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Legend
Bronze Level
Like, when I play cash games such as Rush Poker, I do not know if my plays were good or bad. Of course, I can't put up every single hand on cardschat and then ask if it's horrible or not. Sometimes, I tend to bypass my horrible plays because I tend to focus on villain's holdings and my bad beat. Here's one of the examples I'll demonstrate by giving example of what I mean.
I have full stack in 10NL Rush. someone is short-stack $5 in 10NL.
I am dealt Q6o utg. I raise it to 30 cents. everyone folds, short-stacker with $5 is in big blind.
Flop comes up 5 6 K rainbow. Villain checks and I bet out pot size of 65 cents. Villain calls. Pot is now $1.6
Turn comes up 8. Villain checks. I bet out $1.6, Villain goes all-in for $4.1. I make a call. Villain rolls over T5o.
River is 5. Villain wins the pot.
This was just an exaggerated example I made up to ask a question. Now, anyone would see this and immediately say "Q6o utg raise = negative bad -EV play." and also would tell me to consider folding to the shove on the turn. But I don't know if my plays were horrible or not on my own because I got more horrible players who are more horrible than me but beat me. Only way I get to know my play was horrible is if 3rd person or 3rd party viewer analyzed this. Like, it's soooo hard to know if you're horrible or not when your villains who are more horrible beat you through suckout. How do you know if you made a bad play or not even when your villain only beats you by a suckout while you get your money in good? Because I know that just because my villain was more horrible than me doesn't mean my play was good. I'm afraid that there are many plays like this in the past that I have probably bypassed because I'm focused on my horrible villains' plays beating me through suckouts and bad beats that I almost don't focus on my plays and just assume that I lost because I got unlucky. What questions should I be asking to myself to learn on my own whether I made a bad play or not regardless of the result? I've had one of the hands similar to this where Wes747 explained to me how horrible I was with a hand but then villains were so horrible that I couldn't realize it on my own since i got my money in good with odds heavily under my favor.
I have full stack in 10NL Rush. someone is short-stack $5 in 10NL.
I am dealt Q6o utg. I raise it to 30 cents. everyone folds, short-stacker with $5 is in big blind.
Flop comes up 5 6 K rainbow. Villain checks and I bet out pot size of 65 cents. Villain calls. Pot is now $1.6
Turn comes up 8. Villain checks. I bet out $1.6, Villain goes all-in for $4.1. I make a call. Villain rolls over T5o.
River is 5. Villain wins the pot.
This was just an exaggerated example I made up to ask a question. Now, anyone would see this and immediately say "Q6o utg raise = negative bad -EV play." and also would tell me to consider folding to the shove on the turn. But I don't know if my plays were horrible or not on my own because I got more horrible players who are more horrible than me but beat me. Only way I get to know my play was horrible is if 3rd person or 3rd party viewer analyzed this. Like, it's soooo hard to know if you're horrible or not when your villains who are more horrible beat you through suckout. How do you know if you made a bad play or not even when your villain only beats you by a suckout while you get your money in good? Because I know that just because my villain was more horrible than me doesn't mean my play was good. I'm afraid that there are many plays like this in the past that I have probably bypassed because I'm focused on my horrible villains' plays beating me through suckouts and bad beats that I almost don't focus on my plays and just assume that I lost because I got unlucky. What questions should I be asking to myself to learn on my own whether I made a bad play or not regardless of the result? I've had one of the hands similar to this where Wes747 explained to me how horrible I was with a hand but then villains were so horrible that I couldn't realize it on my own since i got my money in good with odds heavily under my favor.
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