so I was watching bld play last night...
Disclaimer: This post is going to suck, so please don't gripe below if that's the case. You are free to use the back button now. They are pretty much random thoughts that will probably be of no use to anyone, except possibly gabe who actually has played with this player. I'm sure he's already well educated on this matter anyway, though.
I was watching bld (bldswttrs from party/2p2, notthistime on stars) play last night... last night for me being 7-8am EST. I missed the heads up matches between he and hal but I did catch him playing some 2-3 handed with b buddy, the stasher, and a couple others.
After watching a small amount of hands, maybe 1-200 or so, there were a few interesting things that I picked up.
Interesting situation #1) Bld's BB. Villain opens their SB to 4x, bld calls, folds, or repops to 13x, in that order of likelihood. For now, let's just focus on when he calls. Standard villain play here is to fire out a 3/4 pot C-bet. Bld triples that bet, and the SB folds. It was so standard it was almost sickening. The distant second most likely play was to check and fold when bld auto-bet 3/4 pot.
One would think that the SB would try to adapt. Examples of this would be to rebluff the flop by 3-betting, as it was quite obvious at times that bld's range was almost any 2, check/calling (or check/raising) made hands on the flop, etc.
Interesting situation #2) villain opens on the button, bld repots it (and then a bit more for good measure). Villain folds to the preflop 3-bet or the flop c-bet almost without fail. Seriously dude, 4-bet back, bluff raise the flop, float the flop, do something. Waiting for a big pair or AK is not acceptable in this case.
After this goes on for a while, this interesting hand happens (will try to recreate it as best as I can from memory).
B buddy opens in late position, (button probably, MAYBE CO), bld repops from the BB to 650 or 700ish (25/50 game obv). bld fires 1150ish or so on a KT6r flop. b buddy calls, and the turn checks through on a low card. River is an 8, and bld check/call's 2500 with J6o. B buddy's A9o no good. Eventually, b buddy got the hang of it and started sitting out at all of his tables. hal was already sitting out, ditto with the stasher, bld is the last man standing.
Similar stuff was happening when the SB opened and bld 3-bet from the BB. The SB was playing especially bad in these spots because they'd almost always call preflop and check/fold the flop. This is of course when they weren't autobet/autofolding the flop.
Interesting situation #3) bld opens his button to 3x. Very rarely did bld not win these pots. Of course the button has the advantage and will win more then their share, but this was sickening. The blind defense was just putrid. bld opens pretty much everything here, and every hand they'd either a) fold preflop, b) check/fold the flop, or c) lead the flop and fold when bld raised. Seriously, these shmucks could have so profitably 3-bet back a lot of their hands preflop, or at least attempted to play back at bld's any 2 range post-flop, but instead they were waiting for their KK+//sets and basically just got owned. The few times that they made big plays at the pot, they obviously took down.
Basically, bld was leaving himself wide open for exploitation. HOWEVER, I know the guy is a helluva player, and by that, he was just exploiting the other players' very weak-tight post-flop tendencies. Do I think that I'd have a chance against this guy over a significant amount of hands? nope. Would I give him a better game (tougher, more challenging game) then the other guys? yes, and it's not even close. Do I think I'd have an edge over the other guys? not sure, but if they were playing anything remotely like they were against bld, then yes.
Umm, not sure what else to add here. Hope you enjoyed.
Re: so I was watching bld play last night...
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Originally Posted by Lukie
Would I give him a better game (tougher, more challenging game) then the other guys? yes, and it's not even close.
nah man, you are wrong. i would take bbuddy's a-game action in that game over yours anyday
Re: so I was watching bld play last night...
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Originally Posted by gabe
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Originally Posted by Lukie
Would I give him a better game (tougher, more challenging game) then the other guys? yes, and it's not even close.
nah man, you are wrong. i would take bbuddy's a-game action in that game over yours anyday
based on what I saw the other night, I really disagree. I'm not saying that I am a better player then b buddy as I havn't seen him play enough to make that judgement. Based on the fact that he's a regular in the game, I would assume he is a better player.
I am saying that based on what I saw last night, there is no way that I could have sat down and done any worse. In fact, I am quite sure that I would do much better.
