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Old 11-16-2005, 11:54 AM
SteveGriff SteveGriff is offline
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Default Quieting down my aggression and become more passive

First off, I've been looking off my Pokertracker stats. I've noticed a few things that I think that are fundemantally wrong with my game:

1) I'm too aggressive on the flop and turn. My PF raise looks good (between 14 - 15) but I think I'm taking the bet the flop and turn for folding equity a little too far.

First question is, how do I cut down my flop and turn aggression and by how much? I think I have to be less inclined to bet out on the flop with overcards against two opponents where the flop looks somewhat threatening.

Example:

I raise with AKo and the flop comes Q 4 9 two suited. And I have no backdoor flush draw. In front of me are two passive opponents. If my opponents are not tricky and are somewhat calling stations where do I draw the line? Am I better off betting than check / calling? I'm more inclined to bet. Discuss.

2) The turn. This is probably where I have most difficulty playing the game. I notice a lot of shorthanded players who post their W$SD stats are around the 51% - 53% range. Is this where most winning players should be? My W$SD floats around the 57% range.

It's pretty clear that I'm not going to showdown enough - my Went to showdown is around 31% - 32%. Therefore where I'm going wrong? My guess is that I should be calling instead of betting the turn with my marginal holdings if a scare card falls. This would solve two things:

1) My aggression factor on the turn would go down.
2) I'll be seeing a showdown much more because I won't be getting bluffed out of pots on the turn as much.

Therefore I think a lot of the time with TP or a marginal holding on the turn, I should be trying to see a showdown more than often and that means I should be check/calling out of position, to stop being raised on out of pots on the turn. Therefore my aggression factor would go down, but my went to showdown would increase (currently at around 32%), and my W$SD would decrease because I would be seeing more showdowns.

Of course I'll still outright bet my monsters on the turn, but I think I should be less inclined to bet out with marginal pairs etc. on the turn.

My line has been "keep being the aggressor until be told otherwise that you may be beaten." I think that saying is flawed because I'm being myself left over to bluff raises. Maybe. Or I'm paranoid.

I'd like some comments on this, thanks

Steve Griff
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