FPS = “fancy play syndrome” and it’s losing me money at the microstakes. For my last 2 sessions I have played one hand in a big pot way too fanciful / advanced for the fish to understand. This would be fine at higher levels where the fish are paying more attention and would understand what hand I’m repping, but at $25 NL, it’s just pissing in the wind.
At least in both my last sessions, I have realised I’m doing this after unecessarily losing a big pot, and have gone back to solid ABC poker and won a load back. If I could just improve my patience / discipline one more notch and stop myself doing it in the first place, my winrate would be through the roof where it should be.
In tonight’s session, I just overplayed one fooking hand but that was enough to stack off lightly where I should have just tightened up. I then went on to win it all back and finish the session slightly up, but FFS, I could have finished up a full buy-in.
Here’s the hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2801316
Yuck, let me at least explain my thought process. Villain was very aggro preflop and was raising a lot of hands. I had a hand that flopped well, ie I either hit the flop hard or I don’t, so 3-betting light is not awful here, but I should have just given up on this hand post flop. Normally I like to have 3 criteria for 3 betting light preflop: 1) Villain = aggro (true), 2) Hold a hand that flops well (true), 3)Have a tight table image (true) and 4) Villain raises in late position – well this one was false – Villain open raised in early position and so I should have given him way more credit than I did. I did however make a note that villain is prepared to stack off with just TPTK…..
Luckily I won a load back with these hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2801360
I love playing suited connectors in position in a raised multiway pot 
My equity was so high vs villains range postflop that I was dying to get it all in as soon as I could.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2801368
Ship it. Look at the hand from villain’s perspective. He really could have got away from this if he had thought a bit about 1) What hand I could be holding and 2) What he thought I thought HE was holding. ie done some level 3 thinking. It was pretty obvious I had a small pocket pair and that I knew he had overcards…..
Gl at the tables
5 responses so far ↓
luckystraights // June 25, 2008 at 2:46 am |
I was doing a similar thing not all that long ago, yes even at 5NL lol
Nothing makes me smile more then seeing my set rake in a huge pot, though of course nothing makes me cry more then when villains FD hits the river to beat my top set lol
Happy Grinding xxx
Pud's Poker // June 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm |
ABC is the way ahead mate. I’m struggling right now in MTTs as I have read so much info on them I am playing at least one level above the guys at the $1-$5 games and I am paying for it.
Grrrrrr!
brooklyn bum // June 26, 2008 at 5:08 pm |
One quick question if the roles were reversed could you fold AA in that spot?
Just curious…
doublemeup // June 26, 2008 at 8:10 pm |
Hi thanks for the comments both of you
To Brooklyn, A year ago, I would have probably played it exactly the same way as villain.
Now, with more experience and with a HUD, I would have folded the turn. There is no way I am stacking off here so deep vs a TAG who’s donking into me hard on 2 streets after having limped / called preflop
Stacking off here with a single pair is a big leak, and one that I had to plug at $10NL before moving up. I’m not saying I get it right every time, but this particular hand should be easy to get away from IMHO
doublemeup // June 26, 2008 at 9:42 pm |
Hi Pud, thanks for stopping by, I’m a regular reader of your blog
Yeah, you’re right, I’ve tightened up a bit since this session and gone back to playing more straightforwardly and it’s already paying dividends…
GL mate.