coolnout
Legend
Silver Level
The thing I struggle most with right now is aggressive play. When I'm a shortstack and someone is being very aggressive with a large stack. I get frustrated. Is it just right to sit back and just play smart poker? Who cares if he's stealing blinds, just wait for an opportunity and bust him when I have a hand? Is that just how I should look at things and don't worry about the short term, just worry more about the long term? Just see him as keeping my chips warm for me per say. I play mostly freerolls as I'm still learning and it just becomes a hard concept to grasp. I see people aggressively betting after the flop when they don't even have a hand at all and then they'll get lucky and hit it on the river sometimes. Is this something I won't be able to grasp til I start moving away from freerolls? Like I have a-10 guy on my right has K-10. there's a 10 on the flop, and he goes all in. So I look at the board and assume he must have had a pocket pair and hit a set on the flop and fold. Then someone calls him and I see what he had. Am I just playing smart poker? That'd be stupid of me to call there. Oh well? My game is really passive, like if I miss flop I generally just get out of the hand. I get pretty far like that. But, I'm guessing I'm missing the opportunity to take down some pots with continuation bets. At the final table I guess the way I play is easily exploitable. I miss a flop someone makes a big continuation bet, I'm gone. Do I just have to take shots and try and learn to read people to improve my game?