AMA with Jason Somerville

[Eric]

Under typical circumstances, what percentage of your stack are you willing to call when set mining (assuming the raiser has you covered)?

Do you think players should boycott the Venetian in Las Vegas since Sheldon Adelson is trying to block online poker in the US?

What is your typical opening range under the gun on an 8 or 9 player table?

[ProJasonSomerville]

Under typical circumstances, what percentage of your stack are you willing to call when set mining (assuming the raiser has you covered)?

Do you think players should boycott the Venetian in Las Vegas since Sheldon Adelson is trying to block online poker in the US?

What is your typical opening range under the gun on an 8 or 9 player table?

As far as setmining goes, I don't really think like that too often anymore but in the old days I used to use Barry Greenstein's rule of thumb of calling up to like 10% of your stack with pairs if you felt like you could only win by spiking a set in tournaments.

I think the Venetian poker room could be absolutely empty and Sheldon Adelson wouldn't care in the slightest and I don't think it would change his opinion on the matter even if it was. That being said, though, there are a billion options on where to play and I sincerely doubt I'll give them any business in the future and I didn't put any of my team's horses in the recent tournament. I've got a pretty pessimistic view on poker boycotting given how many people played on Ultimate Bet even after all the scandals had been revealed... if we can't stay away from that as a community, I don't think we'll ever be able to force Venetian's hand via boycott.

9 handed poker is sad to think about depends of course on a lot of things, I don't think I do anything UTG that is particularly unique to be honest.