Does streaking affect your preflop play?

[Digs]

I'd hit 2 big hands in a row (~12BBish pots)

Personally I think cycles are a natural part of everything, and thus applies to poker too. Feel free to flame /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

UTG is new to the table, no reads.


Button is a veritable atm machine, he's been the one paying me off the last 100 hands.

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (6 max, 6 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Button calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls.

Flop: (6.33 SB) 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, Hero folds

I was folding to 1 bet here btw~

[Ponks]

I don't get it?

Ponks

[Anders_G]

People streak all the time but it doesn't affect my play

http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/3ap70s/streak.JPG

And no, I don't streak myself. Do you think I should?

[Digs]

I ordinarily wouldn't call there.

I based my preflop call on the streak I was on.

Am I the only one that does this? is kind of the question I was asking /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Digs]

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Do you think I should?

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Nothin like wind in'tha'balls!

[Ponks]

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And no, I don't streak myself. Do you think I should?

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Ponks

[giddyup]

i agree that streaks do happen, but that this has to do with chance, and is not based on what has happened in previous hands. EVERY hand is completely random and should not be treated any differently just because you may have broken KK with your 24o last hand. Streaks happen regardless of you playing good or bad hands, but that does not mean that playing bad hands in order to continue a streak will be profitable. My opinion is that it's your natural instinct screwing with your common sense when you make bad plays like this.

[Fiddler]

I have a vague memory of the first Hold'em book I bought in which the author talked about jumping on/off streaks when they started or stopped. I threw it out.

[wheelz]

fold preflop

[Digs]

I know I've read/heard Brunson quoting the same idea. Something to the extent of he only knew of one poker player that didn't belive in streaks.

I'll probably continue to put a small weight on streaks on close preflop calls. But when I called this I was like wtf digs.

So this is a bit of an extreme example that I should have mucked clearly.

Sounds like I'm the only one doing this then? Oh well /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[stripsqueez]

the pre-flop is fine - i think its a good plan

i usually try and run with what i'm dealt but i will definately push when i hit lots of good cards

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[robinsons]

obviously streaks don't effect your luck on any future cards - however they can effect people's perception of your play (especially if you don't go to SD). I think this is what the OP was originally getting at? (and hasn't had a chance to reply himself yet).

[PokerBob]

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I based my preflop call on the streak I was on.


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the majority of poker players do this, and they are all losers. stop it.

[Derek in NYC]

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I have a vague memory of the first Hold'em book I bought in which the author talked about jumping on/off streaks when they started or stopped. I threw it out.

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I think that was S/S1, and the author was Doyle Brunson.

[Mig]

K6off vs a UTG raiser and a caller is a really weak hand... I'd prefer 9To/89o/JTo here than K6o/A6o... With K6 even if you spike a K you are probably dominated here and you will lose a few more bucks. I Fold preflop

[Derek in NYC]

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I based my preflop call on the streak I was on.


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the majority of poker players do this, and they are all losers. stop it.

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A hot streak can, however, have a psychological effect on the table. If you can put somebody on tilt by snapping off a premium hand and then needling him, there might be some value to making a loose preflop call. (This is probably more true, however, in NL than in limit poker.)