Clarkatroid Knows What You’re Holding
Adam ‘Clarkatroid’ Clark writes a superb blog here; and I would recommend a read, especially now because he is currently recounting his path from online poker novice to top flight cash game regular and it’s been an excellent read thus far.
Whilst reading his blog the other day it reminded me of a conversation I had with Kev Bloor and Lucy Rokach in Killarney. Lucy has had an extremely successful career on the live poker circuit, winning more money than any other European female, yet she hates online poker and is very sceptical of the nature of the games and believes the style of play of so many of the online breed turn it into a total gamble.
Myself and Kev Bloor tried to convince Lucy that online poker is almost a totally different game to live poker and the main reason she and other successful live poker players struggle online is because they are giving up a huge edge as the online specialist players have a ton of information at there disposal that others do not.
Kev Bloor was using a recent conversation he had with ‘Clarkatroid’ where he had described when playing online he could use the statistics at his disposal to identify a players tendencies and then exploit them for profit. In trying to support our argument I recounted a recent training session I had undertaken with a good cash game pro, I’m pretty bad at cash and had been only too eager to enlist the help of a friend!
It was a bit of an eye opener to be honest and although I had been using tracking software for a while I was surprised at how poorly I had been utilising the data at my disposal. I quickly came to realise I had been completely underprepared for my occasional dips into the shark filled mid stakes cash game waters and I watched amazed at my trainer attacked opponents calling and betting ranges and slashed his way through the tables.
Afterwards I felt naked at the tables and I stopped playing mid stakes cash completely, because people like ‘Clarkatroid’ knew exactly what I was holding enough of the time that I was at a significant disadvantage. I tired to apply similar tactics at the lower stakes and learn the ropes but without constant supervision it proved to difficult so I decided to specialise in other forms of poker, because if you can’t beat em, avoid em.
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