judas asked:
i only see the flop about 20-30% of the time,dont call unless i hav the pot odds, dont bluff much, basically fold a loser and bet a winner.
i only lose when i have all my chips in with the BEST hand, and some lucky punk hits a 3 outer. should i play higher stakes (to improve the competition to players who wouldnt call 3 outers???) or just keep playing the same and put it down to a bad run. i play internet $5 or £10 tourneys and have won several multi table (300+ players) tourneys. been playin about 3 years. thanks
Virginia
i only see the flop about 20-30% of the time,dont call unless i hav the pot odds, dont bluff much, basically fold a loser and bet a winner.
i only lose when i have all my chips in with the BEST hand, and some lucky punk hits a 3 outer. should i play higher stakes (to improve the competition to players who wouldnt call 3 outers???) or just keep playing the same and put it down to a bad run. i play internet $5 or £10 tourneys and have won several multi table (300+ players) tourneys. been playin about 3 years. thanks
Virginia
Quit playing!
practice more…if you dont get better, then you just dont dont have skills when it comes to playing poker
Higher stakes will definitely weed out alot of those calling stations who always seem to hit on the river. Of course luck is one of the 3 keys in poker, so for sure someone will suck out on you again - at any level. Play at the stakes you are comfortable with, and accept that it is definitely part of the game. BTW it helps me to look at the whole picture instead of just how many outs the guy ended up having. Sometimes they are getting good value to call, sometimes, I have represented a weaker hand to get them to call - in which case, can’t really complain that they called and then sucked out right? Also, you are getting all your chips in and then getting eliminated so that tells us a couple of things. 1) The caller is rarely totally inept because he did build up a bigger chip stack to be able to eliminate you (I did say rarely not never) 2) You should expect more loose calls when someone has the opportunity to eliminate a smaller stack. It seems like you have a sound gameplan overall, and you have won some tournaments,so don’t worry too much.
Sounds like you want everyone to play with their hands face up, and let the best hand win. I’ll bet you’re the kind of guy that cries up a storm when he gets bad beat, but shrugs and accepts it when he does it himself. There’s skill involved, but it’s called gambling for a reason. There is chance in there, and if you’re getting beat, just accept that you got beat.
And if you want to get rid of some of the suckouts, consider this. The only way to eliminate all the outs people can get, is to make them all fold. If you are going to play a hand, you might as well play a hand you’re comfortable raising with before the flop, or calling a raise with. This will take out most of the competition right there. If you’re seeing 20-30 percent of flops, you’re seeing flops with some marginal hands, and you’re probably not comfortable enough to raise with them, so expect to be up against guys with metiocre hands that will catch on you.
if play at middle limits & higher, it will not always be possible to find enough weak(loose)playres;you have to tangle w/ strong(tight-aggressive),ie, cannot take pots off good players;
super -tight:anyone who plays less than 20% of their hands…
Keep playing the way you are. In the long run the odds are much more in your favor versus chasers.
Stop playing.