{"id":171,"date":"2009-09-24T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-09-28T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:57:19","slug":"i-won-therefore-i-played-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"vici ergo sum optimus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to see people look back on hands and think &#8220;I played that really well&#8221; whereas in actual fact they played like a weak donkey.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Schulman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltiltpoker.com\/tip-email-200-deposit?utm_id=200\">post on full-tilt<\/a> is the perfect example. He raises with a middling hand, gets reraised and decides to call anyway. He then misses the flop &#8211; there&#8217;s an overcard to his middling hand &#8211; but calls the bet on the flop. He then proceeds to give his opponent two opportunities to hit a card that beats him, assuming that he wasn&#8217;t beaten by the queen on the flop or indeed before the flop.<\/p>\n<p>In almost every situation this is just rubbish. He&#8217;s then giving himself kudos because he won the pot but that&#8217;s just results-orientated thinking. If he&#8217;d reraised all-in he&#8217;d have won much more, was that a better play?<\/p>\n<p>IMO he played the hand badly from start to finish. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to see people look back on hands and think &#8220;I played that really well&#8221; whereas in actual fact they played like a weak donkey. Nick Schulman&#8217;s post on full-tilt is the perfect example. He raises with a middling hand, gets reraised and decides to call anyway. He then misses the flop &#8211; there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker","category-whinges","tag-full-tilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}