STOP doing this in Poker (Inspired by Dan Pearce)

[dorsk]

Heavily inspired by Dan Pearce
STOP:

Slowplaying your big hands

Slowplaying those bad aces

Making excuses when you lose your stack

Making Betsizing tells

Check-calling the river immediately

Weak-leading pots with marginal hands

Calling off of just ‘cause you’ve putting a lot of chips in the pot

Betting so big only better hands can call you

Overplaying AK

Playing suited connectors out of position

bluffing out of position

Assigning specific hands to other players

Getting over attached to top pair

Playing those garbage hands

Playing pretty looking garbage hands

Out-leveling yourself

Overplaying bottom two pairs

Rebuying when your image is poor

Lying to friends which hands you lost with

Batteling with better players

 

[dorsk]

Heavily inspired by Dan Pearce

STOP

Giving off speed tells

Others will fold after they show weakness

Playing scared with JJ

Calling early position raises with marginal hands

Missing out on thin value

Worrying on pot control

Set mining with short effective stacks

Making big Hero calls

Getting scared by boards that scary

Playing when you don’t feel well

Overplaying the dark end of straights

Bying in more than you planned on losing

Overbetting all your good hands

Thinking you have the odds with crap hands

Blaming the cards when you lose

Letting bad beats tilt you

Stop going on positive tilt too

Bluffing off your stack into oblivion

 

[s0ftdumps]

Speed tells can be used to your advantage

 

[dorsk]

Heavily inspired by Dan Pearce

STOP

Playing when you’re sleep deprived

Feeling entitled to win with big pairs

Bragging to friends about how good you are

Believing you’re smarter than other players

With the fancy play syndrome

Playing games that are too big for your bankroll or skill level

Missing value by sizing your bets too small

Losing sight of the size of the pot

Risking your stack in marginal spots

Sitting at the table too long

Living a lethargic life

Calling down good players with small pocket pairs

Making big decisions with your guts

Playing more hands when you get bored

Beat specific players

Showing your cards to other players

Nit-rolling

Rushing big decisions

 

[Falzee]

Very sound advice!

 

[dorsk]

Heavily inspired by Dan Pearce

STOP

Playing scared of the draws coming in

Assuming the maniac never has it

Playing the same style against every opponent

Your love affair with crappy Broadway cards

Fit or fold poker

The size of your opponents stacks

Betting so small that people read weakness and bluff you

Making blocker bets

Betting every draw like it is the nuts

Hitting and running the game

Zoning out on headphones

Ego dumping to female players

Thinking that top pair and a flush draw are the nuts

Over calculating your outs

Talking action without knowing what you will do next

C-betting flops that hits other peoples ranges

Following your bluff into the ground

 

[dannystanks]

Sounds like a good list!

 

[EiXT]

Talking action without knowing what you will do next

That has been my biggest flaw in poker once I started playing.
It took awhile to know how to play in every situation, but only after countless of hands studied.

Nice list though, I got flashbacks of all my poorly played hands of which I wouldn't want to repeat again 😅

 

[steve01991]

live and learn, valuable lessons here, may i add one?
Stop playing on emotions!

 

[dorsk]

Heavily inspired by Dan Pearce

STOP

Putting your entire stack in with bad flushes and straights

Telling other players how they should have played their hands

Folding just because you know the other players have an over pair

Watching sports games during poker

Using stimulants to stay alert

Letting slow roll tilt you

Putting money in when a Nit wants to play a big pot

Pounding junk food at the table

Sitting hunched over the table

Being so passive in limped pots

Only sitting with bad players

Going on positive bluff tilt

Running it twice

Thinking a winning session has any meaning at all

Playing without tracking every session

Playing without journaling your session

Thinking that you are better at poker than you are

Being afraid to tell how much you still don’t know

 

[dorsk]

That has been my biggest flaw in poker once I started playing.
It took awhile to know how to play in every situation, but only after countless of hands studied.

Nice list though, I got flashbacks of all my poorly played hands of which I wouldn't want to repeat again 😅

This a flaw that I also make. Perhaps lesser than before but it’s still there.

 

[dorsk]

live and learn, valuable lessons here, may i add one?
Stop playing on emotions!

Thanks for mentioning this, and it is a big one. Emotions have ideally no place in poker but we’re humans and have feelings

 

[NSX_Amfe2nat]

Okay brother, we will do that from now

 

[Flyer35]

How about:

Playing every Ax regardless of position, bet size or the value of 'x'.​

 

[dorsk]

How about:

Playing every Ax regardless of position, bet size or the value of 'x'.​

You’re welcome to pursue that tactic👍

 

[Fuchun]

Flexible playing to keep opponents guessing over you

 

[black and]

Stop doing this nonsense. Play poker and have fun. Play the way you want and don't pay attention to the advice of so-called “professionals”. The game should first of all bring you pleasure, and if the game is fun, the likelihood that it will start bringing you money increases significantly.

 

[dorsk]

Your wrong mate. Dan Pearce isn’t a pro. Never claimed to be.
Having fun is more fun when you don’t make silly mistakes. Your “likelihood” is funny.😄 Perhaps mostly for your opponents