sometimes, we will make big mistakes
but this game is not a sprint — it’s a marathon!
what matters is that we keep getting back up
<3
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Nice comeback.
What was your hand on the first one?
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Thanks! On the first one I had A8 offsuit, no spade.
Wow! Very ballsy bluff.
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Watching the hand I was trying to figure out who had the flush and who had the T. When the K hit the river I clued in. You want him to have a T so long as he doesn’t hit a boat. AT, KT, probably a hand like JTs are well within his betting story, T3 and T4 are not. I’m getting better at this.
BluffsRUs sure lived up to his name. ; ) Overtop on river with A-high, not blocking the hearts and after a checked turn. Seems a questionable bluff to me. Would you agree? Would you have played the river differently if he had bet the turn? I checked out his bankroll. It tells a lot.
I think there’s more overpairs here than Tx, but the important read is that the large bet is trying to protect against a 4th spade and rarely a flush. I don’t think the raise is a big mistake, but it needs to be all-in IMHO. Problem is that over-pairs with a spade are never folding, so I think this only good with As.
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A bankroll of +230M for someone registered for 6 months, I find that rather impressive even if he is broke after this bad move.
In the full house hand I actually put Villain on something like JJ and wanted to rep either a flush or the T myself. I keep losing big pots to that guy because his preflop is suspect, and occasionally he spazzes postflop, so I tell myself he is capable of having this or that—but ultimately when he goes big he just overwhelmingly has the nuts like almost everyone else on Replay. Sigh.
On the river I should 100% just give up when he donks as there is not enough left to play for, and he’s also screaming “I have a full house.” But I had already decided to put the rest in and talked myself into the idea that I had no other play left. It’s an easy give-up though. Plus I agree that this is not the time to get fancy with an airball bluff that doesn’t contain any blockers.
Kinda smells, as if bought chips or is multi-account dumping. Anyone good enough to win that much in such short time would have better bankroll mgmt.
Nah now you’re just saying stuff 
there’s no basis for that assumption. In fact I know at least a couple players who are clearly skilled but don’t care about their BR at all. @daslda comes to mind; he won RPOS last year but doesn’t play regularly and will sometimes sit 250/500k with half his roll on the table, just for kicks.
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Pure conjecture (unless you can prove your accusations).
Many players don’t care about bankroll management and like to gamble (like some players in real life).
He probably likes taking huge risks, which helped him get so many chips so quickly, but the downside is that he can also lose it all quickly.
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Exactly. Two days ago I had 1.6B, now I have 1.1B. Last year my goal was to reach 1B in a year, so I was very focused on BR management. Now I’m just playing occasionally for fun, so I punt a lot more. We all play for different reasons!
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Yes, I’m sure there are those types of players, but the ones that I am talking about I can tell by how they play that they are bad, they just love to see flops and/or love to toss chips in. The fact that I see them daily means that they’re not that good, because I’m not that good and if they were that good to play with the top players I would see them for a day or two and then not see them again for a few weeks until they bust down again, but they never out bankroll me. THOSE players, they’re just bad.
People play like that for real money too. Some people just like to gamble, and don’t prioritize winning or bankroll management. Their strategy usually doesn’t hold up long term, but it is frustrating to lose to people like that. I just laugh it off, and move on to the next game.