Focus on the right spots

[XTR1000]

I found a huge leak.

Following the wrong game plan and focusing on the wrong spots.

When I grinded my way up from micros my entire game plan was to avoid marginal spots and to wait for the right opportunity to stack villian X. It all came down to wait for set vs overpair and overpair vs TP spots and that should still be a profitable (not optimal tho) strategy as long as folding equity makes only a small part of your edge over your opposition.

I´ve played this game for too long. Not by any means did I play a purely nitty nutcamp game, I´m 15/13 long term at .5/1 and 1/2. Not the loosest, but way above a 10/6 setfarmer.

Now, with moving up in stakes its just like your relative EV gets smaller the bigger the pot grows. Think for a minute, when does a 200BB pot between solid players occur? Either you get coolered, you cooler someone else or you´re in a "FD+over vs overpair"-like situation where you´re basically flipping.

How many "tough spots" are posted here per week? What is a tough spot? How often do we stove ranges and decide its "close" or whatever? In the end, a tough spot that generates a lot of replies here and to which some replies contain the phrase "I´m indifferent between..." are marginal +/-ev. If there was a clear +ev to be realized there wouldnt be much to disagree. Its nothing but the net amount of buy ins at stake at that time that lets us focus on these hands and draws our attention away from the money.

75% or so of tough spots in big pots are close to 0ev and have very little impact on your winrate


Stop worrying about them. Focus on where the monayz are at. Small to medium pots. 3betting ranges, floating, double barrels, cold calling pre, blind stealing and whatnot. Dont let big pots fuck with you, dont let the big pots draw all your attention to them while there´s so much money left to be made.

After all, I´m a bad player, maybe because I didnt realize the above, maybe because I suck at thinking and post stuff like that. Flame away.



EDIT: stats refer to full ring games

[Fnord]

I said as much to you a week or two ago.

You can still get the way best of it deep. The first step is to stop blowing up pots with lukewarm hands against tight players.