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Awesome response. Thank you.
I did in fact shove, he snapped it off with QQ and of course I was drawing dead. Most of the time, when I get felted, I know whether or not I played poorly, took a bad beat, etc, but this one had been bugging me for a couple of days because I wasn’t sure if it was something that I should have gotten away from, if my assessment of the situation and his possible hands (sets, overpairs, combo draws) was wrong which should have led to a fold, or if I had in fact made the correct decision with the various possible scenarios and just got a bit coolered, so I wanted to put it out there. Obviously with blockers to the top two potential sets, I found each of those hands to be somewhat unlikely.
More unfortunate because not an hour before the same guy called me pre-flop and on the flop with pocket 6’s against my over pair and took me for a couple of hundred. Just wasn’t my night against that guy lol
Thanks again for the response.
I’m actually going through something similar as I try and transition from 1/2 and 1/3 to 1/3/6 and 2/5. I tend to play some crazy nitty poker and I’m trying to get away from that. It’s still a bit intimidating to me to face a logical $390 bet in a 2/5 game. One thing I have found that helps is when I am the aggressor. Not sure if it’s the sense of empowerment that comes with placing a bet or what, but it helps.
I’d agree with Dave that over folding in 1/2 and the like isn’t the worst thing in the world. 1/2 players tend to play too many hands, play and get only strong hands, etc. You can bring out decent wins religiously in 1/2 by folding, value betting, and selective positional aggression.
When I get a maniac on my table, the first thing I do is request a seat change button so that I can get on his right. Yes, that’s right, I’m giving up position to him. I don’t care. Not sure how many others do this or would agree with it, but it’s what I do. The reasons are pretty simple. One, my range is going to be pretty narrow against a maniac, it’s that simple. I’m only playing the strong hands, and if he’s really playing that loose and aggressively, when I do hit it hard, I’m probably going with it. The position won’t matter much to me if that is the case. Secondly, I want to know who else is going to be in the hand. It’s way easier to play the single maniac rather than a hand with an additional unknown quantity. Sure, I may lose some two dollar limps due to him raising pre flop behind me, but that’s just not a big deal to me. The knowledge of who else is on the hand is much more important against there maniac So I can make a determination on playing KJo or A10 or hands like that
Personally, I don’t often switch tables unless there is almost no chance I’m going to make money. Obviously it may be a case where I’m out of my league, but more often than not it’s just due to the table being too tight (the lunch time high hand grinders at some spots being a prevalent example).
I also teams to switch if my chair has been notably hot since I’ve sat down. I’m one of those people who figures it all evens out in each seat, so if I’ve been particularly hot in one seat, I don’t want to be there when it regresses back to the average lol. But that is just a personal thing.
