Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

Though Irie has become an adequately successful 22 player of late (despite struggling at the 10's for more than a year), he has contributed very little to this forum. Even with your shaky start put aside, he's not the type to go out of his way to be helpful - best to look elsewhere [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

point? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

I thought I was paying a reasonable amount of attention to the forum, but now I have the feeling it is swimming with gimmick accounts and inside jokes that I don't get.

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

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http://www.chrisferguson.com/cgi-bin...update.cgi?s=2

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He must be talking about limit poker in that article. He states that check/calling with a mediocre hand is always better than betting on the river. True in limit, but not always true in no limit as the blocking bet shows.

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

I think the blocking bet's a very commonly used tool, but understanding why it works requires either brute force math (to prove +EVness) or sitting around and thinking about it for a while. I'm pretty sure many people on this forum have done neither, which isn't really a bad thing, it just means it's a thing that we can talk about without boring people.

The same thing is not true about value bets or bluffs.

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

Actually, they talk about blocking bets a lot more in the MHNL forum.

Seriously though, I wasted two minutes of my life reading the replies to your post (and typing this).

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

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It's called a blocking bet, no0b, and 7,000 18-year old yahoos on this forum know about it.

Seriously, though, the article describes the play of a hand that is quite interesting. It's posted on pokerpages.com.

Irieguy

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Not only that, but blocking bets are so well known at this point that they often don't work anymore.

Re: Negreanu should read the STTF
 

Not sure I like his flop reraise in that hand.

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http://www.chrisferguson.com/cgi-bin...update.cgi?s=2

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I noticed that Chris never mentioned the words "blocking bet". Should he be reading STTFs too?