FTR Interview: Jesse "Spoonitnow" Eddlemen

[IowaSkinsFan]

The interview this week is with the always funny (controversial?) spoonitnow. While spoon may not be the normal professional we have, his insights go beyond what you would expect from a player at this level. I recommend a read!

http://www.flopturnriver.com/blogs/f...w-eddlemen-335

[Halv]

You should've interviewed that foreigner instead!

[Pythonic]

You should've interviewed that foreigner instead!

SALT!

[gabe]

lol

[Fnord]

I cite this as an example of why anyone who figures to be a favorite at online poker doesn't need backing.

[Renton]

spoons success is almost wholly attributable to me steaking him for 10nl last year.

[spoonitnow]

lol

I lol'd too but HalvSame wouldn't do it so I stepped up.

I cite this as an example of why anyone who figures to be a favorite at online poker doesn't need backing.

Care to expand on that?

spoons success is almost wholly attributable to me steaking him for 10nl last year.

QFT.

This is nit-picky perhaps but my last name is Eddleman not Eddlemen

[Lukie]

I cite this as an example of why anyone who figures to be a favorite at online poker doesn't need backing.

There are going to be the odd exceptions, but i overwhelmingly agree with this.

[Fnord]

I cite this as an example of why anyone who figures to be a favorite at online poker doesn't need backing.

Care to expand on that?

You can make good money even as low as $100 NL if you put in the hours.

It's the people who are wreckless, don't put in the time, or over-estimate their edge who go busto.

Your edges come in much faster than someone who can crush $2/$5 or $5/$10 NL live. (Then again, if the live player really can crush those games, his edge could be considerably larger to make up for fewer changes to push them per hour.)

[spoonitnow]

I cite this as an example of why anyone who figures to be a favorite at online poker doesn't need backing.

Care to expand on that?

You can make good money even as low as $100 NL if you put in the hours.

It's the people who are wreckless, don't put in the time, or over-estimate their edge who go busto.

Your edges come in much faster than someone who can crush $2/$5 or $5/$10 NL live. (Then again, if the live player really can crush those games, his edge could be considerably larger to make up for fewer changes to push them per hour.)

Oh. Gotcha.

Btw my mom read this and was like what the fuck you made 12k in January.

[wufwugy]

vn spoon. I like seeing players who didn't make it pre UIGEA make it post. For a while it seemed we were all doomed, but really all we need is to just get better.

Do you spend much time studying the game, or are you just playing all the time?

[flomo]

great interview!

thank you guys

[wesrman]

Spooooooooooooooooon.

Nice interview.

[Lukie]

i havnt read the interview yet (i plan to) but from what i've read on ftr (i still do lurk the strat forums occasionally), spoon has a sick good work ethic that i would kill to have. i'm glad its paying off.

[UG]

Great job ISF and Spoon

[Jack Sawyer]

i havnt read the interview yet (i plan to) but from what i've read on ftr (i still do lurk the strat forums occasionally), spoon has a sick good work ethic that i would kill to have. i'm glad its paying off.

[XTR1000]

nh guys

[ProZachNation]

vn spoon. I like seeing players who didn't make it pre UIGEA make it post. For a while it seemed we were all doomed, but really all we need is to just get better.

I used to break even at 10nl and just bonus whore now I am a winning player do I count?

[Silly String]

Hats off to you again, ISF. Great series. Great interview. Thanks!

[spoonitnow]

vn spoon. I like seeing players who didn't make it pre UIGEA make it post. For a while it seemed we were all doomed, but really all we need is to just get better.

Do you spend much time studying the game, or are you just playing all the time?

My study time is broken up into a number of things. At the end of each day for usually at least an hour I'm looking over hands from the day's session and talking about them (and other poker things) with other players. When I take a break for lunch and even at breakfast I'm always in the middle of reading or re-reading some of the "classics", mostly 2+2 books but some others, and trying to think about the ideas presented in those books in terms of what I'm starting to think of as the real fundamentals of poker, a major part of which is the whole ranges "thing".