Posted Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:16 pm GMT by ComedyBee
Hey guys,
For a long while i was someone who played quite loose. I made money at times and lost more at others. More recently i have tightened up, taken peoples bets more literally and playing the deck.
I am absolutely positive that i am not winning as much as i could, even though i am making money.
As a kind of indication of how i play, lets assume that i play by the book, playing the correct hands in the correct positions, ie a solid tight aggressive game. I don't really take many risks, see many over-the-top raises and the like, i play tight.
Now what i am wondering is whether it is worth me taking a usual buy-in to a table with the aim of losing it. The theory is that i call more bigger bets when im less sure about what they have just to see how often i am getting bluffed, therefore learning the typical actions by others when they play me like this.
Has anyone done this or do most of you guys play a by-the-book profitable game?
CB
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Posted Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:20 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
I wouldn't go out and TRY to lose it, but you must be UNAFRAID to lose it. When those situations come up when you know you should put every one of those chips in the pot, you have to have the courage to do it, because many don't.
I play a game that's profitable, but not exactly by the book, or not by most books anyway. I'm beginning to understand why Gus Hansen thinks he could say the exact opposite of many Poker books and it would be a better strategy. But the truth is, there is no magic formula, and you have to be able to adjust your game. Sometimes you should play the majority of your hands; sometimes you should play very few. But when I hear so many refer to strategies as "tight" or "loose" or "conservative" or "aggressive," most of them are talking about pre-flop confrontations. But most of the skill in Poker comes AFTER the flop, not before--and you can be tight or loose after the flop as well. I would say I play much looser than most of the players on this site before and on the flop when bets are relatively small compared to stack sizes, but almost every time big bets go in on the later streets, I have the best of it--it makes me look "lucky" because I took a couple of bad pre-flop cards and made them into a monster, but that's only half the story. As Seneca says, luck is where preparation meets opportunity, so you have to be prepared to seize the opportunity for lucky things to happen to you.
Posted Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:36 pm GMT by ComedyBee
What's baking my noodle is with my current style of play i feel i'm folding with the worst hand, in all truth i'm nearly always correct.
Given this i guess there isnt too much to change right now.
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:09 am GMT by jimmer
| ComedyBee wrote: | | What's baking my noodle is with my current style of play i feel i'm folding with the worst hand. |
No your not. You just remember those hands.
If you are now playing less hands, you have more time to assess the hands you play. The loosing one's will linger in your brain for longer.
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:13 pm GMT by ComedyBee
So im definately not winning as many as i could be.
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:56 pm GMT by Jauron
One buy-in isn't going to tell you anything anyways, your sample is much too small.
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