DrTyore Quinner, god bless you.... you're honestly my favorite poster of late for your poker discussions. And yes, good push. Mark
Quinner Thank me?? Eff that!! Thank YOU guys, I haven't made it into any mega bux yet but my game has improved dramatically in the short time I've been here. My reads are way better, I think I'm putting a ton more pressure onto my opponents and I fixed a good number of dumb mistakes that were costing me money before. I think the next step in my game needs to be thinking ahead AND fixing the huge mistakes I still make way too frequently. Some are just embarrassing to post. But I guess since I've mentioned it let me give you an example. (This should give you a good laugh) I got QQ in the big blind (25/50), one limper and small blinds fold to me so I popped it up to 200 and limper calls. Flop comes K J 3r I c-bet/probe bet 250. Villain calls. Turn is an Ace, check check. Here's where I get VERY stupid. River is a meaningless 7. In my head I think I've pretty much polarized his range to either a weak king or ace or a pocket pair that didn't give up on the flop. I'm thinking to myself well he MIGHT have me beat, however I don't think he's strong enough to be able to call a shove on the river seeing as I've shown some fairly decent strength so far. So of course I go right ahead and do that thinking "man I'm so sick I can outplay anyone!" ..... Then he snap calls with Q10o for the straight. Boom. Bustoville. And I look and feel like the biggest fish you've ever seen. So yea. If I could STOP doing that, MIGHT just help the game a little....ok ALOT. I think I'm overthinking some times and just need to play my cards a little more straightforwardly and/or cautiously and/or less STUPIDLY. Yea....definitely less stupidly.
DrTyore Quick tip... You're never going to stop doing that... There are times when you'll work something through in your head, and be so sure that nobody would play something so badly, that that's when they do, and nail you... it happens... Mark
MidnightMike Shove on the hand. Marks right too, you might cut back a bit, but you wont stop doing it. There will always be some jerk out there who calls with such incredible garbage and hits runner runner that some mornings you will still wake up shaking your head over it. Or is that just me. ???
STR82ACE Quinner;187113 wrotehaha, I sincerely doubt its just you Mike :P I know Mike...he's right, its just him ;)