Boywonder - In The Cage 2/11/10

[Donkadocus]

Originally Posted by TheSnowman21

Do you believe in [a particular] God?

teh poker gods obv.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by aejones

Every training site in the world wanted you-- Why Leggo?

Great question. I think there were a couple of things.

Being such a poker introvert, i wanted to be part of a somewhat smaller, tigher community to begin with. Also, if there was one impression I got, it was that Leggo was famous for one thing; the sheer quality of their coaches, as opposed to the webiste, or marketing, or perhaps something else. That was the feedback I had been given by tons of pms from people wanting me to sign up with a training site. The ones that advocated Leggo seemed to do so with a particular passion.

But there was another reason to be honest, and that was Matt. Talking to him felt like I was talking to someone who really was interested and enthusiastic in seeing a video for the sake of his own game, rather than just having me come on board to add to the video library for numbers sake. That swayed me in the end.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by playforfoodz

Hi boywonder
i wanna ask you about your PF cold calling range IP.
which type of hands you usually cold call?mostly BUT vs CO situation
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Vs co, it would dpend on how wide his range is. If he´s opening 35 percent, it will be a lot wider than if he is opening 22 percent. If he is more apt to 4-bet with a decent frequency and defend his opens, I am calling with a wider range because I am 3-betting him less. That tells you what i am thinking and what you should be thinking when flatting in that spot, but gicing ranges becomes useless as it´s so situational. But preffered hands are hands that can make one pair, it often being top pair, especially against the guy with the wide range.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by piguanitore

Hey Ben,

-Did you know you wanted to be a poker pro when you just started ? If not the case, when did you decide to do it ?
-Also, for how many years are you playing poker, and what was your volume each year ?
-Sometimes i know i should be playing, and i know i have a good edge in my games, however i can't force myself to play, i am scared of variance and i know that at this precise moment i will feel terribly bad if i lose money, did these moments happen to you ? If so, how do you fight this feeling ?
-Do you play nanonoko at your stakes ? What do you think of him and his game ?

- No, absolutely not I would say. The idea began forming in late 2007, as I was making a decent amount of money doing it. If it were not for that, and the opportunity to provide, this job would not work for me personally at the time. Now, as I have gotten better, poker offers more intrinsically and the beauty of the game kinda opens up, but as blessed as I feel for having been at the right place at the right time, I still do not see myself as a pro for the rest of my adult years.

-Since 2007, and I have well over a million hands played since then but coudln´t tell you exactly how many.

-Absolutely, this happen to all people, and it´s about anticipation of feeling bad, which oftentimes is a worse feeling than the bad feeling we will feel. Anticipation of losing a few buy-ins causes us distress, then we lose a few buy-ins and see that we are still here, still breating, the world's not gone under and our favourite tv-program is still not cancelled. Again, so my post on being in the present.

-His main strength is not that he is so awesome at each individual table, but that he maintains such a high level at each table while playing a ton of them, for a ton of hours. Which means that his game were he to six or eight table must be so so strong. For that, he really has my utmost respect.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by coachgp

thoughts on Rush poker at msnl/hsnl, and even HU?
solution to HU bumhunters?
Do you buy anything from Ikea?

-Pretty cool, and I´d welcome it at higher stakes. Hu is so gameflow and read dependant, so it would be very interesting to see how that would pan out. HU it would be insane, as 100 % button opens need to be standard without reads and an insane amount of 3-betting, 3-bet defense would need to follow on top of eachother. Yeah, imagine a world with that type of action and marginal decision-making, and no waiting around for opponents all day, yeah, that could get me into HU.

-Limit amount of tables they can sit at to one, and beyond that don´t even think about them.

-Of course, don´t think you could find a single (respectable) home in Stockholm without at least a couple of IKEA items.

[Midnight Sun]

Your blogs at 2p2 are a display of awesomeness and thank you for drawing me here to Leggo,

What was your routine like when you were developing your game? Is there anything that stands out that really helped you along the way?

[vitti]

what do you think about my ftp screenname?

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by HiT0Mi

What sites do you playon nowadays or can you recommend for a european player whose been playing 100 NL Fulltilt a long time. If you don't want to answer this:

What kind of meditation do you practice?

You are probably fine with any of the larger sites, just make security a priority, but the difference in skill level between the major sites is hard to quantify for me.

I had to describe it in some way that corresponds to popular terms it would be the passive, mind-centred meditation.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by Mr Papagiorgio

The Leggo vids are starting to really give me confidence and results in --raise w/ 1 caller-- type of hands. Looking back now it seems to take up the most forum and video discussion time after getting past starting hand requirements....

That being said, I now find myself in a lost area when facing 2 opponents in raised pots on the turn (mostly) and the river (esp. first to act and stuck in the middle). I find myself just "winging" it without a solid feeling of knowing how to deal with the situation (as I would if it were just HU).

Any advice on how to think when in this situation (I tend to create giant monsters under the bed), and could you look for several examples of how you handle this when you are doing your next video (NL200 or less).

Thanks for getting in the cage.

I must be getting old, cause I didn´t get what type of situation you meant here...

Maybe a hand example could be good.

[bigLEOser]

Originally Posted by boywonder

Great question. I think there were a couple of things.

Being such a poker introvert, i wanted to be part of a somewhat smaller, tigher community to begin with. Also, if there was one impression I got, it was that Leggo was famous for one thing; the sheer quality of their coaches, as opposed to the webiste, or marketing, or perhaps something else. That was the feedback I had been given by tons of pms from people wanting me to sign up with a training site. The ones that advocated Leggo seemed to do so with a particualr passion.

But there was another reason to be honest, and that was Matt. Talking to him felt like I was talking to someone who really was interested and enthusiastic in seeing a video for the sake of his own game, rather than just having me come on board to add to the video library for numbers sake. That swayed me in the end.

Matts the Man