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 Originally Posted by Thee One
Well, I was never trying to get a flop, but once there I had a decent draw to attempt a takedown of the pot.
Dirty overs, a backdoor flush, and a gutshot isn't a very good draw. Personally after the pre-flop action, I'd be more inclined to call the donk bet on the flop and see what the turn brings. You're getting pretty good odds, you're not sure exactly how many outs you have, and the turn card could change the texture a lot (as it did)... and in the event that magic card comes off, the pot is smaller and you might not be facing an all-in. You might just get a reasonable price to draw, and decent implied odds behind it.
 Originally Posted by Thee One
I was prepared to check the turn for a free card when that card, one of only 2 in the deck that could make me think of goin AI, hit. Opp surprised me by goin AI. I had a ton of outs
This is fuzzy thinking. Be honest with yourself about it: you had 15 probable outs which puts you as a hair worse than a 2:1 dog. You and Fnord are both right about the spite call thing... you have to let this one go.
 Originally Posted by Thee One
As far as running over the table...well the single biggest exploitable part of the 10/25Nl is not knowing how to respond to aggression. A Loose image is THE best thing you can have at micro limits as a thinking player. I get paid more than any TAGG at my table...where my game needs more work is consistency. I can go on a $200 tear and lose it back in 6 or 8 hands making dumb moves. I'm working on that though.
That's the problem with it right there. You say a loose image is the best thing you can have, but in my experience I can make just as much just as fast by finding super-aggro players and exploiting their tendency to string themselves up. All the decisions you made here (except the turn call) would be a lot better if you were more careful about when to fold. It's fine to play a little crazy, but you can't be emotional about it - it's just another tool to logically separate players from their money. As soon as the maniac inhabits you and you start really being that guy, then you're leaking money away. And if you know you have a tendency to do that, then basically every aggressive decision earlier in the hand becomes -EV (or maybe neutral EV) because of the built-in potential to lead you down this kind of path. Like you said, you can lose a ton in just a few poorly played hands. It's a big weakness of many highly aggressive players to not know when to let go of a bad bluff.
I think a lot of these decisions can come down to stylistic choices and the kind of table image you want to build... but to make money consistently with THIS style, you have to be fundamentally VERY solid as far as when to fold a draw without odds, and when to recognize that a fish has simply outflopped you, and isn't going to fold this time.
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