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Message: [QUOTE="Tygran, post: 660962, member: 25662"] I think I've been tilting a little lately... regardless this is an issue that really has been costing me of late, an unwillingness to let big pairs go. This is always early at a SnG, I've been able to lay them down later and usually correctly so. Here is what has been happening..a whole lot..and my head doesn't feel like it's on straight so hopefully someone can help me see this clearly. With hands like JJ-AA and AK, what is the best way to play these early (first couple of blind levels). Doesn't seem to matter how much I raise AK in particular, I get multiple callers and usually (of course) a bad flop. I'm almost to the point where on *certain* tables I'm ready to muck the hand preflop if it's early and I'm not in good position, the play has been that bad. Anyway, what keeps happening is no matter how much or little I raise or what the flop is I keep losing alot of chips with them. If it's all low undercards, *someone* keeps flopping a low set or 2 pair. So with a board like 2-5-7 rainbow and I'm holding KK for example. How hard am I supposed to push this? How much resistance from a loose player do I need in order to get out? I just keep running into this and it seems like if I stubbornly refuse to get out I get busted or hurt badly and if I fold it I've had several people flip total air or a lower pp (like 99). Finding it hard to tell the difference sometimes. This has happened alot this week. AK I can dump with no problem, QQ-AA is alot harder. So how do you play these hands against people who will call with nearly anything preflop and then often play it the same way postflop regardless of if they hit? Should I just shake this off as a weird string of bad luck? Should I be raising a whole lot more early and just be happy with small blinds if that's what I get as a result? I'm sort of rambling but does anyone else know what I mean? I've been bleeding alot of chips lately with these hands and what look like very favorable flops. I know that alot of the plays I made in the long run should be profitable but man they sting right now. Last night this happened at 4 straight tables (called twice, they had the set, folded twice one had a smaller pp one had K high). I kinda lost it and went out to get drunk. So if this post is somewhat incoherent it's probably cause I'm a little hung over. [/QUOTE]

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