Help me stop losing!

[ChulioBarth]

Gimme your best shot!

[Leader]

You just fold way too much. Esp. in the BB and on the river.

[Oink]

Fold less and play at stakes with less rake

[rafiki]

yup agree on all that

[BigBadBabar]

when i played with you on, well, i guess i shouldn't name the site, you were much too tight, and also those games are very hard in general in my opinion. pm me if you want more info.

[Flintoff]

22/17 is waaay too tight for me.

I think im 31/21 with showdown figures of 37/55

My fold BB to steal is also about 36 compared to your 60. Lots of ways to win though. Loosen up gradually.

[Apanage]

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You just fold way too much. Esp. in the BB and on the river.

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I agree about the river part. I think folding rivers 52% is way too high.
However I don´t think you ever lose with 23/17 stats in low limits without making serious postflop mistakes and/or having the worst table/site selection ever.
I spent my first year (1450 h)playing just 1/2 and 2/4 (to learn the game properly and to grind bonuses) on a great number of networks and I was way over 1.5 BB/100 at most
sites.But there were a few networks where I had a substantially lesser winrate (Absolute and Prima).

My stats were 24/16 and I folded BB something like 67-69% to a steal.
So being tight preflop and in BB has absolutely no impact on whether you´re winning or losing at 1/2 OR 2/4.That doesn´t mean that it is optimal. A good player surely would win more by losing up but the question asked here was not "Why don´t I win the maximum from my opponents?"

Everyone that reads my posts notices that I´m a mediocre limit player.But you don´t have to be a good player you just have to table select better than average to win at 1/2 or 2/4.And 3/6 and 5/10 for that matter.
And since I always have been following your advice Leader.
I recommend the OP to post as many hands as possible or to hire your services because that is the only way he would ever get any real information about why he is losing.

[HoneyBadger]

overly weak-tight?

[Flintoff]

I'd also endorse the Leader coaching.

In the 60K hands since he coached me my blinds results have improved so much it is almost laughable.

[Apanage]

I managed to retrieve my first 215 000 hands I ever played.August 2005-April 2006.
I hope that this will prove that playing tight at the lower stakes is profitable and that there is no correlation between being tight in BB and being an overall loser.
I would almost say that the opposite is true.
Look at my VP$IP in BB.It is insanely low (16%) and yet I had a winrate of -0.12 BB/hand from the Big blind.

Being OOP sucks in so many ways so there is no need to defend a lot of hands from BB just because you have "preflop odds".
Being tight in BB is just a problem when people are trying to take advantage of it.That is rarely the case at lower limits and it is easy to adjust to if you have to.

Neither is it necessary to play agressively from BB either.
I remember that I never raised anything else than AA-QQ from BB but that "flaw" obviously didn´t have a big impact on my BB winrate.

But as Flintoff said.You can win in many different ways.But playing tight at the low limits is the easiest by far, unless you´re a really good player.

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