-Overvaluing good hands when I finally
catch one. Was on a bad run for so long, that when I finally caught something, I played it too strongly and ended up running into a bigger hand pretty often.
-OVER Confidence - You think you know everything, so you start slowplaying more to suck more money out of pots. You try to start bending and twisting the basic concepts that built your
bankroll to begin with. (Loosening up,
calling down, bluffing, etc.) You start messing around with other things, seeing how many tables you can run at a time.
-Lack of focus, goes hand-in-hand with over confidence. You feel like the game is almost "automatic" to you, and you can sit with a laptop and watch TV in between good hands. Or you just sit in at a table for a few minutes to see some cards, and hope to get lucky. If you're ever "hoping to get lucky", then you're playing for the wrong reason.
-No patience (stupidest of them all) I remember playing one morning before work, and I really had to leave. After seeing people take down $4-7 dollar pots by betting without seeing a
showdown for a while, I decided it was my
turn to take a pot just so I could leave in the
green, and I was betting/raising no matter what. Dumbest decision ever, someone flopped a
boat.
-No more
fishing.
Table selection is one of the most important factors in being profitable. But once you get to a certain
level, you expect to sit down at any table and
turn a profit. And a lot of the time you know a table isn't good, but you just want to get
back your original buy in and get out.
Originally Posted by storm75m
-Overvaluing good hands when I finally catch one. Was on a bad run for so long, that when I finally caught something, I played it too strongly and ended up running into a bigger hand pretty often.
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