Marathon - Take 2

That one was pretty crazy.

At one point, there were 7 of us playing about 40 tables total, and most stayed up over 24 hours. I only played about 5k hands though, but that's easily explained by three important factors:
1- We played some stupid tournaments, flipped for rolls in PLO, and played Ro Sham Bo.
2- We watched some very special* poker videos.
3- I tend to be a lazy bastard.

Those are all very good and valid excuses, so I'm not mad about playing so little. I also spent some time watching a very good high roller (I consider 10/20NL high rolling) playing 9+ tables at a time, which is very inspiring and insightful.

There were some interesting hands I played, which I might post later on, but for now I'll only post my graph, and talk about how great a play the min-raise really is. Ended up winning a whooping 28.50$, which isn't bad considering I dropped a few buy-ins early on by playing like a donkey.Min-raising postflop seems to induce so many bluffs, it's not even funny. People will shove any crap if you min-raise, it's like they can't resist it. It's also pretty fun to re-min-raise a guy who min-raise bluffs you, just to get him to fold cheaply. I'm surprised at how often that works against decent players, and how often that entices donkeys to go broke.

People seem to consider the min-raise to be a donk play, because so many donkeys use it incorrectly, and because it sucks before the flop. Postflop though, and maybe button vs CO preflop, min-raising is actually a pretty decent play. It's just dangerous to fall into the trap of min-raising too often.

Against players who will shove good draws, min-raising is pretty safe. There are actually very few players who have the discipline to just call a min-raise if they have good odds, knowing that their implied odds are actually good because you probably have a good hand. Moreover, it's actually pretty tough to adjust against the min-raise out of position, because it's such a cheap play that you could really abuse the crap out of it and still get +EV situations.

I'm not even sure what the correct defense against the min-raise is. Re-min-raising might work, but they can adjust to that easily. I think it might be the play with the biggest tilt factor that can still be used correctly, because it's so damn frustrating.

*Note: When I say special, I mean it the Ralph Wiggum way.