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Originally Posted by kingme620
Thanks for doing this,
1.) Do you think there is a "plateau" that some players reach in moving up in the stakes or do you think anyone can have the success you have had if they put in the appropriate amount of work (ie obsessive if necessary)
2.) Did you take huge shots in moving up (mostly mean husngs) with most of your br at some points, or are you a br nit? I feel like some of the nosebleeds guys got where they are by making the huge jump to 1ks+ and had initial success and were able to get good fast? (spamz0r comes to mind..)
3.) Might as well ask since you're talking about 3betting stuff :P Is my logic ok?
{at $33 level, as a general strategy 50bbs deep} Vs somebody tightish oop, flatting 25% 3betting 33%, I open ~90% and pretty much never limp.
As opposed to somebody loose OOP, calling 62% 3betting 33%, I will raise only things that are good enough to call a 3bet with (or 4bet obv) including some suited connectors?
1) Danny (ISF) said to a friend like two or 3 years ago, when he was playing 5/10, that he felt like "I think that i've reached my peak, I don't think that I'll ever be good enough to beat high stakes levels of poker." Well, he was clearly terribly wrong. I think everyone has a plateau, it's just a lot higher than even they can imagine.
2) I actually made most of my money in cash, and when I went into hu sngs I had the BR to play at the highest stakes. When I played cash I was a BR nit playing 5/10 with over 100 buyins, but I took my first shot at 25/50 playing this semi reg player that I heard was pretty bad. I ended up taking like 45k off of him and at that point I started to play almost exclusively 25/50, making tons of money. If you feel like you're crushing midstakes or low stakes games, than you can make big jumps because there's a good probability it'll jumpstart your career. If you're breaking even or winning marginally, or even a solid but unspectacular winner, I wouldn't reccomend taking huge shots because even if you win you won't be able to sustain your wins at that level.
3) Obviously in the first scenario opening many buttons is good because the act of opening a button in that situation, regardless of what happens postflop, is almost +ev. If you can just turn some of your bad hands into slight winners by playing postflop, which you can do by literally just waiting for the nuts and not playing otherwise, than you can turn any hand into a plus ev hand.
In the second scenario, you shouldn't only raise hands that you can call a 3bet with. This is actually a really simple example of game theory, if you only open hands you want to call a 3bet with, any nit wit will probably realize this somewhat and make some sort of adjustment, good players even more so. What you want to do is tighten up, but raise some hands that aren't +ev (I'd probably open about 60%-70% of buttons in this scenario, depending on the stacksizes) so he continues to make a predictable mistake and plays into your counter unknowingly.
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