Straight
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Bringing the mind home.
Posts: 172
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I don't think it sounds stupid at all, in fact it sounds normal. It's not exactly an alien concept to feel aggrieved when you do something right but it doesn't work out. Unfortunately poker is full of these situations, and just as we take a little solace from AIEV suggesting we're getting it in good, one of the big things that helped me was being able to critique my play regardless of result, and now I'm happier being able to identify that even if I run into the top of someone's range, the play itself is a good one.
Hand 2 I'm definitely not suggesting fold, you're right his raise size is retarded and should by rights commit him, I think I'm just trying to emphasise the use of information even if it's only one previous hand for stacks.
Hand 3, it's pretty lolworthy just what people will think they're potstuck with and semibluffcall or whatever you want to call clicking buttons and hoping. I don't think a c/r is bad here at all, but I think a c/c is decently better. On the basis of the strength of our redraws alone vs villain's range, I don't like c/f especially as there is still enough left behind to c/f the river if need be.
On the subject of players who float and bet any turn checked to them, having had my soul owned by a few of those recently I've been giving thought on how to play vs them, with emphasis on some of the headcase 70/20s I've seen lately. One consideration I had was to almost only ever check a turn vs them if I was prepared to c/c turn and lead river or c/c turn and c/c river. Anything I wasn't prepared to check the turn with, such as too much value not to bet (or significantly drawy boards), or because my hand was too weak to c/c, anything I'm not prepared to c/f inc air (and I'm trying to make that c/f range as small as non-spewy vs these villains) would be barrelled on the turn and followed up on a lot of rivers (dry boards with a rivered broadway, wet boards with a blank river, etc). Before I start doing it I'm trying to assess whether this is viable or spewy, but I guess until I actually do it in practice the answer is "it depends". It seems a little like fighting fire with fire but it's working for the villains. This seemed to make a little more sense the first time I wrote it, thank you very much Firefox keyboard shortcuts 
Hand 5 is the poker equivalent of a sack of puppies in a river. Soul crushing.
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