Understanding your fish

wow, being a small stakes player myself, this opened my eyes a lot. good read man, thanks for the write up.

This was useful to me. Nice write up.

Very nice article, helped me a lot. Thank you

On April 06 2008 09:16 Oly wrote: The fish thought process will go something like this: "well I can't see how he can often be holding a 7 or a house here and if he is then he's an idiot who's sucked out, therefore he's full of shit so I call with my TT". You will walk in to trouble doing this sometimes but I find it massively profitable to spot the situations where the board has become shit scary but it still misses most of your fish's range. Using this thinking, we can make scary boards our friend for A LOT of value. Fish put you on a draw.

i stopped reading here because i realized that you are doing exactly the same thing i was doing when i was struggling trying to beat up on fish at 50/100nl after going busto. u r making a ton of false assumptions -- i made the same mistakes -- and basing your actions on them. what you actually described in your QQ 3bet situation is a range merge. The key to beating fish is to play exploitably, the reason they are called fish is because they DONT think. they dont have a thought process. they look at their hand and if they think its a good one they play it. basically a bet looks strong to them and a check looks weak.

the key to beating fish is to play exploitably, and to value bet them to hell. dont expect they are thinking ... otherwise u arent even talking about fish.

u seem like u definitely have potential to beat up on regulars and better players in the future though based on the fact that u are thinking in this way, and thats a real good thing, id just advise u to stay away from making false assumptions about your opponents so that u dont fall into the same type of trap that i did.

gl,
marshall

I think this is a good read, however, you should still be very carefull with bluffing fish.

this has given me a lot to think about. o.O

LOL! very enjoyable read, I like your writing style. Please continue.