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 2 World Class plays, Angel, 22. Dec 2003 12:19 | ||
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| There are good plays in poker, expert plays and plays that can only be described as world class; here are two plays I made recently that I'm really proud of learning which I'm going to have to put in the 'world-class' category. I sat down in this shorthanded must move $30/$60 HE game hoping to make to the main game which was about as good as it gets. By the time I made it to the main game I was dead even and the game looked like this: There were two good players in the game both of which had a healthy respect for my play, I knew no one else but it looked like they all took the same class, "How to play loose/passive poker 101" and one guy must have been the instructor reminding them how by playing loose/passive so much better than anyone else. $30/$60 games don't usually look like this so I was licking my chops and ready to stack some chips. I had no chance. Mr. Loose Passive himself took me down hand after hand. It didn't matter what he needed, he got there against me ever time it seemed like. Now it often seems like that but him beating up on me became the talk of the table - and it's not as often that people step out of their own self-interested worlds to notice someone elses misfortune. The problem was, he was feeling self-conscious and knew he was playing bad. He'd look up sheepishly at me on the end waiting to get chewed out when he turnd over another two-outer that got there. Instead of getting chewed out however, I kept the mood light - I laughed and joked around with him while he beat me to set him at ease so he didn't start playing better - and he never did - It never turned around for me that night but he said something to me privately before he left that confirmed, in my mind, that my actions fell into 'world-class play' category; he told me, "It's not because I won, because honestly I don't really care about the money - I just play for fun but playing against you was I think the most fun I ever had at the poker table and I hope I get to play with you again real soon." And then he told me when he'd be returning. Play number two came about 45 minutes after that guy left. Three other people busted out and every one of them was replaced by a tough player. In addition, I recognized that I was getting tired. So, I stood up, took my $200 loss and cashed in. Hardly seems worthy of mention and it isn't really - but it took me alot longer to learn that "the texture of the game has changed for the worse and you aren't at your best so cash out and come back tomorrow - it's all one long game" play than it took me to learn how to use a myriad of other plays so I thought I'd give it headliner status for one post. :) | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, FeliciaLee, 22. Dec 2003 12:27 | ||
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| Fantastic!!! Felicia :) | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, Schuster, 22. Dec 2003 13:05 | ||
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| World class indeed. Nice job Angel, good post too. Lee | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, Andrew Wells, 22. Dec 2003 13:10 | ||
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| First of all, nicely done. I think that there are more than a few top players who would have handled it this way. My definition of world class play is something that would appear to be novel to all but one out of 10,000 players, but can nevertheless be shown to have been optimal. I would say your actions fall somewhere between expert and world-class, perhaps master category. | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, Barry T, 23. Dec 2003 00:10 | ||
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| Hi. Angel, congratulations. Your post exemplifies professional poker at its finest. It is not about winning today; it is about living with what the cards hand you, and making the best out of every situation. I expect you will be properly rewarded when next your L/P player come to play. BarryT | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, WilliamS, 23. Dec 2003 06:21 | ||
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| Angel, GREAT post; 2 "WORLD CLASS" plays that everyone (regardless of experience) is capable of. Most of us don't have the resolve and discipline necessary to pull it off, but both are essential to profitable poker. Will | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, Aisthesis, 23. Dec 2003 11:22 | ||
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| Yes, both of those moves were extremely wise (and difficult to make). As to the first, do you in general think a jocular and friendly attitude (regardless of what's happening) is almost always the best way to go in chat (I'm playing online, but similar things can happen there)? I generally try to do that just because it keeps the whole thing pleasant FOR ME, and I also feel it tends to relax others giving them a more carefree attitude. The one exception might be with tiltos. I've seen people create profitable situations by provoking them. In the main case I'm thinking about, I tried to calm things down mainly because I was afraid of the tilto leaving the table if it got any worse. But the result was that the tilto essentially never tried his provocative all-ins against me. But against players who are just lucky for the night, I think your approach there would clearly be the best. Doing it (for me, anyway, and I think for most others) just requires a lot of discipline in not getting involved in one's own self-esteem issues at the table... | ||
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| Re: 2 World Class plays, mroban, 23. Dec 2003 17:57 | ||
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| unlike Angel, I tend to brood and make sarcastic remarks when I have situations like this. Recently at Borgata, in a $10-20 game, the player to my right was on tilt and after hitting his 2 outer on the river to beat me out of a huge pot (I had KK, hit my set and he made a runner, runner flush with 58s) he told me that he was going to "play every hand nomatter what". Instead of feasting off of him, I managed to outdraw me on every hand and set ME on tilt. I did manage to walk away from the table before I lost my entire buy-in but I cannot say that I was a gracious loser. This is really a great lesson to learn. | ||
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