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Awesome, pics of locals plz.
In hand 2 is villain playing back at you because of your general aggression, or is he just bad?
I play a very aggressive smallball style that I've finely developed nowadays. In my videos I actually say stuff like "well, he keeps folding to me, so I'll keep betting at him until he raises me back", and "oops, pot size check raise... oh well there goes my $10. Still it's good for my image, if next time I'm sititng on a monster and he remembers I bet after I raised pre flop and he raised me and I laid it down, my $10 could win me $400 soon", and "cool, I've just taken down two pots... I can bet 2/3s pot three times and get caught three times in a row now... I consider myself free rolling".

Of course, there's a big difference between doing it well and doing it poorly. If you have a hand that's got quite a bit of value but just can't stand a raise, then especially if you're in position take the free card. if you're first to act, then bet bet bet because if you don't bet, they might. Bet your good hands too. The reason why smallish bets work so well in 08 is that most of the hands where you've actually made something are so damn strong they don't need protecting, and for other hands, the small bet size is good for offensive as well as defensive reasons. Take another look at hands 1 and 3 and notice how I'm also making bets the same 1/2 to 2/3s of the pot, and I don't muck around slowplaying and check raising, I just keep jabbing at them.

In this case, I'd been pushing and pushing and pushing into this guy, and once he min raiseed me on the flop and I called him very thinly (I was partially motivated by the fact I didn't want to be seen folding to minraise: image is everything in PLO8), and he pot bet on the turn and I pretty much insta-folded. So perhaps he was thinking about that... but we'll of course never know what made him choose this spot to make a play. Perhaps he put me on A2, or maybe he had a bad beat on another table... the best you can do is make little plays (like minraises pre flop are also a good cheap way of antagonizing opponents) and jabs and pokes and the cumulative effect might just make them implode the time you've actually got a hand.

sorry about the lack of pics too... I'm too preoccupied with poker.