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Originally Posted by fourKingshit  wow, another (long!) and great post.
The blinds and blind stealing is a huge topic and as mentioned needs to be played dependant on a variety of factors with you touching on all the key areas, understanding player types, table aggresion, your image, stack sizes, blind size and knowing the odds of your hand holding up etc are all important.
Your post was well written and informative, and will be good to refer back to, however dare I now say it "varience" is somthing that needs to be taken into consideration. Downswings can be hard mentaly and can have a big impact on how you play, so whilst I have never given bad luck and assesing whether it's actually a poker sin enough time and consideration, you have made a very worthy point and reminded me how lazy I am at reviewing my play.
On reviewing the last 22 hands, I got my chips in with the best hand 6 times (55%+ favourite), flipping 6 times (AK v med pair etc)and behind 10 times(oops!), to lose 20 of those times is mathmatically unlikely so over time this will balance out. Whilst all of my pushes held some equity, I guess my point is that varience does exist and has to be factored into how you play and how you maintain your bank roll.
One definate highlight I am taking from this thread is that I need to stop being lazy and spend more time reviewing my poker sessions, to make sure that loses are not in fact big leaks... next query as again I am unsure of this.
What is the best way to review sessions, what are you looking for, how do you identify leaks, and what agenda's do you set to plug them (assuming you have stat software and can review your play easily) |
Start by identifying the coin flips as possible bad decisions.
Coin flips put a large percentage of your stack at risk, generally speaking, so the key question here (for me
) is evaluating the player I am thinking of raising all in. Is the player loose or tight? How much 'fold equity do you get with this player? Is your current table image going to make him fold or rush for his chips
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I play throught the entire session and I actually annotate it in my Blog. The process really helps, but few people will read it, though do a good job and you will build a following. More importantly, you get to replay the hand. (
Note to GoodKarmaKid: Hand converter to play back tournament and game hand histories would be cool to have on the site) You also see things you did not notice when playing, such as "Man, he sure plays a lot of hands that guy!", "That is the eightth time that weasel has targeted my Blinds, he must think I am too tight in the Blinds", or the classic "Why do I play hands like that!
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I am going on vacation for a few weeks, so no more horrendous long posts (you lucky guy!). Best of luck in your games and when I return in Septemebr I will parachute into the PokerStrategyForum and catch up.
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