I finally downloaded pokerstove today. About time.

Quote Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
Ouch. It must be harder when you're a good player.
I'm not yet a good poker player. I've got a grasp of some basics and am working to get better. There are a number of players here that are good, one day I would like to be as good and as successful as they. I'm lucky in that Ive learnt that this forum is one of the best resources around for improving my game. Just so long as my ego can handle being told I'm wrong, so far so good! I look back at some of the hands I've posted and laugh at my naivety and stupidity, the hands I'm posting now must often look equally as stupid to some of the good players here. If they think a play is stupid, I take notice. I try and understand why they think that way. I slowly improve.

Quote Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
When you're a complete novice you can think well it evens out, but when you're a decent player - you're not going to make those same dumb plays as him so it must be annoying.
It does even out, I got my chips in as about 80-20 favourite (he had five standard outs = queens and tens). 80-20 favourite means that I'm going to lose here 1/5 times. Another ten would have also been bad for me, but the nature of the suckout (the straight!) was what tilted me. I want the players I play against to make these stupid plays. Because I play with a large bankroll relative to the stakes I play, HANDS LIKE THIS DON"T MATTER!!! think of that as another lesson in bankroll management.

Quote Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
Do you often get paid off by people that raise like that with second pair, I mean do those type of 'fish' crop up regularly at these levels?
No.
It's not that common at any limit for a player to go so crazy with second pair. JQ maybe. This guy was a maniac, and I knew it. He also knew that there was a good chance I would fold anything less than two pair here, and I did seriously consider folding scared of KT. I doubt he'll ever play poker again. Most players at 50nl and 100nl are wannabe TAGs or Nits. Occasionally you find someone trying to play a LAG game. It's not that common to find anyone good, but most of them are good enough to beat at least 5nl and 10nl... They should be easy to beat at a solid rate, I'm winning over big samples at 50nl and 100nl, but I have probably earned nearly as much from rakeback/bonuses/promotions while playing at these levels.