In game I struggle to disect hands quickly and I wouldn't be able to explain why I'm doing what I'm doing, as I'm doing it, I just survive on memory, habit, and running good.
Scotty seems to be able to analyse the hands quite fluently, as and when they happen. Has he always been able to do this and hand read easily, or has he had to train himself to think like this.
When I was young I wanted to be a project supervisor who spent his spare time writing drunken gibberish on a poker forum. Result!
Question for Scotty (great guest by the way) : As one of the top MTT players on Sky how are you finding your forrays into the cash game? Is there that much difference between the skill sets in your opinion? Is the ultimate goal of any poker player to crush the cash game?
Wow, Purplelady is back, welcome home , yes, I am still here, hoping you are well Posted by acebarry10
Hi Barry - yes I am back and very much enjoying producing the show once again! Hope you and all the other players are well and enjoying the fountain of knowledge and wisdom tonight!
I have to ask Scotty and Tikay, what do you find is the key to staying disciplined, ie, working out when to fold and when to push forward in your play???
In my play, I tend to press forward when I find my targets at the table but I find it a challenge to know when to ease back a touch, normally resulting in me being eliminated in no time at all!!!
When your playing online do you set yourself targets each week/month?
For example do you aim to play so many hours per week/month or set yourself a cash target, points target to reach ?
and if so what would is your aim /target for September and the rest of the year online?
I,ve heard ppl say you should spend your time playing 80% and leaarning and improving your game the other 20% of your time? Is this something you do or are you of the opinion that parctise is the best way to learn?
Excellent show tonight!!! It's really great to hear such honest thought provoking insight to the game. Tikay always stresses you have to use your experiences to select where you play in cash games. In that some players are predictable and less difficult to play against. Are there any players Ryan will deliberately avoid playing cash games with? Or does he believe he has the all round game to take on anyone on equal terms? Obviously not wanting to take on Richard is a given but who else?
You read out an e-mail from me earlier in which I said I only play AA for 6/7 levels in MTT's. Anyway, shortly after, in the 2nd hand of a BH I woke up to AA otb and the sb went aipf with AK - doubled up MBN! Managed to come 7th! Bubble boy FTW. GREAT show, Ryan's analysis is excellent! pad
I'm nowhere near as good as Scotty, or any of the other regs. That's why I play lower than they do.
I'm a bish bash bosh merchant who runs good against fish, I can't think like those guys.
It doesn't help that Scotty and the other regs play 50 times as many hands as me per month, I'm very inexperienced compared to him and most other winning regs.
Anyway, still watching, even muted Match of the Day, great work.
Are there any plans to get Scotty in again on a Mastercash night???
lol, good answer. I'm nowhere near as good as Scotty, or any of the other regs. That's why I play lower than they do. I'm a bish bash bosh merchant who runs good against fish, I can't think like those guys. It doesn't help that Scotty and the other regs play 50 times as many hands as me per month, I'm very inexperienced compared to him and most other winning regs. Anyway, still watching, even muted Match of the Day, great work. Are there any plans to get Scotty in again on a Mastercash night??? Posted by DOHHHHHHH
I 2nd what DOHHHHHHH says here, scotty is def one of the best guests who has been on the show imo and would be awesome to see him on again espeically on a mastercash night
thanks for awesome reply Tikay and Ryan. Unfortunetly the event which scotty named you cant de-reg from. However i do have backing on travel. I am returning to NL4 publically which has been going very mixed but starting to look up.
expessially since ive started to sort my Off the table problems.
HI ALL GREAT SHOW FIRST NIGHT BACK FROM HOLS . I THINK RYAN HAS BEEN ONE OF TOP PLAYERS YOUV HAD ON HE MAKES SO MUCH SENSE WITH HIS TAKE ON HANDS IV SHARED A FEW TABLES WITH HIM IN TOURNIES AND HES A TOP PLAYER . YET TO GET BETTER OF HIM YET LOL .
Evening all, just like to reiterate the positive comments re Scottys appearance on the show. Excellent advice analysis and advice as expected. I think he should also be commended for the time he spends on the forum, giving advice etc to players at all levels. All in all a great ambassador for TSP.
excellent stuff from scotty, and +1 for getting him back on future shows, preferably mastercash because it would be interestingg to hear his analysis on the deeper stacked cash games.
I love ryans honesty about feeling there are better players on site etc and about not having to be the best player at a cash table in order to be a winner.
I think however he is doing himself a injustice as he is definately one of the best cash players on site as my bank manger will clarify everytime i have to go into my overdraft after sitting on ryans table
I think sky has a great number of very good cash players in relation to the size of the site and i find myself avoiding most tables as there is always one sat there including ryan who is normally on all of them
I have now cut my players to try and avoid down to 5 which are Ryan, lol raise, hurst05, Jenny-iyy and Richorford lol
Great guest by the way and please more of ryan on the show.
wow was a lot of fun. running here on no sleep but not tired now after that.
thanks to tk, rich and all the background crew for making everything go simple
sorry for rambling and making it a very boring poker heavy show. i would talk and then think oh thats good to say and then forget what the original question was haha
lol @ bald spot its really bad im gonna get a hair transplant now.
wow was a lot of fun. running here on no sleep but not tired now after that. thanks to tk, rich and all the background crew for making everything go simple sorry for rambling and making it a very boring poker heavy show. i would talk and then think oh thats good to say and then forget what the original question was haha lol @ bald spot its really bad im gonna get a hair transplant now. Posted by scotty77
You were a class above scotty my friend
hope they get you on again soon and like dohhhhhhh said in the thread above i hope your on mastercash cos would love to here more of your thoughts on cash play.
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Question for Scotty (great guest by the way) : As one of the top MTT players on Sky how are you finding your forrays into the cash game? Is there that much difference between the skill sets in your opinion? Is the ultimate goal of any poker player to crush the cash game?
Hi Barry - yes I am back and very much enjoying producing the show once again! Hope you and all the other players are well and enjoying the fountain of knowledge and wisdom tonight!
purplelady - Sarah
I have to ask Scotty and Tikay, what do you find is the key to staying disciplined, ie, working out when to fold and when to push forward in your play???
In my play, I tend to press forward when I find my targets at the table but I find it a challenge to know when to ease back a touch, normally resulting in me being eliminated in no time at all!!!
NOW TO BE HONEST LOVING SKY PLAYERS ON 865 AND THEIR VEIWS ON HANDS
P,S WON`T SEE THAT ARSENAL SUPPORTER FOR A WHILE ( I`M STILL IN SHOCK ) BEING LIVERPOOL FAN
When your playing online do you set yourself targets each week/month?
For example do you aim to play so many hours per week/month or set yourself a cash target, points target to reach ?
and if so what would is your aim /target for September and the rest of the year online?
I,ve heard ppl say you should spend your time playing 80% and leaarning and improving your game the other 20% of your time? Is this something you do or are you of the opinion that parctise is the best way to learn?
Enjoying the show - MP
Excellent show tonight!!!
It's really great to hear such honest thought provoking insight to the game.
Tikay always stresses you have to use your experiences to select where you play in cash games.
In that some players are predictable and less difficult to play against.
Are there any players Ryan will deliberately avoid playing cash games with?
Or does he believe he has the all round game to take on anyone on equal terms?
Obviously not wanting to take on Richard is a given but who else?
HI Rich,
You read out an e-mail from me earlier in which I said I only play AA for 6/7 levels in MTT's. Anyway, shortly after, in the 2nd hand of a BH I woke up to AA otb and the sb went aipf with AK - doubled up MBN! Managed to come 7th! Bubble boy FTW. GREAT show, Ryan's analysis is excellent!
pad
I 2nd what DOHHHHHHH says here, scotty is def one of the best guests who has been on the show imo and would be awesome to see him on again espeically on a mastercash night
expessially since ive started to sort my Off the table problems.
Ryan, you've been seriously good tonight. Loved the show guys.
hi rich, tikay,
how would you feel sitting down at the GUKPT and seeing Ryan to your left and Redmond Lee to his left. the best seat in the house.
good show and particularly good contributions ryan
rob
Evening all, just like to reiterate the positive comments re Scottys appearance on the show. Excellent advice analysis and advice as expected. I think he should also be commended for the time he spends on the forum, giving advice etc to players at all levels. All in all a great ambassador for TSP.
I love ryans honesty about feeling there are better players on site etc and about not having to be the best player at a cash table in order to be a winner.
I think however he is doing himself a injustice as he is definately one of the best cash players on site as my bank manger will clarify everytime i have to go into my overdraft after sitting on ryans table
I think sky has a great number of very good cash players in relation to the size of the site and i find myself avoiding most tables as there is always one sat there including ryan who is normally on all of them
I have now cut my players to try and avoid down to 5 which are Ryan, lol raise, hurst05, Jenny-iyy and Richorford lol
Great guest by the way and please more of ryan on the show.
You were a class above scotty my friend
hope they get you on again soon and like dohhhhhhh said in the thread above i hope your on mastercash cos would love to here more of your thoughts on cash play.
Jenny.x.