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Originally Posted by vrecksler
Come on Jojo, when you steal their blinds and flash a 93o I am sure you are doing it for a reason; either to extract some colourful comments and get them off their game or something else to enhance your chances of a victory.....we all know you too well here, your brilliant poker mind is always churning away. 
Yeah, you get meatheads a lot but you can also enjoy some friendly convo too so I will continue to chat away despite these examples. |
flattery!
while i have been known to steal blinds, i NEVER show hands, with the single exception of the occasional hammer steal on thursday night.
here's why: i play tight, and it's my preference that my steals look like strong hands. i have no interest in getting more action in tournaments; i don't play in any tight enough that that's a problem. the whole tight thing, imo, is about not getting into tough situations early, doubling up with big hands, and then punishing the table later on with aggression (in position). if people knew how much i steal when the blinds get big, everyone would get all vrecksler on my and push every time i raise
. guys like mega, w16227, and the like bluff more often, and don't mind occasionally getting played with. those of us that play less hands need to win a larger % of those we get involved with...
showing bluffs just encourages calls, and 90% of the time you don't want calls in tournaments. really, vreck, when you reraise with 44 (as we know you love to do), do you REALLY want to see a flop?
finally, here's the big difference between me and you (and the reason why it's funny that you replied) :
we're at opposite ends of the personality scale while playing. you're all friendly and chatty. that's not a bad thing, but very much not me. i hate everyone, am pissed off about not getting cards or getting sucked out on, et cetera. what works best for me is to shut up and not show it, b/c when i do, people just start looking to get me all worked up.
so i've found that for the most part, chat doesn't work well for me. i can't take it lightly enough for it to work.
thursday night can be an exception, b/c i know you guys and i count many of you as friends. in online pickup games, though, that's a very difrferent sitch.
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