Straight
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Bringing the mind home.
Posts: 172
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I definitely sympathise with your current mindset, last year my game really fell apart between a lack of time to play and stress brought home from work, so whenever I sat down to play poker losing or running bad just made my already poor mindset worse. It's incredibly frustrating. It got to the point where I sat down needing to win and it was unhealthy, pressure clouds the mind.
I'm not sure being the best person at the table is the correct #1 reason to be playing poker, there's a huge difference between the benefits of confidence and the negatives of ego. The thing is, clearly you're a winning player (even if only marginally lately for whatever reason), so I guess the answer is we need to make more correct decisions. I think we can both see spots, like where you stack off with draws on the turn, where if you were to call or even fold you'd see more profit and not have your ego crushed by getting beat by an average reg who probably never considers a raise/fold range, let alone has one. I think fixing leaks like this, as well as any "I may have OK equity and even if I don't fuck it because fuck him" kinda thinking, could improve your winrate, throw away less stacks to regs, and from there hopefully put some confidence into your game. Talk is cheap I know, but next time you're in a marginal at best spot vs a reg, take a few seconds to think about folding or whatever action improves how you play a hand rather than improves how villain plays his.
Hand 1 - Pretty standard, did you check his UTG pfr or UTG 3bet call/4bet stats? UTG is a pretty unique position in how it's played, I wouldn't fold here but if you're in this spot with say AK or QQ, the stats I listed are worth considering. If he's any good he's not stacking that light here, but we're good enough against even tight ranges to go with it.
Hand 2 - Obv 77/0 means he's played a few hands already, and he just doubled up before I act after his flop raise I'd be checking that previous hand and his stats to see if he calls a lot postflop or raises. The money is going in, it's fine as played because it's entirely possible they show up with TP etc, but villain's raising range on the flop is not the same thing as their flop calling raise.
Hand 3 - If he always bets when checked to then I'd call and c/c most rivers, if we know his turn betting range is wide then by shoving over we're narrowing his range and potentially missing river on the money from hands we beat.
Hands 4 - So you've got pf stats, but what has BB done postflop so far? Call, fold? Showdown any hands? Anyway, utterly standard, if villain has 56 here then lol, make a note that if you ever meet him to gouge his eyes out with a beer bottle for playing it so stupid.
Hand 5 - This hand is the gay if we don't have a read on whether villain would raise QQ/KK on the flop or flat them, if his range is JJ+ then obv we're good to go, but we need to know if his nittiness extends to postflop and whether he'd call down with a hand like QQ here because he's a nit and you 3bet his UTG open.
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