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U Cook Socks
This Place Is My Second Home
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| Brokerstar wrote: | You do have to learn to embrace your demons to be honest. You always get times when everyone seems agro or patches when everyone is a calling station.
The truth is that as you climb the stakes, you will face more and more aggressive players and so have to be comfortable playing them.
At the lower stakes, many over agro players are just spewtards that when you play in a certain way, you get them to put all their chips in so bad. I have to agree with Blazing in as much as that makes you feel like you've reached through the computer screen and crushed someones soul like a grape.
To be fair Blazing is probably the most helpful guy in the world and spent countless hours, selflessly helping others improve their games. I'm sure if you're nice to him then he'll give you some pointers too.  |
I must apologise for being bad for your business though  Sorry couldn't resist.
Come back OP, and I will do you a free game review against a lag, just to show there is no hard feelings.
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Brokerstar
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YATHINNK
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Joined: 03 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Blazing_Saddler wrote: | | " I have two cards, I call, I like Pie" |
I literally spat water at this. Didn't expect to laugh at this post but, alas, I did.
I'd take the game review though.
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thedesbois
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Blazzing,
I'm sorry for my "time of the month" reply. I know your style of reply can be direct sometimes and very funny, when I'm not the one it's directed at.
My bad. |
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U Cook Socks
This Place Is My Second Home
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| thedesbois wrote: | Hey Blazzing,
I'm sorry for my "time of the month" reply. I know your style of reply can be direct sometimes and very funny, when I'm not the one it's directed at.
My bad. |
No worries, ship me a HH and I'll do a review for you.
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StasKo
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Joined: 10 Jul 2011
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Location: Israel
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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OP,
i have also experienced this player-type-time-difference.
in my country when i play in the morning its seems that most players in the 15$ stakes are bad but at other times i mosty encounter decent TAGs.
so yeah its nice for me to play in the morning but eventually i realize that at some point i will go up in stakes or even go down (like when in a big downswing) and i will have to learn how to deal with all kinds of opponents.
there are no shortcuts in poker just like there are no shortcuts in life - if you want to be good at something you have to work hard and face with everything that comes in your way
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thedesbois
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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StasKo,
Thanks for sharing.
After reading all the posts and yous, I realize I was looking for a shortcut indeed.
A life long reflex for me. Did that in school and all my regular jobs. Too easy it was.
That's why I love poker. It'll force me to become a better person. Or break me. 
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Simba
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No, you are absolutely not alone in this. For me it seems to be the Russians (and Europeans in general). All stupidly loose-aggressive, and I don't know how to deal with them.
The way I see things is as follows. I have three options against people like this:
1) Go into a call-down mode, calling down lighter, but this is a bit crap since he has two ways to win the pot (by making me fold or by having the best hand at showdown) compared to only one for me.
2) Fold the normal amount. This just seems silly but I may as well list it as it is an option.
3) Start raising him lighter, but this also seems bad since if I raise my second pair for value and he calls (or even 3-bets!) as these loose people do, what the hell do I do on the next street when I'm unimproved? Sure, he MIGHT fold if I c/r the flop, and bet big on the turn and river, but do I /really/ want to commit a huge amount of my chip stack to find that out? And do I really want to do that for 'value' with second pair? That seems ludicrous.
So there doesn't seem to be a 'good' option. It seems all my options are crap. Really frustrating - I used to be a winner at the $5s but now I break-even/lose at the $1.50s with all these damn LAG players even at the tiniest stakes that have showed up lately... |
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