Entire HH from mini step 5

[yabastid]

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there are numerous poorly played hands in all honesty, your win is a function of having the best hands thats all.

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Great post! Very insightful and full of constructive suggestions. You're not pokeridiot are you? Seriously, bro, how does one respond to a post that offers nothing? Would you mind giving some examples- that's why I posted this. Or am I to assume your response is a function of you being a hater, that's all?

[Scuba Chuck]

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there are numerous poorly played hands in all honesty, your win is a function of having the best hands thats all.

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Come on. Cite an example at least....

[yabastid]

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#Game No : 2402608988
***** Hand History for Game 2402608988 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $400 Buy-in + $30 Entry Fee Trny:14141953 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Thursday, July 21, 23:29:38 EDT 2005
Table Mini Step 5 #1014352 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: pokeridi0t ( $3298 )
Seat 8: danland ( $925 )
Seat 9: yabastid ( $1630 )
Seat 7: Gamboholic_ ( $500 )
Seat 1: ravman616 ( $2065 )
Seat 2: kashmoney12 ( $1582 )
Trny:14141953 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
There is no Small Blind in this hand as the Big Blind of the previous hand left the table.
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to yabastid [ Jd Jh ]
Gamboholic_ folds.
danland folds.
yabastid raises [400].
ravman616 folds.
kashmoney12 folds.
pokeridi0t is all-In [3148]
yabastid is all-In [1230]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, 7s, Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
yabastid shows [ Jd, Jh ] two pairs, kings and jacks.
pokeridi0t shows [ 9d, 9c ] two pairs, kings and nines.
pokeridi0t wins 1668 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, kings and nines.
yabastid wins 3260 chips from the main pot with two pairs, kings and jacks.
Game #2402612278 starts.

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Were you looking for a coin flip at this moment or did you feel like you feel liek the way he played you had him? Was this an insta call for you?

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Hey, Twin-
I think it was pretty close to an insta call. Given the blinds and my stack this looked like a good opportunity for me. Also, pokeridiot had been raising so much I thought there was a good chance I was ahead especially that he could easily be trying to bully. He was the one guy I had been watching very closely throughout the tourny b/c he seemed the least conventional and much more LAG than anyone else.

[freemoney]

well you have no creativity which is not the biggest problem b/c people suck but u play the bubble bad as the bigstack theres no aggression, and id rather open raise a hand like kj then push with aj when u have no fold equity.

[TWINUNO]

This is the ideal strategy for like a 10/1 buyin you think free?

[Scuba Chuck]

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well you have no creativity which is not the biggest problem b/c people suck but u play the bubble bad as the bigstack theres no aggression, and id rather open raise a hand like kj then push with aj when u have no fold equity.

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can you cite some examples where you think hero could have been more creative?

[yabastid]

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well you have no creativity which is not the biggest problem b/c people suck but u play the bubble bad as the bigstack theres no aggression, and id rather open raise a hand like kj then push with aj when u have no fold equity.

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I agree that the KJ hand was weak as a previous poster and I discussed. Is that the only hand you don't like? Comparing the AJ and KJ hands seems like apples and oranges-they were two completely different situations and I don't know that you could generalize me as uncreative just comparing those two hands. Although I don't disagree that I may be uncreative I would really like for you to expound a bit as I believe your insight might be valuable.

thanks,

yabastid

[freemoney]

im sorry if hands were previously discussed i just read the HH, i mean i dont think you played bad you didnt make any major mistakes, i mean its hard to just skim through the HH and say "ohh here, be more creative..." maybe if i look through the hands more carefully ill write a hopefully more helpful response..

[freemoney]

i mean i think theres no hands that would make someone playing at the 100s unable to be a winning player so im sure itd work at the 10s..

[yabastid]

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im sorry if hands were previously discussed i just read the HH, i mean i dont think you played bad you didnt make any major mistakes, i mean its hard to just skim through the HH and say "ohh here, be more creative..." maybe if i look through the hands more carefully ill write a hopefully more helpful response..

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Thanks, that would be great.