Hey, I didn’t say that. It is in the blog blurb about the Chasing Chris gang. There is an article by JB Harshaw on the site that has that idea or theme and tells it well. Go read this article and then come back.
That is a good article. Its only fault is being a bit too gender specific. There are a variety of weak-passives that play just like his article. Frankly, when I don’t watch it, I’ll fall in the same trap. It is a comfortable way to play and when you’re getting lousy cards that makes for an easy slide into my C- game. It isn’t as punishing at ring. But it sure isn’t optimal play either.
If you are close to JB’s description, you really need to select sites. (And, pray.) In the old days you could do that easily. I looked at my old computer and the number of sites I had available/registered approached 20. I’d use the easy cashing mechanisms to move money around like a drunken sailor. The first thing I looked at on a site was their blind structure. From it you would get a solid idea of how play would go
Ken,
Thanks for the tip on watching those final tables. I keep meaning to do it, but haven’t until now. I agree with everything you’ve written here, and wish it had been up early yesterday. Linda will be posting an article detailing my journey in the Million Dollar Turbo Takedown yesterday, and I got into a situation fairly late in the game with an M of 6, where I raised 4X 2 off the button and got re-raised another 8X by the big stack at the table in the BB. I had A-10 (o), and decided to fold the hand, which left me with an M of 4, and needing to push fairly soon before Broomcorning out. Looking back on it, since there wasn’t another pay jump for a couple of hundred players, I think I would have been better off taking my chances of either him trying to push me off with a weaker ace, or hitting a hand and beating him. If I win, I have a lot more flexibility and the chance to get into the really serious money. If I lose, it probably doesn’t make any difference, as the next time I push will likely be a coin flip anyway (it was, and I lost). It was a nice cash, but in retrospect, I wish I would have made the “donkey” call there.
Ken, I really liked your post, felt it was very helpful in expressing how play varies as tournaments progress, and the donkey factor isn’t always a donkey factor.
Many people feel they are being beat by donkeys – yet at certain stages of a tournament and the size of your chip stack – it’s not a donkey play to go all-in nor is it a donkey play to call an all-in – and what you or I or Joe Blow might do in a circumstance is not the way someone else perceives the game and their play.
Thankfully, all the donkeys and donkettes (include me in that) are what make the great game of poker what it is…nicely expressed in your post.