Frustrating

One of my major weaknesses is that I can get really pissed off when I play. I especially get mad when I lose to inferior players. Right now I am in one of those moods, because I just dropped 1 1 / 2 buyins to a horrible player. The player is a calling station. In my opinion he is horrible, but somehow he is up on me lifetime in 200 hands. Three memorable hands from this session. I'm not going to talk them through. I think I played them all well. Just frustrating to lose these hands when I think I am making value bets. Against this type of player I always bet pot, because I almost never bluff since they always call.

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I'm a fish

On this hand I'm oop. I make a pretty standard call pre. I flop top two with a gutshot and clubs. I'm a favorite against most hands. I actually don't like the way I played this hand. I'm willing to get all my money in on the flop, so I checkraise hoping he has the straight and no draw. I'm actually a little unlucky here, because he has two of my outs and the 4c gives him a boat. I think donklead flop would have been better. I think he would raise and I could ship it allin. When he calls the flop I know he's not going anywhere. Therefore a bet has very little fold equity, and my chances of winning have decreased significantly. If the river doesn't help it is an easy fold and I save myself $20. The turn is an easy call. Any time you are 33% or better in Heads up PLO you are getting the right odds to call. Plus he had $20 behind that I'm pretty sure he's not folding to anything but a club on the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5290579

After the hand he calls me a fish... LOL

Bluff

Background info... I've taken two $75 buyins off this guy already. He rebought for another $75 and doubled up when I ran the second nut straight into his nut straight. At the beginning of the session he was paying me off light on the river, but has tightened up and started to fold. I have only shown down premium hands on the river.

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I think my play up until the turn is pretty standard. On the turn I definitely put him on the higher straight. I could fold here, but decide I have good bluff value. I'm pretty sure I can bluff any card that pairs the board or any diamond. If I don't hit a dime or if the board doesn't pair I am laying this down. The dime comes and I jam and he folds.

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LAGRO

If I have a weakness it is definitely against LAGRO (Loose Aggressive) opponents. In order to beat them I have to run well. Not necessarily better than normal, but I need to hit enough hands to keep them calling. Against passive players I can run horrible and still win. Which I did today... ran 3bi below ev against one guy and still took his entire stack.
The hand I'm going over today is from a match against a very lagro opponent. His 3bet pre % was around 80. Early in the match I made a couple hero calls with the bitch end of the straight and went up almost 3 buyins. Then he went on a little heater where he busted a couple of my sets and nut flush, however, I only dropped about a buyin back to him. I also layed down top two when he donkbets, I repot, and he comes over the top.
He starts typing in chat about how boring / tight / bad I am. At this point I think he is a little tilty. My adjustment against lagro players is to minraise my button. So on this hand I minraise. He repots which is his standard line. I smoothcall. I flop bottom set plus the flush draw. He donkleads 2 / 3 pot, which is his standard line. I smoothcall. I'm looking to checkraise any 9 or less nonheart on the turn. He leads turn and I checkraise. He pushes. I insta call. I know I'm good, or at the very least I'll have some heart outs. I'm thinking he has some sort of combo flush / straight draw, but even better he has top two + gutter.

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A hand / day

I've decided to try to post an interesting hand each day and talk through my thought process.

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In this hand I am the BB. I make a semi-loose call here preflop. I think it is OK to fold this hand. My opponent is fairly straight-forward, and I feel like I can outplay him after the flop. I flop top and bottom + an inside straight draw + the Q high flush draw and lead out. I've been leading strong hands and mostly been getting folds. He reraises pot. Immediately, I put him on 8s. He is not the type of player that is going to shove air or a draw here. Against a set of 8s I have fairly decent equity - not quite 50%. I decide to smoothcall here, although I don't think shoving is horrible either. The advantage to the smoothcall is I can fold the turn if another 8 or a 7 hits. The turn bricks and he bets 34 into 48. I think I have 2 Qs 7 dimes that don't pair the board 3 nondime 5s to win. That's 12 / 42 unknowns (assuming he has 8s) which makes me about 2 / 7 to win but I'm getting 34 : 82 on my money. 2 out of 7 times I win 82 which is 164. 5 out of 7 times I lose 34 which is 170. My play is actually slightly - ev, but it's very close. On the bright side, he was in for 200 and a few hands later he stacked off with top two + flush draw vs. my top set.

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Sigh of Relief

I've felt kind of down about my game lately.
I've had mixed results over the last 10 days
In February I had a streak of 20 winning days,
but the last ten days have been fairly swingy.
I've been a little tilty, but I don't think I've played horrible.
Instead, I think I've been playing more aggressive competition.
Let's face it. It's easy to beat a passive calling station.
They are like a puppet on the strings. All you do is bet when you have a hand and they pay you off. Passive players are great, because they let you draw cheap and the calling stations pay you off when you hit.
Aggressive players, however, will cause you to make tough decisions.
Aggressive players make it expensive to draw and the smart ones don't pay you off when you hit.
I think I'm going to table select a little better, and quit players that frustrate me.