March 20, 2009

MUY +EV!

We all effing hate the shortstackers who ruin the game for everyone else…they increase variance and cause all kinds of unnecessary gheyness.  I love seeing tables where there are 5+ of them sitting the same table – they are too stuck on autopilot to realize that the table they are sitting at is horrendously –EV.  Most of these shovemonkeys are TERRIBLE at poker and have difficulty spelling out “frop” let alone “turn”, or “river”.  It’s a preflop shove fest for these clowns who are trying to grind out a a measly .09 bb/100 winrate.  Needless to say, they could prolly be making more working at the local 7/11.  These guys aren’t particularly skilled at anything, so for me to expect them to figure this out on their own is way beyond them.  Here’s a recent spot that came up which got a nice loud ROR…

3/6 NLE
SB brackchips ($717)
B: gheyshortie ($129.60)
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to brackhips [Qh Qs]
5 folds
gheyshortie raises raises to $15
Brackchips raises to $66
BB folds
gheyshortie has 15 seconds left to act ßtanking
gheyshortie has requested TIME ßmore tanking along with pokerstoving equities
gheyshortie has pwnd his timebank down to 10 seconds
gheyshortie folds – ROR, ship the timebank stretch & the 15 buckaroos!

You really tanked and stretched your timebank that thin after a B raise?   Seriously dude?  Is it that hard to think about the REMOTE possibility of one of the blinds reshoving over your button open and how you will respond?  Relax dude, we are obviously not going to the flop or anything – your decision shouldn’t be THAT hard.  You have 20bbs, reship or fold…here, I’ve already eliminated the call decision from your repoirtoire. 

C’mon gheyshortie - Stop eating boring tuna, stop having a boring life

Translation – stop having boring prefrop shoving matches – learn postflop poker.  Your win rate and bankroll will thank me later.  

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