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Old 06-24-2012, 02:30 AM   #1
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6max Card Dead with huge fish at the table

I was playing on 4 tables (6max) 3 of which i was around 20/19/7 but on the 4th table i was getting no playable hands taking into account position. My table stats were 4.3 / 2.9 the worst i've ever had but it's also somthing i can live with as i can start opening trash from LP but not so much when there was a super agro fish at the table who was 3betting everyone at the table, taking that into account i really had no choice but to wait for a value hand but not seeing any pairs let alone a medium to strong pairs or any Ax hands i ended up having to leave the table after 69 hands. The couple of hands i did play was just as I sat down and before the fish joined. What other choices do I have in this dire situation. Was leaving the right thingt o do or should i of contine to wait.
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Old 06-24-2012, 07:37 AM   #2
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previous hands don't have any impact on future hands. there's no reason to leave as long as it's a profitable spot
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Old 06-25-2012, 02:49 PM   #3
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Old 06-25-2012, 04:12 PM   #4
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I had a feeling sombody would say that, i was down 10bb just from lossing the blinds and i felt at the time that it could be a possibility that when i did pick up a decent hand even the huge fish would see how extremely tight i was and not give me any action
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Old 06-25-2012, 04:22 PM   #5
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Was leaving the right thingt o do or should i of contine to wait.
If I was #1 on the waiting list for the table, then yes; it was the right thing to do.

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i felt at the time that it could be a possibility that when i did pick up a decent hand even the huge fish would see how extremely tight i was and not give me any action
He can't be that much of a "huge fish" if he's adapting his play according to the circumstances...
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Old 06-25-2012, 04:54 PM   #6
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I had a feeling sombody would say that, i was down 10bb just from lossing the blinds and i felt at the time that it could be a possibility that when i did pick up a decent hand even the huge fish would see how extremely tight i was and not give me any action
If you have a good reason to believe this, beyond "Oh no they wont give me action because i've been folding," then start stealing some pots.
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Old 06-25-2012, 05:26 PM   #7
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Re: 6max Card Dead with huge fish at the table

Maybe I should of put a feeler out ther but since there was other tight regs at the table who were still getting 3bet constantly i decided against it. I think maybe i was just getting slightly fed up and started thinking negative thoughts that i'd get no action just to top off with the patience of waiting for a hand and decided to leave the table and clear my head with somthing else. It's the first time i've ever run so dead for 45 minutes straight with a huge fish at the table. Maybe i should of just opened up a 5th table and keep that one in the background to take my mind of it.
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Old 06-25-2012, 06:27 PM   #8
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well if you're getting tilted that's a legit reason to leave. don't leave just because your cards are bad.
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Old 06-25-2012, 11:38 PM   #9
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well if you're getting tilted that's a legit reason to leave. don't leave just because your cards are bad.
i think tilt might of been setting in coming to think of it, i recall thinking, "here we go again, another orbit of bad cards" as the blinds were coming round again. Not a good frame of mind to be playing IMO
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:03 AM   #10
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definitely level.
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:19 AM   #11
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Re: 6max Card Dead with huge fish at the table

You think this as you described him "super agro fish" is self aware enough to determine that he is not getting played back at?
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Old 06-26-2012, 12:33 PM   #12
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You think this as you described him "super agro fish" is self aware enough to determine that he is not getting played back at?
he was playing about 80% of hands. I was anticipating that if I did pick up a hand i was prepapred to play for stacks PF that it would be when he folded his 20% range or that maybe he might play back with a hand as bad as J6s (which was a hand he 5 bet shoved into another reg with) and get super lucky. If i did get unlucky and went back to being card dead again i'm going to feel like he's not going to be hanging around for much longer and be tempted to play trash hands. Maybe knowing myself in the worst case scenario, maybe leaving was the right choice given my mind set at the time.
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Old 06-26-2012, 02:00 PM   #13
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he was playing about 80% of hands. I was anticipating that if I did pick up a hand i was prepapred to play for stacks PF that it would be when he folded his 20% range or that maybe he might play back with a hand as bad as J6s (which was a hand he 5 bet shoved into another reg with) and get super lucky. If i did get unlucky and went back to being card dead again i'm going to feel like he's not going to be hanging around for much longer and be tempted to play trash hands. Maybe knowing myself in the worst case scenario, maybe leaving was the right choice given my mind set at the time.
Why not just test the theory. Raise a crap hand and cbet and see if he folds. If he doesn't you lose a few bb's, but you gain the knowledge that he's not adjusting to your ultra-tight image. Or maybe he does fold and you win a little pot.

But if you sit there and wait until you have a hand, you don't know how he'll adjust to your image (if at all) which could make for some very difficult decisions if the pot starts getting big and you only have top pair or something.
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Old 06-26-2012, 05:33 PM   #14
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Why not just test the theory. Raise a crap hand and cbet and see if he folds. If he doesn't you lose a few bb's, but you gain the knowledge that he's not adjusting to your ultra-tight image. Or maybe he does fold and you win a little pot.

But if you sit there and wait until you have a hand, you don't know how he'll adjust to your image (if at all) which could make for some very difficult decisions if the pot starts getting big and you only have top pair or something.
I think maybe I should of done just that to see what happens before making the decision to just get up and leave. I'll hae to do that IF it happens again
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