Comments on: Playing vs. the Shortstacks (cash) http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/ Poker Coaching - Players Staking Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-97 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:50:55 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-97 Oh and Jennifer Tilly got her aces cracked on my day at Shooting Stars at Bay 101 by 5s...I guess not everyone thinks the same as you mario, but I am sure she wishes that guy who took her out in the first 20 mins or so of the tourney would have folded! :) Oh and Jennifer Tilly got her aces cracked on my day at Shooting Stars at Bay 101 by 5s…I guess not everyone thinks the same as you mario, but I am sure she wishes that guy who took her out in the first 20 mins or so of the tourney would have folded! :)

]]> By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-96 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:49:15 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-96 correction 4x not 4xs... I dont remember the suit :) correction 4x not 4xs… I dont remember the suit :)

]]> By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-95 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:48:20 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-95 I can take the heat Mario... no problem! :) But can you? Just kidding! If anything happens next Friday at the Bellagio tourney I will be sure to write something on it. I like cash better but the husband wants to play and I enjoy the bragging rights if/when I outlast him! :) I wish I could play like my husband sometimes. He has no fear. yesterday at HG he played the player and not his cards. In fact, he was playing blind until the other guy mucked after hubbys bet on the turn. This is how it played out... Husband raised UTG preflop (we were at the 300 NL table, blinds are 5 3) to 20 and announces he is playing blind. It folds to the BB who is this tight tight TIGHT (did I mention tight? lol) player and he calls. Now, this kids first mistake...if he has a good hand, he should have reraised but he is intimidated so he just calls. Flop is 6s7s4xs. BB checks husband bets 40 blind. BB calls. The next card is a Jx. BB checks and husband bets 100 and BB folds. BB shows AKo, hubby shows 8s10s. No one at the table knew we are husband and wife. When my husband got up 3 of the players just started ripping on his play. Little did they know who I was LOL and little did they know how often they got outplayed when they probably had a better hand than he did. I guess thats why he made it to day 4 of the wsop main event :) I can take the heat Mario… no problem! :)
But can you? Just kidding!

If anything happens next Friday at the Bellagio tourney I will be sure to write something on it. I like cash better but the husband wants to play and I enjoy the bragging rights if/when I outlast him! :)

I wish I could play like my husband sometimes. He has no fear. yesterday at HG he played the player and not his cards. In fact, he was playing blind until the other guy mucked after hubbys bet on the turn. This is how it played out… Husband raised UTG preflop (we were at the 300 NL table, blinds are 5 3) to 20 and announces he is playing blind. It folds to the BB who is this tight tight TIGHT (did I mention tight? lol) player and he calls. Now, this kids first mistake…if he has a good hand, he should have reraised but he is intimidated so he just calls. Flop is 6s7s4xs. BB checks husband bets 40 blind. BB calls. The next card is a Jx. BB checks and husband bets 100 and BB folds. BB shows AKo, hubby shows 8s10s. No one at the table knew we are husband and wife. When my husband got up 3 of the players just started ripping on his play. Little did they know who I was LOL and little did they know how often they got outplayed when they probably had a better hand than he did. I guess thats why he made it to day 4 of the wsop main event :)

]]> By: JimD http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-78 JimD Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:19:04 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-78 I thought I made the reads pretty clear in the article, but maybe not. I guess I will use that as potential feedback to use in my next post. Sounds like it is time for Kim to start writing articles? I thought I made the reads pretty clear in the article, but maybe not. I guess I will use that as potential feedback to use in my next post.

Sounds like it is time for Kim to start writing articles?

]]> By: Marios (Administrator) http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Marios (Administrator) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:06:06 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-77 LoL.. Kim.. I am sorry! I thought about my post later and I was a kind of aggressive. I mean... It is not your fault being a woman poker player! :) I am kidding. Nice to hear that you are up for the year. We really appreciate your comments and believe me ... I am sure we all like having a thinking female player in our company. ;) LoL.. Kim.. I am sorry! I thought about my post later and I was a kind of aggressive.

I mean… It is not your fault being a woman poker player! :)
I am kidding.

Nice to hear that you are up for the year.
We really appreciate your comments and believe me … I am sure we all like having a thinking female player in our company.

;)

]]> By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-76 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:28:46 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-76 I agree with the author that his turn bet was not the best choice. At 50% of the pot, if I were his opponent I would not put him on a strong hand. The author did not indicate his read on a player nor what the flop turn and river cards were. Sensing strength or weakness is a big part of the game regardless of your stack size. If you are just playing the 2 cards in your hand vs the board plus pot size then you put your own ceiling on your skill as a player. But then again, I am only a girl so what do I know, right? LOL I agree with the author that his turn bet was not the best choice. At 50% of the pot, if I were his opponent I would not put him on a strong hand. The author did not indicate his read on a player nor what the flop turn and river cards were. Sensing strength or weakness is a big part of the game regardless of your stack size. If you are just playing the 2 cards in your hand vs the board plus pot size then you put your own ceiling on your skill as a player. But then again, I am only a girl so what do I know, right? LOL

]]> By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-75 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:09:57 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-75 wow you have some nerve mario...if i relied on luck and femininity then i would not do well overall at all and I am very much up for the year. Since you got personal in your response I will tell you that you sound like a typical male whose money i take time and time again. Of course I would pick a passive fish table with big ol stacks over a table full of short stacks but even more important in the "choose a table" decision, I would also pick a table (if I had the luxury) that has a lot of action over one where I am only winning blinds regardless of stack sizes. wow you have some nerve mario…if i relied on luck and femininity then i would not do well overall at all and I am very much up for the year. Since you got personal in your response I will tell you that you sound like a typical male whose money i take time and time again. Of course I would pick a passive fish table with big ol stacks over a table full of short stacks but even more important in the “choose a table” decision, I would also pick a table (if I had the luxury) that has a lot of action over one where I am only winning blinds regardless of stack sizes.

]]> By: Marios (Administrator) http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Marios (Administrator) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:33:07 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-74 Something else... There are two tables. On the one, there is a full stacked loose passive fish losing money again and again. On the other there is a shorty who break your nerves going all in after every raise. Are you gonna stay to the second table to test your skills? Sorry I am already to the other because I need this guy's money! ;) Something else…

There are two tables.
On the one, there is a full stacked loose passive fish losing money again and again.
On the other there is a shorty who break your nerves going all in after every raise.

Are you gonna stay to the second table to test your skills?
Sorry I am already to the other because I need this guy’s money!

;)

]]> By: Marios (Administrator) http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Marios (Administrator) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:29:54 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-73 As I wrote before... In higher stakes are very skilled shortstakers but they never play with less than 50BB. Usualy they have 70BB. Again these guys are 2% of the players our there. Kim... With 1/3 buy-in, I don't think you can play with odds or reads or other poker concepts you rely more on the luck and your femininity. And then... poor men... We are trying to calculate our equity in a pot!! If I was against Jeniffer Tilly I would fold anything!! Just to stay in the game. lol :) :) As I wrote before…
In higher stakes are very skilled shortstakers but they never play with less than 50BB. Usualy they have 70BB. Again these guys are 2% of the players our there.

Kim…
With 1/3 buy-in, I don’t think you can play with odds or reads or other poker concepts you rely more on the luck and your femininity.
And then… poor men… We are trying to calculate our equity in a pot!!
If I was against Jeniffer Tilly I would fold anything!! Just to stay in the game. lol :) :)

]]> By: kim http://www.poker-scholarship.com/2009/10/playing-vs-the-shortstacks-cash/comment-page-1/#comment-72 kim Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:21:23 +0000 http://www.poker-scholarship.com/?p=523#comment-72 well i think there is a difference in the quality of short stack players at a 2 5 table vs a 10 20. You cannot stick shorties solely into the 2 catagories as mentioned above. well i think there is a difference in the quality of short stack players at a 2 5 table vs a 10 20. You cannot stick shorties solely into the 2 catagories as mentioned above.

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