Appreciate you doing this. Have a couple questions.

Seems like you're pretty big on playing regs. Was that always the case for you while moving up in stakes? It seems pretty hard to get action from most regs at lower stakes.

You said you started very small at HU cash.. Any chance you could post a graph of your transition through the stakes?

Do you smoke? Before/during/after sessions? Regardless, thoughts on that?

Thanks again

tilting is one of my weaknesses, the only ways to really deal with it it seems are to ignore it/take a break

I don't know THAT much about game theory, but it provides useful solutions to approaching at least some spots. Usually I just do w/e I think is most profitable though, not w/e game theory says I should do.

I've used stoxev a little bit, particularly for finding general solutions to general questions. "Should I call on the turn if X card falls?" "What % of the time does a guy need to be bluffing on X river if he has x% of hands?" etc

The more common the spot the more likely balance is needed as a general rule, because if you are unbalanced the other guy (if he's paying attention) will notice. In some spots balance doesn't apply at all, and in rarer and/r other spots it's probably a mistake to balance--it's usually a mistake to focus exclusively on balance. Exploiting is usually a priority, after all if youre not exploiting someone how are you winning money off them? I sometimes do things I think MIGHT be good/ not horrible for the sake of communicating something (this is meta game right?), but otherwise I'm doing something on the belief that I think it's profitable. If I barrel J9 on A844T, it's because I think he will fold A9/AJ, or calls the turn with enough marginal hands that river bluff is profitable. If he calls me with A2, I'd hope that I'd adjust by not bluffing there ever again.

Flatting a lot of 4bets (with weak hands) almost can't be a good strategy vs someone that handreads well in 4bet pots. 4betting has the same advantage over the other guy that 3betting does, except now the other guy is oop. At certain stacksizes it probably can be good to flat better hands oop, especially hands like AK, JJ, etc; sure.

Lots and lots of things separate a 5/10 player between a 25/50 player, as a general rule the 25/50 player will tend to be better at everything.

Whether you 3bet a lot or little, including deep, mostly depends on how many hands the other guy is playing and how he responds to 3bets/ plays in 3bet pots. If a guy is playing 100% of sbs, defends every single 3bet, but c/folds 60% in a 3bet pot, then 3betting 35% is going to show a big profit.


For tilting just try to remember that nothing good will come from playing worse than you usually do, and that it works against what you want. It's best to be avoided altogether if possible...

Rarely, but occasionally I play usually on/near campus. Microstakes ftw!

ninja b/c they are more badass than samurai's, and also samurais are kind of bound to killing themselves if they commit a serious offense/have been humiliated

where can i watch it? can u post a link?

cardrunners

ty for this jungleman. poker story too incase you forget. sure alot of us would like to hear it

http://www.cardrunners.com/Zaitsev/Z...2C+part+4+of+4

“Behind the Grind” goes up close and personal with another MSNL celebrity, Jungleman12. This Week: Let’s get casual with an all-out interview on the nuances of heads up play, plus the boys go over a few hand histories.

You mentioned how beneficial a hud has been to your game. Does that continue to apply against players your more familiar with? Do you look to your stats for indications of gear changing or alterations in lines taken by guys like Ike or Isildur?


congrats on all your success

I think this is interesting. Could you explain this a bit more. Do the bigger edges vs regs come because you kind of have their mind already(ABC poker) and know what they are doing thus making hand reading easier, and as long as you know how to go to the next level, it makes them more exploitable? It seems to me that as players improve, hand reading can become more precise and regs become more predictable. How do you sort of know when to take it to the next level? Is it common now for you to see a dry board and be like, "ok, this guy is cbetting this a lot because it's a dry board so I'm going to c/r wide" or "I know this guy is probably checking back this wet board because it isn't a good board to cbet and he probably doesn't want to get checkraised so I'm going to barrel him."

Should be on a motivational poster imo.

what does kaintd77/iilioiil do differently from other bumhunters, besides playing 12hr days?

someone else posted this, but im curious still

Hopefully Jungleman isn't going to give an answer to this that helps prospective hardcore bumhunters.

ehm every heads up player plays a decent amount of fish too, so its interesting anyway.

are you joining cardrunners for money or ego/notoriety? you must think it is -EV for your poker?

what was the most expensive thing u bought from pokermoneys?

do u spend ur money wisely or r u more a balller?

do you find it hard to motivate urself for college/studys?

K pLEASE ignore this .. Was a really crazy night and i was an idiot at the time lol..

How important do you feel talking to other players is? Do you think its possible for a players that never discusses poker with friends to succeed?

How much time did it take you to become a really good PLO player once you decided to learn the game better??

You told in other post that you got 98yr Lexus from parents when you got 15.

So you were baller before poker and from rich family ?

play me 50nl hu

can we get a urnot v jungleman 200nl hu match or something? so we find out who the REAL king is

hello ive only played hu nlhe since i leared poker but im trying to get into hu plo. in hold'em my strategy is basically to focus on peoples bluff & value ranges and what they do with them, in omaha you cant really do this right? can you talk abot how you categorize opponents hands in plo?

This question is about mining information from showdowns and fully integrating all the information available into proper adjustments. It seems like it's easy to glaze over certain implications of information gained at showdown and how certain actions effect other parts of a villains range in later hands. I'm curious how a person can get good at not missing any of the implications of a showdown hand and learning to know what a certain action on a certain street means for the rest of his range.

It's easy to say, see that a villain is calling down way too light and adjust to a more thin valuebetting strategy for example, but seemingly more difficult to notice other things like if a player is betting in a certain spot, how that effects his ranges when he checks, checkraises, or checkcalls.

I'm tired of missing stuff and not adjusting to available info. Thanks.

bummmmmpppp this off of the second ****ing page

If you were to move down and randomly play .25/.50 hu do you think you would win like 80% of your sessions or is there too much variance for your skill to give you that much of an edge?

Can you recommend any coaches in particular with no bias for NLHU or 6max games that are <200 per hr?

Probably videos, sometimes friends are very useful also.

Nothing, actually, except maybe spend more time at 10/20 and not battling all the best regs at 25/50 off the bat :P . Would have probably made life easier if I had known how much stronger some guys at 25/50 were

Not that many really, much of it happened natural--if a movie that I thought might be good came out, I'd watch it. If me or urnotindanger2 came up with an idea, we would talk about it. etc

I either I've lost enough, not in the mood, out of action, I'll quit. Sometimes I get too pissed to sign off though until it gets late :P , but that's probably not a good idea.

I'm trying to finish graduating but also I'm expanding my options via plo/other kinds of games and investing the money I've won. Hopefully the games will not ever dry up, let's keep our fingers crossed!

Through partybus/buy table type deels at clubs. Vid of the bus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VdTMUF1BwQ

I'm looking to buy a somewhat flashy car soon :P , but not too flashy!

Really the only thing you can do is review your sessions, and take a break to get your mind off the loss. Normally I just go out or play video games until I forget about it.

Not really, but a stop loss is a good idea particularly when playing competent regs.

Yes, always. I wouldn't move up until I thought I could beat most of everyone.


The concept of level is vague I think, again every player has their tendencies in different spots and it's important to figure them out rather than ascribe them to a certain "level" of thought. One reg might be aware of a certain bluff spot, for example, and also think youre exploiting them in every bluff spot imaginable etc while another, knowing the same spot, will tend to fold in that spot for some reason or another. Another might not know of the spot but knows of a spot the other two don't know about!

As with many things I'm sure intelligence correlates to being good at poker, but I doubt it's THAT related esp considering how vague the concept of "IQ" is. I would guess many truly great online players are very smart though.

I created kind of a unique strategy vs isildur, and he eventually figured it out and totally countered at least aspects of it, which is why he owned me so hard that one time at 1/2. I didn't run THAT bad :O . It's really rare that someone figures out a number of the things and totally counters them as he did.


No, although I want to believe that everything is inherently "fair" and that ultimately everything in life "balances out" by principle. This might appear to be impossible based on our current observance of the world--It appears rational to, in some cases, do really bad things when consequences are observed because it appears that net gain out of an evil action might result in the greatest EV for an individual. This implies the world is inherently bad, because reason demands it to be: How can it make sense to differ from reason? One of my blog posts was about how someone doing something ugly but seemingly demanded by prudence (in this case because only the present and future time frame was observed), was actually not prudent/logical if the frame of perspective was widened (in this case to and past time frame as well ie the stipulations requiring the conditions). I meant to imply that through this, there is a possibility that our perspective on reality is incomplete and that the apparent conclusion that the world isn't fair could be wrong.

My post was a bit vague in it's purpose, also Im a little high
Probably 98s+, ATo+,A8s+, J9s+ 66/77+, k9s+, Q9s+, QJo+, KT unless I knew something about the other guy

Not really, I guess I would defend a little lighter to an nl200 open unless nl200 players tend to 3bet less?

I'd probably be more inclined to call if I thought a call was slightly -EV; ofc value range combos and # of possible combos of bluffs help for whether to call or not.

Prob training vids and poker friends esp, the forum is somewhat useful. At many times when I review my play I focus solely on the EV (not necessarily balance or anything else) and usually trust my judgment strongly.

lol what do you think ^^, hopefully it would be fun as well

At lower stakes, after watching a few random vids, mostly playing. I was forced to review more and more as I went higher in stakes, but I specifically reviewed not too often. I suppose I studied theory as a matter of habbit, I would watch vids, listen to other's ideas, and test the ideas being put down.

ah no, I'm just going to buy the game when it comes out

Probably, I can at least do 30 push-ups in a set :P , dunno about 10 pull ups.

I don't think lashing out at my opponents is profitable or cool, so I try to restrain myself for that reason... Sometimes I overreact though and explode :S Once again objectivity is ideal, but admittedly difficult.

Def both, and talent doesn't only reside in sheer inner processing ability/intelligence/ w/e. One reason I'm probably not as talented at basketball is because more natural basketball players pay attention to more details that matter than I do when playing basketball (maybe this is because they are more interested in it?). Likewise, I'm paying attention to more details that matter than many ppl as well as myself in the past. Simple ex: When I first started poker I didn't consider the position of my opponents, which obviously was a big issue. You need to train your mind to notice the subtleties in poker

I used to smell bad, but I don't anymore :P . urnotindanger2 obv

Idk, I think maybe the first. It would also probably be stressful to play something as volatile as poker for only mediocre wage. Having all the power in the world is quite a good thing.

Get up at 10-2, either go to school or do other poker related things such as coaching, maybe work out, then either play poker, homework, something social, or occasionally play video games/relax. Bed at 12-5. I dislike routine but this summarizes many of my days.


Probably, at least for a few more years. I think the time now isn't so much an issue of online poker dieing but more of one that people are now more likely to approach poker as something to be taken seriously and thus more likely to be bum hunting regs than be fish. This results in less fish appearing because the bum hunter : fish ratio is much higher than it used to be.

Yes, not really.
I've answered this question previously, it's a whole bunch of differences instead of a single concept. 25/50 players are better than 5/10 players on the whole, but not necessarily in every individual aspect/

We'll see :P , I like it + it's good for reputation and 0 variance income.

I think scott has a good feel for my bluffing tendencies etc :P , scott is up lifetime on me but he's run pretty hot and it has been a while!

possibly scott, i've learned quite a bit from him

Halozination on FT has the soul read, he clicks call and is always right lol.

I think my general strategy counters luckychewy's and tcorbin's does vice versa, but I think luckychewy's would be difficult for many.

if you are a girl, maybe we can work something out haha

again, dogishead helped me with plo...not so much books, but again all the main sites' training vids

There are <= 2 probably :P , Biggest degen moment is either continuing to play durrrr while stuck 500+k or isildur when stuck over half my role.

Eh, write programming or something.

I still go to UMD and I'm a junior there. I plan on finishing although there's def merit in not finishing...

I regret not getting better grades and letting the rest of the world slip by, in some instances I feel someone alienated from other college students. I'm not sure if I would do much differently now though except for start playing micros online earlier, else I might have had the same extent of success.

yeah, somewhat, as does possessing any positive trait

yes, it's somewhat annoying

I must not have seen it, I usually respond to most pms.

For 100 million, I just might :O