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When do you feel the time is right to change gears?

any tips for when your going through a really bad run?

Have you ever plodded for your country?

I would love to read your thoughts regarding that Monte Carlo hand, and the build up to it and did Phil Ivey ever ask you to play golf with him?

thanks

I had played too weak against Phil ivey when heads up and i now squirm when i see some of the hands i folded to him post flop.
He is very aggressive in a clever way in that he is relentless rather than mindless and keeps you under constant pressure (he had a huge chip lead which made it even easier for him).

He told me afterwards that based on how he had seen me play  he believed i wouldn't lie down and would make moves on him and he was sure that i had done that in two specific hands prior to the one we are talking about ( i hadn't made those moves in actual fact i had checked the turn in two cases with a hand knowing it would induce him to have a pop at it on the river which he did and i re raised him both times).
I had folded from the small blind to his relentless raises too often and simply decided that before i saw my cards i was going to win that hand one way or another to slow him down a little- it didn't quite work out as planned.

I didn't play him at golf he offered me too big a handicap and i didn't want to take advantage of him!

i have never played poker for my country unfortunately.

I strongly reccomend that you either move down in terms of stakes or preferably take a break from playing for a day or so ( depending on how messed up your head is).

Everyone has bad runs and how you deal with it will often make or break you as a player.

good luck

Which is more important for a tournament poker player, being fastidious or flair?

As you know JP the best time to change gears is when one or more of your mates ex-girlfriends or younger sisters are feeling vulnerable or horny or both and then pounce mercilessly- why did you ask me that JP you taught me that ?

Actionjack,

Have u totally stopped playin on laddies and are u plannin on domanatin the mtts on crypto like u did on laddies?

Are there any female players you admire and if so what is it about their game you like?
What makes overall a good player? Irrespective of male/female.

What made you  choose to go to the internet from live poker in the beginning?

A good answer to this can be found here...

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/1608 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/1608)

Sorry my friend but I had to Laugh at this one!
 :)up

Yes i have stooped playing on Ladbrokes and will now play virtually all my on line poker on DTDpoker. I very much doubt i will have the time to attempt to dominate the MTT's and in any event there are so many good players now i would not be able to even if i tried so probably better that i cant even try then i wont fail :)

I think what makes a good player is having the intelligence and good judgement to look at and obtain the greatest possible information available at any given point and make the correct decision , based on that information, as often as possible.
Very often hands play themselves or you have little or no choice but one particular course of action but its the times that a decision is required that is important as that is the real skill in my opinion.

Obviously having the bottle to take big chances and make big moves can also be important but it is very hard to master that ability and many players just do that at random times and cross their fingers hoping their timing is good, in my view that method is more luck than judgement , even though it can also work.

In terms of female players i don't see the situation as comparable with "a good big un will always beat a good littleun" in that a good female player is of equal ability as a good male player, at the moment there are just a much larger pool of male players from which to find good ones  so male players seem to be more successful than female ones.

UK female players i like include EPT winner Vicky Coren who thinks about the game and talks the game as she plays ( and has a sexy voice) and Lucy Rokash who has done so much for poker over many years and is fearless ( she doesn't have a sexy voice but scares the chit out of me when I'm at her table)

What do you do when you have a burning desire to just donk money off?

Have a strum on your old john boy or take a break or what?

Or play limit poker?

Withdraw it and enjoy it Ben! A lad of your age should need no help in spending it and if you do, then we have a mutual friend who would be more than happy to help you drink it all! :D

;)

i dont need to have the desire to donk money off in order to justify a strum on my old john boy.

Also ben it tends to be more pleasurable and less expensive to have a fumble than go on tilt though as you are progressing from the latter maybe you ought to try both in initially until you wein yrself off tilt and firmly onto the john boy strumming.

I hope this helps you but please try not to think of me during your new strumming career

Is the "mutual friend" Pokergirlie?

bloody hell.,/.,paul ,.,im really impressed,./,.,.with your punctuation..,well done and i thought you.,/.,were daft,./.,

                                                the maniac

Hi paul can I have your top 10 tips to improve in cash games and and top 10 tips to improve in touneys please 10 of each online and live poker thats 40 tips please Paul. thanks in advanced Foxtra  ;popcorn;

hi paul can you tell me how to play ACES v 94 off plz ,i cant seem to get past them lol.

Those of you who do knot know or seen it as it will probably never be aired on TV Mr. Paul Jackson would be the one holding 94 off as he is a professional aces cracker.
I say this as in the J Texas tournament he managed when we were 3 handed to crack my Aces with 33 and knock me out. He then went on to crack Mr Michael Creco`s Aces with some other random hand to win the event.
Well done Mr Jackson.

hehehehehehehehehe
It was a funny day!
 Aspades Ahrt

Will the video's of your poker on Laddy's you made for your old site with sealey be available on the DtD site? I watched a few and found them very entertaining and helped my game alot. Not only do I like your play but the way you deal with other players and the 'friendly' banter you had on laddys.

Cheers

keep drinking and you wont care anyway.

When yr opponent calls yr raise with 94 os and cracks yr aces as he is scooping the pot if you head butt him you wont have "got past them" but it may ease the pain

Thanks very much.

I and some of the other DTD players will be producing similar and hopefully better videos on the DTD software.

We will not be seeking to make any money or profit from this activity it will be purely by way of an option for those playing on the DTD poker site. So maybe they will be acquired using MPP, s or some similar thing so that only DTD players can access them.

We will also be doing some shooting star style bounty tournaments on DTD as soon as things settle down.

Hi Paul - do you know if this tourney is ever going to be aired? After the heats you ended up heads up in the final with my mate Graham Clarkson (I believe you did a deal), and I just looked forward to seeing some of the hands as Graham said it was a decent table/tourney.

Any opinion of him and his play there?

Cheers!

I have no idea whether or not this will air but i obviously hope it does.

Graham played great in the final and arguably deserved to win the tournament. Although it was nip and tuck at one point he had the game won and i got very lucky against him.

If i hear any more about it being aired i will post it on here.

Paul

Cheers.

hi paul,any tips on me improving my game?
and dont be sarky lol

(1) try folding pre flop occasionally
(2) try not to feel obliged to win every hand that you play ( particularly if you cant manage (1)

good luck Jamie

thnx paul,but i allways sem to hit monster flops if i pass pre-flop,,serious all the frikin time 5,10 o/s pass....>>>>flop 10,5,7,turn 8 river 5 all the time lol,,,im trying to slow down a bit but its hard lol,,,...,good luck with dtd

cheers Jamie

Next time im on your table and we both get dealt aces  me the red ones you the black ones   how should i give you all my chips instead of getting away with just 850 when you get lucky and 4 flush me????

Paul can you please make sure there are less than 3 DTD logos in my local ASDA please.....

You need to learn to be less selfish under such circumstances- and i thought i was tight - u ROCK

To be fair i think i took the beat pretty well
especially when i lost with aces again the very next hand getting 4 flushed again by 7s

As you know it is my responsibility to ensure that only a certain number of DTD shirts are worn in any casino in the UK .

To assist in this and help ensure that i do not lapse in my responsibility i intend to ensure that there is at least one busty female in the shirt at each event so if i have to ask someone to take I off , if we exceed our quota, i will have at least one pleasant option.

Yes very well .  You were amazingly unlucky !!

Standard

i chopped the 500 the next day  so i guess cant complain

Paul, Just watched your William Hill heat last night.
Mr Goodwin said you played your set of Queens like a girl.
Whats your comments on this and what hand/hands did you put the internet qualifier on when he raised your flop bet?

Yes Marc did say that i played like a girl but that doesn't mean I'm going to let him take me from behind and pull my hair!

With regard to the hand in question i thought that my opponent had either JK J9 or a hand that in all probability could not win. On that basis i flat called his  check raise on the flop ( i was at this point tending to-wards a hand that could not win as most players if checkraising an amount that does not appear designed to induce a fold do so with a made hand when out of position - unlike those that re raise in position a relatively small amount so that they can win it with the bet, take control of the hand or simply get a free turn card , if they so desire).
I believed that my flat call would almost certainly mean he would bet the turn regardless.

The turn card ( a nine) was at that point about the worst card i could see. He bet and i flat called again. I could have re raised at this point however if he had  a made hand that virtually couldn't win ( i accept QJ or similar was possible) i did not want to lose him, if he had JK then re raising would be suicide so the only hand i would want to re raise was J9 and he may not fold anyway ( he was not a rock).
The river card ( a king) was again just about the worst card i could see and Marc saying that i should fold was probably right. Ultimately i called because i felt that with what was in the pot and the amount i had to call it was almost justified on the off chance that my initial feeling on the flop was correct. This combined with the inherent poker player need to punish yourself and still call after its all gone wrong and the milk has turned sour, resulted in the call.

Having said all that i was short stacked all the way through and i thought i was a little unlucky not to get down to the last 2 players and i think i would have done had i won the last hand.

Wot did you think of Lisandro Paul? I thought he played really weak throughout and there were definetly better players than him on that table.

To be honest at the table he certainly never gave the impression of playing in any way weak and considering the results he has had i would not say he was  a weak player and whatever way you describe his style it certainly works for him.

i did not notice him make a significant mistake ( given that he could not see the cards) and i think that is more important than appearing weak or strong.

I think he is a great player and i wouldn't say that any other player at the table could reasonably say they were a noticeably better player than him.

I hear this used to be the way you secured your buy-ins for your first few live events.   ;D

Just like to say congratulations Paul on winning your Cruise Ticket last night, didnt see any of the game, but i did notice with about 19 left you were bottom of the stack, so very well played, if it was anything like the "old days" when you were there I can imagine the accusations of it being "rigged" in your favour flying around thick and fast lmao.

Well Done again Paul.

Hey paul,

Just wondering how ure good mate sealey upto is he still playin doset seem to be on the circuit much these days?

Played with him at the cavendish absolute gent and a class player too

Hi

Yes he does still pay and will probably be playing a lot at this years WSOP. He doesn't play many circuit games and he believes it is bad value in terms of time and expenses as compared to how convenient it is on line- particularly when you are as good a NL cash player as he is.

Indeed he is a gent and very much a class player.- dont be surprised if he returns with a bracelet!

What Hair ;hide;

how come you and chubby got in with these lot neither of you are good looking ,

i thought you had to look like a male model ,i know chubbs models busses ,what do you model lol.

You were due round my house in December 2005 for an episode of poker godfather, i assume it's not running anymore and you wont be coming?

Seriously though, how annoying was it to teach people who thought it a good idea to noisily eat a 5 course meal during taping?

It was temporarily shelved but is still on the shelf unfortunately.

The eating wasnt too bad and to be fair to some of those that did it was encouraged by the film crew in order to give that "real life" feeling apparently, :)

Paul its Jack. Hope u r well m8.

Situation for u (and advice needed please)- In the last GUKPT in Cardiff I was goin really well on the 1st night with about 30 mins to go I had 38k. Av end of play about 32k I think.
In the last half an hour I managed to lose about half my stack!!
Firstly re raising a serial raiser with QQ only to be put all in by the table chip leader..fold.
Folded to me I raise on the  button with 77 called by bb.flop 6 3 2 rainbow.he checked i bet quite big he dwelled then moved all in!! I passed he showed JJ! Happy but still gutted to losing lot of chips....
Do you still play the same way even though its late and end of play was near??

Something tellin me I did something wrong even though I was pleased with the way I played those hands...

Any advice would be great m8.

Jack

Hi Jack

I do not think anyone can reasonably knock the way you played either hand.

In the first hand it is worth bearing in mind (though this does not mean that your fold was a bad one) that when the serial raiser raises and you re raise the opponent who then re raised you is aware that your range of re raising hands (versus the serial raiser) may well be wider than normal and so he is more likely to have a wider range of hands (many worse than QQ) with which he may re raise your re raise.

The likelihood of your QQ being in front depends on the nature of the player that re raised your re raise and only you can answer that based on the information available to you at the time.

Generally speaking if a player raises , you re raise and a player behind you re raises again, it is not often than QQ will be in good shape.


With regard to the 77 on the button i think you made a great lay down and again, subject to your perception of the player that check raised you Allin on the flop i think in many circumstances i would have great difficulty in making that good lay down.

All in all i think you played the hands very well .

good luck

Paul

Cheers m8 hopefully go a little further this weekend in Manchester...

Some quality replies in your new Poker Player column Paul.

Had me laughing out loud.

I am easily pleased though!

Cheers i will try and keep it like that for the future.

Good Luck today Paul in the $10k Omaha Buddy we know you can do it also Good Luck to DC as well, One of you better get the DTD colours on the Final Table ( incase u was lacking motivation  LOL ) come on AJ  bring it home,  dream situation, you and Ivey get heads up and you bust him  with the Ariston re re re re re re re  re Steal LOL.

j j j 6 6,,,,  bum bandit.,.,,you really are lucky,,,.,.mind you ,.,.,you gotta have something on your side,.,.,.,.,.,.,.