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Re:Super Tuesday Question/Barry
Frequently, I can avoid criticism for my bad plays because people will say that I didn't take it seriously. Usually they were just bad plays, and I have no excuse for them. I am still steaming from two bad decisions at the end of the Super Tuesday the week before where I was near the chiplead much of the way. One of them was the result of lazyness where I didn't search to find who my opponents were when we got toward the end and, as a result, I played too conservatively against Theo Tran. I wanted to throw up when he saw me the next day and told me it was him. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Jan 28th, 2009
Re:Super Tuesday Question/Barry
I actually play more seriously than you think. No matter how small I'm playing, I like to give a good effort for a few reasons: 1) A lot of people are watching me and trying to learn. 2) Many people seem to enjoy railing me since I talk to them and I want to give them some sweating time. 3) I take it seriously that I represent PokerStars. 4) I lend out and sometimes lose money and my online account frequently has less than 30k. I like to lend out from winnings and I fight to not have to buy online money from other players. On this particular hand, I didn't know the guy who raised, ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Jan 28th, 2009
Re:Does Barry G. need.....(DO NOT READ...BARRY IS THE GREATEST. IM AN A-HOLE. END THREAD)
Sandman, I'm not sure that this was one of those situations, but someone who talks as much as I do in public is bound to say stupid or insensitive things from time to time. I try to respect the people who may be listening, but there is no doubt that I have sounded pompous on some occasions. Fortunately, I have friends (like you) who let me know! Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Jan 22nd, 2009
Re:barrgy1 folds 10+ to 1 pot odds
I bet 510 on a bluff with ten high. I don't remember calling the raise, but I remember the failed bluff. It could have been a misclick, but it is more likely that I was playing other games and called to bluff on the turn or the river and didn't notice how little he had left. The reason that I vaguely recall this unimportant hand from a small tourney is that I remember thinking that "I bet someone will post this hand somewhere." Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 27th, 2008
Re:Hand from FTOPS 5k 6-max
PURPLE: You're right about one thing for sure: If Kevin would have called and Brandon would have had a dominating hand, we would have a lot more people explaining why Kevin's call was bad. As Brandon mentioned, when I have played with him, he has been crazy, so I'm sure I have a skewed view. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 23rd, 2008
Re:Hand from FTOPS 5k 6-max
PURPLE: I think one key thing has been missing from the discussion. You know how when you go through a stretch where you really haven't been doing any stealing, and your opponents must think you're playing tight, but you just haven't been getting good hands or good situations' What do you do' You try to steal at the first decent opportunity because you think you have earned credibility. I call these timing plays, and I may three-bet a late position raiser in those instances with any two cards when I think I will be given credit. Kevin and Brandon are good, fearless players who ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 23rd, 2008
Re:Hand from FTOPS 5k 6-max
To PURPLEPILS99: You seem to be saying that a couple of lunatics like Brandon and Kevin can play sanely for a half hour and then you decide they are tight players. I was wondering if this willingness to decide that a leopard has traded in his spots is more an online phenomenon than a live one where we can see it's still them. I admit that you should give some consideration to how a player is playing the current session and money bubble situation, but we often get misled because they didn't have the right situations come up, for instance, there was an early position raiser, a solid ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 23rd, 2008
Re:HORSE Final Table HORRIBLE for Poker's Image
scottyclark, As I already said, I was not there. Scotty wasn't plastered at the time I left. porter, Scotty didn't really slowroll me. He squeezed out a "three spotter missing at least one middle pip" and announced that it was fifty-fifty. He would either have two pair (and get scooped) or three sevens (and he would scoop me). Mathematically against that squeeze I was actually a 2 to 1 favorite, but Scotty and most squeezers aren't that good at probability to know that. jeffbeesdat, Pokerstars wouldn't redistribute the money without a thorough investigation. ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Aug 20th, 2008
Re:HORSE Final Table HORRIBLE for Poker's Image
He was just trying to knock Michael out to give himself a better chance to get half of the pot, but his hand was pretty bad. Scotty does that talk about I'm hoping me and you make it all the time to people he knows, but he never intentionally gives anyone a break. The Aces was a bad fold as well as the non-bet on the flop. But what I think was really going on was that he was just playing badly after he got drunk. It would have looked like he was trying to dump the event to Michael also if he hadn't have drawn out a couple of times. There is no longer a penalty for cursing, only for ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Aug 20th, 2008
Re:HORSE Final Table HORRIBLE for Poker's Image
I never hang around after I get knocked out, so I didn't see how over the top Scotty was. I found out how bad Scotty acted in an e-mail from Norman Chad a week after the event. He wrote that even though Scotty was retaliating against Michael's early behaviour, he was ten times worse and should have been penalized. Some online players were claiming that Scotty would get protection on TV and Michael woulnd't. Well, they didn't show the hand waving dance Michael after he beat me on he razz hand. That really got the other players talking about him. In fairness to Michael, Norman ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Aug 19th, 2008
Re(2): JJPRodigy interview - exclusive stuff!!!!!!
I haven't followed what JJProdigy is known to have done. If he only multiaccounted and never played a hand with information about cards in other hands, then I don't think that is a death sentence. If he went out of his way to do almost whatever was possible to win, then he is bad for poker. I'll call the first kind a misdemeanor and the second kind a felony. Thirty years ago, we had to keep felony cheaters out of the game because it stopped the live ones from playing and trusting the game. The only way we ever let them play was if they were bad players and everyone in the game knew the score ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Jan 10th, 2008
Re(5): greenstein is a donk
This is another example of a mistake I am capable of making online, but not live. I was bluffing and overclicked (I had been up all night). I wanted to bet an amount that looked like I was committed. Also, in a live setting I usually have a good feel for when I can take the pot when someone bets out. Online, I'm in the dark, and I usually don't know the individual players and can't make a snap judgment based their body language. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Dec 20th, 2007
Re(2): Barry Greenstein got me thinking....
I didn't mean what most of the posters thought I meant. I wasn't talking about passing up +EV situations for better ones that may come. Often, accumulating several small +EV situations creates an overall large EV. However, it is true that I do that sometimes if my opposition is weak and I think I can find better spots. What I was referring to is that when people come up with a line of play that they can justify as +EV, they often don't realize that because of an opponent's weakness there is a superior line of play against that particular opponent. For example, if I play an opponent who is ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Dec 5th, 2007
Re(7): HSP Players -- Net Worth Ranking
Since I'm here and it's the night of Thanksgiving, I hope you don't mind me spamming you with some useful information for poker players in the form of Thanksgiving Tips from the Bear. /
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 22nd, 2007
Re(3): HSP Players -- Net Worth Ranking
Net worth is a funny thing. Once you own things, you can't bring your net worth to the poker table. Every player who plays the big game borrows short term from other players when he has a few bad sessions. I'm not sure where I rank against the others in net worth, but it certainly changes over time. Guy's net worth obviously dwarfs the rest of ours. The rest of us still play to make money. When we win, we invest in businesses and real estate. (No, I haven't sold my houses or my condo.) The problem comes when you have recurring financial obligations to these investments, and there are no good ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 22nd, 2007
Re(3): ted forrest
Actually, a few of Ted's big wins are in no limit hold'em. On my website, I had rated Ted a 5 in no-limit. He said, "If I win a no-limit tournament, will you upgrade me." I said, "Of course." He then won a PPT title, a WSOP no-limit bracelet, the NBC heads up championship, and a WPT event, not to mention a second in another WPT event. Now he's rated an 8 in no-limit. On another subject, where is Waco now that I have entered this thread' I enjoy teasing my green-hatted friend, but he isn't giving me any ammunition. Oh, there he is right above me. Wrong on the facts again, green hat. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 16th, 2007
Re(9): ted forrest
Annette, Ted is one of those guys who can look bad, but when he's on, he plays like he knows your cards. In tournaments, that's not a bad thing because his results are top and bottom heavy. I understand your thinking against the tight guy, but when an unimaginative tight player makes a big bet, you often don't know exactly what he has, but you know it beats your hand. If you had top pair, then you might give him second set. Against me, you had me way out chipped at the time. Maybe even 5 to 1. I think you should have made a normal continuation bet on the flop. But it was the first time we ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 16th, 2007
Re(7): ted forrest
I was at the table with Annette and Ted. First of all, Ted is a sick good stud player who makes good reads in NL Hold'em, but doesn't play it well fundamentally. On the hand in question, he was sure the reraiser had Ace King. He was right, and he is able to read hands that well. Ted decided to call preflop and then bet the flop if no Ace or King came. Ted actually had two black tens, if I remember correctly, and the flop came Jack high with three spades. Ted bet all in on the flop, and the initial opener called with his flopped top set. I would have folded Ted's hand before the flop, but Ted ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 16th, 2007
Re(2): Live Adjustment. Long
If those loose players will still pay you off when you have a good hand, then you can wait on them. I play against loose players who are also good enough that they don't pay off the tight players, and they eat them alive while the tighties wait for a big hand. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 7th, 2007
Re(5): In Progress Now!!! FieryJustice, ActionJeff, BigRiskky, Redsoxsox, Greenstein at WPT Final Table
1. I can accept that I made more bad decisions than Jeff did when we played together. Fortunatlely I always seemed to get into a good situation when I got short, including the final hand where I took a bad beat. 2. Calling Jeff "a good player who bets his hands well," doesn't sound like a rip to me. I realize Jeff responded without hearing what I said. There is a big difference between criticizing a play and criticizing a player. I wouldn't do the latter publicly, and in this case I realize Jeff has an outstanding track record and is going to be tough competition for years to come. 3. I ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 3rd, 2007
Re(3): In Progress Now!!! FieryJustice, ActionJeff, BigRiskky, Redsoxsox, Greenstein at WPT Final Table
I didn't rip on Jeff. He is a nice guy and a good player, certainly outstanding for his age. I mentioned that he made three plays that looked bad to me early the penultimate day. I suspect he is not an early riser and once he got chips he played fine. That said, I can only hope Brian Townsend or someone else would crossbook against me in a live tournament with any of the young players. Without getting in an absurd argument about who is better than who, my main contention is that all of these young players are nowhere near their prime, especially when it comes to live tournaments. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Nov 2nd, 2007
Re(5): Anyone pick up the tell on the Kenny Tran vs. Barry Greenstein hand in the 50K Horse WSOP event?
Yes, I saw Kenny sit up and I knew he had a good hand. Most of the players towards the end were inexperienced at some of the games which made them very transparent. (Kenny is a hold'em player.) But this is limit poker and it seemed marginally right to make a one bet call to hope that he had a six low instead of a high hand. (It would be hard for him to be scooped with his Ace-10-8 for high.) Similarly, I knew David Singer wasn't bluffing, but I hoped he raised with Aces up. I actually lost 4 big pots on the river when we were nine handed. Each time I would have been chip leader if I had ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Oct 28th, 2007
Re(3): question about barry greenstein
1. I did mean it as a neutral comment. I am unaware of what books on Pot Limit Omaha are considered good. I learned to play poker before there were any good instructional books. I haven't read any books by T.J. or Mc Evoy. 2. I am often asked if there are any sensational young players and I always answer no. This gets people like Jared (who may think he is the next big thing) to think that I'm cocky. The truth is that there are many good young players, but not surprisingly, none that astound me. Poker is not like chess or like sports, where it might be obvious that someone is way better than ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Aug 26th, 2007
Re(1): these live pros are just too good
Should be better at details, Matt. The turn was the nine of hearts which gave me a straight and a flush draw, easily pricing me in. When I made the nuts on the river, I check-raised your 6k bet with another 11k, and you (frustrated) moved in for your last 2k. Barry
Posted in: Bad Beats 		barryg1
Mar 1st, 2007
Re(8): whats greenstien talking about
I thought I might be drawing dead when I moved in with my overbet, as tight as Erick had been playing. Then it would have been more appropriate. I was slightly surprised when Erick folded. But I had told Eli I was going to say something on a hand after I went all-in, and he prompted me, so I went with it. Barry
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		barryg1
Mar 1st, 2007