This is my last post from Thailand. Here are just a few final thoughts.
1) J, you should know I don’t think less of a person for how you play poker. And I have no problem playing at the same table as you at a casino. I just need to figure out how to turn your aggression into my fortune.
2) I think you should add a level to your listings of player levels. You should have one where the player considers what his opponent is thinking and also about the rest of the table. It would be taking it a step farther then a single opponent and go into predicting what one will cause another will cause another before it gets back to you. I know I’m not explaining it well but you’ll get the gist.
3) I don’t think it was a mistake to not raise pre-flop with K-Q when you would have been out of position after the flop. It’s probably not a good enough starting hand to call a check raiser’s raise and against that many opponents you basically have to hit the flop (or at least have it very scary and everyone miss).
4) Perhaps being nice to the suck out artist didn’t keep her in the game but I bet she comes back. Out of curiosity (and laziness since I don’t want to do the math myself) was she getting correct pot odds to call?
5) You said, “I'm still not quite ready to surrender the Hold 'Em crown to any of my friends.” What do you think about our own staging of a mini-WSOP to determine who wears the home game crown? We could do small sit-n-goes. HORSE, Hold-em. I don’t know. Couple other formats maybe. Heads-up tourneys? Who would be down? Jun, Sheng, Me, You, Jun’s home friends, Val, maybe some of Val’s friends, Pudge, Oleg, and some of the AEPi guys we’ve played with.
6) Home Game - Can you start asking around about people who would be interested in setting up something regular and their thoughts on mixed games vs. pure no limit Texas Hold-em. If mixed, I would envision something like how Ship It Fish set his up. (I’ll post the links later). If we do get a home game set up, what do you think about a) having a leader board, b) posting recaps, c) having other members be guest blog about it?
7) In the past we talked about this but I want to broach the topic again. What do you think about link sharing with some select other blogs if they are willing? It would probably boost readership though we might risk losing readers to competitors. The other advantage is that it would involve us more in the poker community and if we travel we may get the hookup for local games through it.
8) What do you think about putting our blog at a new URL such as grindorgamble.blogspot.com or paying to get something like grindorgamble.net?
9) I don’t think people who play loose are donks. Repeat. I don’t think people who play loose are donks. I think people who try to play loose but don’t know what they are doing are donks.
10) You are a donk J. It’s okay. I am too. Remember that time I called your large bet with a gut shot because I thought I had a gut shot and a flush draw? Which time you ask? Good point. There’s way too many.
11) Place #3 to hit up on my return. Crystal Park.
12) Jun’s response to my posting of his poker emails: “i was just reading ur posting on my emails, wow, i cant write in english. hahah
i dont even understand what the hell i was trying to say, thanks for
letting the poker world know that jun dont speak english good.”
13) As far as I can tell, you’ve almost scaled poker entirely out of the picture while I’ve been gone. Case in point, your four posts concerning my criticism in Inducing Tilt are more than all your other prior posts since July. Just wondering if this is a misconception.
14) I completely agree with you on all the pre-flop raise stuff. I could care less how much you are raising (even if it’s $30 at a $1/$2 table) but I’d like to point out that I don’t think most people can effectively randomize their bets so that good players won’t pick out a pattern.
15) Can’t believe you gambled with what you did have of the rent money.
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