bob_tiger
Legend
Silver Level
Ok first of all I will just start out saying I apologize to cc for not contributing lately, I have my personal reasons why I didn't, but I'm not here to talk about my personal life.
Ok let me start out by introducing myself to some of you that don't know me, I like to go by bob_tiger, and you can just call me bob, I'm a poker player and I absolutely love poker and I will play this game for many years. Poker is very complicated and takes a lot of practice to get good at, and the great thing about poker is you always get better, there is no perfect, there is no right or wrong style. I have spend many hours playing poker and I still got more to learn. Alright now that I wasted your time talking about myself, let's get to the point, I'm making this thread basically because I want to contribute and help people get better at the game we all love, and hate sometimes.
I was helping one of my friends through tv (team viewer) earlier and I realized that I need to open up his eyes to 3rd level thinking, I mean I know he does it sometimes but sometimes he makes his decision so much more difficult than it is. I mean of course I'm a little rusty because I haven't played in a while but I think its all coming back to me.
3rd level thinking is crucial to be a good player and of course it takes time. 3rd level is trying to figure out what your opponent is thinking and making your move based on that to help you figure out what your opponent is holding. I'm going to bring up the hand from earlier today. My friend was holding 10s in bb I believe and a guy raised from ep to 150, 25/50 blinds, they each had about 1600ish, 33$ 9 man turbo sit n go, sorry my memory is a little out of practice. Ok so my friend smooth calls preflop which I believe was good, we both knew the range of the villain, AJ-AK, Js and up, villain was pretty tight. FLop comes 9 7 2, we are first to act, well what do we do here? now this is where I use 3rd level thinking and try to figure out what villain has, so what can I do to make my decision more simple? Many people rush their decisions and don't analzy the situation very well, So here we know that if we don't bet, the villain is betting with AJ-AK and any pp, villain is basically betting there 9/10 times unless villain hit a set and is trying to let us catch up. So I tell my friend to bet and villain goes all in, now what? I really wanted to tell him to fold but my friend rushed his decision a little, we talked about it and he said I knew I was beat, I was just trying to get lucky. Sometimes all of us get like that, but definitely work on not doing that, bad players try to rely on luck. My friend is a good player and still has ways to learn about poker but I'm not going to mention names. That hand was just a small example of how to make your decision easier, basically I suggest think what villain thinks you have based on the way you have been playing and how good of a player villain is, then make a move to narrow down villains range, and it will make your decisions simpler. Takes practice but once you get the hang of it, you will be dominating most small to mid-range mtts and sngs. Of course once you start playing against good players, you have to start thinking on the 4th level and I'm not going to try to explain that because its just very complicated and it just takes lots of practice to get hang of.
I'm sorry if that wasn't clear since I'm not very good at explaining myself but basically I will be here pretty much all day, just having a lazy day and a bit hung over from last night. So if anyone needs help, wants me to go through few hand histories, ask me some questions, strategies or whatever, I'm here and I will do my best to explain. Like I said, I'm calling today " contributing to cc day" .
Ok let me start out by introducing myself to some of you that don't know me, I like to go by bob_tiger, and you can just call me bob, I'm a poker player and I absolutely love poker and I will play this game for many years. Poker is very complicated and takes a lot of practice to get good at, and the great thing about poker is you always get better, there is no perfect, there is no right or wrong style. I have spend many hours playing poker and I still got more to learn. Alright now that I wasted your time talking about myself, let's get to the point, I'm making this thread basically because I want to contribute and help people get better at the game we all love, and hate sometimes.
I was helping one of my friends through tv (team viewer) earlier and I realized that I need to open up his eyes to 3rd level thinking, I mean I know he does it sometimes but sometimes he makes his decision so much more difficult than it is. I mean of course I'm a little rusty because I haven't played in a while but I think its all coming back to me.
3rd level thinking is crucial to be a good player and of course it takes time. 3rd level is trying to figure out what your opponent is thinking and making your move based on that to help you figure out what your opponent is holding. I'm going to bring up the hand from earlier today. My friend was holding 10s in bb I believe and a guy raised from ep to 150, 25/50 blinds, they each had about 1600ish, 33$ 9 man turbo sit n go, sorry my memory is a little out of practice. Ok so my friend smooth calls preflop which I believe was good, we both knew the range of the villain, AJ-AK, Js and up, villain was pretty tight. FLop comes 9 7 2, we are first to act, well what do we do here? now this is where I use 3rd level thinking and try to figure out what villain has, so what can I do to make my decision more simple? Many people rush their decisions and don't analzy the situation very well, So here we know that if we don't bet, the villain is betting with AJ-AK and any pp, villain is basically betting there 9/10 times unless villain hit a set and is trying to let us catch up. So I tell my friend to bet and villain goes all in, now what? I really wanted to tell him to fold but my friend rushed his decision a little, we talked about it and he said I knew I was beat, I was just trying to get lucky. Sometimes all of us get like that, but definitely work on not doing that, bad players try to rely on luck. My friend is a good player and still has ways to learn about poker but I'm not going to mention names. That hand was just a small example of how to make your decision easier, basically I suggest think what villain thinks you have based on the way you have been playing and how good of a player villain is, then make a move to narrow down villains range, and it will make your decisions simpler. Takes practice but once you get the hang of it, you will be dominating most small to mid-range mtts and sngs. Of course once you start playing against good players, you have to start thinking on the 4th level and I'm not going to try to explain that because its just very complicated and it just takes lots of practice to get hang of.
I'm sorry if that wasn't clear since I'm not very good at explaining myself but basically I will be here pretty much all day, just having a lazy day and a bit hung over from last night. So if anyone needs help, wants me to go through few hand histories, ask me some questions, strategies or whatever, I'm here and I will do my best to explain. Like I said, I'm calling today " contributing to cc day" .