I Don't Know Enough to be a Winning Player (QUIZ)

[MN_Mime]

*grunch*

I think the quiz could take a lesson from these boards and post position and reads in the questions instead of all at the top. It's very easy to lose track of such things scrolling all over the place.

Many of his choices are clearly subjective and in at least one case, plain wrong. I thought his A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] hand was pretty much botched.

It's good to look at the problems to see the thought processes and work through the situation, but ultimately you've got to find your own feel for the game and make the choices you can handle.

First the questions are a bit misleading because he doesn't give the total of the pot, and it isn't clear when people fold/call . . . I had to muddle through these. It wasn't fun!!

I really don't like a lot of his answeres . . .
Fold JJ preflop against a single raise?! I auto-3 bet JJ (OMG! A RAISE! He probably has AA . . . so I fold)

He advocates folding AJo UTG . . . meh probably borderline . . . but AJo is better than KQo IMHO, if people just limp KQ, I think limping or raising AJo is fine

He also advocates folding AKs in the small blind against a raise from UTG?!?! Maybe I suck at poker . . . I would NEVER fold AKs from the blinds for a single bet!!!

I agree with your disagreement. Also, I find him strange to dislike the free-card play. At a table with one pro and one LAG, the rest being average/below average, the late position free card play is very useful, no?

What I do like:

Q4 (A3s) - I think the overcall with the nut flush with 3 players yet to act makes more money than raising here which will drive out the three remaining players if not the original bettor too.

Q8 (33) - I too think that a pair of threes is inadequate to attempt to isolate an aggressive player without reads. At least I wouldn't do it most the time. It feels like a bad reward to risk ratio.

Q9 - Standard punishment of blind stealer and value bet.

Q11 (76s) - Stanard free card play opportunity, especially with a potentially well concealed hand. I am surprised the author "rarely" uses the free card raise. I guess he prefers the free card fold.

Q12 (76s) - He advocates refusing to steal the blinds here. I agree, 76 doesn't meet my standards for a blind steal. It is best to randomize the blind steal attempts and the best way to do that is to pick a starting hand threshold, and if 76 meets that threshhold then it is too loose to get the right respect.

And thanks to you guys I am now happier about my 78 than if I had scored 105.

[Fryguy]

Everybody that answered the questions truthfully got the same score, 77-78 it seems like. I'm pretty sure that's the optimal score to this quiz, despite what he says.

Folding AKs heads up pf is ridiculous.