Quote Originally Posted by Ripptyde
Nobody wins this game camping out waiting on monsters
You obviously haven't played at the low limits on Party Poker. Enough players will call your ass down on pocket 3s, or any #$*& draw and slow play hands as weak as 2 pair to make bluffing a tricky propsition. Heck, I've been called down by Ace-Little hitting an Ace after pre-flop raising 6x BB with a medium pair then betting out pot. Sharks will pick up on your aggressive habbits and trap your ass or re-steal on not much. Then consider that 4 person multi-pot is probably a mixture of idiots that will call on anything and multi-table rocks looking to trap the idiots. What's a player to do? Check + fold? No wonder the multi-tables are cleaning up.

How much are you betting when bluffing? Pot? On that pot bet you need to make a better hand or take it down over 50% to be profitable. Or if you're close to even, you can call it advertising.

You've come clean that you're on a downward slope in terms of cash (I admire honesty about that, it's easier to think you're god's gift to poker.) How are you doing in pure cash games? I don't mean to be negative, but this is a skill I've put a lot of time and burned a lot of chips trying to master with limited success. It's really easy to feed the fish in aggressive mode and my bankroll has paid dearly for some of my experiments.

It was this realization combined with a rough streak that sent me over to limit for a while...