adam61
07-18-2004, 08:36 PM
I'm getting back into limit (been playing now for about 2 weeks) Started off with a +600 at 2/4 and lost about $250 since then. I'm up and down and taking a ton of beats. Basically I started 2 days ago using PokerTracker again so when I hit 5,000 or so hands hopefully someone could point out some of my major leaks.
I'm playing better than the average player but have several decent sized leaks I'm having trouble plugging. Mainly I'm playing bad against bad players I think and that's costing me a lot. Aces is one of my biggest losing hands for example which is probably a short-term thing but it's definitely part of my doing.
So just on a more general level here's some mistakes I think I'm making and I wanted just some general directional advice on where I may be going wrong.
Preflop: I tend to raise AK AQs AA KK QQ KQs and sometimes jacks.
I play: AQ AJ ATs KTs KQo KJs QJs JTs and all Pocket Pairs below Jacks. As well as suited connectors down to 54s with a couple limpers.
I play sometimes and in late position: QTs JTo KTo ATo KJo QJo
Any major holes there? It isn't hard and fast, I'll limp occasionally from the button and SB with worse hands, and sometimes just play a hand here or there, but that's very uncommon.
Post-Flop is where I'm losing a lot of money. I STILL can't tell if I'm being too weak or too aggressive since I get burned both ways. For example when you have KK or QQ and an A or K falls against a 60% and 80% preflop player who calls all your bets and checkraises you on the river do you call?
How hard do you bet AK, I generally play it similar to Aces but usually don't bet the river, but I sometimes do.
I think one of my main problem is how strong does my holding have to be to play to the river with an 80% preflop person, 60%, 40%, etc. This has been giving me some trouble. Everytime I find myself trying to think logically about what a 60% or 80% preflop player has I end up getting burned. They also tend to overvalue their Hands so with AJ in a JT7 rainbow board I never know if a raise means a straight, JT, or J7, J2, QT, etc. So I generally just check/call the rest of the hand down. The illogical play of my opponents tends to weaken my play because they could be playing anything so without a monster I rarely cap, cause everytime I have I've gotten burned.
I know you can't give a whole lot of advice, I've read the books and I'm eagerly awaiting the new 2+2 book to arrive here which I think will help a lot, but any general tips would be great to send me in the right direction before I have more hands for PokerTracker.
Thanks!
I'm playing better than the average player but have several decent sized leaks I'm having trouble plugging. Mainly I'm playing bad against bad players I think and that's costing me a lot. Aces is one of my biggest losing hands for example which is probably a short-term thing but it's definitely part of my doing.
So just on a more general level here's some mistakes I think I'm making and I wanted just some general directional advice on where I may be going wrong.
Preflop: I tend to raise AK AQs AA KK QQ KQs and sometimes jacks.
I play: AQ AJ ATs KTs KQo KJs QJs JTs and all Pocket Pairs below Jacks. As well as suited connectors down to 54s with a couple limpers.
I play sometimes and in late position: QTs JTo KTo ATo KJo QJo
Any major holes there? It isn't hard and fast, I'll limp occasionally from the button and SB with worse hands, and sometimes just play a hand here or there, but that's very uncommon.
Post-Flop is where I'm losing a lot of money. I STILL can't tell if I'm being too weak or too aggressive since I get burned both ways. For example when you have KK or QQ and an A or K falls against a 60% and 80% preflop player who calls all your bets and checkraises you on the river do you call?
How hard do you bet AK, I generally play it similar to Aces but usually don't bet the river, but I sometimes do.
I think one of my main problem is how strong does my holding have to be to play to the river with an 80% preflop person, 60%, 40%, etc. This has been giving me some trouble. Everytime I find myself trying to think logically about what a 60% or 80% preflop player has I end up getting burned. They also tend to overvalue their Hands so with AJ in a JT7 rainbow board I never know if a raise means a straight, JT, or J7, J2, QT, etc. So I generally just check/call the rest of the hand down. The illogical play of my opponents tends to weaken my play because they could be playing anything so without a monster I rarely cap, cause everytime I have I've gotten burned.
I know you can't give a whole lot of advice, I've read the books and I'm eagerly awaiting the new 2+2 book to arrive here which I think will help a lot, but any general tips would be great to send me in the right direction before I have more hands for PokerTracker.
Thanks!