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Gil, my first thought was that your preflop raise was light. I’m still learning a lot of things, but I would have pushed quite a bit harder in that game to rid the donkeys with garbage hands right from the get go. That said, you’ll probably still attract plenty of idiots with garbage hands who play to “gamble” rather than to win. Now, I have recently been juggling this thing in my head. Do we want someone to call us with garbage when we are holding AA?
Ultimately, yes. When they hit and crack our Aces, it sucks. But we should win in this situation far more than we lose, right? So push those in and raise higher preflop. 1/2NL is my typical game. I did realize 1/3 had a little less of the nitty player, but it’s still not a high stakes game.
The first time I mistakenly sat at the 1/3, I left the card room up $500 in like 6 hrs. First major win doing nothing special. I found that quite interesting. It could have been the stakes, maybe just good running cards or maybe it was a mixture of a lot of things. But the lower limit 1/2 games draw any and everyone who wants to play hands more often than not.
I think the mention of flatting the flop is a good idea, at least for me. I probably would have gotten an idea where the betting was going and decided then to either fold with my minor loss realizing sometimes Aces don’t win. It sucks to realize this. The strongest hand is sometimes beat out.
Take a break from the game and focus on some other activities a bit. I have had a lot of bad runs lately. But I’m not willing to walk from the fun yet.
-Chris