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fundiver199
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The forum is full of people complaining about their bad beats and bad luck, some of them also speculating, if the poker site is rigged. And sure enough variance can be brutal, and all poker players will go through periods, where everything seem to go against them for extended periods of time. However when we have these downswings, almost always it will also affect our play to some extend. And in those hands, where we did not play our A-game, are the ones that matter.
Just to give an example during the weekend I played 18 MTTs on 888 Poker, and I only min-cashed in one and took down a few relatively insignificant bounties in another for a total ROI of -80% of so. Not great, and for sure there was some element of bad luck involved in this. But I also did not play my A-game, which this hand is an example of:
CardsChat Poker Hands Converter
When a hand like this happen, some people will tend to get very hung up on the fact, the Villain got lucky against them and cracked their aces. And sure enough this was very lucky for him. But if we take a bit of effort to do some hand reading here and put him on a range, calling him all the way down was almost certainly not a profitable decision.
Because what is he really donk betting with into the preflop 3-better and another guy on QQ7 rainbow, and then continue to fire the turn and jam the river? We are going to get shown QX here an enormously high percentage of the time, and calling down was frankly a tilted play.
The reason, I share this, is to encourage all those people, who feel, they are running bad, to take an honest and critical look at their game. Because I am sure, nearly everyone can find hands like this, if they take some time and effort to look for them. And cleaning this up as much as possible is the way to achieve long term success in poker
Just to give an example during the weekend I played 18 MTTs on 888 Poker, and I only min-cashed in one and took down a few relatively insignificant bounties in another for a total ROI of -80% of so. Not great, and for sure there was some element of bad luck involved in this. But I also did not play my A-game, which this hand is an example of:
CardsChat Poker Hands Converter
When a hand like this happen, some people will tend to get very hung up on the fact, the Villain got lucky against them and cracked their aces. And sure enough this was very lucky for him. But if we take a bit of effort to do some hand reading here and put him on a range, calling him all the way down was almost certainly not a profitable decision.
Because what is he really donk betting with into the preflop 3-better and another guy on QQ7 rainbow, and then continue to fire the turn and jam the river? We are going to get shown QX here an enormously high percentage of the time, and calling down was frankly a tilted play.
The reason, I share this, is to encourage all those people, who feel, they are running bad, to take an honest and critical look at their game. Because I am sure, nearly everyone can find hands like this, if they take some time and effort to look for them. And cleaning this up as much as possible is the way to achieve long term success in poker