I have two gears;
one where I play bad,

and another,

Where I play REALLY bad.

Lately I have been noticing a trend in the forum. It seems like everyhand HH posted are at the top of everyone's range. I think this happening because if you post a hand like a suited connector you get the fold pre response like 10 times. How we suppose to get better and one day move up in levels. If everyone just post Ak,AA,KK,QQ and AQ. I mean my little brother can play those hands.

Quite frankly because suited connectors are easy as hell to play in low stakes no limit. See a flop in position when getting good odds. Draw when the odds say it's a good idea. There's not much to them. I don't think you'll see too many "fold-pre" responses when the hand starts "4 limpers and I limp OTB with 87s." But there's rarely any difficult decision to be made on those hands. We usually end up with one of two types of hands. The near nuts, or garbage.

Top hands (JJ+/AQ+) usually present a lot of tough decision because we often have to decide if we are in a spot to get away from them or not. They make medium to strong hands, which are a lot tougher to play than the nuts or garbage.

We move up in levels by building a bankroll and taking shots at bigger games. Not by trying out moves against level 1 thinkers that weren't designed to work against level 1 thinkers.

Finally, someone I can relate to.

Seriously though, I used to be a fairly tight player......since reading 2 + 2.....I've become a LAG.....but lately...tooo laggy....sometimes out of control laggy....I mean I'm raising such a high percentage of flush draws....convincing myself that I always have some FE.

Also, in the last 2 months I've taken 3 shots @ 5/10......all winning sessions....but getting beat up @ 2/5. I feel like I play better at the higher stake.....in a strange funk at the moment.

I can relate to playing better at higher stakes. I tend to focus a bit more and not spew when I'm taking shots above my bankroll.

right.

CaliDonk, make sure you don't equate playing at higher levels with playing like Tom Dwan.

Getting a third of your stack in preflop with ten high isnt good. Its a very simple concept, SPRs and the like, and the hand you posted 9Ts, is a very simple fold when its 100AI back to you...

If I post a hand with AA when I have an SPR of 0.8 or whatever, and the flop comes 954 or something then it would be very simple to.

Play a hand with SPRs 10+ and its always a multi-street, multi thinking hand.

hookers and blow are very effective for making sure you are underrolled for the smaller games, too. just a tip.

Mmmmm... Hookers and blow

smokingrobots line at 4 days is pretty... pretty... (think Larry David) good.
you guys get ready to settle up on the over and under bets,

wow, i'm getting passed, prob at some point today. (if i havent already?)

Kudos to ILCD, more posts in a month than i have in 4 years!!
really the life of the party of late!

AA and KK, two of the toughest hands to play in NLHE, IMO.
so easily misplayed

Wow, I guess I'm a level of thinking higher then I thought I was.

I totally agree. You should start posting in the HSNL forum with people that think more on your leve.

Don't tell me you think AA and KK are hard to play too.

aa 5bb deep, easy
Aa 300bb deep with one pair, tough.
j9o 10bb deep in a donkament in lp, some thinking
J9o 300bb deep in a cash game, ez fold

So for you its easy for you to fold AA or KK in a raised pot on a 256r board facing aggression?

you are right ILCD,
any monkey can play AA, KK, QQ well.

you train the monkey thusly "when they match, you put all the bananas in the middle of the table."

LOL.

lol. CaliDonk brings the drama

For some reason this really made me LOL.

goddammit! only up 15 posts on ILCD!
time to get to work.
maybe i will become a troll in BBV, to up the ante!

cool, i hate poker strategy anyways,
think i will relegate myself to this chat thread only, in this forum!

this

If its an overshove easy fold. If its a min raise or regular 3bet, I at least have to see the turn, hopefully I can get a nut flush draw. Add some extra outs to my hand.

Quick tip: When it all boils down, AA and KK is just a pair. They play well on the flop. Not so well to the turn and river.

Just my thoughts: thanks for all of the levels, lol

u should be here looking for tips (not giving them) as u've stated in
other threads that u are relatively new to poker.

GL

just a warning to the forum, tonight (about 12hrs time) im going to do a mega-grunch of hopefully every thread so far this week on the forum. So when most threads have last reply ashley12, you will know why...