wuts ur leak????

[sobroke]

everyone has leaks in their game....some leaks are very more costly than other...in the long run......ill start....i think i cold too many raises pf with pocket pairs
wuts ur biggest leak when its early and the raises arent ludacris......

[AbelM]

Trying to get too fancy.

I'm used to playing european daytime when the play is somewhat tighter and it's possible to make some plays, but during the more crowded hours i sometimes forget to change my game.

[downtown]

My leak is/was dipping into my bankroll. Playing the 33s and almost ready to move up to 55s, I took 2 vacations, which were sweet, but left me short of poker cash, short as in zero. I thought I just would be able to move right back up. Well, I forgot how long it took me to get there in the first place. So now (a.k.a. this time) I went back through the 6s (for about 2 sets to make 50 bucks on top of my 50 deposit - lucky start) --> 11s -->22s --> run real goot --> 33s for like 5 seconds again --> 22s coz i dropped a few buyins at the 33s and want to be comfy, then I run reallly bad --> 11s coz I dropped 32 buyins (suckola) at the 22s --> 22s now that I made that 32 back up. It took a while, and if I just had been more patient with my non-poker life, I could now be in the 55s full time almost for sure. As it is, and due to my schedule, that's still a couple of months away.

So I guess this is my "move up, don't dip into your bankroll" story. Whether it's vacation, craps, or skrippahs, It's a leak, and it's been my biggest.

[Phill S]

Large credit card debt and being a bum student.

I build up solid rolls, then have to withdraw them to cover payments, rent, alcohol, pizza, alcohol etc.

Phill

[MegaBet]

My biggest leak is open pushing hands in the range 88-JJ, AJ-A9 late in the game (e.g. 5-6 players, 100/200 blinds) when I have an average stack (not a short stack) to pick up the blinds. As the saying goes, you can only be called by a better hand (and some worse!). Some may argue that this isn't a leak and you have to do this to stay alive, but I have lost OOTM so many times like this that I have to assume it's a leak.

[pooh74]

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Large credit card debt and being a bum student.

I build up solid rolls, then have to withdraw them to cover payments, rent, alcohol, pizza, alcohol etc.

Phill

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Yeah...ive used 90% of my poker winning for vacations and CC debt. Which is why I still have to play the 16s a lot and not the 27s. My new plan is the 75/25 rule...of any winnings, whether MTT, cash, or SNG, 25% will stay for roll building purposes....sorry mastercard. (actually, that makes them happy)


p.s. I also call too many raises PF fishing for a set. Depending on the raise size, this isnt too much of a leak with 1500 starting stack IMO.

[45suited]

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My biggest leak is open pushing hands in the range 88-JJ, AJ-A9 late in the game (e.g. 5-6 players, 100/200 blinds) when I have an average stack (not a short stack) to pick up the blinds.

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Of course, every situation is different, but I'm very happy to open push with 88-JJ with an average stack and blinds of 100-200 at a 5 or 6 handed table. It doesn't get much better than that.

[MegaBet]

Yeah, however I am being called far too many times with better hands and getting dumped out the tourney, which makes me wonder if I should be playing these differently and having more patience. I dunno, it's just something that's going round my head at the moment.

[WebGuySteve]

My biggest leak is that I have a hard time winning even when I start with the best hand! Man, I suck...

[Hendricks433]

Mine is definetly FPS. I try to make way to many moves. Ive been getting better at folding low pp to big raises pf. Ive lost too many chips this way.