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I misplayed the hand. Position wise, UTG+1 is most likely not stealing as he has too many players to act without a very strong hand. For discussion sake, let's say I made the raise in LP and the villian raised from the Button or blinds. I would then consider much more strongly to make the call.

Back to the original play, this is where paying attention to stack sizes is important. I have too many chips to be calling this big of a raise. At best, I'm looking at a 60/40 or a straight up coin flip. Just not worth it at this point in the tourney when I have plenty of chips to play with. A couple positional steals and I'm back to where I was before this hand started.

Lesson learned.

Thanks for the input guys!!

Take care,

Dubspoke:
PS: ~$357
FT: ~$35 (going to play 10NL FR and be nit to rebuild a bit here)

Back in a Positive State of Mind

So refreshing to not expect doom and gloom every time you sit at the table. My results have been much more consistent and positive.

I did have one interesting situation I'm looking for input on. I played in a 180 seat $2 tourney on FullTilt. Once again, I was in decent but not great shape once the bubble burst at 18 remaining.

I have about 12k in front of me (good for 9th out of 16 remaining) with blinds w/antes at 200/400. I raise to 1150 holding 88. A shorter stack immediately to my left pushes all in for 7.5k total. I have no read on him as this is a new table. Folds back around to me.

Do you fold or call?

EDIT: Mike Maloney brought up an important point. Position! I looked over lunch break. I was UTG, villian was UTG+1.

DubsPoke
PokerStars: ~$315
FullTilt: ~$50

Bankroll Management is Key

It's been well-documented on here that I've been struggling with 10NL. I'm not exactly sure what the difference between 5NL and 10NL is but one guess is that mistakes are magnified in the 10NL game. I'll figure it out eventually. The shape of the graph a couple posts earlier really shows how much I'm letting emotion sway my decisions.

The good news is that I have implemented some temporary stop losses to prevent myself from going insane and decimating my bankroll while I figure it out. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Here is what I'm doing:

1) One table of 10NL at a time. Yes, it is very slow going with only one table. However it is obvious I need to be working on table reads and position.

2) If I lose a buy-in at 10NL, take a break. Come back and play 5NL to get back up to $300+. (I am still crushing 5NL at a pace of 48BB/hour over 10k hands.)

As far as my actual game goes, I have identified the following areas to work on:

1) Cbets - when to do them and when not too. There are a lot of callstations at these micro levels. Some will fold to cbets. Some never will.

2) Position plays - Less play from UTG and UTG+1. More play from CO and Button.

3) 3bets - Highly profitable at this level when done correctly. I haven't been doing it correctly very often.

There is a lot more I can be working on but I'm going to try to specifically concentrate on those three areas for now.

DubsPoke

The Streak is Broken!

Finally, after 6 grueling sessions, I finally had one start positively!

Just thought I'd post something positive!

Good luck at the felt.

DubsPoke

LOL - of course!

5th hand after coming back from a couple hour break...



staring in the hole once again...4 sessions in a row. SWEET!