Sauce in the Cage: 7/27/08

[d2themfi]

what are your thoughts on HU game selection? I've heard you pretty much played anyone on your way up the stakes. I tend to sit with anyone at my normal stakes too atleast for a bit perhaps quitting them if i actually think they are good which is somewhat rare at midstakes i guess. Ive always thought its more important to not game select much and just try to improve as fast as possible but ofcourse a ton of people/regs/coaches etc seem to think otherwise. How do you go about game selecting now HU and even 6max i guess, and how did u do it when u were coming up thru msnl and lower hsnl(10/20-25/50)?


edit: how much less action did u get HU after u took cts for a bunch of buyins in his vid

[Dustylove]

First of all; great video! Me likey.

Are you gonna do any videos on prima? I see you sitting around all the time on the HU tables and rarely getting action. Yesterday I think both you and LrsLzk had a fair bit of trouble getting action, would you ever play him? Have you played that "COMEGETSOME"-dude who also always sits on like 25/50 and such?

Also, any chance that one could get smashed by you at a bit lower limits (like 3/6 or 5/10) if you're bored sometime or tries to do a HU video or whatever?

[RelaxNTakeChips]

FTR, holla.

since you were playing 100 and 200nl in like february of last year (its sick how fast you moved up) and you probably still remember a lot of the limits on the way up do you think you could like give a little breakdown on what your remember like what were the hardest jumps for you and what adjustments did you have to make along the way?

[Anthony18]

Do you think anybody can achieve big things by being a hard-worker and very dedicated?

[XTR1k]

Originally Posted by RelaxNTakeChips

FTR, holla.

+1, forgot to mention lol

I heard a rumour cardrunners tried to sign you? Any truth in this?

[Fuzzy Logic]

AK or QQ?

You have a 0EV decision to call a shove or fold? which and why

Biggest mistake SSNLer's make/hold them back from moving up stakes

Do you agree with Fees that playing less tables and getting more attuned to gameflow is more important than playing a ton of tables and get involved in more marginal situations?

[sauce123]

Originally Posted by craigthedeac

reasoning/story behind the screename?

On my 8th grade bball team one time a friend mispronounced Sulsky as Sauce and it kinda caught on.

PrtectYaNeck cause i built my BR listening to GZA's liquid swords and wutang

Originally Posted by Probability

I have always multi tabled with a ton of stats and am now trying to get better at "game flow". Any suggestions, exercises, ways to get better at being game flow dependent.

thanks.

Two best ways:

1) Play a ton of HU
2) Play your normal stakes on fewer tables (4ish) with no HUD and try to estimate all the different stars you are used to relying on in your head as you play. I think when faced with difficult decisions you won't use the stats ur compiling in your head nearly as much as you would think:: instead you will be able to tilt his handrange one way or the other based on the lines he has been showing down..

Originally Posted by DerrtySlime

what's your work ethic like? when did you start playing?

tellus a story ( non poker )

My work ethic is pretty solid poker-wise. I think this stems mostly from the fact I still love playing and really have almost every session since I started. I also recognize how amazing an opportunity internet poker in its present form is for me, and this motivates to do the academic number crunching hand reviewing part which is so essential for getting better. I also play most everyday because all my friends have real 9-5 jobs so I have plenty of free time round the house.....

[Unknown Soldier]

don't have to say if you don't wanna, but what did you have here? http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...d.php?t=258534. Pretty sick hand!

[sauce123]

Originally Posted by MongeBR

How did you study the game?
Favorite videos/coaches/players?
How many hours do you put per week on play/study?

Thoughts about:
- multitabling
- stats
- bankroll management
- moving up
- training sites (leggo, dc, stox, cr)
- 1on1 coaching
- HSNL vs nosebleeds
- 6max vs headsup
- euro vs us sites

quick tips on how to play against fishes?
any "a ha" moments?
interesting experiments to make while playing? Like opening any two from the button; c/r every flop, etc

Monge- feel free to elaborate on specific questions from this post, cause they are all good questions, but I'd rather answer fully to individual questions than gloss over lists, but I'll be here all week so feel free to flesh out some questions and send them back.

I study the game by HH review on aim with friends and pokertracker, pokerstove, posting, idle thoughts and video watching, probably in that order.

Originally Posted by aejones

whats the story with that time you called me and said that you guys got lost in the desert at 7am and no cab would come pick you up?

So in vegas this year I was on this absurd sleep schedule where I would wake up at 8pm and my friends were staggered like every 2 hours earlier so eventually we would blearily head down to dinner. That night was no different... and after a night of 2/5 and getting predictably hammered, I suggested we go to redrock desert.

now keep in mind we had no idea where the hell it was, so we hopped in a cab on the strip and said "take us to the desert" which was in hindsight maybe a bad idea cause every human (?) driving cabs in vegas at 5am is ****ing insane. Like lock em up insane. our particular cab driver was a compulsive liar and porn addict who would constantly check a list of hundreds of text messages from "live chats" on his phone every few seconds as he weaved around and crow about all the *****es he banged. we realized he was a compulsive liar because whenever he we told a story, he would immediately pick up the subject and tie it back to banging *****es. Example: one time we ran from the cops. Response: one time me and this cop were ****ing two *****es doggy style in the back seat then we pushed 13 cop cars into a march and walked home. clockwork. anyways he got lost and dropped us off at redrock resort where we stumbled on a sane driver who drove us out into the middle of the desert and dropped us alone at a small yellow gate. he informed us that his cab company was the only one in all of clark county that drove out to redrock canyon. ya, i run good.

so after a few mins the gate slowly opened and we headed off into the desert. all kinds of hippie-yuppie ppl drove past us in their outbacks and foresters with their bikeracks and heartrate monitors and black labs and ****, but didn't stop or offer any information. so we just went down into this yawning canyon. which ended up being the coolest thing ever. if you are ever in vegas, GO TO REDROCK CANYON. there are all these swirling colors of grey and rust in the rock with this fine red silt and low brush growing out of the shadows at the bottom. just sort of this ecosystem unto itself which is totally foreign from anything back east. so after drinking all our water and stumbling around in awe for awhile we somehow got back to a trailhead. and my cellphone had no service. however, after walking in circles for a bit one bar appeared and we got through to the cab company who said: "we will be at the visitor center in 20min. Be there." and then i lost service. ****.

the visitor center was approximately 1.5 heat hazy miles straight across the desert perched on a little knoll and in between was straight up desert scrub. so we deliriously decided to make a run for it and sprinted offroad until we lost all sense of direction and collapsed on the doorstep of the air conditioned visitor center looking like members of the Donor Party or something (spelling). we finally found our cab driver who was the 50 year old woman who tried to cajole our sweaty, smelly, heat exausted asses into going to a legal brothel. Didn't work. Then she played us her Snoop Dog mix tape all the way back to Bellagio.

Originally Posted by JonnyCosMo

How'd it feel when both my roommates slowrolled you in a fun 2-5 game? :-P

less fun

Originally Posted by XTR1k

-Thoughts on judging your own performance, ie can u always determine if u played bad or ran bad?
-How do you handle the swings?
-Your incentives to play poker, beside making money?
-What´s your alternative life plan? Is poker your only perspective? What kind of job would you enjoy if online poker suddenly dissapears?
-Playing in tough games to improve vs soft games and pull $$$?
-Any secret game- or table selection tips?

again, im gonna ask people to flesh our your questions and do some of the work for me and I'll try to answer as fully as possible

Originally Posted by jaymesbond

Are you uber-competitive, if so, im struggling with getting the mental toughness to not be gunshy, any suggestions?

For instance sometimes when i get up a few buyins in a session, i feel i hit the breaks, play tighter and more passively when i should continue hitting the accelerator, i dont know if this makes sense but if you have any ideas id love to hear...

AND WELCOME TO LEGGO!!

ty, glad to be here. yes, I am uber competitive. but lots of males are uber competitive. i think one thing which separates me and other high stakes players is the ability to lose well and often. winning is easy, keep applying pressure, keep playing your game, its not a bad thing to be tight, the only thing u should be afraid of is if you are playing poorly and making decisions you know to be incorrect because the idea of losing a win you have in the bag will affect you emotionally. if this is true, then acknowledge it and isolate the logical part of your brain, or quit your session, even if its for a half hour.