OT: Thinking out of the box and about players and situations

[rockythecat99]

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BTW - when you end your post "flame away" don't be surprised when you get flamed.

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Yeah Ill make sure to leave that out next time [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[zipppy]

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Flame away.

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Now let this thread die if you guys are just going to flame.

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Make up your mind! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

edit- didn't see the posts already pointing this out [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

[bigt439]

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The plays you describe only really work against good players. Identify the good players and up the bluff factor. ABC poker works very well against bad players. So the title of this thread is correct, although it's not something that hasn't been discussed many times before.

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Let's make more blanket statements that are highly dependant on game context!

Always push from MP1 if the BB has between 8 and 10 bb's!

Rocky what you have just said goes against everything the pros believe in

I won several tournaments last year and i had applied what you speak of here, man I'd be in the dole office now asking for a crisis loan. DUDE...........

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I have a friend who is terrible at poker. Every week he loses money at our home game (I know this is the case because another friend has been tracking everyones results) against some extremely weak opposition. Also, having watched quite a few of his stt's I am fairly confident he's losing money playing on-line, and I'm absolutely sure he plays way too high for his ability.

However, he doesn't think he is terrible. In fact, he thinks he is bloody brilliant.

Last night I watched him place 2nd in a $25K GTD MTT. He actually should of won it, going into HU with a 4 to 1 chip lead, but through some terrible play he managed not to get lucky and blew the win.

Thing is, he doesn't even understand how lucky he was to get as far as he did. I watched him make some horrendous errors and get lucky. And I don't mean simply winning coin-flips or dominated hands (although he did win plenty of them).

He had a huge amount of hidden luck where his terrible play didn't get him into massive amounts of trouble (and when it did he sucked out). But he will not see that at all.

Don't ever discount the possibility that you may not be as good as you think you are and that the result you got from your big tourney may just have been a complete fluke.

Enjoy!

PS. Anyone that uses the term 'thinking outside the box' is a proper knob in my book.