In Response to Re: donky alert! : Since when has Sky ever allowed MattBates to have a premium hand like AK? They give him rubbish then let him win Posted by cenachav
In Response to Re: donky alert!: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: donky alert! : i have cashed ALOT more on there probebly because people play better (like you said) the only reason i came to this site is because of the t.v stuff and new software ive won a couple of bh tournys so its not like im a loosing player, so good luck to yourself Posted by hahagutted
Yet you'd rather play on here with us donkeys because of the tv show? You could watch that without playing on here. As for the software, one scan through the forum will show you that stars gets a very favourable reaction by those who use both.
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anybody who 'mocks' or abuses other players based on their results (e.g. on Sharkscope stats) will have action taken against them. We will deal with each case individually but players need to be aware that breaking this rule may ultimately result in the loss of forum and chat privileges.
We're sure people will understand why we have done this. We really want Sky Poker to be a nice place to play poker and so stopping things like this will help.
Whilst most of this thread is light hearted and being taken in a light hearted manner please take time to refresh on the latest guidelines for this forum as quoted below and keep it on track anybody who 'mocks' or abuses other players based on their results (e.g. on Sharkscope stats) will have action taken against them. We will deal with each case individually but players need to be aware that breaking this rule may ultimately result in the loss of forum and chat privileges. We're sure people will understand why we have done this. We really want Sky Poker to be a nice place to play poker and so stopping things like this will help. Cheers Dave Posted by SolarCarro
Does this mean we can't extract the urine out of MattBates anymore or is that allowed?
To be fair, although most people on this thread have a point about abusing other players, I think I've only read one or two replies which attempt to answer your original question which is how to deal with an aggressive maniac who is playing everything.
My personal opinion is that the call button is your friend here.
If the guy is 3 and 4 betting with any two cards then what he wants is to see people folding.
There's no point in reraising him unless you have a really good hand because he'll just happily shove on you with 57 and you're left in the sticky spot of trying to figure out whether to be calling your AJ or not.
Don't play him at his own game and try to out aggression him (except in the right spots) because it's likely most times he'll be willing to get all his money in.
Calling him when you have a decent hand (but not premium) is the answer. He can't reraise you and you get to see a flop. It effectively negates his main way of winning, which is to be more aggressive than everyone else preflop and hope they all fold.
Then let's say you hit the flop with your AJ and he hits nothing with his 57. He has a lot less room to be aggressive now. Yes, he may try bluffing you, but you now have very solid equity in the hand and a very good chance of winning. In this scenario I'd be willing to go all the way with my hand.
So my strategy would be to let him have all the small pots, but try to take him to the cleaners when you actually hit a big hand.
I think that's pretty much what you did, but you just got unlucky that you ran into his AK when you had QQ. On another day you'd have doubled up and his strategy wouldn't be looking quite so clever.
Still I think the rest of the guys here have a point. If you consider yourself a good player, and you are struggling to cope with the play of this 'donkey', perhaps his play isn't so bad after all?
In Response to Re: donky alert! : my question is how do you deal with a person that is not playing poker, just raising every hand and 3 betting every raise regardles of there hand thers maniacs in poker then there is idiots. is it best to waite for a hand then get it in like i did or just leave the table and go play on anouther, i guess you had to be on the table to know what i mean every other player was saying the same on the table that he was just somone gambling trying to get it in every hand then got really lucky when i actually picked up a hand Posted by hahagutted
dont have to call the shove .....shove first ....lol
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I retract my earlier statement.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: donky alert! : i have cashed ALOT more on there probebly because people play better (like you said) the only reason i came to this site is because of the t.v stuff and new software ive won a couple of bh tournys so its not like im a loosing player, so good luck to yourself
Posted by hahagutted
anybody who 'mocks' or abuses other players based on their results (e.g. on Sharkscope stats) will have action taken against them. We will deal with each case individually but players need to be aware that breaking this rule may ultimately result in the loss of forum and chat privileges.
We're sure people will understand why we have done this. We really want Sky Poker to be a nice place to play poker and so stopping things like this will help.
Cheers
Dave
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