Could you please explain how live makeup and online makeup being seperate work, instead of putting both makeups as one?

1- do you smoke weed? if so do you do it while playin live and online?

2- what kind of car do you drive?

3- do you invest?

4- whats the biggest card you have ever hit in your poker career?

5- whats the worst beat in your poker career?

6- how many girls had you slept with before the braclet?/ how many girls have you slept with after the braclet?

Congrats on all your success so far, imo you are one of the best players in the world and toughest to play against. Also, thanks for doing this, respect.

My question is, is there any backers that just back players for live tournies, or just back players for certain online tournies?

 

Originally Posted by SICKTIGHT311

Hey mig, thanks for doing this. I hope to someday be baller enough to do one of these.

I've noticed you have said you like Erick Lindgren's game. I like his game as well and his book from the WPT series, Making the Final Table, really helped me put together a solid style at a time where I was experimenting switching from a TAG style to a more LAG style and had gotten a little too LAG. Anyways, what do you like about his game?

I'll throw a strategy question at you too. When I'm between 10 and 20 BBs, I'm normally not open-raising pre unless it's a hand I feel comfortable going all the way with, i.e. not folding to a 3-bet/shove. It's known for the most part as spew to be raise/folding on a stack that size however I've seen people say that there are times where it's ok. IYO, is there an ok time to be raise/folding on a 10-20 BB stack and if so what types of situations would those be?

Thanks again.

Overall Erik has a very solid abc game that doesnt have a lot of leaks. But along with that hes very good at changing gears and adapting he can play a tight straightforward game for 5 hours then if he sees a good opportunity completely change and run some big bluffs. Basically adaptability is the most important thing I look for when trying to figure out just how good someone is and he adapts better than almost any live pro.

I definitely think there are times when you should raise fold 10-20bbs. In the past you could raise fold 10-20bb stacks all the time because people restole less often so anytime they did 3bet you they pretty much always had a monster. Anymore you have to be a lot more careful opening that sized stack because people resteal so much that you will be giving away chips too often. But there are still spots where if you get a good read on a player that hes tight and wont 3bet you without a hand you can raise/fold.

 

Originally Posted by 8888kush

1- do you smoke weed? if so do you do it while playin live and online?

2- what kind of car do you drive?

3- do you invest?

4- whats the biggest card you have ever hit in your poker career?

5- whats the worst beat in your poker career?

6- how many girls had you slept with before the braclet?/ how many girls have you slept with after the braclet?

1- no

2- 2007 corvette

3- I own a couple houses but havent really invested too much I have to keep a large amount of money liquid for the backing.

4- hmm not really sure

5- probably in one of the first live tourneys I played I was 3 handed in a bellagio prelim I got it in 66 vs 55 against thewacokid for like 95% of the chips in play. I lost and ended up getting 3rd so was prob like a 150k bad beat but I cant really complain with how my career has gone.

 

Originally Posted by Cre8ive

Sorry I didn't phrase my question correctly. I know how it works in that aspect. I was wondering as to WHY it is done like that? If a player is backed online and live and their makeup is combined, doesn't that benefit the backer and hurt the player? That's more of what I was trying to ask for an explanation of. Could you give some insight into this please?

Thanks again mig.

Yes exactly if the makeup is combined its better for the backer and worse for the player. So in general thats obviously what we prefer but for some players we work out deal where they have it separately. A lot of guys want it separate because you can easily have 1 month live where you lose 50k+ if you had to work that off online it would mean you would likely have no income for a month or longer. So we let some guys have separate deals so they can maintain their monthly income while still playing live.

how funny is it to see people stack off for 400bbs with KJ on J hi boards in 10k events and be good? j/k

even though they take diff skill sets...how much more profitable is live/online compared to the other? for :

A) you

B) Your top 5 mtt online players

C) Your top 5 mtt live players

D) generic p5's T100 mtt donk

thx r

 

Originally Posted by comandr_cool

last series u came in 2nd in the 10k mixed event. this sort of surprised me when i saw it, just firgured you were a no limit donkament champion and hero and didnt know or play the other games.

so i guess in terms of all the games how did u fair against the field skillwise?

answer either - one of the best, above average, average, below average, or one of the worst. for each.

triple draw 2-7 -
limit holdem -
omaha h/l -
razz -
stud -
stud h/l -
nl holdem -
plo -

i think thats all of em.

also i saw madsen made it deep, how was his game? just curious cuz i hear he doesnt have an online backround and dont see how he can be any good.

triple draw 2-7 -really terrible first day it was actually the first time I had ever played triple draw by 2nd and 3rd day I thought I had an ok grasp on it but still below avg

limit holdem - above avg
omaha h/l - above avg
razz -above avg
stud -below avg
stud h/l -avg
nl holdem - one of the best
plo -above avg

hm I dont really remember how madsen played during the tourney honestly

I was kind of fortunate in the tournament I dont have nearly the experience in some of the limit games (especially the stud and triple draw games) but I was able to keep myself out of trouble and player tighter in the games I didnt know as well.

 

Originally Posted by Randers

how funny is it to see people stack off for 400bbs with KJ on J hi boards in 10k events and be good? j/k

even though they take diff skill sets...how much more profitable is live/online compared to the other? for :

A) you

B) Your top 5 mtt online players

C) Your top 5 mtt live players

D) generic p5's T100 mtt donk

thx r

For A B C I would say live just because the buyins are bigger live many of the top players dont put in much volume online so they wont make as much there.
D) I would say possibly its online because they put in a very high volume

In terms of ROI it should be live for everyone simply because live generally has deeper stacks so you will see more hands and in general your ROI increases as the number of hands played in a tournament increases.

You mentioned that it is important for a backee to have played a "large volume". What would you consider to be a large volume when deciding whether to back a player? Thanks for the well.

 

Originally Posted by zurswierding

You mentioned that it is important for a backee to have played a "large volume". What would you consider to be a large volume when deciding whether to back a player? Thanks for the well.

hmm it kind of depends on what they have played because playing 1000 1$ tournaments doesnt mean as much as playing 100 100$ tournaments. So its more of something that has to be judged on from situation to situation.

But if I was backing someone online only I would want them to preferably play 200-300 tourneys a month or so in whatever buyin range I was staking them for.

boxers or briefs?

 

Originally Posted by GrayFOX22

When you play online, how many tables are optimal for you to be playing at once? Do you find any merit in taking player notes for online MTTs? Do the ever changing game dynamics make notes less relevant? In online MTTs, do you ever give up in slightly +ev spots? Do you ever knowingly put yourself in -ev spots? Reasoning? Any non-standard advice, tips, or bits of wisdom? If not no biggie! GL in the future, keep it going.

umm optimally for how well I can play I would say like 2-4. optimal in terms of making money I would say I can play 10-12 pretty well. I think notes are less important in mtts than in cash prob but they are def still very helpful.

And iam in the school where I dont think theres very many +ev spots you should ever pass up. I would need a super deep stacked tourney with a very soft tourney before I did. And I dont really believe taking many -ev spots to get a big stack. Although I think there are spots you could gamble such as to get a really big stack on a bubble you think you can abuse badly, etc.

 

Originally Posted by BigRed0000

top 5 vampire/zombie movies.

28 days later, from dusk till dawn, lost boys, evil dead 2, night of the living dead.

Hey man, congrats on your success. I think its really cool of you to respond like this.

My question is:

HYPOTHETICALLY if tomorrow you woke up and all your money was gone, you had zero dollars.... Nobody to stake you, nothing to sell..... You have nothing and no way of getting anything...

Then you log onto your stars(or FT) account and there is an even $500, no fpps.

What would YOU specifically play.

and pls if you can be specific, if its cash games, then what game? and what limits? if its sngs, what type, multi, 9 mans, 6max, turbos? if its multis, which ones? any or guarentee?

Again im interested in what you would do, not with what other people should do.