My Image...

Lambert180

I realise I'm opening myself up to a pile of 'hilarious' rubdowns and the like but I would really like some people who have played against me/seen me play/seen many of my hands on the clinic to give an honest opinion of my general game, both at Cash and MTTs if you know enough about me to make the distinction. I'm intrigued to know what kind of image you think I give off and what kinda of player you actually think I am (if they're different). If you have notes on me (and don't mind discussing them), do you think I'm tight/loose/medium pre... do I call too often to hit and just get rid when I miss (I think this could be the case).

If anyone doesn't mind telling me but prefers not to announce it on the thread, then please PM me.

This is basically because I've had quite a few people say to me they think I'm a good solid player, but I dunno if they're only seeing the good parts of my game, or maybe I'm just feeling down about variance at the moment, but I don't feel like I'm playing that well recently. Planning on taking a few days off cos I've been really putting in the hours for the last few weeks.

Please don't just make nice comments to make me happy lol... I am looking for honest constructive criticism here... Am I too passive post flop? Well go wild and lemme know!

Poker_Fail

Lucky vs me

Havn't really played you enough to give you a real answer, though from what I saw you were playing the DYMs well.

GREGHOGG

you are a giant nit

hand id 443218029 is an interesting one to post if your want... no idea why you didnt 3 bet pre with AA

The_Don90

ur a terrilbe boyfriend, doesnt even give your misses a kiss lol.

on a serious note, i think we've done well to avoid eachother, sorry i cant be of more help

NODEAL

Dono you mate, who are you? If you find out let me know, gregghog said your a big nit, the_don clueless to who you are.

Waiting with baited breath.

ill play you 2p/4p hu im fearless

NODEAL

And come to think of it.... Who am me?????

DOHHHHHHH

In Response to My Image...:

I realise I'm opening myself up to a pile of 'hilarious' rubdowns and the like but I would really like some people who have played against me/seen me play/seen many of my hands on the clinic to give an honest opinion of my general game, both at Cash and MTTs if you know enough about me to make the distinction. I'm intrigued to know what kind of image you think I give off and what kinda of player you actually think I am (if they're different). If you have notes on me (and don't mind discussing them), do you think I'm tight/loose/medium pre... do I call too often to hit and just get rid when I miss (I think this could be the case). If anyone doesn't mind telling me but prefers not to announce it on the thread, then please PM me. This is basically because I've had quite a few people say to me they think I'm a good solid player, but I dunno if they're only seeing the good parts of my game, or maybe I'm just feeling down about variance at the moment, but I don't feel like I'm playing that well recently. Planning on taking a few days off cos I've been really putting in the hours for the last few weeks. Please don't just make nice comments to make me happy lol... I am looking for honest constructive criticism here... Am I too passive post flop? Well go wild and lemme know!
Posted by Lambert180

1 that looks like Michael Mcintyre !!!!!

debdobs_67

Dont think ive ever really run in to you on the tables tbh , and yes who are you ?? 

rancid

Crazy maniac who 4 bets anything from any position, or maybe just the opposite.

YOUNG_GUN

I dont think ive played u or if i have i havent had many pots with u.

U do realise ppl are unlikely to give you their reads or what sort of player they put u in, im sure you know this anyway but unless u buddy up with a few players where u discuss hands via fb/messenger/ then ppl are unlikely to disclose those details

Lambert180

God knows what I was doing there, I honestly have no idea what happened there because I NEVER slowplay AA for this exact reason. Obviously it's hard for me to say NEVER when I've posted the hand below but I can only think it was a misclick or something lol.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
jgdog	Small blind		150.00	150.00	11550.00
GREGHOGG	Big blind		300.00	450.00	17400.00
	Your hole cards	A A
gilch60	Raise		600.00	1050.00	5350.00
Lambert180	Call		600.00	1650.00	9300.00
johnred888	Fold
gizmo16	Fold
jgdog	Fold
GREGHOGG	Call		300.00	1950.00	17100.00
Flop
		6 8 7
GREGHOGG	Check
gilch60	Check
Lambert180	Bet		850.00	2800.00	8450.00
GREGHOGG	Call		850.00	3650.00	16250.00
gilch60	Fold
Turn
		10
GREGHOGG	Check
Lambert180	Check
River
		6
GREGHOGG	Bet		1500.00	5150.00	14750.00
Lambert180	Call		1500.00	6650.00	6950.00
GREGHOGG	Show	8 9
Lambert180	Muck	A A
GREGHOGG	Win	Straight to the 10	6650.00		21400.00

Lambert180

In Response to Re: My Image...:

I dont think ive played u or if i have i havent had many pots with u. U do realise ppl are unlikely to give you their reads or what sort of player they put u in, im sure you know this anyway but unless u buddy up with a few players where u discuss hands via fb/messenger/ then ppl are unlikely to disclose those details
Posted by YOUNG_GUN

I know what ya mean YG and I also offer the option to PM me if they'd prefer to not announce it. I've one taker on that (I won't name names) who said they had me as 'good solid - predictable' in their notes.

I know not everyone will wanna divulge their info on me, but I was just hoping a few people might be kind enough to give me their general thoughts on my game, even if they don't wanna discuss specific reads.

Be brutal people, I don't mind if you think I'm a donkey! lol

Dudeskin8

I'd say you actually remind me of myself a lot tbh, mainly from the various posts you make in clinic in terms of your thought process on the micro limit cash hands but also your structured approach to BRM, basically a solid game where you should never go broke but also won't be going crazy 4betting with air at the higher levels etc.

I will admit I've NEVER actually played you for long periods at cash but that's mainly due to me liking to play really bad players who barely know how to work a mouse let alone play poker so the above could be all rubbish lol.

Lambert180

Lol well thanks Dude, not sure what to make of it entirely.

I find it very hard to analyse my own game sometimes, but I started this thread because I feared I was potentially becoming a bit too 'solid' and predictable as one person has already said, but then I guess it comes down to a case of table selection and playing against people who aren't good enough to notice that.

Dudeskin8

NL4 - NL10 it shouldn't really matter as long as you play on the right tables but certainly once you get to NL20 you really have to learn how to play poker as from brief experiance there are a lot less proper awful limp/call players instead as I think Dohhhhh mentioned the players are still bad you just have to know how to get their money in different ways.

Lambert180

Yeah I definitely know what ya mean. I did post about this on the liive show thread recently when Redmond did one of the Mastercash shows for any tips but I definitely think table selection is where I fall down and I think it's basically a result of bad note taking.

Lambert180

I remembered writing this yonks ago and thought I'd have a search for it...

So is anyone else willing to give me some thoughts on my MTT game?

HITMAN_RV

"You are Awful........But i like You!!"  X


DickEm & Hit, circa 1978

paige55

                       I THINK I PLAY BETTER THAN YOU XXXX WELL I PLAY BETTER THAN ANYONE ON THIS SITE XXXX,IM JUST THE GREAT PRETENDER XXX

paige55

                                                 I PRETEND, IM DOING WELL, MY NEED IS SUCH I PRETEND, TO MUCH THAT I,M DOING WELL. I,M LOST IN THIS WORLD OF POKER BELIEVE, THE CARDS THAT I SEE ARE MAKE BELIEVE BUT MY HEART TELLS ME I,M DOING WELL, XXXXX

paige55

                            HOPE THIS HELPS XXX

Dazler

ive played you a few times but cant remember without looking at your notes im sure it says EASY MONEY but i cant be certain i did this type of thread a while back and asked what players thought my style was like. Didnt really get much info from it to be fair just that i was a tight agressive donk.

GREGHOGG

Im too scared to ask about my image lol!

I could get 10 different answers from 10 different people!

DOHHHHHHH

In Response to Re: My Image...:

Im too scared to ask about my image lol! I could get 10 different answers from 10 different people!
Posted by GREGHOGG

Dawn French, Overweight middle aged lesbians, Droopy, Harry Redknapp, that woman/man in the Jeremy Kyle audience and James Hartigan blown up

paige55

In Response to Re: My Image...:

Im too scared to ask about my image lol! I could get 10 different answers from 10 different people!
Posted by GREGHOGG

YOU LOOK LOVELY XX I COULD EAT YOU XXX

YOUNG_GUN

Thing is Lamby ppl aren't just going to volunteer their reads on you.

Surely you must have an idea, if ppl are calling you down to light eg. regs then maybe your playing too many hands. if your getting 3 bet alot then maybe your too passive. Just examples but the only way you will get a genuine opinion is through talking online poker friends and them watching or playing against you.

cleansweep

I think you are a terrific qrganiiser
You have a true passion for the game
You have genuine committment to becoming the best you can possibly be
You have a beautiful and supportive girlfriend
You understand the key areas required for sensible BRM

But

The sheer number of posts (2443 works out to more than three a day without having weekends off) you initiate gives the impression you are vain and consider yourself to be better than you actually are at the minute.
They also set yourself up as a target. On the few occasions i've played on the same table/railed MTT's your actions have been predictable and similar to information given away from your threads.
A solid player doesn't need to ask what people think of them they simply review their played hands and analyse where they did well and where they did badly! establishing whether the outcome was down to good/bad play or simply variance.

I just wish you'd concentrate on playing your game rather than writing about it and that like Evil Pingu the next thread I read is Lambert binks Main Event rather than Lambert bubbles again!

Good luck on the tables!

GREGHOGG

wow u asked for honest feedback Mr Lambert!

looks like you got it!

IDONKCALLU

think my imaga is pretty bad when im on cash table i like to be the captain and raise alot in position shhhhhhhh shouldnt of said that

Lambert180

Thank you Cleansweep for being the only person who has actually made a serious reply to this. You make some very valid points even if it isn't necessarily actually about my image.

I was discussing with my beautiful and supportive girlfriend about how (with the exception of 865 and the clinic) I'm pretty much 100% self taught. I've only ever read 3 poker books, which have all been bought for me... one was a limit hold em book which might aswell be a completely different game, gus hansen's book which was interesting but not hugely helpful and one that was solely about the maths of poker and game theory. So thought it can't do any harm to read a book that gives more specifically about MTT strategy like a Harrington book, see if I'm along the right lines. But yeah I think I'm gonna take your advice, so I'll be quieter than normal on the forum for a bit and spend that time analysing my hands. I'm gonna start trying to satellite into Cardiff so many the next thread you will read will be me binking an SPT

Disclaimer: I do have one thing I wanted to suggest to Sky so I'll post that now and that'll be my last for a bit.



@ DONK - I don't know why you're advertising lol, everyone will either not be on the forum and not read it, or be on the forum (and not be stupid) and not believe you. And why would you even want/need to be 'table captain' at micro stakes cash?

cleansweep

In Response to Re: My Image...:

Thank you Cleansweep for being the only person who has actually made a serious reply to this. You make some very valid points even if it isn't necessarily actually about my image. I was discussing with my beautiful and supportive girlfriend about how (with the exception of 865 and the clinic) I'm pretty much 100% self taught. I've only ever read 3 poker books, which have all been bought for me... one was a limit hold em book which might aswell be a completely different game, gus hansen's book which was interesting but not hugely helpful and one that was solely about the maths of poker and game theory. So thought it can't do any harm to read a book that gives more specifically about MTT strategy like a Harrington book, see if I'm along the right lines. But yeah I think I'm gonna take your advice, so I'll be quieter than normal on the forum for a bit and spend that time analysing my hands. I'm gonna start trying to satellite into Cardiff so many the next thread you will read will be me binking an SPT Disclaimer: I do have one thing I wanted to suggest to Sky so I'll post that now and that'll be my last for a bit. @ DONK - I don't know why you're advertising lol, everyone will either not be on the forum and not read it, or be on the forum (and not be stupid) and not believe you. And why would you even want/need to be 'table captain' at micro stakes cash?
Posted by Lambert180

Having re read my comments I feel I was a little harsh.
I don't think you should stop posting! A lot of your posts make for good reading!
I'm saying maybe you should think carefully about the content!
The good players on here are better because they have an edge and are astute enough to pick up on tells that the majority of us possibly wouldn't consider.
If you freely put your hands on display for all to see prettty soon patterns emerge and that is where your opponents gain their edge over you.
There is no harm in posting your preflop cards but instead of showing what you did so often just ask the question what others would have done.
Then you can choose the advice that's appropriate for you.

My comments were not meant to dishearten you! I seriously hope you gain the rewards for the committment you give to the game. I just hope you think more about the information you give away about yourself when you post.

good luck