Overplaying, Stacking Off Light?

This isn't a result of the past few days or anything because I haven't even really played, I think I am down like 2 buyins but its all pretty standard stuff and 1500 hands or something so nothing to worry about, but I am worried about some of my overall thinking lately.

This all stemmed from pondering the idea of playing some 6 max(which I probably will do some of), and reading over some strat posts online.  There is one specific post that I read where long story short, Hero had AK on an AT83 board and got his 2nd barrel raised on the turn. The overwhelming response was that it is a simple fold here.  Now granted I take all the advice I get in forums with a HUGE grain of salt because I don't think that telling villains stats, or even really trying to explain the table dynamics ever really does a hand justice, but my point is that my thinking here is flawed.  In this spot, honestly, I am not sure that I am playing correctly.  I am trying to think right now what I would do if my $3.75 2nd barrel got raised to $9.75 with TPTK and I really can't see myself folding. This is a problem.

I have never had a problem making rookie mistakes, getting it in with TPTK, overpairs vs obvious sets...but I think I have gotten complacent and just give up saying "well if he hit it then so be it."  I am not saying that I make this mistake everytime, or even the majority of the time, but losing $25, when I should lose roughly $6 here, is pretty bad.

Sooooo, my solution... I have said that I am gonna do this before, and never did, largely because I never had to, and its a pain, but I am gonna start posting on here every hand that I get stacked. I really think that I need to start taking accountability for my decisions in order to fix them. I not only think I will learn from the mistakes, but also that I wont make them as often, knowing that I am going to post them for everyone to see. If the hand is really standard like AA AIPF or something or I get it in good I wont post them, but just my mistakes.

Nows a better time than ever to start I guess, hands from the few hands I have played this month..

Hand #1-Villain is 41/14/2 over 23 hands so little to no read really, should be respecting his EP opens at this point.

NL Holdem $0.25(B Replayer Game#17248845908

filbertlcfc13 ($13.22)

NeedAJoker ($25)

jose a alanis ($4.68)

raveolutioN ($11.90)

reseek ($23.89)

gvacci ($21.52)

ColtsRule18 ($30.22)

PlayItLikeAset ($25.75)

Battling Baz ($9.09)

filbertlcfc13 posts (S $0.10

NeedAJoker posts (B $0.25

Dealt to NeedAJoker Th Tc

jose a alanis calls $0.25

fold,

reseek raises to $0.75

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,

NeedAJoker calls $0.50-Dont see any reason to raise TT here vs a UTG open.

jose a alanis calls $0.50

FLOP ($2.35) Ts Ah Jh

NeedAJoker bets $2.25-Pretty shitty spot to give a free card, not sure that I can really CR here on this board, so I bet.  I actually am not sure what the best line is here, Im gonna post this hand after this.

jose a alanis folds

reseek raises to $4.50

NeedAJoker calls $2.25-Get minraised, at this point I think my thought process was just call and see what comes on the turn, but in reality I think I was just stumped and calling is easiest.  Im pretty sure my line should definatly be CALL here,because raising or folding doesn't make much sense.

TURN ($11.35) Ts Ah Jh 9c

NeedAJoker checks

reseek bets $7.75

NeedAJoker raises to $19.75 (AI)-I dont know what I was thinking here. At this point I should probably just lay it down? God, I am not sure. If he was a solid player I think its a fold but here I gotta get it in.

reseek calls $10.89 (AI)

RIVER ($48.63) Ts Ah Jh 9c 2c

NeedAJoker shows Th Tc

(Pre 20%, Flop 9.6%, Turn 2.3%)

reseek shows As Ac

(Pre 80%, Flop 90.4%, Turn 97.7%)

reseek wins $46.20

I ran this hand by on the forums and everyone just says re-raise preflop and get it in if possible against this opponent.  I tend to agree so lesson learned.

Besides that hand everything else is going OK, I just have to knock off a little more dust before I expect to see some real winnings.  I want to try and get in a few hands this week if I can but with a bad head cold and classes starting it might be a stretch.  I will keep you all informed, GL at the tables.

Joker

Posted by NeedAJoker at 1/3/2010 7:34 PM
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