Re: [ba-poker] RGPM: Moderator Selection - Call for Volunteers

["Ron Morgan" <nodepot(deleted the rest)>]

> From: Jerrod Ankenman <jankenman(deleted the rest)>
> To: ba-poker(deleted the rest)
> Subject: Re: [ba-poker] RGPM: Moderator Selection - Call for Volunteers
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:41:16 -0800
>
> Ron Morgan wrote:
>
> > Except the "dollars" you're playing with in low buy-in online tournaments 
> > are not real dollars, you get 800 play dollars for your buy-in. Eventually 
> > the tourney winner has 8K play dollars to win $50. This is why you get 9 
> > or 10 all-ins on the first hand, because no one thinks they're playing 
> > with real dollars. In large part the folks with the larger capacity to 
> > suspend disbelief, and pretend that they're winning and losing real money 
> > stand the best chance of winning these tourneys since they make better 
> > poker choices.
>
> Such as calling all-in with AA on the first hand.

Yeah, you're right.

> > It's been my experience in these low buyin tourneys that more often than 
> > not the winner of a first hand all-in orgy doesn't hold onto their big 
> > stack long enough to last deep into the game, having lost it in further 
> > hair-brained all-in bets.
>
> Is your contention that if you do in fact call all-in on the first hand, 
> you will be possessed by the spirit of InDomitableR00ler and be unable to 
> prevent yourself from losing your 5-6x starting stack?

It doesn't take a genius to call AA, it seems to me the trick is to know 
when to fold them.

Ron

> Jerrod Ankenman

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