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CaptainKout
Rock Star
Silver Level
Ok. So I've been studying my ass off. I play as much as I can usually 200 hands a day single table (two if I'm feeling frisky)4nl 6max and try to run through the correct thought process every hand but I keep losing. Why? A lot of reasons obviously the first of which is tilt/gambling rush kinda things but I seem to have a ton of trouble putting people on hands and end up paying people off so darn often. I play really laggy (33/25) but I think its kinda deceiving because I steal with pretty much any two cards if i think the blinds are multi table type nits.
Other things i like doing. I like min raising in early and middle pos. (please talk about this with me). I raise 5xbb usually in late pos with strong hands and steal with 2.5x bb(mixing it up with some strong hands). There are really only two types of players I see at this level. Super tags(11/10) who will only enter a pot with solid value hands who raise or fold, and rec players who limp/call 40% of hands. With a hands like AJ, A10, Kq, KJ, my min raise will get raised by supertags who prob have me dominated or called by one or two rec players who love playing their Ace-rag. Anyways, its easy to escape from the super tags and pot stays pretty small compared to stacks with the callers or thats my hope. If this is THE leak, then great, if not I've got a million other possibilities to talk about. I try to cbet ragged flops or bet for value with top pair good kicker hands because at this level middle pairs and long shot draws always seem to call. Also I buy in with 50bb as a sort of tilt breaker. If i tilt and burn through a couple buy ins, then I'm better off than if I did the same with full stacks. I figure it will also vary my game naturally as I start to play implied odds type hands if/when my stack swells.
This is kinda just venting but it happens every session and today was a prime example, same hand(almost) same opponent but one big loss and one smaller win(loss had slightly bigger stacks). So stacks are about 70bb he's got me covered. I have 1010 with a club on the button in one and middle pos in the other. One limper I raise to 18c(4.5xbb) get two callers no surprise. Flop is 7c3c2s the other is 8c5c4h. It checks to me, I raise 2/3 pot with gets raised about pot sized. A call will have me committed but it doesn't seem right to fold an over pair so I shove at them and get called by the raiser. One is a set of sevens the other is an A4. So... is this acutally a way ahead way behind situation? Which would mean that I should check or bet/fold, right? In both cases, I thought a premium pair would have raised preflop(but in micros is almost as likely for them to call and I get played by these big time). I also thought that an Ace rag will def call plus a lot of draws and and even some 87 top pairs that think i'm on a bluff. The things that beat me are suited over cards on a draw(coinflip ish), JJ, sets and a weird two pair that is unlikely to have called preflop but happens. I feel my equity is pretty good against these hands. Whats the play? Am I missing something?
Heres another thing. When I try to play smarter it just turns out to be more passive and my non-showdown winnings take a dive. Where the hell is that balance point? The situations I'm thinking of are the scary board type flops. When I'm aggressive I can take them down pretty often but when I wanna play smart I'll check them then get raised huge on the turn because I showed weakness I assume. What about calling what they seem to think are cbets on 3 low card flops?
Other things i like doing. I like min raising in early and middle pos. (please talk about this with me). I raise 5xbb usually in late pos with strong hands and steal with 2.5x bb(mixing it up with some strong hands). There are really only two types of players I see at this level. Super tags(11/10) who will only enter a pot with solid value hands who raise or fold, and rec players who limp/call 40% of hands. With a hands like AJ, A10, Kq, KJ, my min raise will get raised by supertags who prob have me dominated or called by one or two rec players who love playing their Ace-rag. Anyways, its easy to escape from the super tags and pot stays pretty small compared to stacks with the callers or thats my hope. If this is THE leak, then great, if not I've got a million other possibilities to talk about. I try to cbet ragged flops or bet for value with top pair good kicker hands because at this level middle pairs and long shot draws always seem to call. Also I buy in with 50bb as a sort of tilt breaker. If i tilt and burn through a couple buy ins, then I'm better off than if I did the same with full stacks. I figure it will also vary my game naturally as I start to play implied odds type hands if/when my stack swells.
This is kinda just venting but it happens every session and today was a prime example, same hand(almost) same opponent but one big loss and one smaller win(loss had slightly bigger stacks). So stacks are about 70bb he's got me covered. I have 1010 with a club on the button in one and middle pos in the other. One limper I raise to 18c(4.5xbb) get two callers no surprise. Flop is 7c3c2s the other is 8c5c4h. It checks to me, I raise 2/3 pot with gets raised about pot sized. A call will have me committed but it doesn't seem right to fold an over pair so I shove at them and get called by the raiser. One is a set of sevens the other is an A4. So... is this acutally a way ahead way behind situation? Which would mean that I should check or bet/fold, right? In both cases, I thought a premium pair would have raised preflop(but in micros is almost as likely for them to call and I get played by these big time). I also thought that an Ace rag will def call plus a lot of draws and and even some 87 top pairs that think i'm on a bluff. The things that beat me are suited over cards on a draw(coinflip ish), JJ, sets and a weird two pair that is unlikely to have called preflop but happens. I feel my equity is pretty good against these hands. Whats the play? Am I missing something?
Heres another thing. When I try to play smarter it just turns out to be more passive and my non-showdown winnings take a dive. Where the hell is that balance point? The situations I'm thinking of are the scary board type flops. When I'm aggressive I can take them down pretty often but when I wanna play smart I'll check them then get raised huge on the turn because I showed weakness I assume. What about calling what they seem to think are cbets on 3 low card flops?
