Comments on: Lite Blogging http://www.highonpoker.com/2006/07/lite-blogging.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: meanhappyguy http://www.highonpoker.com/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3886 meanhappyguy Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:58:00 +0000 http://69.73.186.10/~highonpo/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3886 After reading your and Hoyazo's blogs today, I wrote a monster (for me) of a blog basically on the same subject you are talking about in your response to Pokerwolf's comment.<br/><br/>So many questions to ask, and it doesn't seem like there are right and wrong questions to ask.<br/><br/>It sure is interesting to read about what is going on in people's heads when they are thinking about a push, or a call.<br/><br/>In fact, I had a few *tough calls to make in the MatH tourney, and what pushed me to call was exactly what you stated in your comment. <br/><br/>"Is doubling up here worth the risk of going out here on a coinflip? Or have the slight chance that I am dominated?"<br/><br/>A lot of the time for me it comes down to pot odds and gambling whether I should take a stand in this hand, or wait for something better.<br/><br/>When I see a pot that is the same size as my stack for the taking, I will usually go after it if I have a coinflip or better chance of taking it down--if the opponent folds to a push, you can put the coin back in your pocket! After reading your and Hoyazo’s blogs today, I wrote a monster (for me) of a blog basically on the same subject you are talking about in your response to Pokerwolf’s comment.

So many questions to ask, and it doesn’t seem like there are right and wrong questions to ask.

It sure is interesting to read about what is going on in people’s heads when they are thinking about a push, or a call.

In fact, I had a few *tough calls to make in the MatH tourney, and what pushed me to call was exactly what you stated in your comment.

“Is doubling up here worth the risk of going out here on a coinflip? Or have the slight chance that I am dominated?”

A lot of the time for me it comes down to pot odds and gambling whether I should take a stand in this hand, or wait for something better.

When I see a pot that is the same size as my stack for the taking, I will usually go after it if I have a coinflip or better chance of taking it down–if the opponent folds to a push, you can put the coin back in your pocket!

]]> By: HighOnPoker http://www.highonpoker.com/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3884 HighOnPoker Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:32:00 +0000 http://69.73.186.10/~highonpo/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3884 I've been thinking out my plays a lot more than usual lately. In fact, Layne Flack suggested the same thing in a recent Circuit podcast.<br/><br/>Interestingly, I did think it over, but the question I asked myself was very much the flipside of the one you suggest. While you question "do I want to go all in on a cointoss," I was thinking, "do I have a chance to triple up on a coin toss or am I facing higher flush draws?" I decided that tripling up was worth it, if I could hit, since I didn't read either player as having a better flush draw.<br/><br/>Nothing really to that statement, other than to point out how interesting it is that we had the same philosophy regarding thinking it out before acting but had very different questions that we would ask there. I’ve been thinking out my plays a lot more than usual lately. In fact, Layne Flack suggested the same thing in a recent Circuit podcast.

Interestingly, I did think it over, but the question I asked myself was very much the flipside of the one you suggest. While you question “do I want to go all in on a cointoss,” I was thinking, “do I have a chance to triple up on a coin toss or am I facing higher flush draws?” I decided that tripling up was worth it, if I could hit, since I didn’t read either player as having a better flush draw.

Nothing really to that statement, other than to point out how interesting it is that we had the same philosophy regarding thinking it out before acting but had very different questions that we would ask there.

]]> By: Pokerwolf http://www.highonpoker.com/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3883 Pokerwolf Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:43:00 +0000 http://69.73.186.10/~highonpo/2006/07/lite-blogging.html#comment-3883 I don't think you played the You Decide #40 hand horribly either.<br/><br/>I just think you decided to try the play too early in the tournament. Which, obviously, is an opinion and not much else. =)<br/><br/>One thing I've been trying to do in situations like YD#40, is to look at the decision from a different perspective before I click "call".<br/><br/>In the case of YD#40 instead of saying, "I'm have the odds, do I want to call?" I'll instead ask, "Do I want to call a coinflip here for all of my chips?" (If you're good enough to figure out the odds, you can ask "Do I want to call with less than a 1% odds advantage?").<br/><br/>It's a shift in perspective and I think it's never a bad thing to take a little time to look at things that way when deciding to go all-in, especially when calling someone. I haven't convinced myself to lay anything down in the heat of the moment, yet, but it gives me a heck of a lot of information when I'm trying to figure out what went wrong after I've busted out. I don’t think you played the You Decide #40 hand horribly either.

I just think you decided to try the play too early in the tournament. Which, obviously, is an opinion and not much else. =)

One thing I’ve been trying to do in situations like YD#40, is to look at the decision from a different perspective before I click “call”.

In the case of YD#40 instead of saying, “I’m have the odds, do I want to call?” I’ll instead ask, “Do I want to call a coinflip here for all of my chips?” (If you’re good enough to figure out the odds, you can ask “Do I want to call with less than a 1% odds advantage?”).

It’s a shift in perspective and I think it’s never a bad thing to take a little time to look at things that way when deciding to go all-in, especially when calling someone. I haven’t convinced myself to lay anything down in the heat of the moment, yet, but it gives me a heck of a lot of information when I’m trying to figure out what went wrong after I’ve busted out.

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