Good that you found the
post, but just a few thoughts.
If you play AJ and hit a
flop with JJx you've hit
trips, not a
set. A
set is considered you holding a
pocket pair and hitting a third of that
rank on the board. A
set is somewhat stronger than
trips - you beat the same hands (they're both three-of-a-kind), but the
set is more disguised and more likely to get
action.
If the board has something like KJJ it is not unlikely that someone with a single K will go
broke - he'll consider anyone else holding a J less likely (as two of them are already accounted for) and think his K gives him the best '
top pair'. It's probably not fair to suggest you could have gotten away from the hand - it was likely profitable to get
all-in.
If you buy in for $100 another question is - what stakes are you playing? If it's $1/$2 blinds then you are buying in with 50bb. Note that the size of your
stack relative to blinds has a HUGE impact on which hands are worth playing and which hands are not worth playing. There are many excellent resources on the topic and lots on this forum (just get reading). If you prefer books I'd look at Professional No-
Limit Holdem,
No Limit Holdem Theory and Practice and/or Harrington on Cash (two volumes).
Study your opponents and their tendencies. If you knew your opponent was very cautious and timid and only playing super premium hands aggressively - you MIGHT have needed to find a
fold somewhere. If he was super
loose and giving
action the whole time you made by far the best play by getting all in. He'd have played the same with any old K7 hand then - as
well as weaker jacks (QJ, JT etc) - and
AA, maybe even
QQ.
Consider your poker
bankroll. With
online poker it's practically trivial to get into the mindset of a poker
bankroll and your non-poker money and separating them. If playing live you'll need to do something similar, even if the dollar bills are now much more similarly looking. When you go to a live game and sit down you need rebuys. If you do not have rebuys you'll be playing scared and giving up edges and lots and lots of money just because you
don't want
to go broke. I'
m no live player, but I'd guesstimate that you need to bring 3-5 rebuys to any live
session. The rule of thumb is that you need 1 more
rebuy than you use, so no
session is played with your 'last money'.
New...kind of...
I was a member of this site awhile back but forgot the username, and emai I had registered with. Previously I had been learning to play tight aggressive positional poker online. I was just becoming profitable playing 4 tables when disaster struck. I live in Washington State and online gambling was made illegal. I have been hesitant to try my hand at B&M casinos because I am not that confident in my ability to mask physical tells. Recently my wife talked me into trying my hand at a local casino. So far it has not gone well, but I am pretty sure I played well. Lost my stack to a bad beat last night. (played AJs from the button, flopped a set of jacks and got beat by Kings full of Jacks.) Part of me is saying thats just the way it goes, and wants to chalk it up to swings/variance/whatever else you wanna call it. But another part of me is questioning whether I need to rethink my play style for B&M play. Before that last hand I was up to almost double the $100 I bought in with, but I haven't played nearly enough hands to say whether that was a fluke or not. I am hoping some of you more experienced player can lend some advice before I go losing a bunch of money with a losing strategy.
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