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Re: Am I Getting Too Committed With This Over Pair?
o lol hmmmmmmmmLets just say I made a BIG Note about this player after this hand....;) -
Re: Am I Getting Too Committed With This Over Pair? Reading this thread I think its important to point out that we should really be looking for hands that take this line that we beat...rather than saying 'the only hand that beats us is 77' - because his line is SOOOOOO crazily strong. Unless you have seen the guy randomly check/calling - check/calling - spew all in for 1/4 pot. Then dont assume that he is doing it here with a 10 or random air, this would be a quick way to going broke. PS. op this isnt directed to you, I think you realise you are probably in trouble but feel you are getting a good enough price, cant fault that.
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Re: Am I Getting Too Committed With This Over Pair? You are getting a good price but you arent anywhere near 'good 9 times out of 10' in this spot at 6max, let alone full ring. Hes hardly taken a weak line, pretty indicative of a monster. I think you played this fine really, a call cant be terrible on the river but its one of those spots where, although it is hard to fold, id be surpised to see him having anything we beat... (QT possibly is all i can come up with).
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Re: Could This Sick Bust Been Avoided?
It may have been the right decision for him tho, gotta remember that. :unsureAK? If there is a lesson on how not to play AK then this is it. Flat calls pre-flop heads up - WRONG Calls with nothing on flop after missing - WRONG Calling all in with one pair on turn - Fair enough maybe, but I would never have got to the turn. -
Re: Could This Sick Bust Been Avoided? you played it fine, he played it kinda bad I suppose. Why would you want to avoid doubling up 80% of the time?
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Re: Bubble Boy!!!!!!
/LOLDONKAMENTS!!!! seriously this kinda shit happens to me in every tournament I play, is this not normal?Add the mardle game tonight to my list of 'bubbles'...... 14th(10 paid).... was soo sick too.. lost with :Td: :Tc: against mardle's :Kc: :Qh:, then few hands later lost with AK agaisnt K10!!! shoulda been on 30k!! -
Re: Self loathing mine isnt only restricted to poker :P
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Re: Bankroll management & stt's
Well I dont play sit'n'gays but I would say its better to not move up (if you are moving to a level you have never played) until you have enough to cover an initial downswing. There is nothing worse than moving up and moving down again for your confidence, you are better of plugging away at a certain level until you are over rolled for the next level imo.20BB is generaly accepted as the norm. As AJ says the important this is that you move back down when your bankroll shrinks - so many people increase their bankroll to recover losses.
You need an infinate bankroll, Ive seen graphs of people running 100 Buyins below expection and more is clearly possible when you actually think of how probability works. Ive just had a 20 BI below EV stretch at 2 different sites and over two levels.play comfortably at without any variance. -
Re: Minimum raise
Hmm in cash min raising PF on the button is >good but in early is >bad imo Yah its only check min raises postflop that tilt me A LOTAre you talking about a min raise of an actual bet? Or a min raise (of the blinds) preflop? I don't see much wrong with the latter, especially from early position. -
Re: Minimum raise the purpose is to put me on tilt. I get check minraised online so much and I have no clue how to (/if i should be) playing back at it... It annoys me more than anything in poker because they would almost always be better off raising a 'proper' amount. If someone insta check minraised me in a live game I would not be held responsible for my actions.
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Re: Identifying & Managing TILT! that show is really worth listening to. I never actually thought of the ability to get up from the table as an extra 'edge' before. Basically says, if ur always > 90% sharp when you are playing and your opponents are 30%-100% sharp then thats a further edge you have over them.
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Re: Identifying & Managing TILT!
Good show but..Found this in another thread elsewhere discussing tilt. It's from a web radio show called Cash Plays, and features an interview with a Poker pro who used to be a Hypnotherapist. He discusses what he calls Emotional Management, and the difference between 'steaming' and 'tilt'. The whole show is pretty good, but skip to 42 minutes if you want to hear the tilt specific part. http://www.pokerroad.com/cash_plays/4-15-08/
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Re: Did i play this hand badly???
Pushing every day of the week - wish ya's would stop going on about -EV in the long term...... I couldn't care less about the long term' date=' I want to win NOW![/quote'] :\ -
Re: Identifying & Managing TILT! See thats the problem, it is so huge its not easy to define. From Tommy Angelo's book - 'I was a great tilter, i knew all the different kinds. I could do steaming tilt, simmering tilt, too loose tilt, too tight tilt, too aggressive tilt, too passive tilt, playing to high tilt, playing to long tilt, playing to tired tilt, entitlement tilt, annoyed tilt, injustice tilt, frustration tilt, sloppy tilt, revenge tilt, underfunded tilt, overfunded tilt, shame tilt, distracted tilt' etc etc 'I figured if I ever went broke at poker it wouldn't be because my best wasnt good enough to keep me afloat. It'd be because my worst was bad enough to sink me'. So that is tilt, anything that leads you not to play your A-game.
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Re: Identifying & Managing TILT!
Well i agree with one thing, tilt involves making a poor change to your approach to the game - but this doesnt mean 'relying on luck' AT ALL. Some people Nit up when they are tilting whilst others loosen up - some people think everyone is out to get them and some people open fold top pair becasue they KNOW they will lose. :lol @ 'thats just playing poorly' - exactly my point, I play poorly when my mind is cluttered (tilt) or tired and I cant see the situation for what it is (i.e. a passive fish raises the turn after c/c the flop, TPTK might not be good this time/I have AK, Arrr in arrrr in). Whereas in my review im free to concentrate on the situation without random shit clogging my thought processes up. Yeah its easy to spot when you are playing like a complete spastic but tilting doesnt have to be so obvious. But I agree possibly the hardest part is taking a break when you should. Tommy Angelo mentions a guy who used to tilt like crazy in his book, and one of his friends said of him, 'He eats like a bird and shits like an elephant' - So basically I guess the key is to make you winning sessions large and your losing sessions neglegableThats just playing poorly, tilting is different as your playing badly in an attempt to buy your way out of trouble and relying on luck rather than your usual game to recover losses. It is very obvious when your tilting. Personaly at the first sign I get out and if I need to be playing for the money aspect I move sites. I tend to respect my bankrolls differently at different sites. -
Re: Identifying & Managing TILT! Seriously this is THE single biggest leak you can plug in poker, nothing will improve your winrate more than eradicating tilt. Having said that - I havnt managed it... Ive been running like complete dogshit - I think im now 20BI (at 25nl and 50nl) below expection over about a month at full tilt and betfair - and its really affected me. Before I could take a beat, laugh and know that I will get his money eventually, now it just makes me angry. Im terrible at spotting it until I review my session and think...'that was completely retarded'. I now play hour long sessions and take breaks etc..Any other ideas? I hope this thread gets the attention and replies that it deserves and that maybe we could all learn something from each other.
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Re: Cricket: Stanford Series
Thats just the thing, the people that did well (barring gayle) arent [/werent] even superstars. If stanford has done one thing good then it is allowing talented cricketers that have been overlooked by the West Indies setup to prove their worth to the world.I thought we'd shit a brick and lose but I didn't think we'd get destroyed like that :eek. It just goes to show that you can change whatever you want in this England side. The captain, the coach, the batting lineup and everything else but when you put us in a pressure situation in limited overs cricket we shit a brick every single time. Saying that, the Superstars lived up to their names and were brilliant. 2 winners for me in the main match to salvage something from the week. -
Re: Bad call or bad shove?
I think it was a rhetorical strategy post...:DMy initial gut reaction was to fold you still have 1200 chips left. Maths: 1051+300+100 - 1451 in pot 751 to call, about 2:1 so a possible call. Bah, don't know for certain, depends on whether you are beating the others and can get back your 300 easily - if so then fold, if you feel you are a weaker player than at least half the table then call. -
Re: Bad call or bad shove?
IF you wanna make friends I wouldnt associate yourself with me :Dalthough i said to Dogs and on here yesterday it's best if i 'leave' the forum it's been a part of me -
Re: Help Needed... play analysis. im guessing this is SNG's, they are all about theory (stack/blind ratios etc) and theres plenty of good SNG players on PL (unfortunately im not one of them). I just made a vid of me playing 50nl cash games with a piece of software called camtasia, theres a free 30 day trial - give it a search on google. This films your screen so you could wack on like 4 SNG's and then video that until they are over, Re: where you could put it, im not sure tbh but there must be some free hosting somewhere...? Else you could just post a few hand histories I guess but you might find videoing your games helps you concentrate. One thing that is useful, if you arent going to commentate (and if you are comfortable with the amount of tables you have going) then it might be useful to open notepad and leave it at the bottom of the screen, then when a spot comes up that you arent sure of the best play - you can just write something in there like 'wasnt sure what to do etc blah there was 2 to act behind me blah etc'. Good luck.
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Re: UEFA Cup - Thursday 23rd Oct 08
Martin Laursen looks decent value e/w 25-1 @Coral for first goalscorer in Villa v Ajax (as short as 12-1 at Bet365). For a central defender he weighs in with a decent amount of goals' date= he has 1 in the league and 2 in Europe already this season. Villa work hard on their set pieces are always a big threat, if I remember rightly they scored more set piece goals than any other premier league team last season.rigged :lol -
Re: Tricky spot OOP 6max Cash Game I like checking and having a short look at his betsizing (although i think generally we are checking to fold). I think he generally checks behind everything that you are beating but to bet we would need him to call with these, and I dont think he does. This is kinda tough... Are there many hands he is turning into a bluff, is he calling two streets with just 56 (which obviously cant take a showdown if he thinks he can get you off your hand), is he raising any relatively high flush draw on the flop..poker is hard lol
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Re: Tricky spot OOP 6max Cash Game
From what I understand, once you get to midstakes (moreso 400nl) you need to start balancing your range in a lot of spots because the regs actually watch and learn. If you never 3bet pairs OOP from 22-99 then you never have a set on a lot of different boards...Makes you easier to play against.Well I'm never rasing pre when first to act on flop with a small pp I wanna be keeping the pot fairly small with 77s out of position -
Re: Tricky spot OOP 6max Cash Game
No offence but this is bad. We probably have the best hand so why are we trying to fold old everything we beat and only play against the top of his range? Where are we if he flats on a board like this? We are also giving a free draw to 6 outs to a hand that would almost definately fold to a cbet like QTo... Ive been thinking a lot about these kind of hands (moreso where we do flat preflop and dont have the lead), I really dont know the best answer, i guess if we flatcall preflop we check/call the flop and re-evaluate the turn...?! Its a balance between value, protection and collecting the money that is in the middle. We have to bet the flop here because two random overcards has a chunk of equity against us and possibly this applies to the turn aswell, although its thin. Nade, how often is he actually folding to cbets. I often think some LAGs are chameleons, they are 35/25 but play straightforward postflop and rely on their VPIP/PFR to get them loads of action.I'm flat calling pre' date=' check after flop if he bets on flop i re raise [b']just to see where we are
Am I Getting Too Committed With This Over Pair?
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Re: Am I Getting Too Committed With This Over Pair? lol i really cant think of a thing he can/would/could possibly/might even if hes blind and cant see the cards/hrgb check call two streets and then spaz the river for 1/4 pot that you beat. Fess up!.