i need help

[SOWhatKid 0]

I am still having the same problems as last time I believe I can win every pot and try to outplay my opponents despite knowing they are likely holding big pairs. Is there anyway of breaking this habit

[justblaze 0]

take up chess.

[krup24 0]

People get attached to big pairs and don't drop em. Thats life.Take up Chinese Checkers.

[SOWhatKid 0]

chess,and checkers anything eles?

[jsull 0]

chess,and checkers anything eles?

backgammon

[justblaze 0]

outplay does not mean outbluff. it means making better decisions. betting and raising when you feel your opponent is strong are not good decisions.

[Royal_Tour 0]

outplay does not mean outbluff. it means making better decisions. betting and raising when you feel your opponent is strong are not good decisions.

exactomondo.just cuz your playing in a home game full of chumps and donkeys, you should still people the credit they deserve.I knowa few players like you, who think they can take down most pots, and so they do so., If your going to be aggressive and try to outplay people strictly based onyour chips, and position and reads, then i suggest reading Super Systems.

[drb75088 0]

This will get a laught, but here is what I did.Bought a computer Hold'em poker game, and a book with reccomended starting hands. Play it until I now have to think about playing a marginal hand.Now that I'm comfortable with my preflop game (comfortable, not good yet), I'm playing free online games.I play both as if ut were real money, and make sure I play well. I treated it just like learning to shoot free throws. Practice, practice, practice.

[MCPeePants 0]

This will get a laught, but here is what I did.Now that I'm comfortable with my preflop game (comfortable, not good yet), I'm playing free online games.I play both as if ut were real money, and make sure I play well.

I guess that's all you can do until you feel confident enough to put real money on the line, but keep in mind that play money games aren't going to simulate the conditions of real money games very well at all.

[drb75088 0]

You are right, and I probably should have mentioned that I play only live games a the casinos here. I prefer tournments, and now I'm disapointed when I don't make the final table. I've won a couple and finised in the cash a couple.I use the compuer game only to practice the math and card skills. Without spending a lot of money I've learned the difference between an A-8 in early position, and an A-8 on the button. It's easy to see, and fun if you like playing games.It's like shooting free throws in the gym for hours, it's not like a game, but it shre helps me.

[LuckyMcCatcher 0]

I had this problem for a while on PP 25NL last year. RIght when they added it. The players were so weak and horrible you could run them over. I used to bluff big pots and would show off my bluffs and giggle my ass off. Then of course it stopped working. I started running bad and this high variance style will kill your roll when you are running bad. I suggest that it will take a few stinging sessions and thats all you'll need. Its not like you are getting unlucky. Its a habit thats easily remedied.

[potpumper43 0]

Hard to outplay a guy who you think has a big pair (they often do if you get that impression). Outplay them when you think they have nothing!

[greatwhite 0]

Stick to a game with a little less skill like, umm..., WAR!

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Stick to a game with a little less skill like, umm..., WAR!

greatest game ever.

[Patricnz 0]

SOWHatKID go to www.bet-the-pot.com and read all the articles and soak it all up specifically for small stakes NL

[AceOfSpaiDs 0]

play 2-3 tables at the same time...its likely you're becoming impatient so try to keep yourself occupied...something I did when I first started, make yourself a starting hand list based on position (big hands early, big/somewhat big in middle, big/marginal late) and make a range of hands for the list. This helps a ton IMO. Peace

[brian67 0]

If you could make money going all in pre-flop on every hand then it wouldn't be the fishies trying this. Outplaying and betting huge every time are very, very different things.

[JaysonWeber 0]

outplay does not mean outbluff. it means making better decisions. betting and raising when you feel your opponent is strong are not good decisions.

But he should have known that I KNEW he had Trip Kings and the ONLY hand I could raise with was the Trip Aces! He's a terrible player for making that call! -- This is a statement, or close to one that someome who was a regular in our home games made after he re-raised allin against... Trip K's.. It's wierd but.. he doesn't have the money to play poker anymore, I'm not sure why.

[SuM827 0]

I am still having the same problems as last time I believe I can win every pot and try to outplay my opponents despite knowing they are likely holding big pairs. Is there anyway of breaking this habit

I used to make the same mistake, I can make pretty good reads, so when I put a guy on mid pair, or top pair, bad kicker, I'd try to make him lay it down. You're going to learn not to do this one way or another (just don't cost yourself alot of money like I did). Think of poker as a war, yourself as a general, and your chips as troops, I bet you won't send 3000 troops into a battle knowing they have a 1 in 5 chance of surviving during a war, so why do it while playing poker?