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strodawg

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I play good poker and become chip leader 95% of the time and lose it 90% of the time. I know I start calling way to much. So what can I do to learn patience and to let go of JJ+ when someone shoves their all in pre-flop when I am chip leader? After I get hit up it makes me start to search again calling even more ridicules cards.
 
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Folding JJ to an all-in isn't necessarily a mistake, it's dependent on stack sizes, position, and player reads. If you're the chip leader sitting in the big blind with 50+ BB's, somebody shoves 3BB from UTG and it's folded around to you, are you going to fold JJ+ here too? If there's a sizeable amount of dead money in the pot from antes, the odds may dictate a call with ATC.

It sounds like you're getting your big pairs cracked then going on tilt and calling off your stack. It's tempting with a big stack to start calling pre-flop raises on a lot of hands that you would normally fold and to chase draws regardless of odds, but this is a good way to bleed off a lot of chips fast. People are usually reluctant to tangle with the big stack, so take the initiative and either open by raising or if somebody else has raised and you want to play, throw in a 3-bet.
 
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One tip is to track your play so actually you know how you play. For example, no one becomes chip leader 95% of the time over any decent sample size. Evaluating yourself incorrectly in this way or any other is a self-created barrier to improvement.
 
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Don't fall in love with your hand. Have the objectivity to re-evaluate it post-flop, post-turn, post-river. Surrender the idea that TPTK or high pp will make it to SD.

As Arj said, track your hands and find your leaks.

Post some hands?

I think patience is a *decision*.
 
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After a session in which you got to be chipleader and lost, analyze your hands.

When analyzing the hands you played ask yourself "Would i have make this play if I were with a normal stack?".

Also raise more and call less
 
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If you become the chip leader, treat yourself as if youre the small stack. That way, you will not change your style.
 
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Or to a corollary of what WAturtle7 said, if you look over some hands, what would you advise a friend who was newer to poker, in that same situation, to do?

Yes you are going to get coolered, as it is part of the game. But Propane Goat is right about what are the specifics of that hand with JJ+? What is your read on the short stack? What was your position to him? In or out? Who was left to play the hand? What are there stacks like? Who would shove with Ax? Who has? Who called it?

Lots of moving parts to examine. Take your game apart by looking at the hands you lost big. Be brutally honest and post them with your thoughts. We will lovingly rip those thoughts apart to help you get better. That is why I love Cards Chat :)
 
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Get some good tournament poker books if that's what you're into. Your statement is so vague, it indicates you have a lot to learn. So getting some books, and looking up free strategy guides is a good place to start.
 
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avoid calling all ins when you are chip leader.try to push and to steal the blinds
 
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