turning from losing player to breakeven player

[ZCorky]

My advice would be to listen and learn from those who are trying to help you. There is no point asking for advice if you are going to bring an answer (or excuse) to everything that is suggested.

Unfortunately, HU poker is really a specialist form of the game, and you are usually going to be playing someone who will crush you with experience.

If you are set on staying with this form of the game, one tip which may help your HU play is to be extremely aware of your own table image. TAG, LAG, passive, fish - it doesn't matter. You need to identify it, and use it to your advantage. By the time your opponent realises he incorrectly stereotyped you, you are counting your winnings.

 

[RI_ER_SA]

You arent going to learn poker in a couple of weeks, but if you percivier then over the next 12 months or so you should drastically improve. (im just trying to indicate a realistic time scale)

Answer : Ok i accept that i am an ignorant person!(really i am)

But i will take the advice and play all reast my lest 65 dolars to 1 dolar 6 person SNG.I promise i try to understand.

 

[turby]

I'll just like to highlight that besides books.. there are other was to learn as well such as watching videos and having a few poker buddies (hopefully better than you) who can "sweat it out" with you to basically watch you and see where you may be going wrong and point out stuff you should be doing right. Of course, coaching is a whole diff level.

 

[Poker Orifice]

My advice...
Don't ask for advice if you're not really interested in getting some.

 

[Poker Orifice]

Hire jennafear for $400/hr.

 

[spunka]

Hi
I saw a few hands on your blog and I also saw this headline "Aggression is the name of the game; especially when you’re in position. "

And in most of the hands you limp on the button ???

I am I wrong to think the button is position or ?? do you have a big flaw here ...

Another hand the A7 hand, you limp ?? call call then the Ace comes and you bet 250 .... now what will your opponent put you on ?? (he Knows you have an A .. at least) he raises you all in ... If he knows you have an A like you yelled to him, would he do that with less than a 2 pairs or better, now here he has a monster, and you gladly pays him off, now that is a long term loosing road, you're will be heading on, if you keep this play up.

 

[RI_ER_SA]

And in most of the hands you limp on the button ???

I am I wrong to think the button is position or ?? do you have a big flaw here ...

Another hand the A7 hand, you limp ?? call call then the Ace comes and you bet 250 .... now what will your opponent put you on ?? (he Knows you have an A .. at least) he raises you all in ... If he knows you have an A like you yelled to him, would he do that with less than a 2 pairs or better, now here he has a monster, and you gladly pays him off, now that is a long term loosing road, you're will be heading on, if you keep this play up.

Answer : my game changes a lot.I decided to change gears at hu.

play 1.st level passive and play the nuts,
play 2.nd level normal
play 3.rd level aggresive
play 4.th level aggresive and aggresive.

*i admit it is a mistake to call down higher than %10 percent,but cant help it.

by the way, i decided to take suggestions and turned into 1 dolar, 6 prs SNG.

 

[Stu_Ungar]

Answer : my game changes a lot.I decided to change gears at hu.

play 1.st level passive and play the nuts,
play 2.nd level normal
play 3.rd level aggresive
play 4.th level aggresive and aggresive.

*i admit it is a mistake to call down higher than %10 percent,but cant help it.

by the way, i decided to take suggestions and turned into 1 dolar, 6 prs SNG.

Look, this is really pointless. The answer to your problem is not going to be along the lines of extend stage 1 or remove stage 3.

Start posting SPECIFIC hands in the Hand Analysis section and take it from there.

 

[RI_ER_SA]

my 4 th 6 handed game 1 $ SNG.

Opponent is loose and aggresive.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/964681



What did i do wrong ? I am 62 percent favorite in all in ?

 

[chipshuffler]

Being a 62% favorite and losing like u did is just unlucky. If u keep putting ur money in at 62% eventually your winnings will amount to very close to 62% profit. So keep getting your chips in ahead and soon it will turn around. Look at the hands you think u may have played wrong and learn from them...thats the best way for a beginenr to learn...Also watch the vids on this site

 

[Stu_Ungar]

my 4 th 6 handed game 1 $ SNG.

Opponent is loose and aggresive.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/964681



What did i do wrong ? I am 62 percent favorite in all in ?

You called!

You are a 62% favourite against 36s.

I am going to have to asume that he didn't tell you he had 36s before you called, therefore could you give the range of hands you put him on when he shoves preflop.

Lets look at the equality you have against that range.

 

[slycbnew]

my 4 th 6 handed game 1 $ SNG.

Opponent is loose and aggresive.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/964681



What did i do wrong ? I am 62 percent favorite in all in ?

Is that 4knl or a tournament?

If the cards are face up, then calling his all in is absolutely correct. Of course, being a 62% favorite means that more than one out of every three times you play this way preflop, you will lose. Of course, over the long run, you will win many more times than you lose, making a call here profitable.

In the short run, luck is king. In the long run, skill is king (from The Poker Mindset).

This also means, though, that you're gambling when you call here. Since you don't know what he's holding, you are far from assured that your hand is a 62% favorite - ATs is a good hand, but dominated by better A's and TT+, and is flipping w smaller pairs. Trusting your read is good, and if he's really a serious lagtard this call makes sense, but I generally fold here without a very solid read.

 

[spiderman637]

I would say stop playing cash games and start playing freerolls...
By playing freerolls, u will learn a lot and also u dont have any thing to lose...
Meantime also learn from your mistakes. Analyze your game and the hands u play.
Take advices on different hands from different good players...
Go through all threads in this strategy section of cardschat. It will teach you a lot....
And dont return to cash games unless u have won atleast 5 freerolls in 2 weeks...
That means you are good to go...

 

[blott]

don' t think you learn much from freerolls. I would advise the 10c sngs on Ipoker .
beat these regularly then move up.

heads up I like to chip away at an opponents stack rather than being ultra aggressive. this seems to bore many players who will often push with bad cards. It's easy then to call with top 10 %.

 

[TheWall]

I don't know why you are all wasting your time. I've read all the posts and obviously he doesn't want to listen to the advice that everyone here has given him, which would be to stop playing heads up.

My take- Your wrong, you will not learn faster because you see more hands. Heads Up is a totally different animal from all other forms of poker and it is the most difficult to be a regular winner at. This learning style will prevent you from learning the more common forms of poker and the time it takes you to become successful will be much longer. I think you could be a winner at .01/.02 NL very quickly if you read and took advice, but you obviously want to assume you know everything. I wish you good luck, and for god sakes play full ring or six max.

 

[RA2000]

Why did you loose and how do you play?!?
Play tighter and study the articles here carefully!

 

[RI_ER_SA]

Being a 62% favorite and losing like u did is just unlucky

What is best positive expectation should i expect ?

 

[slycbnew]

That you'll win a little less than 2/3 of the time (i.e., 62%) when you play those two hands against each other.

 

[PurgatoryD]

What is best positive expectation should i expect ?

That if you were in that same exact situation 1000 times, that you'd win approximately 620 times and lose 380 times. This was one of the 380 times.

If you have a 62% chance of winning every time you shove, overall, you're going to be a very profitable player. However, you're not going to win every hand.

On the other hand, if every 62% chance shove you make is matched by a 38% chance shove you make, then overall you are only going to win 50% of the time.

Success in poker is not defined by the results of a single hand. It's defined by the relative success of all your hands over time, which is typically measured by the size of your bankroll over time.

Good luck to you,

-Dave

 

[PurgatoryD]

Lets look at the equality you have against that range.

The OP should read this again and again. And again.

-Dave

 

[RI_ER_SA]

In the short run, luck is king. In the long run, skill is king (from The Poker Mindset).

Beign played 1000 HU and still at %50 winrate makes me depressed.and now i am chainging the style of my play.

in the poker mindset "sudden changes in your game causes down swings".

i did not have an upswing yet.

 

[JustRaiseTheBlinds]

- First beat a lower HU game(, if that's possible)
- Play a bigger sample, 500 HU isn't much
- Rake can kill you, if you play 2 games, one won, one lost, you payed rake for 2 games, played 50/50, but you're still down.
- Play another game, HU players are most of the time better than Full ring players
- Read more about HU games, it's another game than FR/6max.

 

[Stu_Ungar]

What is best positive expectation should i expect ?

Well if you answered my first question and told us the range of hands you put the villian on when he open shoved preflop, then we could tell you your EV.

I dot know what range YOU put him on, thats why im asking to to tell me.

But please stop looking at the EV of his actual hand vs his range becaus you do not know his exact hand.

 

[dcor]

Read. Don't be this guy.

 

[RI_ER_SA]

answers

I dot know what range YOU put him on, thats why im asking to to tell me.

Answer : at HU to put him in a range is not my main goal but i decide then to fold,when to raise and call him down.

maybe i should put him on hands....

Dont be this guy

I am already one of that guys...