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09-20-2005, 06:45 PM
I entered a multi tournament last night. It was only a cheap FPP round 1 satellite to the EPT. I wanted some Multi action and this was available.
Im sure you have all seen calling stations, but this guy took the cake.
15 hands in I had A-10 os in EP. I limp in with a lot of others. Flop comes K2A (2 clubs, i don't have one). I wanted to test the field out on a flush draw and bet out 270 into 240 family pot. I get a call by someone who i suspect a callng station (probably a draw).. a 10 of clubs comes on the turn, which improves my hand.. but is a scare card as it can complete a JQ or 2 club hand. a check to me and i bet out 275 to see if he has a draw or not. If he did he probalby would call.. If he indeed made a straight or flush i would figure him for a raise. Just a call. 8 of spades on the river and he bet out 60. (Stops me from making a wager) and he had 93 suited clubs and a flush. He started the hand in EP. Im going somewhere with the percentages. On the flop (when the betting started) he was 38%. I was 62%.
About 6 or 7 hands later this player has been in virtually every hand. (im using PokerOffice) and calling these bets constinantly. This is how the hand played.
I have A7os. I call UTG with this table being passive as it is for raises. However there were raises. 2 callers after me and the button raises it 4x the BB and called by 4 people including a calling station. The calling station ended up having 59 of diamonds. Vs. the two hands it ended up being against having AKos and TJs. This is 25% and if you add in 2 hands you didn't see, that percentage is lower (pot odds anyone?). Well the flop came 9Q5 rainbow, and as you can see this hand got lucky and to make matters worse the open ended straight draw and the lovely AK (which some people couldn't lay down) payed him off an eventual full house.
3 hands or so go by and I get JJ and move all my chips and and this same calling station calls me with Q2s. Right off the bat i am 69% with his brain dead call. Went to 87% with a 994 flop, but the queen on the turn took me out.
This player had the following stats for the 30 hand session
Seen the flop over 80% of the time.
Went to the turn from the flop over 80% of the time
made 0 raises pre-flop
That is a classic calling station.
Now with that said, the chances of him having his day is low.
I put those percentages out there for a reason. To win three of these in a row like this was 38%, (we'll say 15%) and 31%. Timesing them together he had a 56 in 1 shot of doing this. What was his chances of losing all 3? 36% of 1 in 1.75. This player must be dead money. After he defeated me the first time, i took Mike Caro's advice and praised great play (as in great) for bad play. It apparantly keeps players playing bad and sometimes even worse... Didn't know that, but Mike is a psychology master mind in poker. I'll listen to him. When the tourney was over I had some stuff to say (read earlier post on my emotions being simliar to phil hellmuth). Well..I won't say what i said, but it wasn't nice, but nothing vulgar, moderatly offensive or anything that the pokersite would find trouble mantic (im good that way).
Well, these players can exist. But how do you win these MTT? I know how. I have written a supreme article on winning multi's at a higher percentage with one simple strategy mixed in with solid poker. However I need to see some posts. CARD mentioned earlier about seeing them, well I want to continue sending articles on a weekly basis along with football picks weekly.
Lets get a few other people here posting. When that happens, I'll post an absolute gold mine of an article next week or as soon as a lot of people post on here on winning these big multi tournaments and increasing your return on investment so much higher by following these easy steps.
To make this site great, we need traffic and people posting. The more people post, the better off it can be over the next few months in attracting new people!
Im sure you have all seen calling stations, but this guy took the cake.
15 hands in I had A-10 os in EP. I limp in with a lot of others. Flop comes K2A (2 clubs, i don't have one). I wanted to test the field out on a flush draw and bet out 270 into 240 family pot. I get a call by someone who i suspect a callng station (probably a draw).. a 10 of clubs comes on the turn, which improves my hand.. but is a scare card as it can complete a JQ or 2 club hand. a check to me and i bet out 275 to see if he has a draw or not. If he did he probalby would call.. If he indeed made a straight or flush i would figure him for a raise. Just a call. 8 of spades on the river and he bet out 60. (Stops me from making a wager) and he had 93 suited clubs and a flush. He started the hand in EP. Im going somewhere with the percentages. On the flop (when the betting started) he was 38%. I was 62%.
About 6 or 7 hands later this player has been in virtually every hand. (im using PokerOffice) and calling these bets constinantly. This is how the hand played.
I have A7os. I call UTG with this table being passive as it is for raises. However there were raises. 2 callers after me and the button raises it 4x the BB and called by 4 people including a calling station. The calling station ended up having 59 of diamonds. Vs. the two hands it ended up being against having AKos and TJs. This is 25% and if you add in 2 hands you didn't see, that percentage is lower (pot odds anyone?). Well the flop came 9Q5 rainbow, and as you can see this hand got lucky and to make matters worse the open ended straight draw and the lovely AK (which some people couldn't lay down) payed him off an eventual full house.
3 hands or so go by and I get JJ and move all my chips and and this same calling station calls me with Q2s. Right off the bat i am 69% with his brain dead call. Went to 87% with a 994 flop, but the queen on the turn took me out.
This player had the following stats for the 30 hand session
Seen the flop over 80% of the time.
Went to the turn from the flop over 80% of the time
made 0 raises pre-flop
That is a classic calling station.
Now with that said, the chances of him having his day is low.
I put those percentages out there for a reason. To win three of these in a row like this was 38%, (we'll say 15%) and 31%. Timesing them together he had a 56 in 1 shot of doing this. What was his chances of losing all 3? 36% of 1 in 1.75. This player must be dead money. After he defeated me the first time, i took Mike Caro's advice and praised great play (as in great) for bad play. It apparantly keeps players playing bad and sometimes even worse... Didn't know that, but Mike is a psychology master mind in poker. I'll listen to him. When the tourney was over I had some stuff to say (read earlier post on my emotions being simliar to phil hellmuth). Well..I won't say what i said, but it wasn't nice, but nothing vulgar, moderatly offensive or anything that the pokersite would find trouble mantic (im good that way).
Well, these players can exist. But how do you win these MTT? I know how. I have written a supreme article on winning multi's at a higher percentage with one simple strategy mixed in with solid poker. However I need to see some posts. CARD mentioned earlier about seeing them, well I want to continue sending articles on a weekly basis along with football picks weekly.
Lets get a few other people here posting. When that happens, I'll post an absolute gold mine of an article next week or as soon as a lot of people post on here on winning these big multi tournaments and increasing your return on investment so much higher by following these easy steps.
To make this site great, we need traffic and people posting. The more people post, the better off it can be over the next few months in attracting new people!