I don't really like the 3-bet with KTs from the CO, aggressive game or not. I think you lose a lot of money getting involved with many marginal hands preflop. If you look back over your journal you lose very big pots in NL getting involved with marginal hands preflop and it also happens to you in limit. I think if you were just more patient and were more content to sit there and fold you would fare much better in the games. The phrase "I picked up my best starting hand in half an hour" prefacing the KTs makes me think you were getting impatient to pick up a hand to play. Maybe the guy was being super super aggressive, I dunno. KTs is a little weak for me there. If people are cold calling 3 bets preflop from the SB then the game is probably a weak game, and you do not need to loosen up and 3-bet with KTs to beat it. You can just play normally and you will crush those guys. Anyway, a tight player to your right is raising from the HJ, which is a long distance to be attacking the blinds from. He probably has a legit hand. KTs does not fare well against his range there, so it should be an easy fold. He is not really in blind attacking range.
I think it is important to grow as a poker player to be openly honest with yourself about why you do things at the poker table. I use the universal you. To be honest about why you sit at the table. Was it to preserve the game, really, or was it just because you wanted to play? Be honest with yourself, and you will grow as a poker player, you will find your weaknesses, and when you find them, you can eliminate them and you will become a much stronger, much better player. Why did you 3-bet there with KTs? You called the player tight. Did you really think he was attacking the blinds from the HJ, 3 spots away from the blinds? Or were you impatient, not having had a good hand for a whole half an hour, itching to play, since maybe you sat down in a bad game to play in the first place, so you 3-bet him lightly with KTs? Were you thinking since you hadn't played a hand in a while the tight player might give you respect and you could move him off his hand? What were you really thinking? I find it hard to believe that you really think KTs was the best hand there. But maybe you did. I'm just throwing another possible analysis out there. If it is true that you were impatient, do you see why sitting in the bad game was bad? You sat in the bad game, raring to play. But then, a dry spell of hands. And you get a marginal hand, you're raring to raise. But then, the right player raises. You know you should throw this hand away to his raise. But you were all ready to raise so you 3-bet because you haven't had a hand in a half an hour. It all comes from the impatience to play. From self examination that 3-bet would have been avoided since you would have looked honestly at yourself, seen the real reason why you wanted to sit in a bad game and not sat in the first place. And that is what makes a real pro a pro, knowing himself and avoiding bad situations. All those other "pros" sitting in the bad game, they don't know that yet. And one day when you are sitting in a game, playing your best, they will come sit down. Impatient. And you will be the one benefiting from their bad 3-bet. And they will never, ever, benefit from you. Because you will never do that.
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Date: 2006-03-02 18:16 (UTC)Anyway, a tight player to your right is raising from the HJ, which is a long distance to be attacking the blinds from. He probably has a legit hand. KTs does not fare well against his range there, so it should be an easy fold. He is not really in blind attacking range.
I think it is important to grow as a poker player to be openly honest with yourself about why you do things at the poker table. I use the universal you. To be honest about why you sit at the table. Was it to preserve the game, really, or was it just because you wanted to play? Be honest with yourself, and you will grow as a poker player, you will find your weaknesses, and when you find them, you can eliminate them and you will become a much stronger, much better player. Why did you 3-bet there with KTs? You called the player tight. Did you really think he was attacking the blinds from the HJ, 3 spots away from the blinds? Or were you impatient, not having had a good hand for a whole half an hour, itching to play, since maybe you sat down in a bad game to play in the first place, so you 3-bet him lightly with KTs? Were you thinking since you hadn't played a hand in a while the tight player might give you respect and you could move him off his hand? What were you really thinking? I find it hard to believe that you really think KTs was the best hand there. But maybe you did. I'm just throwing another possible analysis out there. If it is true that you were impatient, do you see why sitting in the bad game was bad? You sat in the bad game, raring to play. But then, a dry spell of hands. And you get a marginal hand, you're raring to raise. But then, the right player raises. You know you should throw this hand away to his raise. But you were all ready to raise so you 3-bet because you haven't had a hand in a half an hour. It all comes from the impatience to play. From self examination that 3-bet would have been avoided since you would have looked honestly at yourself, seen the real reason why you wanted to sit in a bad game and not sat in the first place. And that is what makes a real pro a pro, knowing himself and avoiding bad situations. All those other "pros" sitting in the bad game, they don't know that yet. And one day when you are sitting in a game, playing your best, they will come sit down. Impatient. And you will be the one benefiting from their bad 3-bet. And they will never, ever, benefit from you. Because you will never do that.