars as long as they have a good time doing it.....that rarely, if ever, happens online.

Its definitely more of a "grind" since you see so few hands per hour, but there are people at all stakes of live poker who just have no clue what they're doing and your winrate will see huge benefits if you're patient enough to wait for these spots.




agreed completely here



sick

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never played tournaments seriously, 3-4k or something in there.

i really suck at plo8 tournaments, so i'm probably not the one to ask. my sharkscope on FTP screams volumes of my ineptitude at plo8 mtts.


i have won 1 of those things though, and i tend to make my deep runs when i nit it up early, limp my playable hands, and play incredibly tight. raising preflop is necessary in cash games in order to get stacks in the middle by the river, not so much in mtt's when you're only 20-50 bb's deep in the midstages. pred's videos go into more detail as to why this "weak tight" strategy is actually +ev even though it seems to go against every bit of mtt strategy. postflop is a matter of preference, i tend to blast away when i have a piece of the flop, but there's winning regs who play their draws more conservatively .

That wasn't me, think you got names mixed up somewhere. Though if I did make videos it def would be great for the games in that anyone who watched them would play worse

ohh my bad, i got confused by the west in your sn.

any site but full tilt.

What makes full tilt so tough?

i remember you from the bodog quarter tables... i miss those games. what took you so long to make it to ftp?

Shaq

Congrats on the well.

1. Would you care to future a prediction for the future of either o8 or online poker in general?
2. Do you think you'll ever transition to plo?
3. Who or what types of players give you the most trouble?

4. Whats your biggest / funniest degen story?

If you were to play plo8 live, how easy or hard for you do you think it would be to count the bets? If you have already how easy or hard was it

what are your notes on me if you have any? lmao

a serious Q, could you ever see yourself working a 9-5 after playing poker for a living?

totally respect your game(it seems you tilt like once a year) How does UB action compare to cake in terms of highest games available(more than 1/2$) and level of play?

i don't know if it's "tough" per say, but i've ran so bad there in the past that i've questioned my abilities as a poker player. after starting out this year 13k below EV i just said screw it and cashed out everything there. my winrate last year was something like 5 or 6 bb/100 on every other site but barely 1 bb/100 on on full tilt. the games are definitely tighter compared to the smaller sites, so game selection is way more important. i guess its because of the rakeback.