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

[flytrap]

This may be the same quiz that was posted some time back. Don't worry about having a low score on this. I think Ed Miller reported having taken this test, and scoring fairly low. I wouldn't use Slotbloom as the barometer of limit hold'em skill.

[W. Deranged]

Oh my god hurl...

I remember taking that a while back, and getting frustrated by it because I couldn't score well.

Now I just realize he's wrong about a whole lot.

Thinks he advocates:

1. Folding AKs out of the SB to a pro. UTG open-raiser.

2. Folding JJ pre-flop to an EP raise and a cold-call.

3. Not-raising a rivered nut flush with a bet in front of you and 3 players left to act behind you.

4. Not three-betting AdKd on a JdTdx flop (he REALLY doesn't understand the math of that situation... not three-betting there is a big error in my opinion).


The quiz is crap. Don't pay any attention to it.

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Oh my god hurl...

I remember taking that a while back, and getting frustrated by it because I couldn't score well.

Now I just realize he's wrong about a whole lot.

Thinks he advocates:

1. Folding AKs out of the SB to a pro. UTG open-raiser.

2. Folding JJ pre-flop to an EP raise and a cold-call.

3. Not-raising a rivered nut flush with a bet in front of you and 3 players left to act behind you.

4. Not three-betting AdKd on a JdTdx flop (he REALLY doesn't understand the math of that situation... not three-betting there is a big error in my opinion).


The quiz is crap. Don't pay any attention to it.

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Deranged, I agree with all your points except #3. With the nut flush on the river and 3 people to act after us, I actually think the hero will make more money in the long run by just calling and going for overcalls. The reason I say this is becuz the river was such a great card, being the 9h on a T8xx board. Which means there will be more calling hands than usual, but they may not be hands than can coldcall two BB's on the river. Another thing I like about just calling on the river is that there will be times that it will get raised behind by either a straight or a lower flush and then we can 3 bet it.

If however I am in the type of game with really bad players that will still cold call 2bets with the same hands they wouldve called for 1 bet, then I would raise the river.

Overall though, I think this is a terrible quiz, and I feel very secure inside knowing that someone like Rolf can still beat this game even with all this flawed knowledge.

i agree w/ going for overcalls! 3 ppl left behind you to act. y reraise w/ the nuts? I also think the author is a very attractive man, whom i would date for $$, b/c he must make a lot according to his skill in poker.

[Adam22]

i figured out half way through that the lesson of that quiz was "FIND A FOLD, SOMEHOW. JUST DON'T PLAY THE HAND AND IF YOU DO DON'T RAISE" and managed to get an 89 which apparently still means i need to master hold em. LOL.

also the part where he says your nut flush on an unpaired board might not be good is pretty lol.

[SackUp]

So do we ever get to play a hand or see a SD??

This guy is the ultimate weak-tight douche of the century. He cannot make money at $10-20 with this douchery

Now that's the best avatar yet, Sack Up

haha nice avatar

[tolbiny]

"4. Not three-betting AdKd on a JdTdx flop (he REALLY doesn't understand the math of that situation... not three-betting there is a big error in my opinion)."

I had call down here- but thats because i want to give the two players inbetween a chance to call 2, and the original better to call another one. If i think the other players have no chance of putting in 2 bets then its raising time.

"3. Not-raising a rivered nut flush with a bet in front of you and 3 players left to act behind you."

Thisis especially bad because the other players have shown no interest in the hand at all. If they ahd been betting and calling the turn going for overcalls might be correct, but there is no way they are calling unless they hit something- in which case they could easily call 2.

#1 and #2 are just [censored] weak tight. and i know weak tight.

Edited by W. Deranged for decency reasons...

[beenben]

do the replies to this thread mean that the worse your score, the better you are? I got a 78. I said raise or re-raise to every question.