n3rv
Visionary
Silver Level
So last night playing my regular micro speed tables I hit a set on the flop. Villain raises me about half of the pot and I'm convinced he has top pair top kicker. There is a potential flush draw on board as well so I re-raise him etc. till eventually all of the chips are in.
I have a set of 9s with 70% equity against his pair of Kings and a flush draw at 30% - of course the flush makes it. No biggie, it has to make it some of the time, I reload.
About 5 hands later I get AKs all-in against TT, flop comes AKJ so I think my luck is restored... before the river makes a straight. I try to not let this have an effect on me as it is a coin-flip but 2 buy-ins down I tilt a bit and eventually force myself to quit 3 buy-ins down.
So today, as I was getting tilty last night, I moved down significantly lower to 0.01 / 0.02 buying in for £0.60-£0.80 in order to get confidence in my game back.
First table I get a full house 8s over Qs against a donk who keeps betting and of course he has quads. I didn't even go all-in just in case but that was the majority of my stack gone. On another table I get KK all-in against AA and bust another stack.
I'm not concerned with losing the buy-ins as they are so low but I am concerned with my play being able to overcome this kind of variance and be profitable in the long term. The thing is on the 2 hands this morning I had very little equity but I'm not sure there was any other way I could've played them, same with the hands where I had a coin flip and 70% - I could just as easily have been dominated there if you really think about it.
I mean, if this sort of thing isn't running bad, can I afford to start folding the likes of KK, Full Houses, Big Slick, or Sets at these sorts of levels?
Sorry for the rant, thanks in advance for any help.
I have a set of 9s with 70% equity against his pair of Kings and a flush draw at 30% - of course the flush makes it. No biggie, it has to make it some of the time, I reload.
About 5 hands later I get AKs all-in against TT, flop comes AKJ so I think my luck is restored... before the river makes a straight. I try to not let this have an effect on me as it is a coin-flip but 2 buy-ins down I tilt a bit and eventually force myself to quit 3 buy-ins down.
So today, as I was getting tilty last night, I moved down significantly lower to 0.01 / 0.02 buying in for £0.60-£0.80 in order to get confidence in my game back.
First table I get a full house 8s over Qs against a donk who keeps betting and of course he has quads. I didn't even go all-in just in case but that was the majority of my stack gone. On another table I get KK all-in against AA and bust another stack.
I'm not concerned with losing the buy-ins as they are so low but I am concerned with my play being able to overcome this kind of variance and be profitable in the long term. The thing is on the 2 hands this morning I had very little equity but I'm not sure there was any other way I could've played them, same with the hands where I had a coin flip and 70% - I could just as easily have been dominated there if you really think about it.
I mean, if this sort of thing isn't running bad, can I afford to start folding the likes of KK, Full Houses, Big Slick, or Sets at these sorts of levels?
Sorry for the rant, thanks in advance for any help.