How do you feel when you fold pre-flop - and then the flop would have been the nuts?
inexperience
Jban,
To me this is just a fun thing to evaluate in your head and nothing more. The longer you dwell on it - most likely the more inexperienced you are.
When I hear people call it out at the table... I try to poach on those players. The drunk guy whispering to his buddy - man I folded 2d10d can you believe that? Would have flopped a flush. I was going to play I swear to God I am so unlucky when I play this game.
I used to do that too.... 15 years ago 🙂 Once it leaves your hand it should leave your mind.
Travis
BCP - horseshoebhole
Jbananno said:
Jban,
To me this is just a fun thing to evaluate in your head and nothing more. The longer you dwell on it - most likely the more inexperienced you are.
When I hear people call it out at the table... I try to poach on those players. The drunk guy whispering to his buddy - man I folded 2d10d can you believe that? Would have flopped a flush. I was going to play I swear to God I am so unlucky when I play this game.
I used to do that too.... 15 years ago 🙂 Once it leaves your hand it should leave your mind.
Travis
BCP - horseshoebhole
Least concerned
Hey
I would care less what happens after I fold preflop
The garbage cards are called that for a reason
And a lot of times you call 2 4 os
And hit 2 pair on the flop and by the time you reach the river you would have lost that to 2 higher pairs.
It happens a lot
Thanks
Manoj
Bluffzone68
Hey
I would care less what happens after I fold preflop
The garbage cards are called that for a reason
And a lot of times you call 2 4 os
And hit 2 pair on the flop and by the time you reach the river you would have lost that to 2 higher pairs.
It happens a lot
Thanks
Manoj
Bluffzone68
I feel good if my fold was correct now if i was very tight and could have paid feel bad and I review concepts to give a fold
But there nuts games that are very lucky prefer to play with a range of fitted hands and patience to go surviving in the game and go as far as possible preferably go itm and then construct new strategies to reach those who know the Spiked game.
mateuspoker
But there nuts games that are very lucky prefer to play with a range of fitted hands and patience to go surviving in the game and go as far as possible preferably go itm and then construct new strategies to reach those who know the Spiked game.
mateuspoker
In many cases,a good fold it's a good win. I think that when you are not sure on your cards, the best is to fold, even if you have 2 high cards.
I fold QQ in an all-in pre-flop an the other guy had AA and i could be eliminated from tournament, so it's important sometimes to go with your instinct and not with your cards
I fold QQ in an all-in pre-flop an the other guy had AA and i could be eliminated from tournament, so it's important sometimes to go with your instinct and not with your cards
In such cases, I always understand that as a normal player, I will still throw out such a hand in the next deal. If you take and look at the history of the hands, then such cases are few compared to the total number of discarded hands.
Jbananno said:
I feel good about it I'm at least getting good cards. Sometimes I can get a little annoyed if I folded like pocket 2's to an all in bet preflop and those hit but other than that I don't mind folding what would have been the nuts if the odds preflop were not in my favor. smart play is more profitable than lucky
At the beginning of the game it does not matter . But when you sit at the final table ! About this case it's a shame ! Last week I played Unibet poker at the final table and several times the winning garbage hand came . Of course I didn't dare to play it . How I then regretted it ! I got knocked out on two Aces !!! It was a shame !
I used to go bonkers when this happened to me. It affected my play. When variance it hitting you over the head, you seem to fold hands that hit the flop and play hands that fail to hit the flop, turn & river; or you get KK cracked by 75o on the flop.
By playing hands that you've folded you are setting yourself up for a trip to the insane asylum.
It took me awhile but I eventually realised that by doing this I was committing a cardinal mistake. I was only thinking about my hand and not my opponents' hands, which is what donk players like me do.
Now, I just fold and make sure the software makes the cards disappear on my screen. Then I can concentrate on how other players play. I take notes. I try and put players on ranges after the flop, and further refine my range analysis by how they bet on the flop, turn & river. I'm still not too good at putting players on ranges but at least it takes my mind off my own cards.
And I sure don't miss tearing my hair out every time I fold T7s UTG+1 only to see trips or the nuts made on the flop (only play MTTs and assuming I have a decent stack size and 6 or more players).
By playing hands that you've folded you are setting yourself up for a trip to the insane asylum.
It took me awhile but I eventually realised that by doing this I was committing a cardinal mistake. I was only thinking about my hand and not my opponents' hands, which is what donk players like me do.
Now, I just fold and make sure the software makes the cards disappear on my screen. Then I can concentrate on how other players play. I take notes. I try and put players on ranges after the flop, and further refine my range analysis by how they bet on the flop, turn & river. I'm still not too good at putting players on ranges but at least it takes my mind off my own cards.
And I sure don't miss tearing my hair out every time I fold T7s UTG+1 only to see trips or the nuts made on the flop (only play MTTs and assuming I have a decent stack size and 6 or more players).
This situation happens many times to me on a daily basis. :frown:
When I first started playing poker, it used to annoy me but then I quickly realized that playing every hand hoping to flop the nuts would not be a winning strategy.
For me, the best strategy is to forget the hand and move on as soon as possible! :ciao:
When I first started playing poker, it used to annoy me but then I quickly realized that playing every hand hoping to flop the nuts would not be a winning strategy.
For me, the best strategy is to forget the hand and move on as soon as possible! :ciao:
Jbananno said:
When I just started to play poker at first years such things were almost painful to see. 😱
But then, as I gained some experienced and have seen more and more such moments it became less stressful.
And after I did read in few different poker books, that actually you should get rid of that bad habit caring about which next card will come after you fold, I started to implement this idea in my game and it helps a lot!
Honestly I think it's genius idea and the only proper way to handle such situation. It's really only matters what you do in the current moment you playing your hand and the action is on you. You shouldn't ever think that you did something wrong, because you did the right fold, but could have get lucky, if you did that mistake and called.
It's wrong way of thinking. So meanwhile I don't care much, if I would have flopped nuts. Because it's always a small chance for that. But if I do play every hand in order to hit such wonder flop, I will loose much more money on a long run.