Improving my coin flip skills

TripleAce

Hi,

I think I have been playing beautiful poker in the last couple of months, I really feel I have brought my game to a new level and took down a couple of nice tourneys at the beginning of the year playing solid poker, tight but aggressive in position, and more importantly when I lose I stop tilting because as long as I play well I know that I will have a positive return in the long run (alright I had a bad tilt online a couple of weeks ago but I promised myself that that was going to be the last J ).
However in the last couple of weeks (3 tourneys live plus some online) I have confirmed that my game has serious lacks when it comes to coin flip skills, both online than live. Can someone help answering these questions:

1) Why although coin flips are 50-50 situations, I only seem to win 20% of the times? Is there a technique that I can use to improve this % ? I tried standing, sitting down, leaning on the neighbour’s chair, etc….but it doesn’t seem that I have found the right strategy yet J
2) Why although underpairs are slightly favourite against 2 overcards there is no way in hell that my opponent would go through a 5-cards board without hitting at least one of his overcards? I feel more comfortable having 2 overcards….for example the other day my A-K vs Q-Q hit the King on the turn after a 10-J-5 flop. Alright the 9 hit the river, but that is a different story.
The rule is that an A always hit the board like the A that my opponent with A-Q rivered yesterday to crack my 8-8 and kick me out (I was shortstack alright). It is math, not superstition J
3) Why people love to play A-x and make uneccessary calls just to crack my K-K Q-Q 70% of the times, although math says that is the other way around. Should I start playing A-x more ofter and threat them like the nuts ie. raise with A-4 UTG because the 4 is not a bad kicker? J

I don’t want luck, I just want average cards and no bad luck….should poker’s rules be changed so that the person who puts his chips in ahead should be awarded the chips, regardes of what come afterwards? Where can I submit an official request? J

Have a nice day everybody!

Trippie

lol


try the jerry yang school of thought.......pray to god and tell him you believe in him

seems to work for him

Requiem4adream

Steps:

1. When all in on a coin flip, do NOT type any of the following:

Holddddddddd?

Hold plz?

One time?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (or calling for any card that favours you).

2. Upon losing the flip again, take the following steps:

a) Abuse your opponent - eg. "you fkin donktard how the fk can you call with 33 preflop??? PREFLOP! what the hell did you put me on? 22? you fkin *** **** ***** piece of ****, followed by "obv if i had the fkin monster 33 you'd hit a fkin Royal Flush you piece of ****"

b) Write an abusive email to poker site, explaining you win 1 outta 5 races (FACT) and you've had enough of their rigged bs and will be taking your $ elsewhere. Then proceed to leave money on said site.


Advice: your problem is simple - stop getting involved in flips. Try get it in as a big underdog eg. 2 2 v AA or K9ss v KK. Then when you outdraw it will be a pleasant surprise. Failing that, i think your only alternatives are to repeat procedure 1 & 2, toning up the abuse a notch as your flip rate gets worse.

Macspower

start getting involved in better coinflips I'd say....

QQ vs your AK is a bad coin flip as there are only 2 over cards...

where if you get your AK in agaist 33 or 44 he will be less confident as there are loads of overcards....

My2c worth before the lock

TommyGunne

Just to expand on R4AD's point, never get your money in ahead. If you do you will often get beats. Beats=tilt=losing the monies.

Get it in behind. When you win from behind you reach that sublime state of happiness where it seems all your decisions become perfect. Also, as a bonus you can tilt your opponents. By continually getting it in behind, you will induce them into a state of insane tilt. Therefore, getting it in behind=winning the monies.

Easy.

This also explains why many of the so-called good players aren't big winners or are break-even. They just rarely get it in behind.

dannydiamond

I believe there's abour 2000 of these posts in a stickied thread somewhere....

Tip:when playing a tournie on stars never put all your chips in with ANY pair,only push/call allin with any ace except of course AK.On previous experience this system is foolproof and is my new stategy to win the sunday million,watch this space....


If this doesn't work get your hands on one of those 2 headed coins....

Goodluck2me

try jogging.

TripleAce

Thank you guys, appreciate your advices!

The problem is more live than online....I don't think for one second that online poker is rigged, but live poker definetly is

I will try to go-all in when I am clearly behind, and more importantly call other player's all ins when I am sure I am behind - this appear to be the best way to avoid bad beats

dannydiamond

Oh,if it's live play that's easy to fix,pick a "lucky" hand and play it like aces...

Ste05

dannydiamond wrote: »

I believe there's abour 2000 of these posts in a stickied thread somewhere....

I tend to agree. Locked, but anyone can feel free to continue this discussion in the above mentioned Sticky.

Ste05