I am at a point where i'm now assessing that all-in move, i agree its a tool and it's something that seriously needs to be used wisely.

But the thing is when you play the pot bets or over there is always that possibility that people will call to see more cards (or hands if you like), fish in other words and if you read the cards and someone makes a raise there is nothing stopping you from thinking "that person has a better hand then you" then the person turns over their cards and you feel mugged once again.

Getting into the flow of a game is very hard at the time being, your watching chips going from hither to tither, no one is really making a mark on the game.
If you semi bluff you find the person has the hand,
You don't feel comfortable making a two pair with a pair on the board 'cause of a possible trip.
Your top pair with low kicker constantly gets beat.
Your top pair with high kicker gets beat by low two pairs.
Your full-house gets beaten by a higher full-house.

But everyone else around the table seems to be winning with the hands i've just mentioned above. But no-one is getting knocked out cause four people are going all-in and the chips split in some mad way. It's quite funny watching but frustrating when you are sure you have the best hand.

Don't believe for one second that i'm disreguarding the advice you have given, it's superb advice. A lot of it i had already taken heed with myself before i'd even posted on this forum.

I understand the concept of bluffing and the semi-bluff, the thing is with these types of game play as by your own admission you need notoriety in the game your playing.

I know what i'm stuck on at the moment, its the vicious circle of mine. I just need to identify when the bad is going to happen and act accordingly to when it does happen. Again i'm not disreaguarding what you are saying on the basis of reading up strategies and tactics. If you are going through a bad patch, nothing will look good. Until you relise that a certain aspect on your game needs tuning, not disguarding, but tuning.

Hey - there are much better people to give advice than me :-) - But I recognise where you are at..


"Getting into the flow of a game is very hard at the time being, your watching chips going from hither to tither, no one is really making a mark on the game.
If you semi bluff you find the person has the hand,
You don't feel comfortable making a two pair with a pair on the board 'cause of a possible trip.
Your top pair with low kicker constantly gets beat.
Your top pair with high kicker gets beat by low two pairs.
Your full-house gets beaten by a higher full-house.

But everyone else around the table seems to be winning with the hands i've just mentioned above."

It sounds clearly like you are a bit down on your game. They are some very negative comments.

Did you drop back down to starter level and start again? I would. Best way in my book

It 's a constant battle, mainly with myself because of the way i want to get ahead in the game.

It truely is not anything against what you say and the advice that you give.

In Poker there seems to be advice that you can take on instantly, then there is the advice that needs some work, mainly because at first it would be advice that you just want to believe is negative towrads your own gameplan, then slowly but not so surely you begin to understand.

When i started playing, i started from scratch.
I watched a little on t.v but didn't have a great understanding.

Came across Poker by accident, just walking down a high street. Even though i flirted with the idea of some mad re-buy going on in some dodgey Snooker club.

I asked my Uncle to come to the place with me, mainly because he goes to Las Vegas a lot to play some other mad type of Poker where you only play against the dealer, he says to me "if you want to learn, this is where you do it".

There are countless amounts of steps that i have made playing Poker the way i want to play, some good, some lets just say i wasn't in the right state to play, a hell of a lot of frustration, but mainly i have learned. I have turned corners and sometimes there has been a brick wall there. Here's an example, a few monthes into playing live i thought i had a great hand only to find Q, K, A, 1, 2 wasn't a straight. The thing is i can look back on that and think of the way i learned what straights were.

I also had to go through some major brain training in the beginning of me playing Poker by understanding that a plain straight is worse than a plain flush, then after that it's the understanding the highers and lowers. But again thes are relatetivly easy to learn.

Then there are the complicated ones, learning when to bluff (i believe it just comes to you), semi bluff is more of a learning thing because you need to learn when to do it mainly because of the betting strategies and chipstacks around you. However i do believe that the constant use of semi bluffing may of steamed from the raising before the turn to see a free river when drawing (just a view). But a semi bluff is also a great thing to have in your armoury because of the wide variety of cards this gives you to think about. It is just something that needs to be used wisely.

hahah i thought you were talking about latencyproblems...that's the only LAG i know lol.

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That's what I thought it meant... (shrugs)