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lool epic tune

Wiz Khalifa song where the title came from.
YouTube - Wiz Khalifa - Never Been (official video)

If you are a nerd like me you love this song for nothing else but the fact that it samples a classic RPG for the SNES.

YouTube - Schala's Theme: Chrono Trigger Music

If this were facebook id hit the "like" button

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Yea, people call 3bets so much OOP and play so badly postflop that you gotta 3bet a lot. You don't have to be Joey, but it is an easy way to win a few more $/hour. You make most of your money because you are good at playing multiway pots so it makes sense that you choose overcall over 3bet more than I do.

chapter one of how to crush the gemini. i was talking to bill a few weeks ago about how i need to start 3 betting preflop more.

ernest is the best. he check called the flop and turn because he didn't like his kicker

i have 23 sessions worth of data from the gemini. up $10,224, $62/hr.

good old terry. this hand puts me on tilt everytime i think about it.

At this point I'd be lucky to be a break even player on the wpt poker application on my phone.

Lol, you are being owned at .10 .25, I would not cash in a 180man $4sng if my life depended on it. Lets hope none of these micro stake stars move up a few levels, it will be all over for everyone!

"lol@u reading this gar bage"

yea, thats what I thought...

play a ton and consider myself a successful live cash and couldn't agree more with what you've said.

Yea, I think I played with you once last spring and you played pretty decent from what I saw.

so I have found myself lately 3 betting in position with 76o and things like that for value.

3betting 76o is a bluff

You almost never get 4 bet, and more often than not they seem to fold or call then check/fold 90% of the time. How bad of a leak do you think that is, if one at all?

Pretty bad leak. It's +EV to 3bet any 2 cards in position against players who fold too much or call too much and play too fit or fold postflop. Not very many players fit outside of either these categories. Most players are scared out of their mind to 4bet AK. You just have to p ick your spots to 3bet. At Gemini for example I have played many times where I 3bet the 2 people to my right every single time they opened (I dont mean most of the time I mean every time) and got away with it.

Great post Cory. I play a ton and consider myself a successful live cash and couldn't agree more with what you've said. I always have to "swallow my pride" when I call an $18 bet with 5s6s and crack there KK and just tell them unlucky instead of telling thm how transparent there play is.

1 question if you don't mind. I agree with you about no one ever 3betting without Ak and 1010+, so I have found myself lately 3 betting in position with 76o and things like that for value. You almost never get 4 bet, and more often than not they seem to fold or call then check/fold 90% of the time. How bad of a leak do you think that is, if one at all?

assasinato once said something about using shoves /river shoves in cash games as your weapon for tournament based players. What's your insight/opinion about it?

In what context is he talking about "using shoves/rivershoves as your weapon". I'm unfamiliar with assasinato's videos so I'm unsure what he specifically means by "using shoves/rivershoves as your weapon in cash games".

I do feel that pulling the trigger on very thin river shoves both for value and as bluffs is something that seperates a lot of marginal winning players from the game-crushers.

assasinato once said something about using shoves /river shoves in cash games as your weapon for tournament based players. What's your insight/opinion about it?

Excellent post cory.

Lately I've been thinking how good cash game players think of the game as something floating which they can shape, and tourney players think off the game as something rock solid they have to break down.

I'm a tournament player from my toes til my heart and wont claim its easier to succeed in tourneys, since the two games really isnt the same at all. But your understanding of ranges, and how to exploit them, resemble something close to what im thinking about late game mtts these days.

Again excellent post Cory, and im sure none of these players know how to google "poker".=)

lol nice post man, I checked out the gemini for the first time about 2 weeks ago. lot of money to be made there, i'm goin back today to try to qualify for that big sunday tourney. the cash is sooooooooo juicy too, gl

Yea, it is definately a soft game. The swings there are crazy though. I remember telling somebody that if I win or lose anything less than $1500 on any day I count it as breaking even.

lol nice post man, I checked out the gemini for the first time about 2 weeks ago. lot of money to be made there, i'm goin back today to try to qualify for that big sunday tourney. the cash is sooooooooo juicy too, gl

"Why didn't you raise?"
"Because I didn't think he'd call."