I am such a fish.
About twice a day I get into a spot where I have a good hand, and I say to myself this is great I have to value bet, but that would suck if I get raised. If I get raised, I can't beat anything but a bluff. Then villain raises, I get upset and instead of sticking to the plan I call anyway and go on tilt. Like this, weaktight | Hand | TKo - $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Holdem or this weaktight | Hand | KAo - $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Holdem . I know its wrong, I know I should fold but its like I'm on permatilt and refuse to do what I know I should. I'm embarrassed to even post those hands cuz they're soooo bad but its such a big problem for me that I think the embarrassment might be necessary to get me to fix it.
Been thinking about ranges and balance a lot lately. Fish at 50nl and 100nl are generally so passive that it seems like I should basically never be calling their raises unless I have a nuttish hand. The only time I've been successful in calling their raises with less than 2 pair is when I think through their line and can literally put them on nothing. These villain's don't seem to be thinking through why they're bluffing so when they do it often makes 0 sense, and when they're raising for value there's at least a couple hands that make perfect sense and as unlikely as it may seem that they have one of the couple hands they almost always do. So ya gonna work on becoming more disciplined and folding more often when it looks like I'm beat, even if that means getting bluffed a lot more often, I think it will add significantly to my bottom line and help a bunch as I move up in stakes and start playing more regs.
The more I study HU play, the harder time I have believing that I'm really winning at all. I make so many huge mistakes on a regular basis that I feel like if I just plug some of the big ones I'd be winning a ton more, but somehow despite those I'm doing pretty well. HU is an extremely complex game, and that's why I have so much fun learning and trying to figure it out. I think I'm going to dive into some of the math that governs some common situations I've been struggling in tomorrow. If i have any aha moments or come up with some things I feel are useful I'll share here!
cheers,
Chad
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