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« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2013, 11:44:33 PM »

Favourite country visited?

Which is top of the list of ones you've yet to visit?

Ever wanted to slap someone at the poker table?
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« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2013, 11:50:31 PM »

why did you limp AKs 200bb deep UTG1 at a soft table?

do you have any long term goals?

tell the story of the time you broke into an airplane hanger

do you find poker fulfilling?

top 3 poker thinkers?

top 3 poker robots?
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« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2013, 11:51:43 PM »

Oi oi sam, had a fun night out with you, sykes and cody after the monte carlo... hope vegas hasn't been too rough on you this year?

- best day in vegas this year, and ever?
- two things no one on here knows about you...
- biggest tip to an aspiring amateur poker player?
- what are you going to do to improve and in what, in the next 12 months?

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Best day was Pez rail by a long way. I think we all needed that release of energy. It's such a frustrating 6 weeks when no one gets a result so it boosts morale no end. Everyone on the rail is so hilarious aswell.

Two things no-one knows? Had my nipple pierced when I was 16. Was considered a pretty out there thing to do in 1996. Errr... I directed Vagina Monologues. Guess that seems a long time ago now I spend all my time with other men.

Biggest tip. Is just play. Every day. Take it seriously. Try and learn something or identify a mistake after every session. The bad beats etc are irrelevant and what's dangerous about them is they take away your focus and you concentrate on them rather than you leaks.

Loads I wanna do in next twelve months. Gonna start watching more vids and playing more live cash. Me ad Jake have said we gonna learn/improve at mix games. Gonna start doing hand reviews more regularly.
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2013, 11:59:38 PM »

How big is the problem of misogyny in poker and what can we do to solve it? GO!

Wow! Shit just got serious!

Yh I think it's a massive problem. If you look at the way women are talked about it's continually in reference to the way they look. Annette's recent wait loss, whether she's hot or not is continually mentioned both just in general chat and also in the more formalised poker media. Last year when there was all that ADZ chat about Lauren Kling people just lapped it up. There was real glee about the public humiliation of an attractive girl.

Think two things need to happen. Firstly poker media just need to be responsible with way they depict female poker players and we as a community just need to side step worst excesses of sexist discourse.

This of course is a societal issue that exists outside of poker but it is particularly prominent inside our community.
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« Reply #34 on: July 15, 2013, 12:04:53 AM »

How big is the problem of misogyny in poker and what can we do to solve it? GO!

Wow! Shit just got serious!

Yh I think it's a massive problem. If you look at the way women are talked about it's continually in reference to the way they look. Annette's recent wait loss, whether she's hot or not is continually mentioned both just in general chat and also in the more formalised poker media. Last year when there was all that ADZ chat about Lauren Kling people just lapped it up. There was real glee about the public humiliation of an attractive girl.

Think two things need to happen. Firstly poker media just need to be responsible with way they depict female poker players and we as a community just need to side step worst excesses of sexist discourse.

This of course is a societal issue that exists outside of poker but it is particularly prominent inside our community.

Don't agree the Lauren Kling thing was misogyny.

If roles had been reversed and she was tweeting that Mariofati (or whatever the punks name is) had a tiny dick and smelt of deep heat, people would have lapped it up just the same.

People love to hear about other people dirty laundry in public. Look at the Liv v McPhee thing, that couldn't be construed as misogyny. Peeps loved that.

Agree with most of the rest though.
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« Reply #35 on: July 15, 2013, 12:05:48 AM »

cliffs on lauren kling thing?
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« Reply #36 on: July 15, 2013, 12:11:20 AM »

who is the best conversationalist in poker and or UK poker?

top 3 worst MTT regs that boggles your mind how they win?

are you really as confident and outgoing as your exterior suggests?

how nice a guy is dan quinn out of 1-100?

Best conversationalist is prob Craig. He's happy to just chat bullshit or to talk poker or to talk more serious stuff. It's just important to be able to switch gears. Main problem people have is wanting to chat hands in mixed company or when it isn't really appropriate I can defo be guilty of that aswell.

I can't really out people I think are terrible any longer! This is the problem with live scene I know everyone now and I can't bad mouth anyone any longer! Pessagno world no 1 seems way off tho, T54 top ten aswell. Have fish reg tag on both.

Yeah I think I'm pretty confident. I can handle most social situations well. Pretty English in the sense that small faux pas' mortifying me tho. So if forget someone's name or make a joke that doesn't go down well I feel completely ruined.

Dan Quinn is a sweetheart. One of the unexpected bonuses of the summer has been getting to know RunItOnce team a lot better. Didn't really have any personal relationship with other instructors or technical team before last few weeks. Has left me a lot more pumped to make good videos and provide top quality content now I know everyone.

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« Reply #37 on: July 15, 2013, 12:13:38 AM »

My question is:

How's it going?

Pretty tilted at being stuck in Vegas. Was supposed to go LA and sort stuff today but all buses are full. What a joke! Didn't wanna waste day and promised Tighty I'd do this after GUKPT win, so seemed like a good opportunity.
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« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2013, 12:15:31 AM »

Where's your passport?

Had a pretty boozy day about a week ago and lost it. Joke tilting as you can imagine. Rang all casinos I visited and most taxi firms.
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« Reply #39 on: July 15, 2013, 12:21:02 AM »

How much influence has Noonan had on your table banter and one liners?

Current favourite place to play live cash in London?

Noonan is amazing. He's waaaay the funniest guy in UK poker. It ain't even close. Definitely my way of chatting about poker owes a lot to him and all the gutty regs. Also think Noonan was first person to referring to people as 'punters' which is a phrase a lot of people now associate with me.

Favourite place is The Empire. I like to be on good terms with dealers, floor men etc and this is the place I feel most at home. Good thing about The Vic is seeing Ramey, Prat, Allen brothers etc so do go there sometimes also.
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« Reply #40 on: July 15, 2013, 12:31:45 AM »

Excellent.

*cracks knuckles*

1. What's your first choice play in Charades?
2. Please post a YouTube clip of or describe your favourite all-time advert.
3. Favourite episode of The Simpsons?
4. Who's the first person you go to for a second opinion about a hand you've played?
5. I saw you reference Martin Amis on the Sky cash game and get some blank expressions. Is he an inspiration? Do you consider yourself a rebel? Do you consider him a rebel?

Will likely have more but that's enough for now.

1. I don't really get this question. What do you mean by play?
2. Immediately springs to mind is the 'Uncle Drew' basketball advert that came out in the states a year ago. Not savvy enough to post it using my iPad. Could someone else do it for me? Also, this is SO cheesy I know, but the Full Tilt advert where it's Durr speaking about how he imitated other people and the finally he learnt to play like himself. I know it's just a cleverly scripted advert but there is a little bit of poker truth in it. I think it's the sign of a good player when, say there is a few of you talking strat, they don't defer o the more accomplished player but have a strong independent opinion. If you just develop a style that is just the aggregate of everyone else's thinking its pretty hard to thrive. You need to develop our own style.
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« Reply #41 on: July 15, 2013, 12:38:26 AM »

Biggest extravagance?

Fave type of food?


Biggest degen story?
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« Reply #42 on: July 15, 2013, 12:50:32 AM »

Excellent.
3. Favourite episode of The Simpsons?
4. Who's the first person you go to for a second opinion about a hand you've played?
5. I saw you reference Martin Amis on the Sky cash game and get some blank expressions. Is he an inspiration? Do you consider yourself a rebel? Do you consider him a rebel?

Will likely have more but that's enough for now.

3. The one where Bart steals Millhouse's test results and everyone thinks he's a genius.
4. Craig or Moorman. There both incredibly good, of course, but also very open to different lines. I still talk a lot with Nico Protopapas who isn't on the tournament scene as much but who I still trust implicitly. He'd be first person I would talk to about any business matter regarding poker.
5. I don't think I could call him an inspiration and he's certainly no longer a rebel. I've read nearly everything Amis has written, fiction and nonfiction, and I love the early novels Rachel Papers through to Times Arrow. The War Against Cliche is fantastic aswell, page by page and line by line. Having said all that he's produced so many badly plotted and mediocre novels recently and made so many ill considered pronouncements on political issues that I don't consider him of much importance any longer. Indeed McEwan, Rushie and Amis perhaps the three leading lights of English letters in the 80's have all trodden the well worn path from young radical to mature conservative. I mean there political positions are too complicated to be neatly summarised but in general their novels have got worse and worse as there political position has drifted increasingly to the right. Such are the perils of od age I suppose.
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« Reply #43 on: July 15, 2013, 12:58:26 AM »

What were the reasons behind the four bet?

When I read through the thread I was really pleased to see you write that you would have taken this as a spot to four-bet light a lot. In fact you might have said you were willing to four bet your entire opening range. I defo thought this was a possibility.

I guess when you are about to three-bet as a bluff your consider the good outcomes. In this instance they where things like picking up the pot now,  or bad players who had flatted your open peeling with a weak range. But you also consider the bad things such as you four-betting and blowing me off a relatively strong hand. Felt like you where opening decently wide utg and that you would four bet bluff enough that a five bet was profitable. Strong blockers etc. so just went with that. Wasn't really trying to pressurise the top of your range.
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« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2013, 01:03:59 AM »

favourite places to eat and drink in shef? was there for 4 years.
I used to LOVE the book shop Rare and Racy on Division Street and two or three doors along was a place called Casablanca's with loads of old film stills on the walls. It's closed now but was probably my favourite at the time. There's an Italian also on Division St just down from The Forum that till exists where we used to go for birthdays. Also love The Crucible. Was lucky enough to be there while Grandage was artistic director and saw some fantastic productions. It's just an incredible space when utilised properly.
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