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Discussion: Why you suck at LHE (for newbs)
If you havent had a chance to look at it, its:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...pic.php?t=6613
And, since you locked it and we have no further way to discuss it, I decided to make a discussion thread on it.
First off, I'm going to come out and say I dislike you locking your thread, thereby leaving no open room for discussion, among other things.
If you were to number them, they would look something like this:
Originally Posted by fnord
1. You play too many hands
2. You chase with bad pot odds
3. You call 2+ small bets cold pre-flop with offsuit hands (AQo, AJo, QJo, KTo, etc.)
4. You don't raise AKo
5. You don't 3-bet/cap AA,KK,QQ,AK
6. You fold pretty good hands for 1 bet in big pots
7. You open the pot for a limp outside of UTG/UTG+1 at a full table.
8. You ignore the size of the pot
9. You think you can "punish" a flush draw
10. You play unsuited cards with one big card and a little one
11. You play suited crap out of position and for more than one bet outside of your blinds
12. You play your blinds too much when facing a raise (particularly heads-up)
13. You think playing over-cards is your biggest leak
14. You don't bet the river often enough
15. You under-estimate how much of your profit comes from AA,KK,AK
16. You under-estimage how much of your profit comes from players that suck worse than you and fail to seek them out.
17. You go all-in
18. You under-estimate the impact and diverse forms of luck over the short term.
19. You under-estimate what long term is. 10,000 hands isn't long-term.
Okay, lets get started.
1-6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 I AGREE with you, enough to at least not to get an argument over. Capping with AKo opposed to AKs I 'might' disagree with you, it depends on the game.
7. This depends on the table you are at and with what hand you have. An open limp with low PP or Axs is usually a good play on a loose table, probably good up to 2/4, and even some 3/6 tables. I only like to see raising at this point in more Tight-aggressive tables.
9 and 17, What the heck are you talking about?
12. It really is dependant on the table, your hands, and the position of the player. A tag bet from UTG that folds around is probably a good fold. However, a raise from a more later position might justify a call. As long as your outs aren't tainted, you have a 40/60 chance to win, not bad for calling 1 small bet to win 3.5.
13. You are a big vague here, I wish you would define your idea as overcards and then leak. A huge leak IS going to far with your overcards, especially when the opposition wont fold.
18. I will not comment.
19. 10000 hands to the average player is a sizeable amount of hands. Someone who clears 2000 hands a day such as yourself thinks 10k hands as nothing. Someone who hasnt cleared 10000 hands over the course of 3-4 months will disagree with you. No way a hot streak of cards can go over 3-4 months (i say that generally speaking)
And finally, I disagree with your comment (albeit sarcastic) about the Poker Books. The 19 points above are just the small things that one needs to worry about, Poker Books HARDLY deals with the little things, and focus on the Big leaks.
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