Online players
Before I get to the show I want to tell you about something that has never, ever happened to me before and I'm not even sure it's ever happened in poker history:
I was playing $100-$200 PLO on Stars and was up about 50k, but was getting bored so I typed in the chat box asking if anyone wanted to play HORSE? One guy in the game says he'll play so we start a $1000-$2000 game heads up. After about 45 minutes or so I was up around 40k or so when he types in, "I'm pretty new to this game, do you think you can make comments on my game?"
I thought for a moment back to the days before young kids made brazillions playing poker online about what a $1000-$2000 game would look like. Also, how there were no players "learning the game" at those limits.
The guy I was playing was a 25 year old Asian kid from Netherlands who apparently has made millions playing PLO online and is looking to learn HORSE. He was playing me, knowing that he was an underdog but felt like he could learn something from the experience.
Strangely, I felt pretty comfortable "helping him out" by critiquing a few of the hands he played and he genuinely seemed to be thankful for it. It was all a bit strange, but I went with it. I ended up winning about 100k off of him and it didn't seem to phase him at all. Man, poker has changed SO much! |
