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Ok so I've been playing poker for about a year now.. give or take 8 of those months with a decent enough clue sorta.... when I first started online I think overall I was a losing player.. even though I may have one a handful of tourneys I'd then proceed to lose it all.. maybe it was apart of tilt as this happened quite a few times where I could make 100 bucks plus then boom its all gone in a few days...

I have now for the past month been about even.. its been frustrating though make 10 bucks.. loose 10 bucks.. make 10 bucks... lose 10 bucks... etc but I've tried dear god have I tried and to this date stuck to it, not to tilt and blow my BR if I have a few bad games I take a breather sometimes don't even come back to it for a few days..

Frustrating thing is when I do decide to come back the bad beats continue.. etc I know this is how every poker player looks at themself as them being the bad beat magnet as in why do all the bad beats happen to them etc I try stay away from this mindset but I bet to differ.. just a lil bit.. I'd take a longshot thinking the badbeats/suckouts are increasingly more likely variance wise due to the more increasing number of people that don't know shit about poker.. I'm talking of 3 dollar games or less here folks....

I.e you might be overplaying a hand your UTG you raise K-10 suited or whatnot.. flop comes K,A,8 you get one caller.. you push and push but to no avail even if you do have a TAG image and whatnot.. pushing fails.. they show a shit hand like A-3 and you have to think.. wtf are you serious?..

Or lets say you bet in MP when blinds are quite higher with 8,9.. flop comes 3,8,2.. you push and push.. wondering why the **** this person keeps calling you as you know he has nothing.. turn comes 4, river 5 he shows a-10 or something..

Or lets say you rep 'pockets' even though you don't have them but repping them cause of a previous hand that the whole table saw you play earlier.. you play it exactly the same..

say flop comes 3,5,7, you push and push only to show this person hangs all the way to the river on the BOTTOM pair.. seriously.

I may not even be pushing I could be betting or even just small value bets all the way through to make it look like I'm slow playing or whatnot.. most of the time turns to custard...


at times it just makes me think.. hmmmm should I just back off.. wait a lil bit and do a big deposit and go to a bit higher in the limits that I myself know I can handle.. i.e. the 5-10 dollar ones.. yes donks are everywhere but they' d be increasingly less and still as donky as they maybe even there I know myself speaking from experience since I've been there while they may be donky you wouldn't get the all ins on 3-6 etc pf or 5-j when theres no need for them too..

Which reminds me today.. I had aces first hand.. dream come true right? only for it to go bust to 3-6 he flopped a straight and this was all in pf..

It really frsutrates me that I know even though yes I still have a few niggles I have to iron out.. but I know generally I am an allround solid poker player for the most part at 'my' level.. and its just annoying when you see people who really have no clue but they just happen to be in those periods where they can do know wrong momentarily and have a good ROI for that week or whatnot ya know and you just think to yourself what the ****..

I know this is a long read and the most of you lot don't particulary care.. but I just HAD to have a dribble...
 
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I'm thinking in a lot of those situations you might want to rethink pushing so hard.

It's not a bad beat if you're pushing KTs with an ace on the board and your opponent shows an ace. Or if you're basically just bluffing and your opponent has a pair.
 
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my first question i have to ask is what stakes are you playing? it sound like your playing pretty low. also tournaments have a lot higher variance than playing ring games. at the low limits it is not right almost all of the time to get any sort of tricky play into your game. you would do best just to bet when you have a good hand and check or fold when you dont. yes low limits have alot of donks and yes they are going to suck out on you but you have to play accordingly. you cant bluff at these people. the key is patience. just sit until you have a good hand then bet and raise. also moving up to a higher level would only be a recipe for disaster without first being able to beat the micro stakes.
 
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Re: the first post

Thing is though there are times when I may not be pushing hard I may even check/raise him or whatever ya know and yet hes still reckons his A-3 is good it goes to show down cause I am an agressive player and 'big ball' if you call it and at times when I'm doing this i.e semi bluffing/overplaying is when I'm at a time when I need to keep FE but not getting the cards to do so..

It just seems hard when the whole game I've built a TAG image anytime someone sheriffs me I have the nuts or whatever ya know they all see that, but for some reason when blinds get high I mean I may raise up to 4 or even 5bb UTG when blinds are 100/200, check or bet accordingly from there but can't push someone off a person who called in SB with ace 4 etc..

Btw I know its not a bad beat if theres a ace on the board and you have middle pair, but yeah I could give you a truckload of instances on where bad beats have occured..

I mean you get 3bet, 4bet pf or what not when you have KK or something and someone still insists that his pocket 4s are good, pushes you all in, naturally you call, who wouldn't and he sucks out on you.

And the suckouts I'm referring to is just people who have no regards to position, you could know who the fish are, make an absurd raise 6-7 BB plus (we're talking late game here too) and they call with 6-7 suited UTG I mean wtf..

re; second post

Yeah your bang on with what your saying.. and yeah noted.. I think the reason why I have difficulty surpassing them at the moment is cause I could have 5-10 games plus where yeah there mght be 1 or 2 fish but rest is respectable play, then following that, have a continuous string of games where people play like bingo and I'm forced to go in my shell and not play my natural game..... yeah I suppose you could argue that one should adjust accordingly maybe I am getting it.. slowly.. considering I've been breaking even in the same predicament and its only a matter of time till I get a positive ROI perhaps who knows.

i mean my ROI in 20 games is 60% its my MTT where my ROI suffers and if I'm in a strong position to cash, continuous suck outs one hand after another occur and then leave me to play more 'gambling' as I'm now SS..

I've been using PT and since then things have been looking up, but yeah I seriously wanna become a decent player and just frustrating how I can't cross over the first hurdle but it seems I'm getting there..
 
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