sloth469
04-19-2005, 03:48 PM
Last night while sweating Gavin and Dano at the final table I got to watch what I concidered to be idiotic poker, by a player named swingy. He was as W/T as you can get it seemed and allowed himself to fall to just over 2 BBs. All the while he is slowly moving up the pay ladder as players are jumping over him to go out.
That he eventually ended up making stands wasn't the interesting part. But the way he chose to do it really got me thinking. When he had just under 2.5 BBs he raised UTG to 123,123 leaving himself almost nothing behind it. To everyones surprise the BB folded and Swingy took it down.
A short time later, swingy goes after Gavins blind and raises all-in except for 1 chip. Gavin put him in of course and swingy won the toss up.
My point is what is the real value of this psychological ploy? Against a strong player in Gavin he got a call, did he want one though? Against the BB on the previous hand his ploy seemingly worked and he took down a pot when he should have been in a fight for his life.
Are there enough poor players in the mix even at the final table that plays like this can be that valuable? Despite coming into the FT in last place, swingy went on to win last nights 25k. Any thoughts on his play would be appreciated. Like I said I thought it was really bad play, but is there something to it? At least last night, survival to swingy was worth an extra 10k.
-sloth
That he eventually ended up making stands wasn't the interesting part. But the way he chose to do it really got me thinking. When he had just under 2.5 BBs he raised UTG to 123,123 leaving himself almost nothing behind it. To everyones surprise the BB folded and Swingy took it down.
A short time later, swingy goes after Gavins blind and raises all-in except for 1 chip. Gavin put him in of course and swingy won the toss up.
My point is what is the real value of this psychological ploy? Against a strong player in Gavin he got a call, did he want one though? Against the BB on the previous hand his ploy seemingly worked and he took down a pot when he should have been in a fight for his life.
Are there enough poor players in the mix even at the final table that plays like this can be that valuable? Despite coming into the FT in last place, swingy went on to win last nights 25k. Any thoughts on his play would be appreciated. Like I said I thought it was really bad play, but is there something to it? At least last night, survival to swingy was worth an extra 10k.
-sloth