I'm Probably a fish.

Hey!

As the title strongly suggests, I am not very good at poker! Let me explain.

So I play often enough that you could call it obsession. I try very hard and despite lots of leaks in my game, I consider myself to have the basics down.

The problem is I am constantly feeling out of my depth! If I play in Higher stakes, I'm out of my comfort zone and players tend to run me over. If I play lower stakes my hand reading skills suffer because I'm playing against hit and hope players who have no real strategy. ABC poker works well of course but I still find myself cursing my screen when players are calling my 3 bet with 2 7 and turning two pair.

If I'm being honest, patients is probably one of my biggest problems. I wait 30+ hands sifting through raggy shit. Then catch a bad beat.

One thing I can be proud of is my ability to bluff. Against players with a good level of hand reading skill, I feel I can accurately represent the hand they are fearing and usually have the table image to back it up.

BUT.

I really do appreciate bluffing is only one weapon in the arsenal.

I'm not sure what advice anyone could possibly give, but if you have anything at all to say, please do share.

Nicebrew.

One thing I like to do is multitabling. This way u'll have action with decent hands a lot faster than simply waiting on one table. Plus, a bad beat won't feel that bad cause u still have a lot of backup tables.

It sounds like you're failing to adjust to how the players are at low stakes.. In those games, you shouldn't need great hand reading skills since it's all about value betting your hands.

Hi Nicebrew. How long have you been playing? I've noticed a lot of new poker players joining here lately. Well we are here to help. GL to you

I think in poker...we always say: We want fishes, to take their money! lol but don't think we ALL are fishes sometimes? We all want to catch our cards !?

I'm not a fish. I know that because I'm 100% donkey

:icon_cat: each of us was once a fish, after an indeterminate number of played games , read articles and analyzed hands , someone fish remains, someone becomes a shark

Nicebrew said:

Hey!

As the title strongly suggests, I am not very good at poker! Let me explain.

So I play often enough that you could call it obsession. I try very hard and despite lots of leaks in my game, I consider myself to have the basics down.

The problem is I am constantly feeling out of my depth! If I play in Higher stakes, I'm out of my comfort zone and players tend to run me over. If I play lower stakes my hand reading skills suffer because I'm playing against hit and hope players who have no real strategy. ABC poker works well of course but I still find myself cursing my screen when players are calling my 3 bet with 2 7 and turning two pair.

If I'm being honest, patients is probably one of my biggest problems. I wait 30+ hands sifting through raggy shit. Then catch a bad beat.

One thing I can be proud of is my ability to bluff. Against players with a good level of hand reading skill, I feel I can accurately represent the hand they are fearing and usually have the table image to back it up.

BUT.

I really do appreciate bluffing is only one weapon in the arsenal.

I'm not sure what advice anyone could possibly give, but if you have anything at all to say, please do share.

Nicebrew.

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Hi Nicebrew! First, who said "I'm Probably a fish" probably is not a fish. Second point, your reading is of player with some significant result. You said: "One thing I can be proud of is my ability to bluff" (Yes, i noticed!)

Curious, how long you play and which your nickname in the game? Tell me the truth, no bluff.

Hi Nicebrew! And what kind of Poker do you play and how long? For a long time I played SNGs but last time I test myself in MTT tournamets. The results are not perfect now, but I mean, that the main thing is the discipline. I profit by my own mistakes and believe, that I am on the right track!

You said it, you need patient. You can also playing more carefully and with measure!

Try to play a Tait game style, cause not perfect style, very predictable style.But you will start to win a newest players.

Dont worry im in the same boat...or off the boat swimming with the other fishy.

Hi guys!

Truly amazed with the response I've got and I should answer all your questions in this post.

I have tried multitabling and I usually play between 2 and 4 at a time. It does help with the patients thing of course because there's a lot more action. but I feel it impairs my game!

I will take on what you said about playing at low stakes and make it more about value betting. I feel my Vbet is a part of my game that could definitely use tightening up. Sometimes when I play slightly higher stakes I forget to change my game and potentially bluff when I shouldn't or value bet a little too high.

I have been playing for about 2 years but it has become a lot more serious over the past 6 months or so.

My screen name is Nicebrew1 on pokerstars. That's the only platform I play on really.

I know a lot of people say to specialise in SnG/MTT/Cash but I play all three. do you guys think I should specialise? Although I understand the different strategies in each, I would say I am not better at any single one.

As for knowing if you're on the right track I envy you! sometimes I've made real advancements in my game and feel confident. other times I feel I'm doing something wrong or there's a leak I've got that I'm not seeing.

Again! all your help has been amazing and I can't thank you guys enough!

Repeat after me: I'm not a fish. I am a superstar.

Jealous of your bluffing abilities. 👍
I'mfairly New myself and when I would start seeing my stack increase in a tourney I would start getting nervous and playing against the better players made me nervous. Ive been non stop reading the last 48 hrs here at cardchat and its helping to change my way of thinking. And I think that might be your problem, you deserve to be at that table!! Get some edge my fellow fishy friend, let them underestimate u and then kick back hard. Take a few more risks at this stage just to let them know your willing to take others down withyou lol.

Get a little dangerous and rembember f'em and you deserve to be at that table. 😈

freestocks said:

Repeat after me: I'm not a fish. I am a superstar.

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That's it! To believe is the first step to obtain the your goals. The mind is full of mysteries and secrets, much more powerful than you think. This if you learn to decode them, of course.

this morning playedа freebuy on ACR . kicked from MTT in 12 minutes !!! I think affected morning distraction but I played like a real fish!

when multi tabling I would suggest playing 3sng's/1mtt, 3sng's/1 cash game or 3mtts/1 cash game. Cash games is a totally different set of mind sets from tournament poker but has benefits to make you a stronger tournament poker, mainly the bluffing part. Sng's is mainly tight/aggressive strategy. Mtts or close to the same but need to be capable of being aggressive in loose profitable spots, some times recognizing the -EV bluffs. once your able to master this strategy these -EV situations become +EV and you can see many different angles to attack. A solid SNG game is mandatory to be a good MTT player imo. SNG's provides angles you need to be competent in to be a succeful Mtt player