You said you prayed to look weak. You know weak means strong,and strong looks weak right. It wouldn't hurt to read a book on tells. It's not a magic recipe to beat live games,but you would be surprised.
Isn't that just a whole leveling thing? People who don't know about tells at all will assume that if you look weak you are. But if they know about tells they might think strong = weak, etc. But if they think YOU know that, then... etc, etc. Prob overthinking this, but yeah I think in the long run just acting the same as much as possible is best.
yeah I was thinking the same thing haha
Honestly, I had the same reaction when I was relatively new to playing live, like unsure what to say and such, but once you gain more experience, it kind of becomes second nature to just act calm and collected.
Good read though, btw on the hand
Yeah, it def still gets to me sometimes, but it's really just in big pots/moments now. Heart rate goes up, and the like, but thankfully I don't really shake or anything.
And thanks, hehe. I prefer writing narrative-styled hands, but it's obv not as useful for analysis/improvement.
I don't believe this story, russians don't fold pairs postflop
Appaz some do? Maybe he was only half-russian.
Have another hand for you guys. It was almost midnight on a Tuesday, and my table was 5-handed. I'd been losing, and rebought, and lost more and wasn't going to put more on the table for the night. My effective stack size (with the whole table) was about $110.
Nitty (postflop) reg limps in for $2 and it's folded to me on the BTN. I have K6cc. I decide to pop it to $12, and the blinds both fold. I'd seen this reg limp AK before, but also I'd seen him raise suited connectors (at a full table). He was decently nitty postflop, and I found that while he seems to float decently wide, I could double barrel him on good board textures where his range wasn't doing well (like K33r 6r).
(Pot: $27)
Flop: Ks7s6d
He leads out for $15. This is pretty weird for him, and indicates some strength. At the time I put him mostly on strongish Kx like KQs or something. He'd never lead out with a flush draw here, I don't think. But anyway, that's where my analysis at the time ended. In retrospect I was a bit tilty from running a little bad, and I made probably the worst play I possibly could have here. I shoved, and not only that, I mis-counted my remaining stack. I had about $90 in front of me, so it was a raise of about $75.
So here's my analysis now: When he leads out, he is strong. Strong Kx is the bottom of his range, and I think b/c of the flush draw, he'd lead out with sets, 2 pairs, AK, KQ , KJ, and maybe KT. I'm not sure what the optimal line is. I think stationing might actually be the best, or possibly raise/fold. But not really sure what he does with AK facing a raise here - it's possible he just ships it in, so I'm not sure what I like best. The problem with stationing is that if he bets on a blank turn, AND bets on a blank river, it's hard to think my hand is good.
Thoughts?
