Leak, leak, leak! What's your leak?

[CalledDownLight]

24 tabling is also a leak. That [censored] is hard in cash games.

[seki]

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Basically I bluff bad
2 barreling and 3 barreling on the wrong boards as bluffs
c/r bluffing the wrong players
floating in stupid spots

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[ranka]

slowplaying

[Bluegrassplayer]

Slowplaying monsters and going broke with what I think is a monster in a limped pot where someone has the real monster.

Oh and underestimating other people's stupidity: "He couldn't have called 20 dollars preflop with 2/4 could he have?"

[Hey_Porter]

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Slowplaying monsters and going broke with what I think is a monster in a limped pot where someone has the real monster.

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The one rule I find myself repeating the most is don't go broke in unraised pots.

[Bluegrassplayer]

I always tell myself that too, but it's so hard to lay down two pair or trips in a pot against a donkey. I just hear a cash register in the back of my head instead of the warning lights.

[diebitter]

sticking around too long with overs, especially AK.

[Hey_Porter]

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I always tell myself that too, but it's so hard to lay down two pair or trips in a pot against a donkey. I just hear a cash register in the back of my head instead of the warning lights.

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So are you going broke because you are slowplaying and then playing it big, or are you going broke because others are "forcing" you to put a lot of money in the pot (by, e.g., going all-in at some point in the hand)?

Sometimes it's out of your hands, but you've just got to try to play small ball (but for value) in those situations.

[Bluegrassplayer]

For instance last tuesday I was playing live and the game died down unfortunately. We were only four handed and I had 4/8 in the small blind. I called, and the flop came 4/8/J. I bet the pot, 8 dollars, the BB who was a donkey called. The turn was a Q, I bet 24 dollars, and he called. River was an A, rainbow board. I bet $50 and he raised to $150, I figured there was no way someone was checking an ace preflop and this guy likes to play his hands pretty straight forwards. I called and he had J/A, he was convinced he was slowplaying me the entire time, and he's so easy to read that this should have been an easy lay down on the river but I just couldn't drop 2 pair 4 handed.

[crazymoose]

Playing too passively.
Paying off when I shouldn't.
Not value-betting enough.
Playing on autopilot.