Zugwat - In The Cage 6/19/09

[aejones]

tell us about your more dangerous poker playing days

[the fox is bak jak]

[Zugwat]

Originally Posted by Vitas23

1st!

What does Zugwat mean? Also, are you sad you weren't able to get the new iPhone today?

Back when I was underage, I had my brother make an account on Prima to get the free $15 promotion. He made the account name Zugwalt, which was the same as a female troll character he used in the online role playing game Everquest. I managed to run up some money on his account and used it for a while to play on prima before I was 18. When I turned 18 I made my own accounts and kind of liked the screename, and liked the short nickname people would call me online: "zug". I dropped the ' l ' because the name had to be different. I made my accounts on all the sites with this name, without putting much thought into it, and without ever expecting that several years later, many people would know me as "Zugwat".

I was mildly sad I wasnt able to get the new phone as mine is very cracked and broken, it still works though, so I think I will be ok until they become available.

[Air Jamaica]

Do you have a stop-loss?

Have you ever had problems with tilt? If so, how did you get over them?

[Zugwat]

Originally Posted by bfox121

2nd
who's been the toughest reg overall hu/6-max to play against.
what was your favourite era for playing poker? (eg the party days,07/08?)

I found durrrr to be very difficult hu, (and no I'm not just name dropping that I've played durrr hu), but yea. Also i thought FoxwoodFiend was tough although we only played one session hu vs eachother. Nutsinho has also been pretty tough, we've played a ton together and he's won a lot from me. I certainly havent given up on battling him though.

I don't really play 6 max, I never grinded it as I was moving up and am not too confident with my 6 max game, although I will play some of the high-stakes 6 max games when they run. In thinking of the toughest reg I've played 6 max with, I'll have to go with Sauce, he is very good and has been very troublesome when we've been in the same games.

I wasn't around for the party days so I never played there. I grew up at prima poker, and was very disconnected from the poker-world then, I didn't really know about 2+2 forums, or what was going on at the other sites. If i had money and knew what I did now then the pre UGIA days would definitely be my favorite, but for the sake of answering the question I'd say my favorite era was more recently when David Benyamine was playing a lot on stars, and games were running every night.

[TheDriver]

What, in your opinion, holds back a winning unl/small stakes player from becoming a winning midstakes player?

[Zugwat]

Originally Posted by Sc000t

Do you play PLO?

Do you post on the forums?

How many miles do you think it is from Las Vegas to Florida?

I do not play PLO although I am trying to learn.

I've never been a big time forum poster. As I said earlier I didnt even know they existed for a long time when I was first playing poker. I do post occasionally though, but I am more of a troller.

I think its about 2000 miles from las vegas to florida, slightly less then what chewy thought.

[Zugwat]

Originally Posted by Sc000t

Biggest winning day/month? Losing day/month?

What do you do better than most of your opponents?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Do you raise 100% of your HU Buttons normally? If so, at what point in an opponents stack size do you start to start to fold or limp some weaker hands? 30-40bb?

My biggest winning day has been +200k which I've had twice that I can think of. I'm not positive on what my biggest month was but I think I won large part of my money in one single month, was somewhere around 500k.

My biggest loosing day is somewhere between - 100 - 150k. I actually cant think of the specific day but I've had several -100k days. My biggest loosing month is about -250k.

I think I adjust really well to what my opponent is doing, and I'm able to figure out what my opponent is doing that I consider to be incorrect, and I know how I can exploit it.

In 5 years, I'm hoping to be playing poker a lot less, focusing more on some business aspects of poker like training sites, coaching. I also hope to be spending a lot of time with a possible future wife / girlfriend and work towards one day starting a family.

I don't raise 100% of buttons as I usually fold the very bottom trash hands, although I'm not opposed to a strategy of 100% button opening. With 30 - 40bbs and even 50bbs I certainly fold a lot more buttons and mix in some limps.

[siegfriedandroy]

Any aha moments in your career?

How fast did you move up stakes?

How much difference in skill do you think there is between mid (2/4), High 5/10-10/20, and super highstakes 25/50+?

What do you think will be the state of the games in 5years time?

[intricate1]

First off, love the cage to me these are better then any single training video period, I think if you guys were to advertise this and make it a monthly thing it would draw in alot of your target audience.

1- Have you read the law of success by Napoleon Hill?

2- describe your mindset during a generic poker session, nothing related to your in game thought process, but everything else.

3-if there was one unique message you could burn into the heads of every immediate NLH player in here what would it be?

4- imagine you were teaching a world class backgammon and gin rummy player HU NLHE and he asked for you to describe the approach he should take to become competent against respectable players.... ?