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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

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

[quote user="Sandman_Good"] Sensitive training? My goodness. Listening to him on EPTlive. He has had a few comments regarding money. What might be nothing to him, could mean a lot to someone else. [/quote] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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