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Why can't I win with any decent hand?
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookie1007 | Small blind | £1.50 | £1.50 | £138.15 | |
| sweeney86 | Big blind | £3.00 | £4.50 | £17.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| Alvez11 | Fold | ||||
| mickjenn1 | Fold | ||||
| cookie1007 | Raise | £4.50 | £9.00 | £133.65 | |
| sweeney86 | Call | £3.00 | £12.00 | £14.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| cookie1007 | All-in | £133.65 | £145.65 | £0.00 | |
| sweeney86 | All-in | £14.00 | £159.65 | £0.00 | |
| cookie1007 | Unmatched bet | £119.65 | £40.00 | £119.65 | |
| cookie1007 | Show |
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| sweeney86 | Show |
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| Turn | |||||
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| River | |||||
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| cookie1007 | Win | Two Pairs, 7s and 5s | £38.20 | £157.85 | |
Comments
In short, you were the architect of your own downfall here. When we slow play K-K - as you chose - what we are doing is increasing the risk, in return for increasing the profit or loss. If we play it "properly" pre, we win most times, but we don't win much. If we slow play, we get the chance to win more, or lose more. We all face these choices. If we slow play, quite simply we increase the risk-reward ratio.
When we make these choices, we have to be able to face the consequences. Blaming anyone or anything else is kidding ourselves.
I think you may benefit from reading "The Mental Game of Poker". Posts from you include.....
"Sky Poker gets a lot of stick for being rigged, we all know that. But when theres a "regular" with £70 at a table with a maximum buy-in of £2, that doesn't help the cause does it. Disgusting."
"Hi, I've found a glitch in your game. It keeps forcing other players to beat me on rivers with the unlikeliest of cards. Can you fix that please? I love Sky Poker even though I never win (because of this glitch obviously). Sort it out and I'll be back, to lose in more realistic ways :P"
"Does anybody know how the player called Donttelmum is able to play at 10+ tables at a time, all day every day? I wouldn't mind if "she" took her time calling/folding etc as a result, but she's faster than everybody else, at EVERY table. Simply not possible in my opinion. There might be a simple explanation but seems a bit dodgy to me.. GL at the tables guys
Some of that stuff, to be honest, is embarrassing. "Donttelmum" is a real person, many of us here know him in real life. He plays 10, 12, 16 tables at a time. Nothing unusual in that, lots of folks do. Strewth, I'm nearing 70 years of age & I comfortably play 6 at a time.
So when you post stuff like that, I'm afraid you ARE opening yourself up to ridicule. You are.
Read "The Mental Game of Poker", go to the forum "Poker Clinic" where they will advise you if you ask for advice, start a thread "guys, I need a bit of help", or even send me a PM, & I'll try to help.
If you keep sticking up threads like this, however, you are going to get some grief, you just are.
Good luck.
These may help, too...
The War on Tilt, Part One, HERE
The War on Tilt, Part Two, HERE
Those were written by Barry Carter, who is the Co-Author of "The Mental Game of Poker", which has benefitted tens of thousands of poker players. I've yet to meet anyone who does not say that is a great learning tool. The other co-author was Jared Tendler, who coached several players who made this year's November Nine.
That book costs about £12, & you can buy it in hard copy or a Kindle version. £12 is less than a pull up at the stakes you play. Sounds like a good investment to me.