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Posted Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:35 am GMT by Replic
It seems theres no end to this one. I played 4 seperate games this weekend, totalling over 24 hours of actual live poker played. I can count my good hands on three fingers! AA which got beaten by QQ on the flop (he went all in!), QQ which barely won against JJ, and a straight. Thats over 4 days. I've lost a grand total of 45 bucks this week, putting me at a net of 5 bucks up (while this doesn't seem like much, considering I'm a 17 year old player who plays 5 to 20 dollar buy in games, yeah, this is big money for me.)
Any words of encouragement or advice to get me back on the saddle and winning some games?
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Posted Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:28 pm GMT by ballbp
All I can say is keep it up. It will turn back soon enough. I had one of those weeks last week. I couldn't seem to win anything from online tourneys to my weekly home game. Even my good hands seemed to get beaten by people drawing. After telling myself it had to turn back for days, I sat down Saturday night and played three $27+$2 tourneys finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Then yesterday played a $10/$20 ring game for a few hours and made $200. So like I said, just hang in there and play a tight game and it will turn back.
Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:27 am GMT by Damian
My advice would be to take a couple of days off, and when you go back, try to think in terms that you're still $5 up, even with the rake on the internet - hey, you're still winning.
I had much the same scenario earlier this month - I'd won £220 in Jan, and was £140 up in Feb. Then I hit a really bad run, went down to -£40 in Feb. I was really depressed, and was questioning my abilities, so I took a few days away, reread a book or two, then figured I was still £180 up for the year, and that that was pretty good, considering the rake on top of that.
I went back much more positively, and am back to £70 up for Feb.
Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:23 pm GMT by BeerWench13
All I can say is......welcome to poker.
I was on a bad run for about 3 or 4 days last week (live and online) and lost nearly all of my previous winnings. I've since rebounded and come back strongly. It's all in the cards. If you don't get them, you don't win. That's poker.
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:42 pm GMT by Replic
I played incredibly tight last night, trying to get out of my heavy losses. Time after time I got full houses, flushes, straights, and even quads!
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Only to have each crushed by a hand that was one higher, and ALWAYS off of the river.
Sigh.
My net is 37.50 down right now. Blah! I'm thinking of trying my hand at running a preset betting table at my house- basically a .50/1 table. Small money, I know, but when you're a young poor college student, that's gold.
Advice anyone? Should I try to make my come back on the .50/1? (It should be noted I'm quite skilled on Paradise's 3/6 play money tables, but then again this probably means nothing...)
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:33 pm GMT by Geno
| Replic wrote: | | (It should be noted I'm quite skilled on Paradise's 3/6 play money tables, but then again this probably means nothing...) |
Unfortunately, it probably doesn't 
Perhaps ur best bet (I crack myself up) is to play those mini-limit tables until u feel more comfortable with ur game and this drought ends and then step up to higher limits.
Limit $.50/$1 is not gonna recoup your $37.50 shortfall very quickly.......
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:45 pm GMT by Replic
The irony is that I know that EVERY one of those players save two are weak players. I watch them repeatedly go in on 10 4 unsuited. They don't keep 2 7 unsuited or 2 9 unsuited after I yelled at them for it after getting full house after full house with them.
Grr.
There are no microlimit tables, all my losses come from home games. I am yet to invest in online poker- I'm waiting for my luck to take a change for the better.
Posted Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:34 am GMT by BeerWench13
Bad beats and second best will happen. I was playing in a home game this weekend the flop was 6AA then the turn was another A and the river was a 9. One guy had the full house A's full of 10's with the pair of tens in his hand and lost to the quad A's. That's poker. He did have the best hand out there if no one had the other ace. Unfortunately the poker gods were not smiling on him in that hand. I'd have played the hand exactly as he did because the quads are rare and I'd have lost also. It just so happens that I had folded preflop. Good thing too, because I'd have had a full house A full of 9's and that, in this case, was third best.
Keep playing. Eventually, it will be you with the best hand and someone else with second best. Just always remember who you are playing with and what they are likely to call with. This will help you lay down those hands that will beat you in the end. Either that, or establish yourself very early in the game as a strong, tight player. Then, when you get that mediocre hand, bet out and watch them all fold. If you know they're going to call any bet, which was the case with two players at our table this weekend, don't bet unless you have the nuts.
The best advice I was ever given was this: "Find a loose table and play tight." That's the only way to really win in the long run. It sounds like you've found the loose table, but either weren't tight enough or didn't bet enough to get those players on a long shot draw out of the pot. (This is much easier to do in NL than in any limit game). In limit, some people will call any bet just for the chance of getting the "miracle" on the river and, sometimes, they'll get it. But try to remember how often you get that card that you need on the river. It at least helps you feel better when someone draws out on you.
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