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June 22, 2004
Reader Response
I watched you bust out of a Party Tourney last night, 77th I think it was. You were short stacked with AJo and went all in, preflop, for 300. One medium stacked player called with a KJo and ended up taking the pot.Actually I busted out of the 900 man tourney about a half hour into it, so I was far from 77th. Probably in the 700s somewhere, I didn’t look at the standings since it wasn’t really relevant. Also my opponent had KQ.
Afterwards you went ballistic and berated him for making such a bad call. You came across very insulting, immature, and downright nasty (yeah, I know it's your "strategy" for getting someone in to headsup play, in this case the guy laughed it off).You are correct, this guy was not going to play me heads up. All he was interested in was the fact that he won the hand, and therefore his play must have been correct. You can certainly have your own opinion of my table antics. It has done the job for me enough to know that it is effective at getting heads up matches. If it didn’t come across as immature, insulting, and downright nasty it wouldn’t work.
Anyways, do you really believe calling a heads up all in bet (only 300 units)with KJo was a bad play? Your all in bet only amounted to about 1/5 of his stack. Are you saying if you were in the same position you'd let a short stack bully you out of the pot? KJo is not a bad hand, heads up.First of all it wouldn’t be bullying him out of a pot. He posted $20 of his $1100 stack on the bb. There was one limper, I went all in from the sb, and he called $300. This is an atrocious call. He was getting just over 1:1 odds on a hand that was either a slight underdog, a 6-4 underdog, or a huge underdog. I suppose if you think I would shove KJ then there is one chance he could be a 2:1 favorite, but that still would not make the call worth it because of the likelihood he is dominated by AK, AQ, or QQ or higher. Also there was an early position limper behind him to act, who could have just limped with AA or KK or something. This isn’t too likely, but is a definite possibility. We were in the early stages of a very long tournament so knocking a player out has little value. There is no reason at all for this guy to call here, other than being an extremely weak player who couldn’t lay down KQ if his life depended on it. KQ is not a bad hand if you are at a heads up table. Being heads up against one player at a ten handed table it is a pile. There was nothing I could have had that made it a good call. I would have just limped with KJ there, but even if I would shove anything KJ or better it is a bad call. I actually shoved just because I knew that I could get a call from a hand like KQ, or even better one like A 10 which I had dominated. I wanted him to make that call because it was such a bad one. He did and I got knocked out for it. I have no regrets.
Just for the record, I am not a hater. I've read your blog from the beginning and will continue to do so, no matter how nasty your response to this is. I think you are a above average player and believe you have won what you say you have. I think your nastiness and unsportmanlike conduct is ridiculous, and I don't buy that you are always doing it to get a headsup match. I think a lot of it is you are genuinely tilting, and can't control your emotions. Also, I think you and John try to impress each other by berating other players. Kind of a macho thing. As you mature, I'd bet your behavior changes. Before you rip me a new ass, all this is just my opinion, and I acknowledge that I could be mistaken.Well it isn’t a macho thing at all, but is sort of a fun thing we do when together. If you hung out with us you would realize that we (and our other friends) attack each other like this (all in good fun) all of the time. It does make the time go by, and alleviates some of the overwhelming boredom of playing against such simpletons. Playing against suckers may be more profitable than playing against skilled opponents, but it is much less fun as well. You may be right about my behavior changing though, it already has somewhat since I have begun playing $5/$10 so much, where it doesn’t net me any heads up matches at all. I don’t even bother with the whole routine there anymore. Also I won't say that I never go on tilt, since I don’t think such a thing is possible. But it takes a lot more than one idiotic call knocking me out of a tournament to do it. If it didn’t I would not be able to play this game for a living, especially at 6 max, where I take much worse beats than that every 5 minutes. And I generally don’t rip people up here if their arguments are well reasoned and not entirely spiteful. So feel free to post your comments any time. Also do you care to divulge your Party name? You obviously know both mine and John’s. If you see me in a tournament feel free to chat.
Posted by themaroon at June 22, 2004 10:13 AM
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