only play premium hands, raise when you do get them, flop big draws where you are the favorite, and miss ALL OF THEM.
Just like that I am OUT of the AIPS tournament today at the mega-bottom of the field. I got my money in ahead 4 times and lost 3 of them and had to slow WAY down on the 4th since the turn and the river put a flush and a boat possilble out there against my lame trips. Turns out he had lame lower trips.
All 3 others, I simple got caught from behind (no offense to the porno movie of the same name, which it turns out is pretty good. The title song is so 80's you almost want to scream.)
I just dont want to fall into the trap of being AFRAID to raise with good hands because you are on a losing variance. I just wont fall into that trap!
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I enjoyed playing with you. I was confused by one thing though. Everyone started out pretty slow and weak passive at our table, but after a while, you loosened up and started min raising quite a bit. Why were you trying to min raise?
It seems to me with all the passive play that it was just gonna get called and create much larger pots than you typically would like to see at those levels.
I did not see it that way. I was using 1/2 pot bets to built pots on the come, and then I planned on popping it and raking it when they came in. Problem was, not a single one got there. Well, one did but it had 2 poison pills. Very frustrated by that.
I guess I wasn't clear and I wasn't being critical either, just trying to get some input from a player I respect. I haven't gone back and checked the hand histories but it seemed like you were doing quite a bit of min raising preflop that seemed odd to me for a good player to do. I'm only talking about the preflop play and as I said it was my evaluation at the time so maybe it was just an incorrect impression that I got in the moment.
I can understand the frustrations. PLO is a game where some one is likely to hit so can be an awful reality to deal with when the cards don't go your way.
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