Hand 4: I see what you mean about jamming the flop. I might
have capped it if it had been three bet to me, but I knew the LAG to my
would surely take a card for two bets with hands as weak as 99, but
might not for three bets. I knew if I cold-called the Q2 raise, he'd
call. So, in a results-oriented analysis, I might get Q2 out with a
three bet, but instead got two more players to see the turn (because the
original bettor had an easy call of one bet, but might also not have
called two cold with all that action). I might had ended up heads up
with Q2 on a three-bet flop, but I think I'm better off seeing a
turn-four handed. If one of them does have a weak flush draw, my
implied odds are particularly good and I want him to come along. Don't
you think?
Hand 7: It seems that two people here have misread what I wrote.
I was totally silent for an entire orbit while Bluff Addict and
3-7-Suited debated my play. I said not a word. Not when I put the last
raise in, not when the pot was shipped, not when they debated what I
might or might not do. I didn't say a word until the third time the guy
told the story. I only spoke up then because I was leaving in a minute
and half. If I had been staying for even another fifteen minutes, I
would have kept my mouth shut. What's the harm in letting loose and
responding when I'm leaving anyway. I admit it's tough for me to keep
my mouth shut for so long, so I gave myself the gift of ribbing the guy
back some when I knew I was leaving and it wouldn't change anything that
mattered regarding my table image. I agree that the better play was to
keep my mouth shut until I got to LJ, but is it really that harmful to
say something when I'm leaving?
As for the rest of the comments, I really do appreciate it. You are
telling me that I didn't actually waste any of the BBs I thought I did,
except maybe one. I just am unsure if I should be running this
bad for this long. I've run bad before, but that was a string of really
bad losses when I was playing a game (short-handed $10/$20) that I
really wasn't ready for. These losses I've suffered recently have been
at games I know how to beat and have beat in the past well (full limit
games up to $10/$20, baby NL, and short-handed limit games up to
$5/$10). I'm trying to go back to basics and see if I can figure out
what is wrong. And the expert (you :) is telling me that I did
everything right. Two other experts give good advice, some of which I
was following already anyway, and the rest of which could certainly
improve me EV, but doesn't say why my previously-positive EV seems to be
missing. I'm befuddled -- am I really just getting unlucky or is there
something I really have to fix here?
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remaining hands and general thoughts
Date: 2005-03-22 20:32 (UTC)Hand 4: I see what you mean about jamming the flop. I might have capped it if it had been three bet to me, but I knew the LAG to my would surely take a card for two bets with hands as weak as 99, but might not for three bets. I knew if I cold-called the Q2 raise, he'd call. So, in a results-oriented analysis, I might get Q2 out with a three bet, but instead got two more players to see the turn (because the original bettor had an easy call of one bet, but might also not have called two cold with all that action). I might had ended up heads up with Q2 on a three-bet flop, but I think I'm better off seeing a turn-four handed. If one of them does have a weak flush draw, my implied odds are particularly good and I want him to come along. Don't you think?
Hand 7: It seems that two people here have misread what I wrote. I was totally silent for an entire orbit while Bluff Addict and 3-7-Suited debated my play. I said not a word. Not when I put the last raise in, not when the pot was shipped, not when they debated what I might or might not do. I didn't say a word until the third time the guy told the story. I only spoke up then because I was leaving in a minute and half. If I had been staying for even another fifteen minutes, I would have kept my mouth shut. What's the harm in letting loose and responding when I'm leaving anyway. I admit it's tough for me to keep my mouth shut for so long, so I gave myself the gift of ribbing the guy back some when I knew I was leaving and it wouldn't change anything that mattered regarding my table image. I agree that the better play was to keep my mouth shut until I got to LJ, but is it really that harmful to say something when I'm leaving?
As for the rest of the comments, I really do appreciate it. You are telling me that I didn't actually waste any of the BBs I thought I did, except maybe one. I just am unsure if I should be running this bad for this long. I've run bad before, but that was a string of really bad losses when I was playing a game (short-handed $10/$20) that I really wasn't ready for. These losses I've suffered recently have been at games I know how to beat and have beat in the past well (full limit games up to $10/$20, baby NL, and short-handed limit games up to $5/$10). I'm trying to go back to basics and see if I can figure out what is wrong. And the expert (you :) is telling me that I did everything right. Two other experts give good advice, some of which I was following already anyway, and the rest of which could certainly improve me EV, but doesn't say why my previously-positive EV seems to be missing. I'm befuddled -- am I really just getting unlucky or is there something I really have to fix here?