I play cash games. Today.. and well, every single day I see a deep stacked maniac fish winning every hand etc etc. You know the story. Basically taking my pennies (playing 2 cent NL) Like im not even trying to win.

I know these fishy players are on short running hot streaks and thats proven when as you start to build up a player database the only players you ever come across again are the more balanced players.. Never the fish, because they are long gone.

However! From our perspective as a player we essentially deal with this same player day in day out. Not the same actual person.. but as far as we are concerned it is that one player taking us apart every day.

I try to keep cool and leave tables when the fish is beating me because I think personally it helps with any underlying tilt, as every time he steals the pot with some awful hand you can almost imagine them thinking they are great at poker and have the game totally sussed out.. causing quite a bit of frustration. But you just meet the same player type on another table.

How do you guys avoid this frustration? The micros is always full of these players.. they are the players we look for but also the players that seem to burn us the most.

Make them pay more when you have a hand and when the flop suits you, go limp with hands that have good post-flop potential and always bet more so that they pay you enough. develop a strategy in which you lose 5 pots of 2 bb and once you win 12 bb and stay in the black.

Don't leave the table if there is a player playing poorly, you have to adapt to his style, you have to beat him, because these are the players who bring money to poker. It is better to break your head with one such player, adjust and continue to beat a lot of such maniacs, than to play an intellectual war with thinking regulars

Originally Posted by JR1987

I play cash games. Today.. and well, every single day I see a deep stacked maniac fish winning every hand etc etc. You know the story. Basically taking my pennies (playing 2 cent NL) Like im not even trying to win.

I know these fishy players are on short running hot streaks and thats proven when as you start to build up a player database the only players you ever come across again are the more balanced players.. Never the fish, because they are long gone.

However! From our perspective as a player we essentially deal with this same player day in day out. Not the same actual person.. but as far as we are concerned it is that one player taking us apart every day.

I try to keep cool and leave tables when the fish is beating me because I think personally it helps with any underlying tilt, as every time he steals the pot with some awful hand you can almost imagine them thinking they are great at poker and have the game totally sussed out.. causing quite a bit of frustration. But you just meet the same player type on another table.

How do you guys avoid this frustration? The micros is always full of these players.. they are the players we look for but also the players that seem to burn us the most.

Part of the problem is thinking you're 'due' a pot because you have the better hand. You have to get passed that mindset and accept that you can do the right thing and lose, or do the wrong thing and win. It's what separates poker from other games.

Originally Posted by 1nsomn1a

Don't leave the table if there is a player playing poorly, you have to adapt to his style, you have to beat him, because these are the players who bring money to poker. It is better to break your head with one such player, adjust and continue to beat a lot of such maniacs, than to play an intellectual war with thinking regulars

Yea I know really I should stay with the people who are going in with basically every hand.. but if they are the cause of the frustration then I think its best to leave.. But thats just my way of dealing with it. Starting a new table is almost a reset for me, I feel like Im new to the other players, I dont look stupid and im not irritable with any other player haha.

Todays big losses of 300bb thankfully turned around and I am now up 150 big blinds.
Funny how poker works sometimes isnt it

Step one: be rich. But on the serious note, there's no magic way to prevent tilt. You just have to have in the back of your mind that situations like these can happen.

Originally Posted by JR1987

Yea I know really I should stay with the people who are going in with basically every hand.. but if they are the cause of the frustration then I think its best to leave.. But thats just my way of dealing with it. Starting a new table is almost a reset for me, I feel like Im new to the other players, I dont look stupid and im not irritable with any other player haha.

Todays big losses of 300bb thankfully turned around and I am now up 150 big blinds.
Funny how poker works sometimes isnt it

Keep in mind poker is won over the longrun. Alltough you should give it 100% in every hand, we want consistency over long timestrechtes. 1 session is minuscule in our grind (fitting name isn't it ) if we play our A-game.

So even with the worst session ever VS all the maniacs hitting everything aslong as you play your a-game you're good. Because over the stretches we grinders are speaking we can't mathematically loose.

What does affect our winrate on the other hand is playing bad due to emotions. If you make a technical mistake that's not a problem, since everyone is still learning and that is smth that can be easily fixed. But any other reasons should be fixed beforehand.

Let your ego out of the game and focus on decisions.

Leave the table, if he is behind you. Leave the table, if you are not comfortable with deep stack.