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Old 04-17-2009, 06:20 PM     Post subject: New Poster / Noob, Couple questions #1 (permalink)  

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I posted this on Two plus Two also. I chose both Forums do to the quality of posters and info obtained from web sites. This is a great forum BTW.

I have browsed a few forums on poker for a little while and a big time poster on a couple Denver Broncos (NFL) forums.

I got into poker because I felt I have "It". The ability to make good reads on each person and their playing habits etc.

I have done a lot of reasearch figuring out numbers and trying to improve my game. I put in $50 2 weeks ago on pokerstars and brought that up to around $800 bucks. I got 2nd and 5th on the 11-1 180 person and and got 1st and placed a bunch on 4-4.40 180 person.

My question is this. The last 6 tourny's for me while being up as one of the chip leaders lost in miserable ways. I will name a few.

1. Pocket 9's snuck in at 3x blind flop is A 9 2, I check player bets a bunch knocking another player out and ultimatly just me an him. I put him on a AK or AQ. Turn is a 2, we end up going all in and he has pocket AA's.

2. Pocket K's two times. Both times I thought I played well. Both lost to and A on the turn or river when put someone all in (Both people had A 5 or A 8 somthing like that.)

3. low stack moves all in and called his desperation and called with 10 A suited... and wins with 6 7 o to get a flush!

4. Finally when I bring people all in or calling huge bets while I have the nut it has seemed lately that every single person will get there inside straight or getting a flush from two same suites coming on turn and river. In addition someone have low pairs and getting trips on river...

My game seemed fine from me being a tight aggresive player and switching to hyper aggresive "bully" and my numbers seem fine on poker co pilot (I use a mac). Should I be more patient in tourneys or keep doing what I am doing? Seems like so many people that should not be in a hand win it on me and are calling with nothing and getting there cards with under 8 outs and I am betting...

I am not a person that gets mad and jsut say nh to everyone that wins but it is frustrating when i know I should have atleast placed in most of those tourneys....

Next time I will do the fancy hand calculator on here

* Anyways my name is Nick, Nice to meet everyone. Next time I will not be all over the place, just ranting I guess...
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Old 04-17-2009, 06:30 PM #2 (permalink)  
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welcome to poker and the variance that comes along with it. If you are getting your chips in the middle as a favorite then you have done all you can.

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Old 04-17-2009, 06:44 PM     Post subject: hello #3 (permalink)  

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With the limited data you provided it looks like your playing fine, just suffering from variance.
Only thing I can add is I notice in large tourneys, especially early on, people play any A. So if they are calling you down and an A hits the board and they start betting big or go all-in toss your pocket KK. Better to stay in the tourney than blow all your chips.
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Old 04-17-2009, 11:17 PM #4 (permalink)  
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Old 04-18-2009, 12:28 AM #5 (permalink)  
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All those hands seem like you had no choice but to put your money in. You can't expect to fold your kings when you're the 90% favorite when the money goes in, so why worry about it. I'm sure you know this anyways. Micro2Macro has a good point, if you're getting frustrated by finishing OTM in big tourneys even when you played perfectly, try some 9 man SnG's or cash games. Multi tabling these should lower your variance significantly compared to 180 man SnG's.
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