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Hi, all.
Hello everybody.
I am pretty new here, be lurking awhile and made a couple of comments so now it's time for my first post. A little bit about myself- No poker in my state so I drive an hour to the nearest card room and due to work, family and other such nonsense can only make the trip once a week. Mostly they have 3-6 limit and NL. I play the 3-6. I'm not as good as I think I am, but realize this and still believe it am. Over the past six sessions I averaged about ten beg bets won per session. Last week I gave it all back. My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad? And any advice for this week? |
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Re: Hi, all.
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My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad? [/ QUOTE ] Sure. Look at my graphs. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] |
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Re: Hi, all.
Welcome to the forum.
[ QUOTE ] I'm not as good as I think I am, [/ QUOTE ] Neither are the rest of us [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]? [ QUOTE ] My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad? [/ QUOTE ] In one session, unfortunately, hell yes. [ QUOTE ] And any advice for this week? [/ QUOTE ] Play, have fun, bring back ONE hand, that you had a hard time with, and post it. Good luck. |
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Re: Hi, all.
Welcome.
[ QUOTE ] My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad? [/ QUOTE ] I'd assume so, because sometimes I play bad and win really good [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] |
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Re: Hi, all.
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Over the past six sessions I averaged about ten beg bets won per session. Last week I gave it all back. My question is, Can you play good and still lose really bad? And any advice for this week? [/ QUOTE ] So you had 5 sessions that averages +10 BB and then one session at -50 BB? A 50 BB losing session is certainly possible. The questions to ask yourself are: Did you have a long stretch of dead cards and start playing too loose? Did you start playing badly because you were losing? Where you in a loose, aggressive game with lots of pots getting capped preflop by people with junk hands? Was the loosing session too long? Especially in loose, aggressive game a -50 BB session is certainly possible. Some days it seems the maniacs always have whatever two cards it takes to beat you. One day I remember a maniac that seemed he just couldn’t miss. When I had second pair, he had top pair. When I had top pair, he had 2 pair. When I had two pair, he had a set. The important thing is to keep playing well when you are losing, and to leave if you cannot keep playing your A game. |
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Re: Hi, all.
Yes, I did have a very long stretch of bad cards and I did keep playing to long. I made some dumb calls but not really more then normal.
I have Alan Schoonmaker's "Your Worst Poker Enemy", so I continually ask myself how I'm playing. But that book also pounds into your head that if you are losing it is because you are playing bad. I just had a hard time finding the spots I played bad last session. Bob, I'll bring a hand back to post. Badger, I try to figure out how to look at your graphs... Thanks guys. |
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