When going through a cold deck period

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Is our aim to just keep playing as good of poker as possible with no expectations of cashing.

Im just trying to get my head around this bad run Im having.

Lots of k3o a6o q5o 92s 38o etc Then hands like aq runs into ak aa kk qq etc.

Good hands come out of position etc.

Im not getting angry anymore, I feel like my emotions to the game are fading.

But is that bad because I dont want to lose controlled aggression.
 
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What constitutes good poker is situational. For instance, when the blinds are tiny, you can fold a bunch of hands with little effect to the playability of your stack. But as the stack to blinds gets shorter, the importance of maintaining your stack increases. So you have to factor this into your play; e.g. by being more active stealing / re-stealing.
 
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What constitutes good poker is situational. For instance, when the blinds are tiny, you can fold a bunch of hands with little effect to the playability of your stack. But as the stack to blinds gets shorter, the importance of maintaining your stack increases. So you have to factor this into your play; e.g. by being more active stealing / re-stealing.

do you mean trying to steal blinds while holding trash hands?
and reraising against when in the blinds facing a raise.

It sounds good in theory, but are we not losing chips when the villain doesnt fold or then puts us all in?
 
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You are being result's orientated

It's about making the right decisions, if the correct decision in a certain situation is to raise with you AK and you happen to get dominated with AA that's just poker. Move on to the next hand or tourney and start again.
 
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do you mean trying to steal blinds while holding trash hands?
and reraising against when in the blinds facing a raise.

It sounds good in theory, but are we not losing chips when the villain doesnt fold or then puts us all in?
Stealing means opening the betting without a good hand. Not necessarily trash, but with hands that you expect will be behind quite often if called.

Re-stealing doesn't have to be from the blinds. For instance, when someone opens from a likely steal position, you can 3bet in position. It's a re-steal if you're over-representing the strength of your hand.

Of course, you lose chips when someone comes over the top and you have to fold. That's why you look for situations where your steal and re-steal attempts are more likely to succeed. As a basic example, you can steal wider against opponents who are more likely to fold because whenever they fold, your hand strength becomes irrelevant.
 
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Gotta have fun from time to time. Take it to serious like work and it is a job. It can be a job, but we even have fun at work huh?
 
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Poker is a game of luck. You need to realise that. Its not completely based on luck, but you can be a professional player only getting strong hands, but missing the flop everytime.Do you think you can bluff that much at online poker?Hell no. Just dont lose your nerves when you dont hit something. Dont lose hope. Usually nothing is determined in the early stages of the game, and as long as you are in the game nothing is done. But its not worth trashing your tournaments because you are upset that nothing hits. For example the day before yesterday I played a 50 cent SnG on stars, we were only 40 people left in the tournament and I noticed that a guy sitting right next to me had a stack of 1300, when everyone at the table had 20k or more. But he wasnt playing every hand, but kept waiting. I targeted him to be a player that plays just the strong hands. Guess who I played heads up against at the end of the tournament, and he got the first prize, while I became second. Patience is the key, avoid getting bored, upset, angry, on a tilt and ANYTHING that can put your gameplay on the bad side.
 
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I like what Noobie said above.

Example:

Last night I sat at the computer and played 2 $3.50 Turbo STTs while she was watching TV.

First one, 4th or 5th hand, I had P-As in BB, a few limps and folds, SB raises 4 Bs, I call, one more call middle position, Flop comes A66. SB bets 3 Bs, I call, player middle position raises to 6 Bs and SB shoves. I call, middle player calls. Middle has KK and SB has 66, rest is history.

Other one, I had absolute crap for a long time, J5, K2, A-rag O, and paired rags in late position with 3 or 4 bets in front of me, no reason to bet or call with anything, except for a couple of opportunities to steal blinds at lvl 4 and 5. Then with 5 players left, it started, I took most of the 4th stack which put me in 3rd, and nearly everything after that was worth betting and the flop hit, or was an easy fold. Ended up winning easily.

The moral of that story is a couple of months ago, I would have gotten frustrated and did something stupid to get ousted, but I learned to have patience when cards are slack. Doesn't always pay off like this one did, but when it does, it's so satisfying.
 
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I like what Noobie said above.

Example:

Last night I sat at the computer and played 2 $3.50 Turbo STTs while she was watching TV.

First one, 4th or 5th hand, I had P-As in BB, a few limps and folds, SB raises 4 Bs, I call, one more call middle position, Flop comes A66. SB bets 3 Bs, I call, player middle position raises to 6 Bs and SB shoves. I call, middle player calls. Middle has KK and SB has 66, rest is history.

Other one, I had absolute crap for a long time, J5, K2, A-rag O, and paired rags in late position with 3 or 4 bets in front of me, no reason to bet or call with anything, except for a couple of opportunities to steal blinds at lvl 4 and 5. Then with 5 players left, it started, I took most of the 4th stack which put me in 3rd, and nearly everything after that was worth betting and the flop hit, or was an easy fold. Ended up winning easily.

The moral of that story is a couple of months ago, I would have gotten frustrated and did something stupid to get ousted, but I learned to have patience when cards are slack. Doesn't always pay off like this one did, but when it does, it's so satisfying.

Yeah good advice guys.

Playing against a super loose idiot in a sng, her showing range is a9o +
KQ,KJ off.

Took her out in one sng with QQ. Next sng She shoves A8o ahead of me, folds to me I call with AKo flop is J5J, then 2 then a 5 and split the pot.
I was short stacked and that would have put me level with her chips (she donked her way to CL with crazy luck) Then I get pocket 8s and shove with 6k 1.2k blinds she calls with a3o and hits and ace on the flop.

so much for being 70% fav in both hands ay?
But the main thing I learned was I have the notes on her which means I can call with hands that dominate her most of the time. And they dont have to be great hands. Medium pairs and suited high cards. But Id always air on the side of caution and have the best I can call with.
 
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