My game is off, please criticise

[Amything]

I'm down 10 buyins tonight (played 21 games, two first places, one third). I 3 table and have only played 84 tournies seriously since I started keeping track and reading this forum. I was a "30% ROI player" but my stats where killed today. These are insignificant numbers but show my commitment I guess.

I fear my problem might be over aggression, I went over all my hands and I actually have the inferior hand most of the times on the critical hands and not so many bad beats like I thought was the problem. I would really like comments on the general play. Some of the problems I think I see myself but I'm really doubting myself after this hit today.

I couldnt get hand converter to display this correctly whatever I tried. Any comments would be greatly appreciated!

----HAND 1----
#Game No : 2247416970
***** Hand History for Game 2247416970 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13319693 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Wednesday, June 22, 19:02:32 EDT 2005
Table Table 11763 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: HERO ( $1325 )
Button: XCaesar ( $1675 )
Seat 5: manpug ( $345 )
Seat 6: granny2003 ( $2385 )
Seat 7: djmc72 ( $990 )
Seat 10: ifeelsick ( $1280 )
Trny:13319693 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Ts Tc ]
djmc72 calls [200].
ifeelsick folds.
HERO is all-In [1325]
XCaesar folds.
manpug folds.
granny2003 folds.
djmc72 is all-In [790]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, Qd, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
djmc72 shows [ Ac, Jh ] two pairs, aces and sixes.
HERO shows [ Ts, Tc ] two pairs, tens and sixes.
HERO wins 335 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, tens and sixes.
djmc72 wins 2280 chips from the main pot with two pairs, aces and sixes.
lol

Someone actually laughs here in the end, I had been extremely aggressive and I think that laughter was out of spite that someone finally (nearly) killed me.

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----HAND 2----


***** Hand History for Game 2246500567 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13314452 Level:7 Blinds(150/300) - Wednesday, June 22, 15:23:38 EDT 2005
Table Table 11099 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 5: MARKem8 ( $3050 )
Seat 6: gameon04 ( $1025 )
Button: HERO ( $940 )
Seat 9: TheMeizer ( $2985 )
Trny:13314452 Level:7
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Qh 7s ]
TheMeizer folds.
HERO is all-In [940]
MARKem8 folds.
TheMeizer: throw caution to the wind
TheMeizer: do it!
TheMeizer: NOW!
gameon04: jesus j9 suited
gameon04 calls [640].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 9h, 4c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
gameon04 shows [ Js, 9s ] two pairs, nines and fours.
HERO shows [ Qh, 7s ] a pair of fours.
gameon04 wins 2030 chips from the main pot with two pairs, nines and fours.
HERO finished in fourth place.
HERO has left the table.
Game #2246503580 starts.

I know it is a bad beat of sorts but was it a bad push none the less?
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----HAND 3----
***** Hand History for Game 2246728245 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13315988 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Wednesday, June 22, 16:25:35 EDT 2005
Table Table 11506 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: HERO ( $1210 )
Seat 2:lewis666m ( $2340 )
Seat 5: sjansen ( $763 )
Button: lee123456 ( $1975 )
Seat 10: mtsherman02 ( $1712 )
Trny:13315988 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Kc Qs ]
lewis666m folds.
sjansen raises [375].
lee123456 folds.
mtsherman02 folds.
HERO is all-In [1060]
sjansen is all-In [388]

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HAND 4--------

***** Hand History for Game 2246852930 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13316724 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Wednesday, June 22, 16:57:06 EDT 2005
Table Table 11629 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 4: willgjasper ( $1641 )
Button: mmmmbeer24 ( $1856 )
SB: Hammersby ( $2973 )
BB: HERO ( $1530 )
Trny:13316724 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ 2d 2h ]
willgjasper folds.
mmmmbeer24 folds.
Hammersby raises [250].
HERO is all-In [1380]
Hammersby calls [1205].

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My thinking was if I win this hand I'm good to go... Maybe I need to stop counting on coinflips to bring me forward.



I was going to put more hands but I think this is a good start. Thank you very much.

[yoadrians]

If the worst you ever do in a night is drop 10 buy-ins, you'll be just fine.

[adanthar]

Hands 3 and 4 are good in the magical world of fold equity (well, 3 kinda sucks anyway since that's AA pretty often, but you get the point). You're in the $10's and have none, so don't try it.

[freemoney]

hand 3 and hand 4 i fold nearly 100% of the time, if the big stacks have been aggressive i will fold hand 2 sometimes but its close/hand 1 is pretty standard.

[gumpzilla]

As others pointed out, it might be a bit too early to assess that your game is off. Hand 4 is the only one I'm not wild about; for this to be a good play you need SB to fold reasonably often, but given the way tables seem to respond to you this doesn't seem too likely. Also, give the guy who told the BB or whoever to call you in hand 2 a hard time next time. He really has no business saying that.

[lastchance]

Hand 1: Are you insane? Not pushing here would be horrible.

Hand 2: 3x BB? Getting called by J9s really sucks, so I don't push like a maniac L4-L5.... Don't think I can fold this though.

Hand 3: I don't being all-in with KQ. I don't like pushing where I have no FE. I certainly lay this down.

Hand 4: I think I safely fold with 10x BB here. In fact, unless you have a read on Villain, folding = correct.

[yoadrians]

And answers to your question:

Hand No. 1: Fine with me
Hand No. 2: Pretty standard
Hand No. 3: I always get a little worried when I see a mini-stack raising instead of pushing. I think you're way behind here, and I don't push it
Hand No. 4: Meh. Fold.

[dopp16]

patience is the key to s&g's

[freemoney]

oh wise one please enlighten...

[Amything]

I think balance is the key to SNGs and poker in general. It is a fine one indeed. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Thank you all VERY much, you seem to be in pretty much agreement. I need to post here more and do less lurking, friggin brilliant forum. Very helpful.