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Old 04-02-2005, 03:28 AM
The Ram The Ram is offline
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Default Re: Paul Phillips, $2-5 Mirage

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What a strange perspective. It is they who end up waiting for good hands... which is what gets them in the end. Not that this table was loaded with bad players, just players with a lot less experience.

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Having also been at that table, which I transferred to given that it's rare to get to play with a big name player at such a low limit and I'm a reasonable player and bankrolled enough that I could take a whooping at 2/5 and not be upset, I think the thing that I picked up most about Paul's play is his ability to make rapidfire equity calculations. Now, I say this with a degree of embarassment given that I've played online professionally for almost 18 months and still don't know enough of these numbers, but I'm fairly confident that most of the "crazy calls" Paul was making were no worse than marginally -EV, and those that were in fact "bad" were largely made in the hopes of getting a big pot with which to play bigger stacked poker.
In general however, I think Paul played a pretty conservative game. Now, before you all balk at that comment, once he got bigstacked he was still ramming and jamming a lot PF, but postflop he no longer was getting his money in w/ smallish hands/draws looking to make a big score (unless he got it in first, at which point fold equity easily balances out any lack of pot equity) but instead playing a pretty solid game based on punishing the weak and avoiding the strong: in short, he bullied everyone around to the absolute best of his abilities.
All that said, and Paul I say this with every ounce of due respect because I do admire your talent, I think you could afford to be a little less forward about how badly you intend to crush a low limit game like this. As only a decent player myself but quite likely one of the top two players at the table after you, I thought it kind of rude that after I cashed out a reasonably big stack then came by the table on my way out to just introduce myself and tell you it was great playing with you, all you could say to me was that you couldn't believe I left with money before you got to take it.
To repeat, I do respect your game and you seem like a nice guy, but that was (in my opinion) totally classless. I don't say this with any air of grievance and would welcome the chance to play at your table again, but I think you're a better man than that and should consider acting accordingly.

(for your edification paul, if you're reading this, i was the guy w/ 6c5c vs. your AcKc).
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