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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
Yeah I was pulling for him as well. Regarding the dead money players..I don't think in all cases it's that they have more knowledge or ability..I think they just don't know how to bet, or when to lay down and it's confusing the shit out of the real players.
For instance in one showdown between Hellmuth and one noob the guy was drawing dead on the flop..Hellmuth already bet into him the guy calls...on the turn he's still drawing dead Hellmuth increases the bet into him *if I remember correctly he was holding a pair of Jacks* and the guy calls...finally on the River the guy pulls out a queen to make a pair...Hellmuth just shook his guy and said.."You kept calling me the whole time while drawing dead?"
At another time...Hellmuth got up and walked to a camera guy and said something like..."these guys will bet on anything."
LOL I see the same thing on PartyPoker all the time. People just betting and betting non-stop and not having a single pair in their hand
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That's what online play has done for the live game. Online is so vasly different to live, I quit online because it was effecting my live game.
Online is like bingo to me - stick your money in and see who wins. There's very little information you can get from a person who's nothing more than text on a screen and an empty picture of a chair, so you have to play a solid odds game to do well.
The swings online killed it for me in the end. They were way out of wack for even the most liberal stanard devation, and that got me paranoid.
It can happen in live too. Played on Friday and sat at a table where I instantly knew I was the best player. One guy, maybe 25 with racks of chips was capping raises pre-flop with any face card or an ace...
Needless to say, he left about an hour later missing some of those racks.