Poker Perambulation

On FullTilt, you’ll often see the high limit PLO table is red. It indicates that the pros are having another wizzing contest. David Benyamine is often in the group and always one of the more aggressive players at the table. Tournaments require more aggression but that’d be hard for David or a Viking to pull off.

We’ve argued here about the Donkey term. Loose-aggressive can be played with success and David personifies that tack. In the hand detailed by “LoganMark” at PokerNews we have a nice example of aggression. Both hands had as good a reason to fold as to continue. The term ‘brick’ is not a great thing to have associated with one’s RAZZ hand. Both managed to brick and both continued. In the end, David took down a nice pot playing his three downs – that indicates he rivered the win and with a rough eight to boot.  (Hello,fellow Donkeys!)

You will see the hand below play out often in low rent HORSE games or similar RAZZ tables. Really all I can say for certain about the hand is that two players contested the hand and one of them won the hand. You may now say, “Duh!” and we’ll go halves on backing Homer Simpson in the next $50K. Marge might be the better choice. We can argue that out later.

Pauly is picking Benyamine to win this one. How can a supposed ‘Donk’ win? Well, riding the edge is something that the tight players vilify. It isn’t my game. Yet, the analysis software I picked up has me pegged at loose-aggressive-passive. I do play a few hands I wouldn’t play if I moved up but they’re +ev at this level.

Benyamine’s landsmen – the three musketeers – were finesse artists with the epee. But Benyamine is one of those berserkers that wields a +3 magic ax. You can run into either type and end up dead and needing to reload.

Benyamine Takes One From “The Grinder”

Razz:

David Benyamine and Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi just played a heads-up hand that saw considerable action. Benyamine bet third street and Mizrachi raised. Benyamine called, and then he bet every street through the river. Mizrachi called him down and the players showed:

Mizrachi: (X) (X) (X)
Benyamine: () () ()

Mizrachi mucked and Benyamine won the pot. He is now up to approximately 117,000 in chips while Mizrachi slips to roughly 91,000.

ADDENDUM:

 If you ever get this at PokerStars, it isn’t your computer.

 You have had your account locked. That happened to me yesterday for a couple of hours. There was a screwup that I felt pretty sure would bite me but they’d already said it wouldn’t. I ended up being right. It was corrected in a couple of hours and I only have good things to say about their security folks.

I’d set up electronic transfers and I saw a charge that gave an 800 number as the charging entity. I asked them if that was them and they said no. I told the bank to ax it and they did. I’d have waited a bit but the charge was also described as reoccurring and I didn’t want that if it was some outlaw outfit. I still thought it might be them and told them that if I was right to just take it from my account. They again assured me it wasn’t a problem. Wrong. But, the folks in their security division that we normally don’t meet are even more efficient than the prompt responders over in the normal support area.

I’ve had horror stories at other sites over support issues. Bodog security made me jump through hoops like a trained dog to get my money off them. That made my Stars experience even more pleasant – if you can call getting frozen pleasant.

I wrote security later asking them to reset my electronic fund and they did that promptly too.  I’ve dumped ING with prejudice — but that’s another ADDENDUM.

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