I just don't get it aye..

I carry on with my same game per usual last night I got 5 straight payouts.. then today I've lost 5 in a row all bust way before the bubble.. everytime I had a hand it seemed someone would have my number and reraise and even when I tried raising on mediocore hands like J-10 etc oh look.. a reraise.. great! i seriously don't know where go wrong to exploit this image I also find reading articles cripples my game more than anything.. like I read this article where you never limp always raise for +EV.. that didn't work, wasn't long till I was reraised every hand.. I've adjusted it now, raising every hand you play is a recipe for disaster imo or so it seems at the micros anyways..

I just don't know where go wrong I mean I played an awesome game last night where I cam back from 3bb when blinds were 100/200 and took it out.. some players at the table even played higher limits like NL20 and 50 so I thought wow I must be getting better.

And then this stuff happens its a huge setback cause I literally felt like I was on top of the world last night lol. And then boom. back to reality I jst don't know..

i've now dropped down a limit as I don't wanna loose everything I made last night but man its frustrating I tell ya.

also some advice on how to go about putting people on ranges cause alot of the time say someone limps and I have A,k I raise in MP,LP,BB doesn't matter, board comes low, I bet they call, turn comes I bet they call.. so much ****en flat calling.. and then I check the river they bet hard I fold making me spew alot of chips.

I mean **** half the time someone can be flat calling and have the nuts, the other half they could be flat calling and have nothing it really makes me second guess whether to put them to the test or not by firing a 3rd barrel on the river.

K my problem is that if I get caught or whatnot I become very weak.. a bet on the flop if I miss will throw me off along with me not getting credit for raises etc...

Getting reraised time and time again when I raise weakish hands makes me go ina shell and become nitty etc.. how can this be avoided and I seriously don't know how players know what I'm up to unless of course some are using that software which shows some of your stats and therefore not giving me credit for ma raises etc.. how can I avoid this kind of scenario?

Don't think so short term. 1 session doesn't mean anything. 5 games, being SNGs I assume, is nothing, a losing streak of 20 is maybe something to be a little concerned about. Variance is huge.

Don't adjust your game so quickly because of a good or bad run.

I just don't know where go wrong I mean I played an awesome game last night where I cam back from 3bb when blinds were 100/200 and took it out

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No, you got lucky. Coming back from 3bb requries winning a lot of coinflips (range vs range, not just hand vs hand).

when I tried raising on mediocore hands like J-10 etc oh look.. a reraise.. great!

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Playing suited connectors is really dependent on position and stack sizes as well as your opponents.

ike I read this article where you never limp always raise for +EV.. that didn't work, wasn't long till I was reraised every hand.. I've adjusted it now, raising every hand you play is a recipe for disaster imo or so it seems at the micros anyways..

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Limping is almost always bad, raise or fold. If the pot is raised before you then you can call but you should still be raising frequently (depending on stack sizes).

also some advice on how to go about putting people on ranges cause alot of the time say someone limps and I have A,k I raise in MP,LP,BB doesn't matter, board comes low, I bet they call, turn comes I bet they call.. so much ****en flat calling.. and then I check the river they bet hard I fold making me spew alot of chips.

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Depends on your opponent. Generally speaking, every bet, call or raise greatly strengthens their range (assuming it doesn't polarize their range which can go either way), obviously you also need to take into account whether you think they'd bet/call/raise with each part of their range which will change the chance of it showing up.
Also you should only be firing the 2nd barrel if you think they're likely to float your cbet and firing 3 barrels is something that's highly read dependent.

I mean **** half the time someone can be flat calling and have the nuts, the other half they could be flat calling and have nothing it really makes me second guess whether to put them to the test or not by firing a 3rd barrel on the river.

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That's only true if their range is balanced, and it's usually not. Figure out which way it's leaning (towards value hands or air) and exploit it. The only time someone will play a balanced range against you is if they're actually good and only slightly better than you, if they're bad then their range will just suck and be really exploitable, if they're greatly better than you then their range will be really exploitive (and in turn, exploitable).

K my problem is that if I get caught or whatnot I become very weak.. a bet on the flop if I miss will throw me off along with me not getting credit for raises etc...

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That's just part of learning to play poker.

Getting reraised time and time again when I raise weakish hands makes me go ina shell and become nitty etc.. how can this be avoided and I seriously don't know how players know what I'm up to unless of course some are using that software which shows some of your stats and therefore not giving me credit for ma raises etc.. how can I avoid this kind of scenario?

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Think about what range of hands they can use to raise you that you can't play back against. If this range is really wide, tighten you range to make it harder for them (i.e. so their range has to get smaller), keep adjusting until the range they can play back with will show up infrequently enough that you can make your bet and safely fold the few times you are re-raised.


Hope all of that makes sense, it's probably all a long incoherent running sentance but unjumble it and there'll be some amount of sense in there.

Yeah well I've adjusted things again seems to be working I retract that statement about raisng/limping I read somewhere that you should raise at least 50% of the hands you play and I do just that if not more..

I'm happy I've worked on my late game dramaticly and it seems to have paid off, yes there may be a coin flip or 2 in there but what SNG doesn't have those at times ya know.

Also I've not been as weak I mean before with low pockets I'd always be skeptical about it but in the last 2 days I've more or less played them very aggressively and it seems to have paid off. thus far.

Things seem to be on the up but yeah its a frustrating hill to climb lol..

So far I find that at micros when blinds are high and its on the bubble, raising connectors, A-rags, and even suited cards tends to get me by as I build up a tight image before hand so it works for the most part.. no where near getting reraised as much as I use to.

If you're getting reraised late on you're doing it wrong!

Do a search for posts by Wizzim on SNGs (he talks a lot of sense) or ICM. You can't afford to spew chips late on raise/folding.

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K my problem is that if I get caught or whatnot I become very weak.. a bet on the flop if I miss will throw me off along with me not getting credit for raises etc...

Getting reraised time and time again when I raise weakish hands makes me go ina shell and become nitty etc.. how can this be avoided and I seriously don't know how players know what I'm up to unless of course some are using that software which shows some of your stats and therefore not giving me credit for ma raises etc.. how can I avoid this kind of scenario?

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Fold weakish hands pre flop.