Silly $100NL hands.

BobSloane

Playing so bad I think I require a poker break

Hand 1 effective stacks $100
SB has just joined table. I have 100 hands on him showing 35/28 and a note saying do not sit on right.

Hero button with 22.
Folded around.
Hero raises to 4
Sb raises to 14
BB folds.

Hero...?



Hand 2
This is maybe the 5th hand since joining table. On first hand I get dealt 99. I raise and the SB in this hand calls. I cb on a flop of K84 all hearts(I have 9 of hearts). He calls. Turn is another heart. I check - he checks. River is blank. I check. He donk bets $4 into a pot of $20. I call. He shows AA with the A of hearts.
I have no clue about the BB in this hand

Anyway effective stacks $100
Hero button with Ks5s
Folded around
Hero raises to $4
Sb raises to $9
BB calls $8
Hero calls $5

Flop Kh 5h 2s
Sb checks
BB bets $13
Hero raises to $40
Sb raises all-in
BB calls all-in
Hero....?




Hand 3 Stacks. I have around $150 Villian(24/10) has $110
Hero Button with 3c3h
Folded around.
Hero raises to 4
Sb folds
BB raises to 14
Hero calls $10
Flop 6h 6c 5h
BB checks
Hero checks
Turn 7s
Villian bets $24
Hero...?

MacStacked

BobSloane wrote:

Playing so bad I think I require a poker break

I don't think theres any big mistakes tbh

Hand 1: If u think he stacks off often enough with tp or an overpair if u catch a two then i think i'd call.

Hand 2: Im more than happy to get it all in here.

Hand 3: Fold.

cardshark202

1: Fold
2: Call quick
3: Fold

Van Dice

Hand 1 : Fold, he doesn't have an overpair nearly often enough to try to hit a set, also even when he does there might be overcards to his pair, or he misses his high cards etc. Try to flop sets against nits. Try to flop TPTK+ against maniacs.

Hand 2: I break the call button by clicking it too fast. And then hope not to see 22 from BB, and then no ace or heart on the board.

Hand 3: I fold pre to his RR, but as played you can't do anything except fold. To continue you need a really good read and also to be able to bluff him most of the time, not really a good spot here. Save hero calls for rivers when someone is likely to be bluffing!

phantom_lord

1. easy fold, you've not deep enough to call for set value
2. snap call
3. fold?

Ace2007

gotta agree with cardshark and phamton on all 3 hands

BobSloane

MacStacked wrote:

I don't think theres any big mistakes tbh

Lol not yet.

Hand 1
When I see the note I have on him I decide to put my foot down straight away and shove. He calls with AQo and my 2s hold up. But it was a horror play really

Hand 2
I call and Sb has KK, BB has 22. Turn is 5 giving everyone a house and river is a blank. As van dice suggested I figured BB could well have 22 but this is a call all day long I suppose this shallow. Anyone getting away from this deeper stacked?

Hand 3
I decide he has AK and sure if he as an overpair he might fold - and if he doesn't I have outs - and shove. He instacalls with AA but the river is a 4 giving me the straight. He calls me a retard and I silently agree


I had another few classics that I won't go in to, my "favourite" possibly where I ended up shoving Q9o out of position on a K J x flop against an absolute station who made a hero call with AQ and he took it with A high.

Some of my hands lately have been so horrific I don't understand whats going on. I raise with a small pp and have to tell myself to remember to let it go if I don't flop a set. Then I end u with a gutshot draw or something like in hand 3 and lose the plot. The BR is rollercoaster like. I reviewed a 140 hand session two days ago where I moved in 22 times in total. My Vpip hasn't altered that much though. I've been 22/16 over 10,000 or so hands. Last ten or twelve sessions I'm around 25/20. Discipline is possibly the most important attribute playing online and I seem to have just lost it.

Does anyone else go through these kind of patches? Is it just the visit of the tiltmonster and if so what is the best way to make him go away? If anyone else goes through this how do you deal with it? Take a break for a while - move down levels ? Move up levels!?!? Meditation!Find inner peace? I started playing poker again in december and have taken it reasonably seriously and felt I was improving constantly and suddenly i'm playing worse than I thought possible. Can anyone relate?



(actually hand 2 here has little to do with this, wondering does anyone fold it at maybe 200bb deep?)

Hectorjelly

raised flop you cant fold top 2 pair when there is a million draws available + also combo draws. You have 4 outs anyway against a set. Not for 100bbs, not for 200 either.

You might want to try meditation before playing, try and get into the right frame of mind. Concentrate on your breathing for a few mins, then imagine yourself winning and also folding. Works for me!

BobSloane

Cheers hj. I've got to try something! Haven't played in 3 days now since the 22 all-in maniac session. imagine folding imagine folding imagine folding

digiman

BobSloane wrote:

Does anyone else go through these kind of patches? Is it just the visit of the tiltmonster and if so what is the best way to make him go away? If anyone else goes through this how do you deal with it? Take a break for a while - move down levels ? Move up levels!?!? Meditation!Find inner peace? I started playing poker again in december and have taken it reasonably seriously and felt I was improving constantly and suddenly i'm playing worse than I thought possible. Can anyone relate?

bob, im playing like this myself at the minute, the amount of times I commit my stack when I am usually on a semi bluff or total bluff on the river. I can lose 2-3 buyins in the first 10-15 mins frequently by playing pure stupid and getting involved in pots where I have no need to be in or trying to steel either. I can't ever seem to let a hand go either once I go with it and generally lose a lot of money in the hand. The thing is I'm not losing any money which is good but after 6k hands on Noble im only up $130 which is not very good at all, and my bankroll is also a complete rollercoaster.
I feel if I could somehow cut this out of my game and fold more I could be up more like 1k - 1.5k in the same space of time as I really have donked off that much which is truely shocking.

If you were interested in going over each others hands that could be good as both of us are playing 100NL, let me know if you would like to.

CaptainNemo

Hand 1: I either fold (usually) or flat call and try to hit a set, but the stacks aren't really deep enough to make that a worthwhile play here. Shoving is horrible.

Hand 2: I think you have to call. You were cold-decked. You couldn't even get away from the preflop reraise because it was too small.

Hand 3: Everything about this was wrong. I don't think you should raise with 33, I don't think you should call the reraise, and you should definitely fold on the turn, with a small argument for calling if you think he has AK because he will give up on the river, but shoving is just about the worst way to play it I think.

From the sound of it you're right in thinking you're on tilt. Maybe switch to limit for a bit, you can't have a brainfart and lose your whole stack with a shove there!