Cash Games Update
Man I suck at cash games. Not entirely, but it feels like it at times. So hows my first week or so gone? Slowly and painfully is the answer. I can certainly beat the low levels, by how much I wouldn’t like to say. I started off pretty well making over $300 at $50NL in a few days, then I proceeded to donate most of it back. I had a nice 3 buy-in monkey tilt session, and have struggled to make a run since. I’m in profit at the 3 levels I’ve played at (25NL, 50NL and 100NL) but not by much at all.
My observations:
- I pay off river bets too often, nobody check calls to the river and then raises or re-raises your river bet without the nuts or near as. I can probably count on my hands the number of times people are bluffing the river. STOP CALLING!
- I have difficulty folding to silly bets, min re-raises etc.
- I hardly ever fold AA or KK, this in general is certainly +EV at these stakes, however sometimes it is still required.
- I’m good at maximum extraction, I’m always betting, potting and never slowplaying. Definitely the way forward. I read a nice article on the EV of pushing the river with the nuts when it’s a massive overbet. Whilst you very rarely get called, it only takes one person to do so when you’re deep stacked, and it suddenly is much more profitable compared to the silly milking bets I keep seeing. $2 bet into a $20 pot with the nuts? "because I wanna get paid" STOP IT YOU MORONS!
- Cashgames can be very cruel. The bad beats seem relentless in cash games, however this is probably because I’m concentrating more and really want to win.
I just wish I could play at the moment. Internet is back up (just!) but keeps cutting out every 15 mins or so… grrr!
Comment by hoose — 24 January, 2007 @ 12:46 pm