Comments on: 5 Solutions For “Why Do I Play this Game?” Syndrome

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:10:24 +0000

Well said, guys. My problem, or so I thought, was not getting enough playable hands. I have sat there 20, 30, 45 minutes without so much as a sniff of a decent hand. Again, so I thought. I went back through my hand histories and, using a very critical eye, found a number of hands where I should have played that low/medium pair OOP, or fed the pot with that suited 2 gapper. Using equity software, I found out I was folding hands that had somewhat decent equity, enough to see a flop with anyway. So, I recommend looking though your hand histories and try to zero in on the thin margin hands. I feel it helps you with most of your other plays too.

By: Paul Gearan

Paul Gearan — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:05:39 +0000

Interesting stuff Hugo. I think my problem lately has been playing too tight, letting myself get down to a short stack too often for the sake of survival. But the marginal calls also can be a problem that I particularly identified while playing some training games at APT. Interesting that I think our keys leaks are so similar.

Shaking it up however you do it definitely had merit. I wonder if I could bring myself to play more extreme styles for a tournament or two. Certainly will consider it if the current streak goes on much longer!

By: Hugo X

Hugo X — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 04:37:01 +0000

When I have a long losing streak (more often than I want to admit) it tend to be because, I either play too tight and bleed out or play too many hands and bleed out, or play too many marginal hands, without considering my opponents holdings, as in There’s no way he could of have called a 3x bet preflop with J7, but yes he did, ah now I see, they were sooooted,. and bust out

When I find myself ether a. playing too loose or b. calling bad bets, I try several different tactics. One of ours I really like is just a change of venue.

Another is playing PLO. This really gets you thinking about the nuts and made hands, so two pair, a straight , and donk end of a flush start to take on a whole new meaning, ah they suck.

Another is no so much to work on my game, as to work on myself discipline. For this I play two tournaments one in the FOLD TO THE GOLD STYLE and one in the SKLANSKY STYLE.

Of course I do this with very cheap tournaments.or play money.

Fold to the gold is exactly what it says, I force myself to fold EVERY HAND, YES EVERY HAND, YES KK, YES AA, ESPECALLY theseh ands and all others, GOTTA, GOTTA GOTTA get the allure of these undefeatable impossible to fold post flop hands out of my system. It’s just a sinking pair.

Then I play one Sklansky style, I ONLY play these hand, ie top 10 hands, and I play them push or fold.
I land were I land, but it clears the mind and reminds me , the winner is NOT the one who wins the most pots, but the one who wins the most money,

Hugoism #11, What keeps us from playing as good as we think we are? Not being as good as we think we are.
Hugoism #1, Everyone is somebody’s fish.

Hugo X