Lazy Poker
The main point in this blog was to honestly analyse my own game and keep me focused on playing the best I can. Well I had a 2 hour session on $.50 $1 NL cash last night and played pretty bad for the first time in a couple of weeks. I tend to know within the first 5-10 mins if I’m going to play good poker. Last night I felt quite tired and I’ve found on these occasions my patience is much lower, my game loosens up and the poker I play generally slack. However I still haven’t mastered the discipline of walking away when I feel like this! Luckily I only lost about $90 as was playing two tables and managed to pick up a few hands on one table that played themselves and I was always going to win.
However on the second table, I definitely didn’t play my ‘A’ game. One hand in particular showed I was playing poor LAZY poker. I have KQ suited in position, a guy raises to $4 before the flop, I call this which may be questionable but I would make this call a lot of the time in NL cash as you can hit a nice flop with this sort of hand and judge where you are on the flop. I’m accepting that I’m most likely behind pre flop. Anyway flop comes K 6 2 (2 clubs). Decent flop for me but remember the guy had raised pre flop so could have a variety hands that has me beat, AK, AA, KK are all possible but I’m still feeling ok at this point. The guy bets $7 which looks to me like a continuation bet, however here I make my first big mistake and just call. Normally I would raise here, if he re-raises you then have more info and can decide to fold. Anyway turn comes 9. He now bets $20, again I just call. This is LAZY poker. I should have found out where I was on the flop, now at this point I have no idea and am calling like a blind fish hoping I am ahead rather than having any real knowledge to base this upon. The river pairs the board with a 2. This doesn’t worry me as he’s highly unlikely to be playing a 2. However I’m more worried about the real possibility of him holding AK, AA or QQ or maybe even trip 6’s. He bets $48 on river. Even though in my mind I’m 95% sure I am beat, I convince myself as I have just been calling, maybe he has me on a flush draw or a weak pair and he has a hand I can beat i.e. QQ, JJ, 10 10, AQ, KJ etc. I call and he shows the inevitable AA.
I know I played this bad, I even know this by the turn on the actual hand. I have found when I am tired my game sometimes develops this bad habit, LAZY poker, just calling all the way, not finding out where I was. When he bet $7 on flop I can put in a $10-$15 raise to find out if I’m beat. Rather than calling all the way to river. The way I played this hand is not my normal game and I need to cut these little lapses out. You can get lucky occasionally (like if a Q or K had hit on turn, river). You see that often with weak players but what you don’t realise is how much of their money they call away without hitting.
However on the second table, I definitely didn’t play my ‘A’ game. One hand in particular showed I was playing poor LAZY poker. I have KQ suited in position, a guy raises to $4 before the flop, I call this which may be questionable but I would make this call a lot of the time in NL cash as you can hit a nice flop with this sort of hand and judge where you are on the flop. I’m accepting that I’m most likely behind pre flop. Anyway flop comes K 6 2 (2 clubs). Decent flop for me but remember the guy had raised pre flop so could have a variety hands that has me beat, AK, AA, KK are all possible but I’m still feeling ok at this point. The guy bets $7 which looks to me like a continuation bet, however here I make my first big mistake and just call. Normally I would raise here, if he re-raises you then have more info and can decide to fold. Anyway turn comes 9. He now bets $20, again I just call. This is LAZY poker. I should have found out where I was on the flop, now at this point I have no idea and am calling like a blind fish hoping I am ahead rather than having any real knowledge to base this upon. The river pairs the board with a 2. This doesn’t worry me as he’s highly unlikely to be playing a 2. However I’m more worried about the real possibility of him holding AK, AA or QQ or maybe even trip 6’s. He bets $48 on river. Even though in my mind I’m 95% sure I am beat, I convince myself as I have just been calling, maybe he has me on a flush draw or a weak pair and he has a hand I can beat i.e. QQ, JJ, 10 10, AQ, KJ etc. I call and he shows the inevitable AA.
I know I played this bad, I even know this by the turn on the actual hand. I have found when I am tired my game sometimes develops this bad habit, LAZY poker, just calling all the way, not finding out where I was. When he bet $7 on flop I can put in a $10-$15 raise to find out if I’m beat. Rather than calling all the way to river. The way I played this hand is not my normal game and I need to cut these little lapses out. You can get lucky occasionally (like if a Q or K had hit on turn, river). You see that often with weak players but what you don’t realise is how much of their money they call away without hitting.
posted by Jackal23 at 9:59 am
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