Joined: Jan '12
Location: Romania
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Hello. I am new on this site, but what can i tell is that in all the poker sites has almost the same soft for poker, so that is very sure for me.Why i tell this?Because maybe not just me happened to loose with a monster against 2 stupid cards. I played a lot of strategies, even slowdown tactics just for wining, but what can i understand is that you have something like 1 happy hour in winings and after that everithing ruins. All my strategies are very good in that happy hour, but after that playing with all the monster i have and i am loosing with poor cards, but what can`t i understand how a lot of players can call with 2 poor cards and win against AA or all the monster cards...So if to someone else happened like me just tell me what to do, to win again and to not loose with monster after the HAPPY HOUR. Excuse me for bad english and thank you for reading this message!!!
Joined: Nov '09
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
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Two things come to mind when I read your post:
1. When do you end your session? If I am nearing the end of the time I have available and am satisfied with my profit, I will stop a little early. You can read a thread I started a few months ago on this topic:
2. Are you sure you are playing exactly the same after this magical happy hour? Maintaining your focus hour after hour is not easy, and although you may think that you are playing the same, you may not be. Again, read this thread on maintaining or regaining your focus:
Joined: May '09
Location: Spain
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Hi mishu2009. Welcome to BRM, blablabla...
'All sites has almost the same soft for poker'. Maybe you play in different sites of the same web that uses the same soft. For example, ipoker.
'... loose with a monster against 2 stupid cards'. Well, that happens. Nothing to say. We really want to play vs stupid players better than vs good players.
'All my strategies are very good...'. Problem. Maybe is true or not but, no matters. To win in poker we must work in our play as we EVER play bad. We need to improve our skills or, in a few time, we will be losers. That´s a fact.
Joined: Jan '12
Location: Romania
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 74
i am not playing more than 3 hours, but what i said that after one hour the soft gives to me cards that should be played and with that cards loosing...in tha happy hour i wining with almost the same cards, and i am still focused...i didnt say that first is the happy hour....maybe after 1 hour or something like that to start wining and wining a lots of hand in the row and after that everything ruins with the same strategy and alomst the same cards, and i dont think that is just bad luck because it happens to me to several times not once.
In tournaments, the filed gets stronger after a while, maybe they are outplaying you? Also maybe you have some tells you're not aware of, that people start to pick up on, after an hour or so?
Another thing might be you get called by someone with a lot of chips, that can afford losing all-in against your smaller stack, and he is just trying to get you to fold a stronger hand (are your bets too small?).
I very much doubt that the software tries to let you win at first, and then makes you loose it all on purpose... Although that might be a profitable strategy for the pokersite, since it may induce addiction. (that would be like a cigarette company adding extra nicotine, to make you more addicted, surely that could never happen, could it?).
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 108
it happened to me the same thing in my first months ... had a few good hands ... made profit and after that started losing against crap hands ... so i chanced my strategy ... i call it charity mode ... ... if i have more then double my starting stack and i start losing i just get out from that table and move to another one .. like that at least i still made some profit ... and if i lost all my chips at one table i never reload... cause i will go in gamblers mode and i will start trying to recover what i lost and it will affect my play...this is valid only for cash tables for me. in tourney the river just hates me this month ... don't know why
but good luck and try to have fun ... thats the most important thing
Posted by mishu2009: was in cash games, and at tourney i lost 80%of hands of river
Maybe you're not aggressive enough? Most of your prime starting hands should not go all the way to the river, I think. When you play them aggressively usually you take the pot down before the river.
If you just min-raise, you are going to be beaten a lot of times by the time you get to the river...
Joined: May '08
Location: Sweden
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Yeah, I don't know.
If I could see a totally reliable pattern that tells me I'm going to win as f*ck for a full happy hour, and then start losing, I would use this information to the fullest. I would play that hour, and I would play high, and then at the end of the hour I would stop playing and laugh all the way to my NETelleraccount.
But I highly doubt that it is the case. I think that your mind seeks out and creates patterns to explain the variance.
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Posted by mishu2009: was in cash games, and at tourney i lost 80%of hands of river
Try use your instinct to make decision and try to understand , best hand not always winning hand, so when we play it if opponent go all - in pre flop or after flop ? Do you always call with AA or KK ?
80% lost in river . Right me too, that's casino tactic to make us spent more money. My English is bad so I can't explain more, but try to think so you will understand. My opinion : make our opp fold before river if our hand not save when they play draw
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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You tend to define things in a different way other mobsters, like me, already done around here. You just can understand how can some players be so stupid to the point of calling a raise with bad hand and winning against your monster hands, when that is just a part of the definition of online poker. I know sometimes it has already made you lost some good money, but my advice is: don’t waste your time with donks. Remember that old saying: “Hang around with experts and you will become like them, join the wicked and you will be even worst”!
Joined: Jan '12
Location: United Kingdom
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dont think youre in control and slowplay monsters, represent what youve got, but obviousely dont just shove unless the blinds are big. if you slowplay a monster you give them a card for free or cheaply, so either concede if it goes wrong or bet. i play all day everyday, luck doesnt have a time limit if you still feel capable carry on, if you know your percentages an keep gettin in situations where you think you're ahead variance wont last forever an it wont be long before it goes your way again. Keep a cool head
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