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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
Playing cookie-cutter strategy, derived from online MDA, in a live setting; letting that cookie-cutter strategy be a substitute for thinking my way through the hand.
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If it is any comfort, YanasaurBBQ, it seems to me that your problem is one that the majority of live players should aspire to have. You are beating the game, raking the fish over the coals and exploiting the regs. Are aggressive fish giving you trouble? Relax, they give everyone trouble.
Find ways of sussing out quickly which players are aggro fish. And, perhaps more importantly, accept the variance that goes with getting to showdown with them.
The underlying leak, one that all of us must cope with, is loss aversion. To win big, we must put ourselves in the way of losing big. It's going to happen now and then. If you are not getting stacked once in a while, you are doing it wrong.
This is really true on loss aversion, to put it in practical terms:
If you're always picking off bluffs perfectly, you're not bluff catching enough
If your bluffs always get through, you're not bluffing enough
If you're always winning at show down, you're not value betting, raising or calling enough