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Originally Posted by speedle
Hey man, thanks for doing this, you're one of my favorite posters here and your sexy avatar obviously makes me excited far beyond what I would expect from a nerdy forum.
It's my pleasure. Thanks for the kind words. And T.S. Eliot is seriously hawt.
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Biggest winning and losing pot ever?
In terms of BBs, I won a $1400 pot at $1/2 vs. a mega-fish, but it wasn't that interesting. I posted it in SSNL, let me see if i can find it ...
here.
Biggest in terms of $won ... Well, I've won a few $3k pots at $5/10, but nothing to extraordinary (one of them was good -- I was 4-tabling and paying close attention to a fish. He had some serious bet-size tells -- I called his preflop raise and flopped a flush + gutshot. His flop bet was "I have an overpair" so I called. The turn was a jack and his underbet was "Holy **** I just turned top set!" so obviously I called. The river was the perfect card for me, completing my disguised gutshot, so I overbet jammed on his river bet. He obviously called and berated me before leaving the table. It felt pretty good and got me almost unstuck for the day.
As far as big losing pots, I've never really personally lost more than 170bb in a pot, and none of them are particularly interesting IMO.
I'll see if I can put that together, but it'll take me awhile.
Mmmmm, food. I'm a pretty big fan of most food to be honest. If you ever ask me about somewhere I've lived I'll probably say something like, "oh yeah, there's this great thai place on the corner, and you can get amazing sweet potato pancakes at the hamburg or ..." Recently I've been eating a lot of salmon burgers and Indian food. Mmmm, Indian food ...
That is simply an unanswerable question. I'll post a list of songs I've been listening to recently.
Also basically unanswerable, but:
For a long time Besieged was my favorite movie. Then it was Once Upon a Time in the West. For a brief period it was Blade Runner, then 2001: A Space Odyssey, followed by Dr. Zhivago, When Harry Met Sally, the Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, and Annie Hall. I'm a huge fan of Sergio Leone and Stanley Kubrick, but really can't pick a favorite movie -- just a ton of movies I love and will watch over and over again.
I mentioned TV shows earlier, but if I had to pick a favorite I would say Arrested Development (sad it's no longer on).
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Your fav non premium hand?
Premium hands are all I ever play
. Seriously, my favorite non-premium hand to play is any hand I'm dealt on the button.
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Best hand you ever played?
I love this question. There have been a lot of hands I've played where I thought I made good calldowns with busted nut draws vs. busted non-nut draws (one of my favorite things to do), but my absolutely favorite hand is also one that I butchered and looks pretty bad. I'll post a link once I find it in the archives ...
Does chess count? If not, my favorite sport to watch has got to be college (american) football. I'm pretty terrible at all form of sports, and didn't really even start watching any until college.
I don't really want to get into a "best poster on 2p2" thing because there are tons of great posters here in all of the forums, and I've learned a lot from countless posters across a variety of forums. There are bound to be brilliant posts / posters who I leave out.
I will mention just a very brief few, though. In MTT forums I really like adanthar's and LearnedFromTV's posts. In the cash forums Jman has a tendency to post things that make my head explode with their awesomeness, and to do it in such a way where I feel like I should have seen it all along. fslexicduck also consistently posts really good and thorough hand analyses. I like soah's pithy posts in full ring because they usually in 1-2 sentences either say exactly what I would have said in a paragraph or destroy my whole faulty line of reasoning. Also, Buzz's posts in O/8 are top-notch.
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Name the 3 toughest players you ever encountered at a poker table.
Do I count? (j/k -- I don't think anybody would describe me as a tough player, more like an empty seat
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Honestly, I'll say any good aggressive player who routinely plays pots in position vs. me can be a real headache. I've played with lots of aggressive players who can give me trouble, but I can't think of anybody who has routinely owned me over a large sample. There are definitely players who can be aggravating to play against, though, and several of the regular posters on these forums have made my full ring life uncomfortable with their near-constant preflop 3-bets and floats
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I played with a guy named Max in the LAPT who was pretty much always one step ahead of me, which was humbling. We only played together a few hours, but he was entirely in control of the table and squashed any moves I tried to make to keep myself from getting run over.
But in any experience like that there's something to be learned if you're willing to look for it. From that game and discussing some hands with him after the table broke it gave me a pretty new important perspective on dictating the pace of a game when the table conditions allow and how to sniff out spots where players are going to be looking to make stand.
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Would you consider one day becoming my mentor in case I want to dabble in particle physics or anything related to it?
Sure, but I'd advise you to find a better mentor. One who isn't jaded and who is still active in physics, for example
. Seriously, having a good mentor to help direct you when you aren't sure what the next step is cannot be underestimated -- my graduate student advisor was not the most ideal for me, and I think that had a lot to do with the lack of progress I made in my research.
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Again, thanks for doing this. Awesome.
Again, it's my pleasure.