09-21-2005, 03:14 PM
Dear TWP:
I heeded your advice to switch from $50 full ring to $50 6 max. It was good advice. Recently, I made the jump from $50 to $100, started at full ring, where I have been doing well, and have just taken up $100 6 Max.
I was doing pretty well at $50 full ring. I did better at $50 six max. I am doing well at $100 full ring. But I am getting slaughtered at $100 6 max. No, that's not right; when you get slaughtered, you're cut up into pretty big parts, and what is happeneing to me is much worse than that. I am getting sliced, diced and julienned at $100 6 max. These guys are leaving me as a pureed, sticky, bloody pool of unrecognizable paste that my wife keeps having to mop up off the floor.
You got me into this, bub, so please, for the love of all that is holy, help me get out of it before the bloody remnants of my carcass permanently stain the carpet.
I actually have some specific questions that I hope you and everybody else can answer:
I am fairly consistently seeing huge overbets or huge raises. For example, an unraised pot, flop comes down giving me top pair, good or top kicker. I bet, villain raises, I call. Turn looks like a blank, but villain busts out a bet or raise (depending on position, of course) of maybe 6 times the size of the pot. WTF? While this was an unusual play at $50, I have faced this probably 30 times in 1000 hands or so at $100 6 max. Any advice? At the fifties, this was a bluff as often as it was the nuts, and you just had to go with your read. Is it different at $100?
Preflop, Villain open raises for 10-40bb. WTF?
Preflop, Villain open pushes. Double WTF?
Please, please please, offer me some general guidelines on playing middle pair.
Similarly, how do you play, say, T8s when the flop comes 668? How do you play it when the flop comes JJ8?
More importantly, do you generally expect to lay this down in the face of strong resistance from anybody, or only to a decent, tight player?
KQo (as a proxy for all easily dominated hands)in EP is reraised by an average 6 max player. Fold?
KQo in LP: call a raise from an average player in EP? In MP?
These are only a few of my questions, but they will suffice for now. Any help greatly appreciated, TWP (or anybody else).
Sincerely,
The fishy smelling pool of paste that used to be mpethybridge
I heeded your advice to switch from $50 full ring to $50 6 max. It was good advice. Recently, I made the jump from $50 to $100, started at full ring, where I have been doing well, and have just taken up $100 6 Max.
I was doing pretty well at $50 full ring. I did better at $50 six max. I am doing well at $100 full ring. But I am getting slaughtered at $100 6 max. No, that's not right; when you get slaughtered, you're cut up into pretty big parts, and what is happeneing to me is much worse than that. I am getting sliced, diced and julienned at $100 6 max. These guys are leaving me as a pureed, sticky, bloody pool of unrecognizable paste that my wife keeps having to mop up off the floor.
You got me into this, bub, so please, for the love of all that is holy, help me get out of it before the bloody remnants of my carcass permanently stain the carpet.
I actually have some specific questions that I hope you and everybody else can answer:
I am fairly consistently seeing huge overbets or huge raises. For example, an unraised pot, flop comes down giving me top pair, good or top kicker. I bet, villain raises, I call. Turn looks like a blank, but villain busts out a bet or raise (depending on position, of course) of maybe 6 times the size of the pot. WTF? While this was an unusual play at $50, I have faced this probably 30 times in 1000 hands or so at $100 6 max. Any advice? At the fifties, this was a bluff as often as it was the nuts, and you just had to go with your read. Is it different at $100?
Preflop, Villain open raises for 10-40bb. WTF?
Preflop, Villain open pushes. Double WTF?
Please, please please, offer me some general guidelines on playing middle pair.
Similarly, how do you play, say, T8s when the flop comes 668? How do you play it when the flop comes JJ8?
More importantly, do you generally expect to lay this down in the face of strong resistance from anybody, or only to a decent, tight player?
KQo (as a proxy for all easily dominated hands)in EP is reraised by an average 6 max player. Fold?
KQo in LP: call a raise from an average player in EP? In MP?
These are only a few of my questions, but they will suffice for now. Any help greatly appreciated, TWP (or anybody else).
Sincerely,
The fishy smelling pool of paste that used to be mpethybridge