Sam Greenwood, the longtime Canadian skilled poker participant who practically has $40 million in event winnings stopped by Reddit’s /poker membership to reply questions submitted by customers. A web based professional since 2006 and excessive curler event mainstay, he has a number of titles, together with one within the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Journey $100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler and a World Sequence of Poker bracelet.
Q: Do you ever play poker drunk like eight beers and play at lowest stakes $1/3? Do you ever quick purchase like $60 then go all in preflop no look then chuckle maniacly? These are my two greatest leaks — how can I repair them?Greenwood: I’ve made it a problem to reply each query requested so I’ll begin with this one. No. No. repair this leak? You would begin by not ingesting 8 beers, however that’s no enjoyable. So I’ll say, at the very least take a look at your playing cards earlier than you go all-in darkish.
Q: Did you lose feelings in life attributable to poker?Greenwood: By no means took an ADHD drug in my life. I wouldn’t say I “misplaced feelings,” however you do prepare your self to have much less risky feelings. Nevertheless, I had a really fast fuse as a young person, so possibly poker taught me maturity and emotional management. It’s powerful to say if poker made me even-keeled or I might have naturally turn out to be extra even-keeled as I aged.
Q: In case your Hendon says you will have made $39 million in tournaments, how a lot do you suppose you might be down total? / How a lot have been the buy-ins to win that $39 million/ How a lot was yours personal motion? Greenwood: Wrote about that right here: I min-cash round 15% of tournaments. In the event you imply generate profits on a person event after accounting for every thing. That’s a more durable query to reply. Typically I three bullet and a swap wins and e book a small revenue, typically I money hearth one bullet, mincash and lose cash on the event as a result of swaps did poorly. It’s probably not a manner I observe outcomes. I’m up cash total. $38,999,999.
Q: In the event you might swap poker expertise for someday with any participant previous or current, who would it not be?Greenwood: I feel I might swap expertise with somebody like Likelihood Kornuth to see if he truly has stay learn magic. It might even be enjoyable to get within the head of somebody who can hyperfocus in a manner that I usually can not.
Q: In spots the place you’re out of place with a medium-strength hand, how do you stability check-calling vs. check-raising to guard your vary to forestall villain from working you over (200bb money sport)? How has the rise of solvers modified your money sport technique, and the place do you continue to depend on instinct over GTO?Greenwood: With 200 bbs deep, you hardly ever check-raise medium power arms. You make the pot too massive and danger dropping a monster pot to a greater hand or getting bluffed by a worse one. There are some exceptions which can be talked about beneath, however these are typically designed to get higher arms to fold and worse arms to name.
I have a tendency to make use of sport concept ideas to construction my play on early streets and use my instinct extra on later streets. It’s simpler to made changes like “I feel my opponent is bluffing an excessive amount of, so I’m going to name the river with any cheap bluff catcher” versus, “I feel my opponent three betting an excessive amount of so I’m going to create a completely new you 4 betting technique once I don’t actually know their response to my 4 betting technique”
Q: In the event you have been enjoying tremendous excessive rollers, what % of your thought course of is making an attempt to play close to equilibrium vs making participant/pool-specific changes? How does this differ at $5–$10k occasions and vs extra rec-heavy fields?Greenwood: My thought course of in a poker hand is normally to think about what the equilibrium is after which ask myself if I wish to deviate for a particular cause in a given hand. When I’m enjoying vs recs, I do the identical factor, however it could possibly occur very quick. One thing like “I feel I’m supposed to combine flop check-raises with a set, however I’m by no means trapping versus this man who I already sized up as calling station”
Q: Once you’re enjoying tremendous excessive rollers, what % of regs are profitable? Who’re the most effective 3 stay MTT gamers within the final 10 years? What is an efficient ROI for SHR regs? Can somebody nonetheless climb from the underside and be a profitable SHR reg at this time?Greenwood: I’ll attempt to bucket one and three collectively.
I feel the most effective regs are in all probability profitable someplace between 10-15% on their highest EV bullets (so no max late reg bullets). I feel there’s a big swath of regs enjoying the event who after rake are making someplace between like -5% and +5% and it’s very powerful to determine that are which.
Chidwick, Ike and I used to be going to say Mikita besides he didn’t actually begin enjoying SHRs till 2016. So I’ll say somebody who’s criminally neglected on this dialog Mike Watson. All three of men I listed play a number of video games at a really excessive degree, play very excessive stakes, have nice work ethic and have had longevity.
Relying on the precise rake buildings of the event how a lot they late reg, and so forth. Most likely someplace within the 10-20 % vary. Folks have climbed from the underside to be profitable SHR regs just lately. Have a look at somebody like Leon Sturm, it is rather onerous to do, however it’s doable.
Q: How a lot did you miss the previous days of two+2 and the photoshop threads neighborhood?Greenwood: For higher or worse plenty of the story of the web is massive communities turning into siloed and insular. Many 2p2ers are doing nice issues inside poker and out of doors of it, however the feeling of the OG 2p2 is gone, however it’s additionally partially nostalgia for being 18 once more.
