Leakfinder thread for common beginner mistakes

Wannawin · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:06 pm Post subject:

nice post, well explained - cheers.
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BTW. my advice is useless. I suck at poker.....

N86xps · Grinder Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 113

Really great post! Could you expand more on leakfinding using HEM? I have tried to filter my hands and see what I am actually doing. For example I filtered it to bet river/get called/lost the hand.. Found out, that I have been betting ace high on the river which I know is a blunder 99% of the time. Any more ways to find common blunders?

z1s6arn · Reader of Souls Joined: 04 Nov 2010 Posts: 650

Thanks Chris.

The AT5dd A22 and A27rainbow example hit the nail on the head!

z1

Kim Cardassian · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:41 pm Post subject:

The reason I often bet in such situations is because of balancing. You might argue that balancing at the $10s is unneccisary, but I just like to not play face up just in case. Often when I start betting very big vs calling stations, they just happen to fold when I have a monster. Often when I start checking back made hands vs ubernits they start calling cbets with ridiculous hands (they do show they're still horrid players, by calling with like T7 on 944 and not bluffing the turn or river when I check). It often has me scratching my head, do they really think T high is good there most of the time? "wow I won with Q2o".

I just like to eliminate the possibility that he's actually got enough brains to figure it out. It frigging sucks when you flop a set on a dry board and a guy that calls 90% of flops suddenly snapfolds to a 3/4 pot bet. Or when a guy that folds 90% of paired boards suddenly starts raising and floating because he saw you check behind top pair.

So it isn't because "I have top pair, I bet". I just don't like to get outdrawn, allow him to start playing back light in the future and such things that can make life difficult. If he's a station I bet despite the fact that even a station will often fold. Picking up the pot is nice enough (and it allows me to see if he's the "Call ANY flop with ANY backdoor draw" or the type that only calls if he actually hits at least a gutshot) and if he has anything he's calling. If he's a nit he's not paying me off anyway, so I might aswell bet to win the pot now, I mean betting is still +EV if he only calls with better 10% of the time.

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