Poker Discussion Post

 What advice can you give the next up and coming player from Taiwan?

 Play up the fact that you are from Taiwan to any poker related person you can find and pray for sponsorship. Act like a moron in live tournies for TV coverage.

congrats on your success.  I was just curious in the late stages ofplay when everyone is getting shorter stacked when you are sitting in the 18-30 bb range and there is a raiser in front of you, should you always be looking to shove AQ+ and 1010+ over the top of them or is there any merit to just cold calling sometimes and seeing a flop?

 How important was the summer in Vegas to your game?  This seems to be a common thread with a lot of the big name pros early in their careers.  I don't really have any poker playing friends and I think it's putting me at a pretty big disadvantage not having that.

pokerbrat13:

 the experience of railing and discussing poker with yanniyankievich, imalucsac, imalucksac, and pikappraider opened my eyes to a lot of tournament concepts.

I was near broke but learned a ton.

Nothingmaker:

 , bro!

how sick to your stomach were you about an hour after we both folded KK at PCA this year and realized that crazy euro was infact a crazy euro and not a nit like originally thought.

Im pretty sure you're the guy who chopped the sunday mill and your gf broke up with you :-/ Where is she now? Are your parents more understanding now too?
Also, I remember a thread you posted a long time ago about poker and "being a kid". Do you still regret not having a social life and not doing "kid" things when you were younger?

Congrats with everything and GL in the future.

Over/under how long it takes for the expected q to show up...

 Honestly, most of the time, that's what you are looking to do. AQ+ and 1010+ is strong. It's often well ahead of any single raise.

But position is everything. I can open fold aq or 1010 to a single raise if the situation calls for it. For example, at the 163 FT yesterday a stack with 20bbs opened for 2.5 x UTG.

The stacks were incredibly shallow. I had 25 bbs and was in about 3rd place. I had 1010 in middle position and opted to throw it away. Decided that the worst hand this particular player would open here is 88+ or aq+. It also seemed that it was early at the FT and I didn't think this player would raise-fold utg.

I have no idea if this was correct. But simply putting my opponent on a a tight range i could let it go. At the same time, if I've got a maniac at my table, there are situations where I'm ready to ship in 50bbs with aq. Everything in poker tournaments is situation dependent and to be always actively making decisions based on ur opponents range is the right way to go.

 First advice: Quote the question you are answering because most people will just scroll until they see you have posted and it will be hard to scroll back up to see what question you are answering.

Second a question: do you still get anxious when you are deep in a tournament? Like when there are 3 tables left or so. does this ever affect your play if you do? Like getting too aggressive wanting to speed things up, etc. etc.

I've been getting a lot of questions lately in pms and stuff. Plus I figure it can't hurt my pro poll score to get my name out there more.