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  1. #1
    Fish Food
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    Default Frustrated - Playing right or just getting donked?

    Three hands (out of only 300 played today) stuck out. .10/.25 table, re-raised pre-flop with QQ, 1 caller. Flopped set. Bet 1/2 pot, villain calls. My thinking is that he called my re-raise with a decent hand, and his call on my flop bet pretty much guarantees that he has KK or AA. I bet 1/2 pot on turn, villain pushes all-in. Now I'm positive he has KK or AA. Easy call. Villain rivers the K to beat my trips.

    Second hand, I raise pre flop with QA suited, one caller. Flop TPTK on a rainbow board, no straight draw. check-raise villain, he shoves all-in. After pondering, I call. He pushed with nothing but a backdoor flush draw. Sucks out running hearts for the flush

    Third hand, flopped bottom two pair against an A, and with a very short stack, raise all-in. Original raiser calls. Hits bigger 2 pair on turn.

    Getting very frustrated right now. I'm making good, accurate reads, playing somewhat lose pre-flop, but very disciplined post-flop, and when I do play a big pot, I'm getting my money in good. I just keep getting out-drawn and out-drawn and out-drawn. While I generally like to stick to 15-20 buy-ins, I've upped this in the last 6 months to 30 or 40 buy-ins. Playing on-line has resulted in losing 35 straight buy-ins. The worst part about this, is that these kind of idiot suckouts are becoming the norm after a decent couple of hours where I've been able to grind out a 40-50% profit on the session. It's getting to the point, where I'm starting to think I need to quit up only a couple of bucks, even if I'm running well.

    Suggestions?

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    Fish Food ModusTollens's Avatar
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    Default Relax

    Breathe, my friend. You need to relax. Take some time off to cool off.

    Don't be results-oriented. Take comfort that your game was obviously better than your competition. The fact that the reward did not come was a matter of chance. Variance is an inherent part of the game, and you need to come to grips with this. In the LONG run, your good play will pay off, so don't jeopardize that by freaking out over short-term bouts of unluckiness.

    Hope this helps and good luck in your future play.

    ~ ModusTollens

  3. #3
    Fish Food
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    Like ModusTollens said below, take sometime to cool off. You lost these 3 pots but played better then your opponents. On a long term basis you'll cash-in most of the times. Maybe a better bankroll management should be considered here.
    Yesterday for instances, i lost a hand with J-J against a 10-10. This guy was the first to act from first position...he raises 3BB and i re-raised him 5BB from the button,in order to be sure he had a strong hand and was not trying to fish in the flop at low cost. the flop comes with 8c-9h-9d. He checks and i tryed to bluff him with a possible trips of 9's or even quads...so the pot was huge already and i thought he had a-k or even a-a, k-k,because he had called my raise before. I went all-in...he called and hitted a 10 in the turn, and got a full-house. He didn't even thought i could be with a strong advantage already. I lost all my stack and i was in advantage all the time. He made a bad call in the pre-flop but played like a maniac in the lottery and won. In the long term he will not survive, and i'm sure i wont be beaten so easly next time. i only lost 34 usd yesterday but i made over 200 usd in just 1 session in the day before and certanly i'll not quit from poker Good luck for you all.

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    Just take a break man. Watch some DJ Sensei videos on DC, his chill vibe will rub off on you.

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    I think your'e just getting donked, stop being hopeless and be aware that there are guides to help you improve your hand reading. Take it easy boy...

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    You're playing too much and getting frustrated too easily. Play a 4-6 hour session, if you lose, don't play for a few days, take a break and go back when you've thought about your play and had time to evaluate your decisions and the outcomes. Cool down, refresh, and re-group.
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