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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 147
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Originally Posted by drmcboy
so the topic is really:
why do pros not like weak players?
and the answer is:
they don't know where the money comes from.
If a pro can't separate -people who can lay down- from -people who can't-, then this is just another whine from a "Pro" who can't figure out why he never makes any money. Instead of being "faceless fish who always sucks out" it's know "Internet player".
Your 'example' is ridiculous on... many levels. If you really think all (even the majority) of internet players are loose, you haven't stepped out of micro limits yet.
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1 - I made the point that I can separate a player who can lay down a hand from a player who can't - the play in the hand I outlined illustrates this perfectly (and I'm not a pro but an internet player, in case you are wondering). Never bluff a weak player - most of the others on the table would not have passed and so I picked my opponent carefully.
2. I usually play in the cash games at 1/2 or 2/5 and am a fairly consistent winner overall, although like all players I experience variance with fairly large swings. Overall, though, I have increased my starting bankrool 17fold in the last two months. I play on a British site which has a lot of European players especially Scandinavians and they are loose and crazy. I think they all take after Gus Hansen. I like to find a six player table with two such players on it - any more and I could be in trouble.
3. I recently saw internet players make a number of highly questionnable calls live (eg calling Chris "Jesus" Ferguson who was all-in and holding AA with K9o). I still think that the reason pros don't like it is that the finer points of the game might be lost on such players.
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