friendly advice for the micro beginner

[Chopper]

seems all i've been saying lately is how bad these guys are. and thats true, but sometimes you lie down with dogs, and get up with fleas, too. i made the only 2 bad plays that i can remember in the last couple of weeks.

everything has been VERY solid. then, i could feel that i was getting frisky. ever get that feeling? you look down and see 75o, and think, "man, this will trick them." or you call a raise with ATo. just stoopid shit. get a little coolered and start trying to "create magic." that kind of stuff. uncharacteristically impatient of me, that's for sure.

i think i need a break. just to chill and remember that you just cant play every two cards. i dont care if you are in late position in a limped pot (where my game has REALLY opened up pre-slop). you just cant.

i started the day up the standard buy-in after 125 hands of 6max. then, last night found a couple of known donkeys, and thats where i started getting cute. i knew better. had AA cracked once. not usually an issue, but i slowed it post flop into a KJ7 rainbow board. and when the fish bet, i should have known i gave him his card, but i raised thinking he had a K. well, i was half right, he had the J, too. and i chased the dummy end of a straight with only a draw. board was 456 and i held K3s, and the villain was betting hard. i figure, "he wants me to go away. he's trying to protect his hand." i was right...he had 58o. i thought i had 11 "clean" outs, but was wrong as the 7 gives me the 3rd nuts only. he had the damned 8. i thought i'd win with TP if the K fell, but i was still chasing into an idiot telling me he had at least a pair, and i still tried to suck out on purpose. BAD BAD BAD!!! anyway finished down $15, when i started up $10ish. thats bad at 10 NL, and there is no excuse for it...other than be patient, and dont overplay your hands. let the donkeys come to you...they will.

thats my big tip for the day. and i know you suffer from that one once i awhile, too. so, let it serve as a friendly reminder, DONT GET IMPATIENT, AND DONT GET CUTE. its a grind, treat it as such.

well, back to work (my real work)...

[Pelion]

thankyou for this post. I think this is pretty much what im doing wrong at the moment.

[q49z321]

wow, that's pretty much exactly what happens to me from time to time. i'll run good playing solid tag, and then i'll decide i don't like some of my poker tracker stats. like i need to be more aggressive post flop or whatever, and then i get a bad case of fancy play syndrome and give back a lot of my profits from when i was playing normally.

discipline is a hard thing to instill in myself. i need a nun with a ruler to smack me everytime i try to pull some stupid shit that i know wont pay off in the long run. but i don't have a nun, so i guess losing money will have to be enough negative reinforcement.

good post chopper

[Chopper]

i need a nun with a ruler to smack me everytime i try to pull some stupid shit...

you betcha

let it be said, you can, and should catch this behavior in a buy-in or two...and leave. variance you cannot stop. FPS and general dumbshit moves, you can.

[bode]

good post. Ive found myself playing back at people too much lately, and more importantly, trying to play too many hands OOP.

[GatorJH]

other than be patient, and dont overplay your hands. let the donkeys come to you...they will.

thats my big tip for the day. and i know you suffer from that one once i awhile, too. so, let it serve as a friendly reminder, DONT GET IMPATIENT, AND DONT GET CUTE. its a grind, treat it as such.

QFT!!!!!!

I have noticed that when I play Micro Stakes I tend to get too loose and fall into the "I can outplay them postflop" mentality. In reality you should play just as tightly at the micro stakes, but when you do pick up a hand you can play it stronger.

[XTR1000]

vn post. i think we all go through this, especially doing things you know better.

i was getting too fancy lately, overplaying easily dominated hands and trying to bluff anyone at any time. spewed a bunch of chips "repping xy". it doesn´t work, to rep something, when your opponents simply don´t care what you´re holding.

[biondino]

good post. Ive found myself playing back at people too much lately, and more importantly, trying to play too many hands OOP.

At $100 last night I was playing some of the best anti-lagg poker of my life and then played 2 or 3 hands of basically "my balls are bigger than yours" poke, which kind of falls flat when you get 3-bet with 86o unimproved after re-raising pre-flop. Didn't cost me too much, but it did serve to remind me to pull my head under the parapet after getting off a few decent shots.