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Auswa
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I like playing a maniac style alot of the time. Early in mtt's I play loose to build up a big stack or just bust. I play a lot of unlimited re-entries so i can just re-enter 2-3 times if necessary.
My goal in poker is to play online starting in the micros and 3-4 times a year play the big live tournaments in my city. I will play like a maniac in the $2000 live main events in the beginning and perhaps tighten up a bit for awhile and then hit the raise button and start collecting pots again.
I've played quite a bit of live in smaller buy-in mtts with some success. I played tight in the beginning and then just played the shoving game in the end with some success in these. I may play a few of these every now and then again. I'm quite good at counting stacks, pot size, and picking up on a few tells giving me information to make a decision.
Is there any information online on how to play maniac style successfully? I know gus hansen has a book and moorman1 had a book too. they both played maniac style for a while. I don't like the calling preflop style gus plays though. I like to bet. Moorman used to bet all the time and then just fold to a 3bet. I notice a girl called Vanessa Selbst used to 4 bet with hands like JTs and had success with it. People say she wouldn't succeed against the GTO bots nowadays.
Then theres guys like bryn kenny who would check/raise on the river with not much. I've also seen sam trickett play like this as well.
What they say is they are trying to put pressure on a opponent when the right play for the gto bot is to call but since playing for big bucks they just fold. There's players in the smaller buy-in live mtts that will fold to pressure and others that won't. It's not a move against every opponent and different amounts of money means more or less to different people.
Online I don't think that play is going to be profitable when your opponent has something and knows your loose but will just call anyways. Live they sometimes fold even in a $100 mtt when the gto play is probably to call.
My goal in poker is to play online starting in the micros and 3-4 times a year play the big live tournaments in my city. I will play like a maniac in the $2000 live main events in the beginning and perhaps tighten up a bit for awhile and then hit the raise button and start collecting pots again.
I've played quite a bit of live in smaller buy-in mtts with some success. I played tight in the beginning and then just played the shoving game in the end with some success in these. I may play a few of these every now and then again. I'm quite good at counting stacks, pot size, and picking up on a few tells giving me information to make a decision.
Is there any information online on how to play maniac style successfully? I know gus hansen has a book and moorman1 had a book too. they both played maniac style for a while. I don't like the calling preflop style gus plays though. I like to bet. Moorman used to bet all the time and then just fold to a 3bet. I notice a girl called Vanessa Selbst used to 4 bet with hands like JTs and had success with it. People say she wouldn't succeed against the GTO bots nowadays.
Then theres guys like bryn kenny who would check/raise on the river with not much. I've also seen sam trickett play like this as well.
What they say is they are trying to put pressure on a opponent when the right play for the gto bot is to call but since playing for big bucks they just fold. There's players in the smaller buy-in live mtts that will fold to pressure and others that won't. It's not a move against every opponent and different amounts of money means more or less to different people.
Online I don't think that play is going to be profitable when your opponent has something and knows your loose but will just call anyways. Live they sometimes fold even in a $100 mtt when the gto play is probably to call.
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