i know you guys are sick of me but!

blsmur

I have been going over Brokers course yet again and it seem to me I am the world dumbest student and poker player

I let a call stn beat me by not believing his river bets

mind you he wouldnt fold any hand or barely any hand if he has a pair he will not fold

that is fine I need to get a hand to beat him A high is no good or 2 pair or trips played him twice and could not get the upper hand

I cant ever win a race when i need to

and after going through this course again i am worse I also watch the first 2 videos on tag front page , this morning as a bit of a warm up .

the thing i notice is if i cant get hands ie if I dont make some good hands during the game that i can capitalize on then i just cant win the game

this leads me to believe I am never going to make it in HU purely because there is no way I will ever get games where I get more good hands than my opponent

so I am lost as to how to beat this hu game nothing is working for me i have spent a shit load of money trying to get it
is there any one out there that would be willing to work with me for free
i have no money left for courses or coaching i just want a friend to help me sweat me and see if you can get me out of this fucking hole I am in

U Cook Socks · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:24 am Post subject:

First thing I want to say is this. Don't beat yourself up, beating poker isn't easy. There are far, far more losers at poker than winners. The biggest winners are the poker rooms, and then there are a small percentage of winners, the rest are losing players, that is a fact.

I can't spend the time to help you, I don't have enough hours in the day for everything I want to do really. I think you have been fortunate though, some of the top players have gone out of their way to try and help you, when they ignore mere mortals like myself Very Happy

You can take this how you want, I speak as I find, and say things how I see them, imo you have a problem listening to what is being said. It doesn't take much working out who the people worth listening to are, that's how I learned (the basics at least) just listen and question people who win. You spend far to much time arguing (disagreeing) with said people. I see you write comments, like "well that's what I do" or "that's what I always do" this is so wrong, and if you are going to succeed, you need to change this. No situations are the same in poker, lots of different things to take in to account, you can't have a default setting.

You don't need to have more good hands to win at HU than your opponent (for what it's worth, over enough time, you will have exactly the same hands as your opponents) If the player who had the best cards won all the time, there would be no winners. I have said this before, and I still believe it is true. There is enough information for free on this site alone, to allow you to beat at least $10 games if not higher. If you have HUSNG.COM subscription, then more than enough to get you to at least $30 games.

If I were you I would start from the beggining, unlearn everything you have learned, and try and get a grasp on the very basics. (Primo's Husng from scratch is a great place to start) even if it's a little dated, still very good imo. You have to try and grasp concepts, and why you are doing things, not just say "that's what I do"

Good luck anyway, I understand your frustration, but you really just need to work harder, and more effectively.
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doodiewiz · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:39 am Post subject:

keep going dude. A quick look through that HH and i think you're playing a lot better then i remember. More controlled Smile

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BetMagicMoney · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:39 am Post subject:

i haven't got there yet, learning curves are differrent for different people, just keep going Very Happy

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StasKo · Grinder Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 126 Location: Israel

i think you need to shift your focus to the mathematical nature of the game..
its seems that you are too much results oriented.. you make decisions based on previous results rather than the right mathematical decision..

for example i remember you wrote something about not calling lighter (or something like that) when playing the second guy in a 4-MAN SnG.. thats just wrong to think this way at all.. you place yourself in endless loop of wrong decisions based on previous results... its like you giving yourself a bunch of choices, but they all are wrong..

i think that the way to get out of this mindset is to focus on the more technical-mathematical nature of the game..
just focus on improving the ability to assign ranges and do the math.. forget about the outcome.. just assign ranges and do math..

nitid1 · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:53 am Post subject:

hi Blsmur,

for what it is worth. You play the micro's like me still? Turbo or regular?

Stop barreling, or do it very rarely, like just on a draw heavy board with a scare card hitting the turn and only when against an opponent that is tight and controlled. Barreling mistakes cost a fortune in the later stages of a game!!!! We are just beginners!!! Most of our opponents are quite loose, you need to have value. Also do not try to catch villains barrels for bluffs, specially later in the game.

Review your games (like the biggest looser after a session) and check out what actions made you loose a big chunk of your stack. You will see sometimes certain actions repeat like:

For ex: Going to far with Axhigh kicker., Going to far with under pairs, medium pairs. Going to far with top pair against a extremely tight player that suddently is waking up (raising you). C betting to much against loose players without value.

Limping is fine, but when people attack your limps, then limp some stronger holdings as well and raise some medium holdings. However, if you limp with a very strong holding, then do not reraise his raise, unless you play a maniac since they will fold. Do not be afraid to fold preflop, but remember that a villain minraising every hand is actually doing you a favor each time you hold a good holding.

Trap the agro attackers by letting them bet into you.

Also: Playing to big of pots with medium holdings and to small of pots with big holdings...

Stop investing money in learning. Seems you have it all. Get rid of HUM for now. When i play i check free sharcscope or playerscope to take a look at villains last games/year. At the micro's you can see that winners will be tight agro players so DO NOT FIGHT their rare raises unless you have TOP holdings. Loosers will be mostly loose, to passive or to agressive.

Stop complaining about bad cards coming!! Poker is kung fu. You need discipline to make it and wisdom. Bad times come for all, and go away. However it is you that needs to remain steady and controlled. If you get al EMO, you are the kind of player the good players will seek out and destroy. Look for some good sites/reading focussing just on attitude and emotions when it comes to poker or life in general, i see no big difference.

If this does not work out for you, so be it. Poker is not friendly at all. Be prepared to face that it may not be beatable for you and consider better ways to spend your time. I did and still do, but i come back and feel like improving. The day i check my stats and see that by no means poker potential justifies the time and honest effort i spend with it i quit. Life is too short.

Just my idea...

Regards,

If you like you can send me a HH file and i will check it out, not that i assume to know much about it, but i may learn from it, so that is why i want to do it.

Skype: nilic1

Greets and good Luck.

The Angler · Baller Joined: 18 Sep 2010 Posts: 460 Skype: jabular1911

Keep posting hands in the forum, from a quick glance at the small stakes section it doesn't look like you've posted all that much.

Really focus on correctly identifying how your opponent is playing and apply the correct counter strategy. Make sure that when your opponent starts to play different you also start to play differently based on how your opponent changed his/her play.

_red_dog · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject:

Sounds as though you lack discipline.
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