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cifacia
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi again,
I am far from being a good player and still am very much of a beginner, but I am trying hard to learn and use what I learn while I play. However I feel like at micro stakes I find players that not just play badly, but act really in a nonsensical fashion and I am not sure how to deal with.
Last table I lost there was opponent, with stack well above average of the table at around 120BB, that went all in for 4 straight hands, always as a re-raise and most of the time off position. Two of these went on the show down
First shown was a 4♥ 2♥, second one was a T♣6♦.
After this 4 hands oppo is around 80BB.
I (50BB) am now BTN, have A♦K♦, I raise 4BB against two limpers, the oppo above is SB.
Oppo re-raise all in. Given the information I had from hands above I know he basically shoves everything, so I call.
He shows T♥3♣.
Of course he flops double pair and I lose the hand.
I am aware that if I make this play 1000 times, I will win ~700 of them, but it is a bit disheartening when I am trying to learn.
In the process of learning how to play better, should I just plain avoid interacting with these players even if most of the time my equity is good? I feel like I cannot apply any reasoning I am learning in situations like this.
Now this is a very extreme cases where villain shoved very often, but I encountered often similar behaviour with 3bets or sizeable raises instead of plain all-in, but still with an unreadable range of hands.
How is best for me to deal with these players given that I am currently trying to optimize for learning rather than winning?
I feel like that the logic I am learning does not apply in situations like this. How can I exploit those? Or shall I for the time being steer away?
I am far from being a good player and still am very much of a beginner, but I am trying hard to learn and use what I learn while I play. However I feel like at micro stakes I find players that not just play badly, but act really in a nonsensical fashion and I am not sure how to deal with.
Last table I lost there was opponent, with stack well above average of the table at around 120BB, that went all in for 4 straight hands, always as a re-raise and most of the time off position. Two of these went on the show down
First shown was a 4♥ 2♥, second one was a T♣6♦.
After this 4 hands oppo is around 80BB.
I (50BB) am now BTN, have A♦K♦, I raise 4BB against two limpers, the oppo above is SB.
Oppo re-raise all in. Given the information I had from hands above I know he basically shoves everything, so I call.
He shows T♥3♣.
Of course he flops double pair and I lose the hand.
I am aware that if I make this play 1000 times, I will win ~700 of them, but it is a bit disheartening when I am trying to learn.
In the process of learning how to play better, should I just plain avoid interacting with these players even if most of the time my equity is good? I feel like I cannot apply any reasoning I am learning in situations like this.
Now this is a very extreme cases where villain shoved very often, but I encountered often similar behaviour with 3bets or sizeable raises instead of plain all-in, but still with an unreadable range of hands.
How is best for me to deal with these players given that I am currently trying to optimize for learning rather than winning?
I feel like that the logic I am learning does not apply in situations like this. How can I exploit those? Or shall I for the time being steer away?
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