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IsaPalacios
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I'm not a great poker player first and foremost, but I am having a huge problem.
I play microstakes .02/.05 cent games just to practice at the most novice level possible. I was getting pretty good at this level.
I would read off how loose or tight players are for hand range, I play position, I only Cbet the players who I seen fold on the flop frequently etc. The basics.
So naturally I decided I wanted to play .05/.10 cent games.
AND what a jump in skill level. I can't imagine what higher stakes are like.
I don't know what to do. It's like I might as well go all in with KQ anytime I get raised because of how aggressive these guys are.
Say I'm under the gun and I raise with KQ suited. It seems like anytime I do that, someones gonna re-pop me. Okay I call, because it feels pretty standard to get reraised.
Then the flop comes. 2-7-9, it feels like I have to continuation bet because if I don't he will. And a lot of these guys are c-betting pot sized bets.
SO I bet and given a board like that and me raising out of position preflop, he knows I probably didn't hit so he's gonna 3 bet me.
Most of the time if I have an ACE here I'm gonna call because with a board like that I know he can't have squat either right?
What I'm asking, it at these levels when do you give up a hand, and still get to be profitable?
Because if I'm getting bluffed out of every other flop where I don't connect, then it feels like I'm in trouble.
And most of the time I'm right and they ride it with me all the way down to the river and they catch a 10 or something.
It makes me sick.
I play microstakes .02/.05 cent games just to practice at the most novice level possible. I was getting pretty good at this level.
I would read off how loose or tight players are for hand range, I play position, I only Cbet the players who I seen fold on the flop frequently etc. The basics.
So naturally I decided I wanted to play .05/.10 cent games.
AND what a jump in skill level. I can't imagine what higher stakes are like.
I don't know what to do. It's like I might as well go all in with KQ anytime I get raised because of how aggressive these guys are.
Say I'm under the gun and I raise with KQ suited. It seems like anytime I do that, someones gonna re-pop me. Okay I call, because it feels pretty standard to get reraised.
Then the flop comes. 2-7-9, it feels like I have to continuation bet because if I don't he will. And a lot of these guys are c-betting pot sized bets.
SO I bet and given a board like that and me raising out of position preflop, he knows I probably didn't hit so he's gonna 3 bet me.
Most of the time if I have an ACE here I'm gonna call because with a board like that I know he can't have squat either right?
What I'm asking, it at these levels when do you give up a hand, and still get to be profitable?
Because if I'm getting bluffed out of every other flop where I don't connect, then it feels like I'm in trouble.
And most of the time I'm right and they ride it with me all the way down to the river and they catch a 10 or something.
It makes me sick.
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