Lose patience in cash games (5NL)
08-18-2017
, 11:51 AM
Over the past few months I have been crushing NL2 for about 25bb/100 as I was aggressive against the correct opponents and very rarely faced anybody fighting back as the regs there are pretty tight. However after the move up to NL5 I have experienced players 3 betting and 4 betting me more often and calling my 3 bets and being very sticky on every flop. I have currently played 2.3k hands and am running at -17bb/100 and down $20. This is a mix of tilt plus running bad such as 2 outer on the river when I went all in on turn and losing KK < AK and been coolered KK vs AA twice.
However my biggest problem I find is tilt management when I'm not flopping any cards and when I do I always get beat such as when I flop two pair they have a straight or get there with their flush/straight draws on the river. In my head I think, I haven't flopped a hand in so long I can't fold now convincing myself I fold too much. In those 2k hands I have flopped a set twice and both players folded on the flop both times in a 3 way pot. I will post my stats below but if somebody could spot my possible leaks and possibly give me on advice in keeping my emotions in check when I can't win a pot at all that would be great
PS: I believe I am good enough to beat this stake but almost feel like at times I am getting run over. And I know the stats may look really really bad but most of it is because of tilt.
However my biggest problem I find is tilt management when I'm not flopping any cards and when I do I always get beat such as when I flop two pair they have a straight or get there with their flush/straight draws on the river. In my head I think, I haven't flopped a hand in so long I can't fold now convincing myself I fold too much. In those 2k hands I have flopped a set twice and both players folded on the flop both times in a 3 way pot. I will post my stats below but if somebody could spot my possible leaks and possibly give me on advice in keeping my emotions in check when I can't win a pot at all that would be great
PS: I believe I am good enough to beat this stake but almost feel like at times I am getting run over. And I know the stats may look really really bad but most of it is because of tilt.
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08-18-2017
, 05:56 PM
08-19-2017
, 07:12 AM
08-20-2017
, 08:00 PM
So tonight's session was unbelievably bad. Didn't hit any flops, I don't believe I tilted too much but was very frustrating. Literally didn't hit a pair on the flop for most of the night and whenever I did I would get rivered by straight/flush draws or 2 pairs while none of my draws came through.
Was playing on a table full of fish also so my c bets rarely worked and the tighter regs seemed to have a strong enough range to call my double barrels every time. The worst was when I decided to triple barrel a river which shown a 4 card straight and flush on board and decided to bet big on river to rep it and the guy still called with bottom pair. My question is: What do you do when you can't flop anything and your c bets never work?
Some of my big hands that went against me, any tips would be helpful
I won 1 stack by getting there with top pair and flush draw vs two pair and half a stack with AA vs QQ. The rest I explained up top and my red line dropped about 100bb due to me having to c/f or my c bet failing. Do you guys think I ran really bad or do I have a major leak somewhere?
Was playing on a table full of fish also so my c bets rarely worked and the tighter regs seemed to have a strong enough range to call my double barrels every time. The worst was when I decided to triple barrel a river which shown a 4 card straight and flush on board and decided to bet big on river to rep it and the guy still called with bottom pair. My question is: What do you do when you can't flop anything and your c bets never work?
Some of my big hands that went against me, any tips would be helpful
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I won 1 stack by getting there with top pair and flush draw vs two pair and half a stack with AA vs QQ. The rest I explained up top and my red line dropped about 100bb due to me having to c/f or my c bet failing. Do you guys think I ran really bad or do I have a major leak somewhere?
08-21-2017
, 06:30 AM
08-21-2017
, 08:21 PM
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Session Stats:
I felt like I played much tighter mainly on the button to take advantage of the tight blind players. Managed to flop a few good hands with my big hands and get paid off for 1/2 to full stacks in the later part of the session. I ran quite bad at the start of the session mainly by two pairs and draws catching up to my TPTK/GK hands by the river and my strong draws bricking when I had correct pot odds against opponents who I believe would pay me off if I hit, but didn't lose too much from it. I cbet much less than usual even if it was a great board to c bet and just accepted to give away a pot if I didn't hit my pair.
Was aching to raise my flush draws on the flop heads up but decided to just call and take my implied odds. I assume this is the best way to play at these stakes.
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I felt like I played much tighter mainly on the button to take advantage of the tight blind players. Managed to flop a few good hands with my big hands and get paid off for 1/2 to full stacks in the later part of the session. I ran quite bad at the start of the session mainly by two pairs and draws catching up to my TPTK/GK hands by the river and my strong draws bricking when I had correct pot odds against opponents who I believe would pay me off if I hit, but didn't lose too much from it. I cbet much less than usual even if it was a great board to c bet and just accepted to give away a pot if I didn't hit my pair.
Was aching to raise my flush draws on the flop heads up but decided to just call and take my implied odds. I assume this is the best way to play at these stakes.
08-21-2017
, 11:43 PM
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Session Stats:
I felt like I played much tighter mainly on the button to take advantage of the tight blind players. Managed to flop a few good hands with my big hands and get paid off for 1/2 to full stacks in the later part of the session. I ran quite bad at the start of the session mainly by two pairs and draws catching up to my TPTK/GK hands by the river and my strong draws bricking when I had correct pot odds against opponents who I believe would pay me off if I hit, but didn't lose too much from it. I cbet much less than usual even if it was a great board to c bet and just accepted to give away a pot if I didn't hit my pair.
Was aching to raise my flush draws on the flop heads up but decided to just call and take my implied odds. I assume this is the best way to play at these stakes.
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I felt like I played much tighter mainly on the button to take advantage of the tight blind players. Managed to flop a few good hands with my big hands and get paid off for 1/2 to full stacks in the later part of the session. I ran quite bad at the start of the session mainly by two pairs and draws catching up to my TPTK/GK hands by the river and my strong draws bricking when I had correct pot odds against opponents who I believe would pay me off if I hit, but didn't lose too much from it. I cbet much less than usual even if it was a great board to c bet and just accepted to give away a pot if I didn't hit my pair.
Was aching to raise my flush draws on the flop heads up but decided to just call and take my implied odds. I assume this is the best way to play at these stakes.
Why would you play tighter to take advantage of tight blind players?
Well raising with equity is a better idea than pure bluffing but fold equity and implied odds have a balanced relationship. If you believe you have sufficient implied odds to call you likely don't have the fold equity to raise as a semi bluff. It's a judgement call.
But yeah bluffing at the micros isn't for the feint hearted haha!
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08-28-2017
, 07:39 PM
