Can Live 2/4 be beaten? ESPN doesn\'t seem to think so...
 

Apologies for this theme being on a similar thread not too long ago:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker...ory?id=2128589

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I was half-expecting to see someone eating Oreos like Teddy KGB.


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Now, that I haven't seen yet...it'll happen one of these days.

Last week I had a guy at a tourney table with a banana. He was pricking it and sniffing it like Johnny does with his orange. You know how a banana bruises when you dent it or whatever? After a few orbits, the thing looked totally gross, almost all black. He looked like such a fool.

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Peter Newmann is the poker researcher at ESPN. If you have a good story to tell, he'd love to hear it.

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Poker researcher at ESPN.com!?! How the heck to you get that gig? And what do you do at it? Read Cardplayer and surf 2+2 forums all day?

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Peter Newmann is the poker researcher at ESPN. If you have a good story to tell, he'd love to hear it.

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Poker researcher at ESPN.com!?! How the heck to you get that gig? And what do you do at it? Read Cardplayer and surf 2+2 forums all day?

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And it's pretty obvious that he knows very little about poker.

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some of the stuff he says is hilarious -

the guy with the shades and the guy who says he can spot your tells - at a 2/4 game - they're the biggest fools of them all - LOL

RB

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I did not think this article was any good.
Sounded like one man's rant after losing money at a loose table(It IS 2/4!!) And it ends up on ESPN.com.
On top of that I feel like it could dissuade people from trying poker.

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He bet and I max raised him, trying to get him out of the pot. I had nothing but junk

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This line made me question whether or not this guy should even be writiing for ESPn on this subject. Who tries to raise bluff in 2/4?? Who?? And what does "max raise" mean if it's limit??
I've never heard of this guy and he probably knows more about poker than I do but...seems suspect.

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In one of the last hands I played, I got 5-6 suited in the hole. Small suited connectors is not a bad hand to play, just ask Doyle Brunson. I called the big blind.

What a loser, I've never seen his name on any tourney lists or anything. Why doesn't he win a real event and then start calling everyone at his 2/4 table a fish.

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In one of the last hands I played, I got 5-6 suited in the hole .

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To the author: Where the F else are you going to get them? On the ground?

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In one of the last hands I played, I got 5-6 suited in the hole .

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To the author: Where the F else are you going to get them? On the ground?

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I laughed.

NT

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Yeah, I want this guy at my poker table. There have been better posts written here, on the same subject, by better poker players. If you know what you're doing, and adjust your game to the table you're at, 2/4 can be beatable.