Any winning 200 nl+ players want to help me with something?

Python49 · #1 12-16-2005, 02:15 PM

I'm looking to talk with a winning 200 nl player via AIM or some other type of messenger so I can ask a few questions on game play. Anyone who can log on and not lose 7 buyins per day.

Someone who definitely feels as though when they log on for a session they are going to be up money and don't worry about how many stacks they are going to lose. I've been running horribly for 60k+ hands and just feel as though having a winning player there see exact plays i'm making and how i'm getting screwed would help. Someone who plays alot at night time would be good.

Shout me a PM.

Holla.

Gregg777 · #2 12-16-2005, 02:41 PM

How many tables are you playing?

Python49 · #3 12-16-2005, 02:43 PM

i've tried playing just 1-2 and concentrating. hasn't helped any

ahnuld · #4 12-16-2005, 02:51 PM

why not just post your trouble hands? More than happy to help on 2+2

Gregg777 · #5 12-16-2005, 02:53 PM

If people don't have the time to watch, you might want to consider doing a video Link, Allin3High was pretty satisfied with the remarks he got.

Gustavo · #6 12-16-2005, 02:57 PM

you want coaching for free !

Python49 · #7 12-16-2005, 03:10 PM

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you want coaching for free !

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Um, players chat about poker strategy all the time. Me posting hands on this board and getting someone to give advice is the same as what would be going on over AIM. Do we pay to get advice on this board?

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why not just post your trouble hands? More than happy to help on 2+2

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Because I worry that if I posted my hands in this forum asking for advice i'd just be told to stop spamming.... seeing as how most players I talk to on AIM who are good tell me "theres nothing really you can do, just seems like variance". I did however post a few hands from my session the other day in the appropriate forum (bad beats and variance):

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...age=0&vc=1

rikz · #8 12-16-2005, 04:16 PM

A month ago I moved up to $200 NL on party. I lost 6 buy-ins in a week and moved back to $100 NL to re-evaluate my play. I found, for one thing, that my bluff continuation bets were getting called a lot more at $200 than at $100. I was playing about 19% V$VIP, 8% PFR, and 5 Tot Aggr.

When I moved down, I found that $50 NL 6-max had a lot of loose passives so I played that and full ring $100 NL. The experience of finding ways to deal with frequent calls with TPWK and 2nd button at $50 NL was very useful. For example, I've started limping from LP with mid-suited connectors as a primary tactic and raising with them as secondary one - only after establishing a tight table image. Previously I would raise any suited connector or semi-connector and continuation bet from LP every time I got one. In general, I've been working on hand reading and value betting instead of just playing multiple tables on TAG-bet-my-own-cards-auto-pilot like I had been when I was losing at NL $200.

In the last 3 weeks I've built back everything I lost at $200, and last night I went back to the $200. I started out nut peddling at 2-tables and won $100 (about 12% V$PIP and 3% PFR for the session!).

I figure that I'll nut-peddle until I don't get action, then change gears slowly until I do. Tighten up, rinse and repeat.

My problem a month ago was trying to force bad hands early in a session without having established any kind of solid table image. So, for example, I would raise 56s in LP every time I had a hand like that, continuation bet every time I'm checked to regardless of the flop, and often bet the turn with air if I had been called on the flop. That just turned out to be chip spewing.

So, although I don't expect to be super tight nit for my entire poker career, I am going to try being a nit at $200 at the start of each session and only change gears once I've build up a super-tight image and won a few hands. Then I'll start raising more in LP with suited connectors and such, hoping to win small pots because players have come to expect me to have at least a big pair when I raise or cb, and then maybe stack somebody when I flop or turn a concealed straight against 2-pair or a set.

To sumarize, maybe you should try being super tight for a while at the start of each session.

Python49 · #9 12-16-2005, 05:01 PM

for some reason my post got cut off at the end, all i said was "as for your suggestions however, I have taken a buncha breaks and had people look over entire sessions and watch me play".

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This sounds like coaching to me

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Heh well, they are guys that i've talked poker with for quite a while and we're pretty cool now so they are willing to do it free of charge. But yeah it's pretty much me getting coached. It would be like if your friend asked you for opinion on a few hands and you gave him advice, it would just be something you're doing helping a friend out.

Python49 · #10 12-16-2005, 05:06 PM

Albert, very nice post.

About being really tight at the start of each session, yeah one of my friends told me I needed to start focusing on what my table image was and how others played according to it. Due to this, I played tight at first and then would open up my game and use what I knew about the opponents to my advantage. This works fine and all but then i'll just get stacked in a hand that i'll check with others on and be told that I played it fine.