An attempt to delineate, to clarify how I want to play certain types of standard situations. Over the course of many hands, these come up over and over, and I don’t think that I’m being consistent in how I play them. Small/medium pairs Open raise from all positions Don’t c-bet into high showdown players obv [...]
The frustration of the grind goes on. It gets to the point of wondering whether it’s worth it to continue, as I suspect one of the reasons that I’m tense in other aspects of daily life during the past two weeks is some accumulated frustration that is spilling over. What am I hoping to get [...]
Here’s a hand I want to work through, where both players appear to hold a good hand on the flop. It looks at something that I kinda know, but I want to work through it to cement it in my mind. ~ Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker MP3: 39.6 bb CO: 28.6 bb Hero (BTN): [...]
In general I find pot limit holdem a bit frustrating, I guess because at most preflop I can only bet pot at most. I like to open raise from early 4x the bb (for two reasons; I always have a good hand from early, plus I don’t want a lot of callers), and 3x later, [...]
Confidence comes from history, experiences. Children develop confidence in themselves by gaining skills and collecting experiences. A two year old that I know isn’t always able to communicate using his current level of language skills, but he has learned that by grabbing an adult’s finger and pulling he can guide the adult to where he [...]
I’ve gone through the process of having to deal with controlling added aggression before when I first started opening myself up to 3-betting less than AA/KK and opening my late position range. At the moment while experiencing some issues in my multitabling grind, I’m looking at pushing the edge back again just a bit. Mostly [...]
Maybe this ties into Prospect Theory as well. Prospect Theory says that we tend to hang on too long when things are going badly. I wish my investment adviser had taken this into consideration back in the late fall of 2008. But we’re talking about poker here, and what I’m referring to is getting out [...]
A while back I wrote a post wondering about how I seem to be willing to win less rather than risk losing more. This was a relatively new awareness for me, at least consciously, though it ties into such things as my preferred Islewars game settings. Now I’ve learned that this is not only common, [...]