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h_lance
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I am new to this forum. I like playing poker, but I have a huge, lame weakness. I get on tilt and do things I know are wrong. I didn't used to do this - it is a rather recent development.
Here is a specific example; first I will describe the tilting setup - I was playing on FT at a rather aggressive 50 cent BB table (no haters, please, that's my current level and where I belong if I don't fix this issue). The first thing that happened was that I called down a decent raise from a blind, with AQo. The guy who made the raise had been making aggressive raises out of position with trash, so I felt it was no problem. I flopped QQX, with two hearts on the board, matching my ace. I checked, he fired a big bet and I cold called. The next card was a low heart, giving me nut flush draw. He put me all in and I happily called. He had KK, including the king of hearts for the no-good flush draw. Of course he rivered a two-outer king and stacked me with a full house. That put me on tilt, I guess.
Then I picked up QQ on the button and another raise-happy maniac guy raised into me. I decided to cold call and see if I could pick up another bet after the flop (he almost always c-bet his raises) - thought he might run if I re-raised. Of course this decision SHOULD logically entail letting the queens go if things don't work out. The flop was something like 986, which did not make me happy. He made a bullshit looking bet, I raised, and he went all-in. What kind of an idiot would call that? Yet somehow, I found myself unable to get away from my precious queens and called. To my surprise he "only" had 98 for top 2P; I honestly expected to see a straight.
I realize that my decision to cold call and try to extract a c-bet is debatable, but that's not what I'm talking about - the issue here is making that call that I KNEW was wrong. I also realize that some people may be thinking "sure hope I play with this donk", which is not a strong motivation to give me advice. Still, there is a forum here. Does anyone else have a problem with these kind of zombie calls? Does anyone have a technique to deal with this?
Here is a specific example; first I will describe the tilting setup - I was playing on FT at a rather aggressive 50 cent BB table (no haters, please, that's my current level and where I belong if I don't fix this issue). The first thing that happened was that I called down a decent raise from a blind, with AQo. The guy who made the raise had been making aggressive raises out of position with trash, so I felt it was no problem. I flopped QQX, with two hearts on the board, matching my ace. I checked, he fired a big bet and I cold called. The next card was a low heart, giving me nut flush draw. He put me all in and I happily called. He had KK, including the king of hearts for the no-good flush draw. Of course he rivered a two-outer king and stacked me with a full house. That put me on tilt, I guess.
Then I picked up QQ on the button and another raise-happy maniac guy raised into me. I decided to cold call and see if I could pick up another bet after the flop (he almost always c-bet his raises) - thought he might run if I re-raised. Of course this decision SHOULD logically entail letting the queens go if things don't work out. The flop was something like 986, which did not make me happy. He made a bullshit looking bet, I raised, and he went all-in. What kind of an idiot would call that? Yet somehow, I found myself unable to get away from my precious queens and called. To my surprise he "only" had 98 for top 2P; I honestly expected to see a straight.
I realize that my decision to cold call and try to extract a c-bet is debatable, but that's not what I'm talking about - the issue here is making that call that I KNEW was wrong. I also realize that some people may be thinking "sure hope I play with this donk", which is not a strong motivation to give me advice. Still, there is a forum here. Does anyone else have a problem with these kind of zombie calls? Does anyone have a technique to deal with this?