Dealing with cold cards

[Ugly Ed]

Ive been playing for few hours today, (.5/1$ blinds table) and just getting horrible cards. My flop % seen is like 17% in about 300 or so hand. Lot are just checking in on BB. Mostly just getting junk K5o etc. When I would get a half way decent hand like TJs I would be in the BB and be facing a big raise. So I folded. I finally get QQ and lose 80$. To someone who sucks out an A on the river. Board besides the (A) was no help to either of us. He kept calling big bets and finally hit his A.

Anyway it has me pretty upset. That I could get so many bad hands like that. I quit and decided to take a break for and hour or so. What I am wondering how do you all deal with situations like this? Keep plugging away and figure the good cards will eventually come? Or stop playing for awhile?

[lowBoy]

If you're upset or emotionally charged at all, then you made the right move by stepping back from the table. Playing when you're emotional is no good.

If you've been folding a lot of hands, on most tables you can usually raise any two and steal the blinds when you're in LP and it's folded to you. If you get one or two callers that aren't total calling stations then you can c-bet most boards and pick up a nice little pot.

Have you considered moving down in stakes? 100NL is a steep price to pay when you're learning.

[Rabid Dog]

Theres always moving to a different table also. Thats a great choice you have with online poker.

[bdawg56kg]

Ive been playing for few hours today, (.5/1$ blinds table) and just getting horrible cards. My flop % seen is like 17% in about 300 or so hand. Lot are just checking in on BB. Mostly just getting junk K5o etc. When I would get a half way decent hand like TJs I would be in the BB and be facing a big raise. So I folded. I finally get QQ and lose 80$. To someone who sucks out an A on the river. Board besides the (A) was no help to either of us. He kept calling big bets and finally hit his A.

Anyway it has me pretty upset. That I could get so many bad hands like that. I quit and decided to take a break for and hour or so. What I am wondering how do you all deal with situations like this? Keep plugging away and figure the good cards will eventually come? Or stop playing for awhile?

At a full table, 17% seen flops is not an extremely low number. I usually see around 18-20% of flops, but if I'm running really cold, I sometimes dip down to 9-10%. When I'm hot or playing a little laggy (taking advantage of a tight table) I go up to about 22-25%.

What your post tells me is that you are probably playing too many hands. I read through some of your other hand histories and I think it would be a good idea for you to tighted up your preflop hand requirements. Crap like A8, QJ, KJ, AT belong in the muck assuming you're in EP-MP. Until you really learn to play TAGG poker, I would dump these kinds of hands in all positions because they probably end up getting you into trouble.

I play at the same tables you play (Paradise 100NL) and there are so many calling station fish there that playing those kinds of hands will leak a lot of money. Just tighten up, and when you make a hand, bet it aggressively, and most important DON'T BLUFF!!! (without a read that is)

[Rondavu]

Ed, step off 100NL for now man. You're not ready for it yet based on my analysis of your SnG HH. There are a lot of moves here that you have yet to learn. You can very easily get played.

Sounds like you're not bankrolled for it yet either. Inexperience plus playing above your roll is T R O U B L E.

Step down to 25NL and learn the game. There are a lot of people here with a lot of experience. They will guide you through the learning curve. Make your mistakes for less money.

It's exciting to sit at higher stakes. I could sit at 1000NL if I wanted to, but it would be very stupid of me.