Aces2w1n
Legend
Silver Level
Thanks but you don't need to worry about insulting or jabbing me
.. If people go too far it just means they are insecure about their own game...But i've put my stats here not because i'm a great player but it's because i'm calling out for help
Aces2w1n
Legend
Silver Level
Yes it's in me to be solid... but i have to control when things go bad or when the cards dry up to control the damage so when i'm running hot again i've lost minimum and ready to go again.
Cafeman
Legend
Silver Level
Late to my own party!
Are you limping, or just calling open raises a lot? Either way, tighten up a bit on the calling front. Now, why aren't you opening for a raise very often? If you see a hand you like, open it up. Are you playing 2NL? Got AJs in MP? Make it at least 6c. You get me?
The sample size is too small to say anything much about winning at showdown, but it does look a little low, which might mean you're not folding when you're beat enough. But really, too small a sample to say.
So, open those hands up, make a cbet, keep betting when you have top pair, that sorta thing. At this stage it's all about value betting = making a bet that someone will call (or raise, but usually call) with a worse hand. Don't be scared, put some money in when you have a hand.
Have you posted any hands in the HA section? If not, get busy there, posting hands and also considering your responses to other hands that have been posted.
Are you limping, or just calling open raises a lot? Either way, tighten up a bit on the calling front. Now, why aren't you opening for a raise very often? If you see a hand you like, open it up. Are you playing 2NL? Got AJs in MP? Make it at least 6c. You get me?
The sample size is too small to say anything much about winning at showdown, but it does look a little low, which might mean you're not folding when you're beat enough. But really, too small a sample to say.
So, open those hands up, make a cbet, keep betting when you have top pair, that sorta thing. At this stage it's all about value betting = making a bet that someone will call (or raise, but usually call) with a worse hand. Don't be scared, put some money in when you have a hand.
Have you posted any hands in the HA section? If not, get busy there, posting hands and also considering your responses to other hands that have been posted.
taaron
Visionary
Silver Level
^This and please make sure you post hands. This will help a ton with understanding good decisions. Remember we have to have a reason for every action/play we make.
After that we get into good logic vs. poor logic.
Lots a good ppl here that are happy to help especially when you have a want to learn attitude which is really refreshing btw!
After that we get into good logic vs. poor logic.
Lots a good ppl here that are happy to help especially when you have a want to learn attitude which is really refreshing btw!
JusSumguy
Chipmonger
Silver Level
Cafeman
Legend
Silver Level
My advice would be to read the advice you've already been given and act on it. You need to start thinking about the game in a critical way, not just stagger on playing the way you reckon based on a whim or whatever.
You don't appear to engage with anyone on the forum in a meaningful way. Your posts just appear to be a string of non sequiturs.
Pick one thing, let's say for example, opening hand ranges by position as a default when you sit down at a new table. Think about it, discuss it, and then add other things like player types and how that might adjust the kind of hands you open depending on their position to you at the table. Build on something, add it to what you already do, think about why you are doing what you do and what you hope to achieve etc. Basically, THINK.
I hope you read this post and take it in the spirit it was meant, rather than me just trying to be cool or mean for my own small minded enjoyment. I imagine it will become clear once you make a few more posts though... but here's hoping!
You don't appear to engage with anyone on the forum in a meaningful way. Your posts just appear to be a string of non sequiturs.
Pick one thing, let's say for example, opening hand ranges by position as a default when you sit down at a new table. Think about it, discuss it, and then add other things like player types and how that might adjust the kind of hands you open depending on their position to you at the table. Build on something, add it to what you already do, think about why you are doing what you do and what you hope to achieve etc. Basically, THINK.
I hope you read this post and take it in the spirit it was meant, rather than me just trying to be cool or mean for my own small minded enjoyment. I imagine it will become clear once you make a few more posts though... but here's hoping!
fletchdad
Jammin................
Loyaler
Cafemans advice is good. Dont be put off by the baguette.....
You spoke of limping with PP. NO. You can call a raise in certain situations. The "losing value" is not in relation to limping, but in calling a raise, and there are other factors involved like position, player type etc.etc... Like if you have 77 and CO opens, you are OTB and by raising you fold out all draws and lower PP but get calls and 4 bets from all better hands. THEN you are losing value by raising, cause all hands you beat fold. Not to mention how he plays post flop, what you expect the blinds to do...... and so on and so on
You spoke of limping with PP. NO. You can call a raise in certain situations. The "losing value" is not in relation to limping, but in calling a raise, and there are other factors involved like position, player type etc.etc... Like if you have 77 and CO opens, you are OTB and by raising you fold out all draws and lower PP but get calls and 4 bets from all better hands. THEN you are losing value by raising, cause all hands you beat fold. Not to mention how he plays post flop, what you expect the blinds to do...... and so on and so on
Aces2w1n
Legend
Silver Level
Yes your right i need to think more of the situation and when i went from 4 to 6 tables, i became playing in a what you call robotic way and lose my way. Yes i need to step back when it's my time to act and give more thought onto why i'm in the hand? what position what does he play with... your right, i need to just breathe a bit and think...
Where live i have plenty of time to act and see the players face on and just playing 1 table so it's much easier for me. I know that if a person is raising a lot and continuation betting a lot... It means he's often betting on the flop with air since it's 60% we both missed the flop HU... example on a hand i played earlier at the casino... I had 88 on the button... UTG raises 12 3BB 1/3 casino live, we both roughly up 200. I call the raise.
flop comes out 772 ... he raises 75.... I go all in, it was obv he was getting me to fold... 165 all in after a 75 is quite gutsy but i thought about the scenario and he then folded... and i won quite an ez pot using position and player type...
Like i said i have it but i lose my ways online and i need to THINK more and play less tables until my bankroll heads upwards. Thanks
Aces2w1n
Legend
Silver Level
Thanks big time! ... I've already seen a big difference not limping in everyhand, and i'm getting paid off and catching bluffers with insane calls
Anyways just really wanted to say thanks for this post it's really made a difference, still early days but the patch where I played solid I've just had another 1k solid patch due to not limping in and playing solid
dmorris68
Legend
Loyaler
First, stop limping. Just stop. There's a time and place for it, but it's pretty uncommon and comes with experience knowledge of the situation that makes it clear when limping is called for. For the purposes of plugging leaks and getting a good footing in the fundamentals, just put limping out of your mind for now.
Second, try to collect your thoughts and make one post -- not a machine gun series of stream-of-consciousness posts less than a minute apart. If you post and immediately want to add something else, then click the Edit button under the post you just made and add to it. You have like 5 minutes after you post to edit it. Rapid-fire posting like that is considered post count spam and can earn you an infraction or ban, so fair warning.
Second, try to collect your thoughts and make one post -- not a machine gun series of stream-of-consciousness posts less than a minute apart. If you post and immediately want to add something else, then click the Edit button under the post you just made and add to it. You have like 5 minutes after you post to edit it. Rapid-fire posting like that is considered post count spam and can earn you an infraction or ban, so fair warning.