Tight Poker

[mervhage]

I'm just wondering how you guys handle these types of sessions. The ones where you're always in with a loser hand and drop the winning hands? I think I cost myself at least a $100 tonight with this opposite read syndrome.

I believe the only correct read I made was calling an all in preflop b/w two donks with AcKc. As it turns out donk #1 had Kh7h (pwned) and the other donk who pushing had QsJs. Of course I don't have to tell you who flopped a jack and tripped up on the turn and who flopped the nut club draw and missed e'thing. The QJ pushed really hard, but he was quite the show-off bluffer. I have to stop putting my money in when I'm sure I'm ahead, it's costing me .

Also, I lost with a one card ace high flush to the ignorant end of a straight flush, nh, really. I paid him off like he could possibly have had anything else.

I figured the best thing to do is quit. Fortunately, the overall hit wasn't as bad as it seemed and nothing I won't get back. It's just a bummer. I imagine quitting the session is the best remedy?

[miamipuck]

I'm just wondering how you guys handle these types of sessions. The ones where you're always in with a loser hand and drop the winning hands? I think I cost myself at least a $100 tonight with this opposite read syndrome.

I believe the only correct read I made was calling an all in preflop b/w two donks with AcKc. As it turns out donk #1 had Kh7h (pwned) and the other donk who pushing had QsJs. Of course I don't have to tell you who flopped a jack and tripped up on the turn and who flopped the nut club draw and missed e'thing. The QJ pushed really hard, but he was quite the show-off bluffer. I have to stop putting my money in when I'm sure I'm ahead, it's costing me .

Also, I lost with a one card ace high flush to the ignorant end of a straight flush, nh, really. I paid him off like he could possibly have had anything else.

I figured the best thing to do is quit. Fortunately, the overall hit wasn't as bad as it seemed and nothing I won't get back. It's just a bummer. I imagine quitting the session is the best remedy?

I took a month off because my computer was fried from the hurricane. It seems since I came back the sites are punishing me.

Anyway, I have scaled back my play. I am reading more about poker and posting in the threads. I figured eventually my hands and reads will start to hold up again.

Yes if nothing is working it is certainly not the end of the world to quit.

[velar]

If I miss a few big hands because I thought I was laying down a loser, but wasn't, then I credit the fish for a nice play and I adjust my reads a little bit.

If I lay down a lot of winners, or keep losing with my big hands, then you have to quit, right? How can you keep playing at a table you can't read? You'll start to question everything and you'll end up not making those critical value bets with AA and KK, etc...

[mdh6424]

I don't necessarily quit, but I will change tables after 2-3 good bluffs and suckouts if my stack starts to deplete. Fish swim in schools, and you can bet if one shows a good suckout the others will follow along.

I got nipped early with pocket K's on a $3-6 table on Party last week. Sure enough, my pre-flops raises on high pocket pairs later in the game were called down by half the table, and both fell to draws. I knew I had no table-respect after that, and cut my losses by finding another table.

Soon, I was back up and turned a profit continuing to play the correct way.

It's hard to leave fish in the pond when you know they'll bite, but if their bad plays start affecting the other people at the table I prefer to just move to another pond.

p.s. - (First Post!)