Hi

I would like some comments on my game from those in the know.

First let me describe my meta game:
I play on a lowish table (ZAR2 - 4, on here you find all sorts from the guy like me who tries to think about poker to those that are really just gambling. I think its a common occurence across all regions and tables.

My game:

Preflop -
I tend to play all my hands in a similiar fashion preflop to disguise my play. I raise to 16 on a 2-4 table. This excludes my drawing hands which I try limp in with.

My starting hands are:
all pairs
A10 +
Ax (s)
connectors 67+
"semi-connectors" 8-10 + preferably suited and in position

I tend to play my hands agressively and if on the flop I miss my hand and I was the first pre-flop raiser I will put the same R16 bet that I put preflop.


I like the idea of connectors etc because they tend to win bigger pots when players overplay high pairs.

I have a good record of folding on the flop if I don't hit my drawing hands. I struggle to spot pocket pairs and when players come in with 36s to my AQ when the flop comes 36Q
(I would usually have played this as: 36s calls 4, I reraise AQ, 36s calls, flop, I bet 16 and either called or reraised, I would have no read on this player and I would tend to call to the river on it being wary on straights and flushes that may appear)

If I have a made hand and there is a straight or flush on the board I tend to bet extremely strong obviously hoping for a fold, but sometimes that hand will call and I'll lose a monster pot on the river. I'm not sure on the ratio I'm getting here with regard to small pot wins and big pot wins/losses.

The one thing that is adding big variance is hands such as Ah5h, flop of Ac10h8h where I tend to go extremely hard at as first to raise, usually more than the pot (a made hand thats not that strong with drawing hand potential in the form of straights and flushes). A call usually leaves me against a stronger hand, and then its up to the stats on whether he wins or I get my outs. I do tend to get alot of folds with this though. I would also do the same thing if in the previous example I had AhKh.

I am trying to limit my flops seen, but I do tend to play more hands these days due to all the semi-connectors I play where I limp in. I find these hands give big pay-offs and are easy to fold to bad flops.

I will add more things as and when I think of it.

Thanks in advance.

***EDIT (2007/03/17)***
An example hand of how I play:
> Dealing Hole Cards(Kh Jd )
> UTG folded
> UTG +1 called for R4
> P1 folded
> AlfLlama raised for R16
> P3 called for R16
> P4 folded
> P5 folded
> P6 folded
> UTG+1 called for R12
> Dealing the Flop(8c Qd 3h )
> UTG +1 checked
> AlfLlama bet for R16
> P3 folded
> UTG+1 folded
> AlfLlama mucked
> AlfLlama wins R66.50