(Lots of words that say nothing) :laugh::laugh:
You're losing for a reason: what are they? "I have good instincts but i don't always use them": this indicates a potential problem with discipline, so why are you going against your instincts? Do you come barging into pots with the first good-looking hand after running card dead for multiple orbits? If you get dealt a (Q,T-o) right out of the #1 hole, it doesn't matter if it's the best hand you've seen in a dozen orbits: it's still unplayable from an early position, so you muck it and wait for better positions and/or better
hands. If they never come, them's the breaks, and you'll lose a lot less a lot slower if all you're doing is blinding off. If you don't develop the discipline to make good decisions regardless of how the cards are running, and to stay off tilt, you don't stand a chance.
Are you an aggrofish who always overplays hands like TPTK or pocket aces? Do you push draws like naked nut flush draws and OESDs too hard? While it's always nice to see an ace or king flop to your Big Slick, or to see those Rockets right from the get-go, after all the cards are out, it's still a one-pair hand. Maybe it wins, but your opponent(s) have had three opportunities to crack your hand, and sometimes it's essential to lay it down. Are you getting too sticky with these hands?
Are you a passive fish who's always open limping from early positions? If it hasn't been opened yet, your play is to raise or fold: never open limp, just don't. Do you get nut scared after the flop, and fail to get in bets and raises? Checking when you should be betting, check-calling when you should be check-raising, just lets your opponent(s) take cheap shots at you to draw out. Just because the board runs out scary doesn't mean they got there. Most of the time, if you hate the flop, so does your opponent(s) but they don't need to know that.
Do you desperation
bluff too much? At the lower stakes, you're not playing with pros. Running cold bluffs seldom succeeds as they're not paying attention anyway, and they'll call with damn near anything, convincing themselves you're desperation
bluffing because
they desperation bluff all the time. At the Micros, there are -- maybe -- three or four players who I'd target for a big, triple barrel, bluff because they're the only players who're thinking along the same lines I am, and I can sell them a convincing story by the river. For most opponents, a big bet or raise by the river means they've got the nuts or near nuts. Get out!
Are you playing too many hands? There aren't that many good hands to open, especially from the early positions. That's the easiest way to spot fish: they play too many hands. Hands like (K,J) (K,T) (Q,J) (Q,T) or (A,T-o) really aren't good enough to play out of the first three positions (full ring) as they drive out the hands you'd like to play against, and you risk getting called or raised by better hands. These hands, even if suited, have a strong potential to make second-best hands. (K,Q) or (K,J) type hands can make second best even when opened from mid positions since most Micro fish will never three-bet (A,Q) or (A,J) so don't be overplaying TP2K when that's all you have.
Is it just a case of runbad? Do you get the money in good, only to get rivered by a two outer that draws his miracle on the river? SUX, I know, but if you lose a stack or two while making good decisions, it's NBD: it happens, and if it didn't, the fish wouldn't play.
Where, exactly, are you losing your stacks?
