PokerTrikz has Mesed Up My Mind!

[linqbait]

Once again, thank you everyone for contributing to the forum and thanks to trikkur and loltrickedu for the videos. I've watched most of them a couple times over now and just let it run in the background while I'm playing...lol.

All of a sudden, I've got pet peeves in poker:

1. I hate people limping into my BB. I end up playing trash out of position that gets me in trouble with two pair on a wet flop. I used to PRAY for people to limp into my BB so I could "see a free flop and play".

2. I hate short stacks. Annoying little pricks put you in a position where you have to shove on them on the flop no matter what hits because they are ATC. I used to LOVE short stacks because "they can only cost me so much money". Now I just thirst for A9+ to go to the mat with them. I love it when they stack off AQ on a low, dry flop and I'm sitting with AA.

3. I used to fear betting or raising without a monster because "I might get reraised". Now I can evaluate and see if it's worth continuing. If not, I dump and happily raise the next hand that hits my range. If they get too re-raise happy, I'll just tighten my range and 4Bet 'em.

4. I got all in PF with QQ against AA and flopped a Q. I didn't think a whole lot of it.

5. I got all in PF with AA against 66 and got cracked. I wasn't moved.

6. I limped into the SB with J9o and I thought I was going to rip my own head off.

7. I used to camp out on tables no matter what like it was my duty. Now if there are two shorties to my left or a solid player who keeps picking off my light CO raises, I'll just leave and go find a better table.

This PokertTrikz site can really mess your mind up and just completely rearrange your poker game.

[loltrickedu]

very good seems to be all for the good

[linqbait]

Oh man. I forgot one.

6 max scared the hell out of me. Now that's all I'm playing.

[ThatDeviant]

Good stuff.

I can relate to the old 'scared to raise' exept I used to auto give up if I got called even with position. Glad that horrible feeling is gone and I now welcome callers.

[JibNinjas]

Originally Posted by ThatDeviant

Good stuff.

I can relate to the old 'scared to raise' exept I used to auto give up if I got called even with position. Glad that horrible feeling is gone and I now welcome callers.

it is always funny the way that you used to play before you learned what real poker was.

i remember checking down hands like straight flush draws, because i didnt have a made hand of course, and then being pissed when half the deck missed me and the other guy won with a pair of 2's.

or

calling JJ all the way down on a board of AKQ just because it was a good pp and of course i had the straight draw.

i would say that the most important thing that you have to learn when you are starting out is that you SUCK AT POKER

[ThatDeviant]

Yeah it's amazing that I was getting crushed in cash games for like 1.5 years but a few big donkament cashes made me break even for my first two years of playing. So basically I had a couple of years where I was AWFUL but didn't lose any money. Started learning the game properly a year back and since then haven't looked back in terms of profit, straight baller. I'm actually really lucky those two years were free experiance.

[linqbait]

I have a similar story as you Deviant. I could never figure out cash. I would be up and down and up and down. I never busted out my first $100 I put on Party Poker. I was +$5,000 from "donkaments" when the whole Neteller fiasco hit.

I'm kinda glad I don't have that big of a bankroll to "learn" with. I used to play $200NL on FTP because "that's what I play live". Ha! My buddies laugh at me when I tell them I'm playing .10/.25 NL. They jump on PokerStars or whatever and fire up the 2/4 game because they usually play 2/5 live. And they can't seem to figure out why they have to pull out their credit card to play every time.

[ThatDeviant]

Haha, aye.

I was also of the opinion that tournaments, sorry donkaments, were superior to cash games. Now I hate anything other than a cash game (apart from Mondays I play a tournament live because I have my pub league title to defend from last year - sick brag LOL). I even bought some Sit n' Go books! Quite amazing that now I hate them with a passion and always whine about them to my friends.

Just noticed this gem too;

4. I got all in PF with QQ against AA and flopped a Q. I didn't think a whole lot of it.

Ha! Happened to me except I had JJ in my first shot at 50NL way back when. Obviosuly the guy stacked me twice over and I had to get the credit card back out.