What are the main mistakes in cash games?
Join Date: Jan 2020
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I’m considering going from tournaments to cash games - mainly because of time
In my experience, some of the main mistakes in tournament poker is:
Early on in rebuy period - waaaay too loose and aggressive - solution, extremely tight and moderately aggressive
Later, low blind - too scared to go all in - play moderately tight and extremely aggressive
Heads up - folding too much in SB - play loose and aggressive
I mean, just these 3 mistakes and strategies against them will put most people in an advantage
But ... what are the mistakes in cash games?!?
12 years ago when I played semi professionally, the mistake was playing too loosely - so I could beat most games just by playing TAG
But I think the game has evolved since then.
So ... today ... what is the main mistakes and strategies against them?
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Oh ... and I need to clarify ... I mean live games ... in my experience you don’t find obvious mistakes in mid level online games
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What stakes are you referring to? General Population mistakes are going to vary hugely from 1/3 to 5/10 to
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Playing bad hands in early positions either by limping or limp calling and then playing fit or fold post flop.
Not 3betting from everywhere.
Pot controlling in spots where villain's range is condensed to weak holdings or draws.
Slow playing too much in similar situations as above.
Not value betting enough.
Unbalanced PF and post flop ranges. Leading to bad bluffs that are easy to pick off and transparent value lines that are easy to fold too.
Unbalanced and bad bet sizings.
Playing too wide a range from all positions.
Not adjusting PF ranges based on position and position pair/actions.
Not having enough bluffs.
Having too many bluffs.
Tilting. Entitlement tilt, winner's tilt, loser's tilt.
Not showering.
Talking strategy at the table.
Not paying attention to the game.
Over adjusting play based on a small sample size.
Basing decisions too much on live reads or some other voodoo rather than ranging from PF to river properly.
Always playing the same hands the same way.
Not having enough money.
Berating bad players.
Berating dealers.
Asking for a set up because you're card dead or got bad beat.
Seat changing for the same superstitious reason above.
Tanking unnecessarily.
Wearing sunglasses.
Calling not getting the proper odds.
Overplaying marginal hands deep stacked.
That's all I could think of off the top of my head sorry.
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Grunch from title alone:
Simply clicking call WAY TOO OFTEN.
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Play good hands. Don't pay off big bets.
No you can't "outplay the guy" with 75s.
No he's not bluffing.
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Going to lock this up under the "Don't ask how to beat LLSNL in one paragraph" rule. See the stickies to find out why this rule exists.