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So things have been going pretty horribly for me lately poker-wise, and as a result have lost pretty much all confidence in my game. I've been on about a 15 buy-in or so downswing for the past week or so, most of which has been mistakes by me. I've pretty much just spent the last week slowly leaking chips. I've tried adding tables to encourage me to just grind, and I've tried dropping down to 4-tabling to improve my hand reading, but nothing is working. I'm capable of people pretty well when I'm on my game, and 50NL seems easy as a result, but then it all goes to hell in one or two hands, and I lose focus and spew. For example, today:
The Good Stuff
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/333354 - Taking a fellow LPer to valuetown. I've been developing my thin value betting recently, and this is a nice example of me putting him on a bluffcatcher, and extracting as a result. I guess I could have overbet the river, but I'm happy enough with it. The great thing about playing solid players is the removal of the randomness factor. Value extraction is easier when you know they would never play a set this way.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/333356 - The benefits of light 3-betting in position. There is no way I can have the best hand here. His CO opening range is wide, so the 3-bet is easy, and I don't think he's flatting OOP with AQ or AK here. As long as I dodged a set, my c-bet would take it down. Maybe I pushed him off QQ or something.
The Bad Stuff
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/333363 - Villain was playing quite laggy, so I was 3-betting him lots. He had never 4-bet me before, though. There's no need to call the shove here, as I'm flipping at best.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/333361 - "He couldn't have a Q, could he? Nah, he's probably on a draw. Time for a hero call. Oh, crap." I am the mayor of spewtown.
As a result, I've decided to dedicate December to getting my game back on track. First, I'm going to drop down to 25NL for a week or so to regain my donk-stacking confidence, then work slowly at 50NL until I feel supremely confident there.
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Kapol Poland. Dec 10 2007 13:21. Posts 4696 | | | |
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Kapol Poland. Dec 10 2007 13:23. Posts 4696 | | |
Your game looks just like mine. Playing pretty decent ABC and spewing definitely too often :/. |
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Kapol Poland. Dec 10 2007 13:26. Posts 4696 | | |
Returning to the 97 vs AK hand:
Congratulations. After the hand I couldn't realize how come you show up with any pair here. I was thinking about this hand for like 5 minutes and had no idea why didn't you c-bet and why did you bet the river. Very nice. |
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Big_Rob_48 United States. Dec 10 2007 14:54. Posts 3432 | | |
My advice: Try to play straight abc all day long, like don't make any moves at all. When you can't get a good winrate doing that, then start changing gears. And for your information making no moves and playing good abc poker could probably yield you maybe even a 2 ptbb winrate at 400 nl.
Example, Don't reraise 44 ever. Don't just reraise TT because it is TT, reraise it because you are willing to play for stacks on flops that look like Qxx or Jxx. You should only reraise TT mostly against people who raise at least 16% of their hands, and you should only reraise them when they raise in late position so their range widens. |
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