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Originally Posted by checkraisdraw
Sounds like a mental game thing more than you being actually not good enough to win 100bb NL poker. Maybe a possible tactic is to play some 10NL online if possible just to get comfortable with 100bb game and then see if some of those skills translate to live play. Idk seems like a pretty low risk strategy.
IMHO (and I could be wrong), 99% of my issue with live full-stacked NL is I'm simply not rolled for it. Full stop.
Just making conversation, live 1/2 and 1/3 tables (and many 2/5 tables for that matter) are full of calling stations. You can raise aces to 12bb after 4 limpers and they'll all call. You can c-bet 3/4 pot on safe board and usually get 1 or 2 calls (of course in NL you have adjust your bet sizes based on if you're trying to get your stack in or how many streets of value you think your hand has yada yada yada I know all that, I'm just making an oversimplied example). You can half-pot the turn and usually get 1 caller. Now you're on the river and you either get donked into for the rest of your stack or you make a standard bet and get raised for the rest of your stack. What do you do? Well, 19 times out of 20 the answer is FOLD, and usually in that case over half of your stack is GONE. And usually the other guy won't show if you fold, so you're left wondering whether or not that one hand was the one time in 20 that you got bluffed.
Contrast that to LHE. I can raise 4 limpers with aces, bet the flop and the turn (if there's no apparent opportunity to protect my hand), and if I get raised on the river, I just call. Not because I don't want to get bluffed out, but because IN LOW-STAKES LHE PAYING OFF IS 100% THE CORRECT STRATEGY, FULL STOP. It doesn't even faze me when my aces get drawn out on the river because usually by the time that happens in a session I've had other big hands hold up just fine or I'VE been the one to make an unlikely two pair or better hand against someone's top pair.
I also think it can't be ignored that in LHE there's, for all practical purposes, zero risk of losing your entire stack on one hand. As a corollary to that, you can go on a heater at an LHE table, and after building up a bigger stack, it's NOT all at risk - the chips you've already won are fairly "safe". In NL, you could sit down with $300, triple it up, and then watch the entire $900 go into someone else's stack on a suckout. That crap HURTS (well, I've never had $900 in front of me before, but I've lost $300 on one hand, and as much as THAT stung, I don't even want to THINK about losing $900 on one hand!)
I didn't mean to write such a long book, but I think I answered your question about why I think I'm so bad at NL
P.S. I didn't mean to hijack the thread. The thread is about hitting and running. I'm merely explaining why i believe I have an advantage when I sit down with a small stack but feel like a fish out of water once it gets bigger, therefore I consider hitting and running in that case.
Last edited by DalTXColtsFan; 05-01-2024 at 11:26 AM.