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failsafe United States. Apr 12 2009 04:51. Posts 1040

I like to bet, but it seems to be a bad strategy at the moment. I think I'm charging headlong into the top of my opponent's ranges AND impaling myself without them having to lift a finger. Still, I like charging so it's lame for them to bayonet me.

On the other hand, I'm wondering if I'm ACTUALLY running into the top of their ranges, and I'll probably do some more review to make sure I'm not leveling myself into shipping too light. I should probably post some hands to get some comments.

I decided Yomer was definitely right about me spewing while trying to imitate Durrr. I'm trying to curtail my excitement at playing poker again, tightening up a bit etc.

I feel like I've improved a bit in the last couple days in several areas: some of my PF spew has been cut off; I've begun to handle 3bets and 3bet pots significantly better; and the quality of my bluffs has increased in sizing, timing and spot selection.

All that said, I'm getting crushed pretty hardcore in ALL-IN EV, about 6 BI or so under as I approach the 10k hand mark. The beats were rather demoralizing at first but quickly became comical as no single beat was THAT painful but instead the bad luck mostly occurred in pots against half stacks so it was something like a running succession of losing 65:35s, 75:25s, and 80:20s.

One thing I realized pretty quickly this time around is that pretty much no session is likely to be be perfect as the probabilities in hold 'em are often 80-90% chance of victory at best. Following that epiphany I realized that I would be agonizing over the inevitable if I was upset about bad beats/coolers etc. Hopefully that will be easily internalized so I can enjoy playing.

Anyway as for my results, they weren't good. I'm actually about 2BI below where I started (although surprisingly most of my losses have come post-tightening so my experiment with loose play COULD be termed a success - though I think educational would be a better term than successful). Atop the poor ALL-IN EV, I had a REALLY high frequency of hideous run outs for my big pairs, and actually very little action on big pairs overall. Also had a surprising number of suck outs by draws and random over cards calling down for one or even two streets. I also made some weird hero calls and perhaps even more hero bluffs, but I feel that both were pretty educational and wasn't altogether upset about losing/winning in those spots. Finally the collisions with what I believed to be the tops of my opponents' ranges were quite expensive.

Overall I guess this would be termed a standard swing, but it was distressing because every aspect of my game was completely ravaged rather than just my weaknesses. The only thing I was relatively happy with was that I didn't become a crazy tilt monkey at any point and didn't make many more than the sort of amateurish mistakes that are to be expected.

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CrownRoyal United States. Apr 12 2009 08:40. Posts 11385

are you still two tabling???

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