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Well tell me, based on those hands I posted, what you would have did differently. The only mistake I see is possibly calling the 600-all in. I had 300 in there already, it was 300 more, which I guess in hindsight crippled me afterwards. It would have been easier to come back with 500 then with 200. Ok so maybe that was bad. The situation was a coinflip at best. I thought he had a lower pocket pair.
And lowboy, what are you talking about? The first hand, are you talking about the 77 one? I bet 30% of my stack pre-flop, not 50%. The flop comes 3-5-3. His raise told me he was probably holding some overcards, but not the best. KQ, KJ, AJ. I have an overpair on the flop, and I bet the ammount of chips he had remaining. He folds. How is that a bad play?
The next play I am dealt [J,J]. Once again, I raise 300 to hopefully A) Steal the blinds, or B) Isolate down to 1 where I have a pretty good advantage pre-flop. I bet 300. I am raised by someone who goes all-in for 615, I call the 315 more to potentially win 1365 to bring my total to 2235. I would have been chip-leader by about 500 and could have coasted for awhile. He went all-in with ACE 5 though. He was a 75% underdog to lose. Once again, how is this a bad play? I don't see what I did wrong there.
The AJ vs. AQ hand I can see was a mistake. If I folded, I still would have had 500 in chips and could have tried to steal another set of blinds, been up around 650, and would have to steal some more or double up pretty soon.
The hand after this was just more frustration. I didn't have a made hand, but 60/40, I hope, I would win sometimes. When I consistently lose no matter the advantage I have, it just smells of BS.
VGC, could you give me some tips here? I don't know what the other 2 bad plays were besides the AJ call. What was wrong with the [7,7] and [J,J] hands?
I used to leak chips on Level 1 blinds. I would play most suited cards for 15 just to see the flop and catch a draw. I stopped doing that. - Problem fixed.
I used to leak chips on Level 1 blinds playing mediocre hands up to 30-45 chips. KQ, KJ, A10, etc. I stopped doing that. - Problem fixed.
The only other times I know I leak chips are on probe bets. If I catch a piece of the flop, and there is 3 people in a hand, well I play it different each time. Sometimes I check mid-pair, sometimes I raise. If I check and am raised, I will usually fold unless on a draw. If I raise and am called, I usually fire another round after the turn to see if they have TP or were on a draw or just looking for another card. Sometimes they call, often they fold. I've only fired another round once on the river where I was pretty sure I was beat, and he ended up folding. I've read articles though that say it's much harder firing 2 rounds of betting, but if you do it consistently, it pays off more then you lose. So I don't think I leak chips very often, atleast not many. I make sure never to go below 600 if I can help it. If I'm around 600, I just tighten up completely, wait for the blinds to go up so it's worth stealing, and wait for a good hand to double up on.
So any more advice would be welcomed.
 Originally Posted by lowBoy
Let's take hand 1 for an example: You re-raised with 77 for half your stack. Horrible idea!! Most of the time, you'll get scary overcards (think paint), or re-raised AI before the flop. At BEST you're on the slightly positive side of a coin flip in most of those.
This illustrates another point you need to grasp: sometimes bad plays can lead to good results and make you think you're just getting bad beaten to the ground when in fact, you're making poor plays. People tend to only post the hands that they lose on, not the ones where they win.
Do you love poker because it's a rush to push the raise button, or do you love it because you want to make money from it? You sound like you love the rush - and for that, you'll pay.
Also on that last hand, keep in mind that you're only a 60/40 favourite - that's not that big of a margin.
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