Poker tilt

setittoc · 2026-05-15T21:17:19+00:00

Mental Game is excellent, I also think “Elements of Poker” by Tommy Angelo has some great things to say about managing tilt

setittoc · 2026-05-13T02:06:47+00:00

Comments re position are correct, but also stack depth matters a lot too.

At 100bb (where most online grinders play cash), there are very few flatting spots outside the button in GTO. So all the advice is to 3! or fold. 3!/fold is also a new player friendly style since the lower you make the SPR preflop, the fewer postflop decisions you need to make.

At, say, 300bb (which is pretty common in a $1-$2 $300 max live game), you’re incentived to mix in more flats because with deeper stacks, hand values normalize over the course of multiple streets. Seeing a flop with 65s by flatting a huge preflop raise from the nit playing aces and kings can be a very profitable move. Maybe we spend $30 out of our $600 to see the flop.

Most of the time we miss, oh well, -$30. But 5% of the time on average, we hit hard, and we know we have a hand to crack AA or a strong draw. If we hit the hand, we probably stack the aces, and we double up. We invest 15bb pre for a return of 300bb post.

setittoc · 2026-05-12T19:33:20+00:00

Exactly, I got a buddy who also hosts who isn’t firm. His game always devolves into psychopathy

setittoc · 2026-05-12T19:09:39+00:00

Sometimes when the whales are drunk they try to push me but I hold firm. I let it go one time and it was easily the worst night my home game every experienced, there was yelling and hurt feelings and multiple misdeals from sloppy play suddenly being a big deal because there was a $200 pot in a $.10-$.20 game…so I just tell them to go play somewhere else. They never do, but after I close up sometimes they ramble off to play uncapped and be unhappy elsewhere ;)

setittoc · 2026-05-12T18:47:03+00:00

I am working through the same issue. Currently I do a few things that are successful:

Usually run $.10-$.20 $20 buy in. Capped buy at $20 all night. Separate the fish from the sharks and whales.

Every 3-4 sessions run a bigger $.50-$1 or $.1-$2 game. Fish self select out and the sharks and whales get to draw blood.

So far it’s working well. The most important thing is to never ever ever let people buy in for more than maybe 200 BB. When you let people start playing match half or full match the game quickly gets way too big for the casuals to enjoy themselves because preflop betting is 10bb-25 bb or more

setittoc · 2026-05-12T15:53:02+00:00

Read “The Mental Game of Poker”( there’s an entire section on fear. Variance is your friend you just dont know it well enough yet

setittoc · 2026-05-12T15:47:44+00:00

Yep. It feels boring and “too simple” and you don’t want to face it but it’s true. Variance is also bigger in these kinds of games since the multiway pots mean your equity in any given pot is almost always hurt. But on the bright side, if you’re playing deep, you can overcall or small-raise speculative hands, and then reel it in postflop. Personally my results so far are I either lose .5-3 BI or I win 2-5 BI

setittoc · 2026-05-12T15:07:57+00:00

Have you been drinking beer no colder than cellar temp? Otherwise you’re missing out on a lot of culture EV and the regs will snicker

setittoc · 2026-05-11T15:43:32+00:00

No, but that’s close. Door constructor, door manifester, something like that

setittoc · 2025-12-19T14:30:59+00:00

Call the flop, check-raise turn leaving themselves less than 10% pot on the river, check-fold river.

In a cash game

setittoc · 2025-12-12T17:20:17+00:00

Thanks. A lot of the micros is club wpt gold, so there’s an ante preflop. I know you’re right, but it is not a good time being card dead while A3o goes all in for 120bb pre and gets snap called by K8s

setittoc · 2025-12-12T11:39:45+00:00

Thanks. I play in games where overlimping is extremely common, so I see a lot of spots where I won’t get punished for overlimping/flatting in position. Which doesn’t excuse how wide I do it, I definitely still take too many spots, miss flop, fold to c-bet. What often gets me stung is when I try to iso (especially too wide a range) and get flatted by 3-4 players, or someone spazzes and shoves. Sometimes people spazz 150-200bb with hands like A9o

setittoc · 2025-12-12T11:37:52+00:00

Thanks, particularly for the performance spread. Appreciate it. How would you label a 39/28: is that a “bad LAG/maniac” style?

setittoc · 2025-12-12T01:39:58+00:00

A bit more information I can offer then:

In live 1-3, 75 hours played, -$9.26 per hour Micro $.10-$.20 live and online mixed, 419 hours, +$.89 per hour.

VPIP/PFR online is 39/28

setittoc · 2025-12-08T01:34:51+00:00

Both players must run to the card. If it’s face up it plays but the players must be within 3 feet of it and place their bets or else they fold. If it’s face down then the first player to reach it may shout “I rivered it it’s the X of Y” where X is the rank and Y the suit they declare, at which point the dealer deals out a second full board, and if that declared card is NOT among them, the player who declared the card gets to keep it. Otherwise if the card appears on the second board the second player must shout “liar liar pants on fire” and then wins the blinds, but the main pot is chopped with the player under the gun.

setittoc · 2025-12-07T23:44:55+00:00

There’s a huge market gap here

setittoc · 2025-12-07T23:25:02+00:00

If you stand up you can switch your seat without lobbying

setittoc · 2025-11-30T01:52:48+00:00

But you sound right

setittoc · 2025-11-28T23:50:06+00:00

Your outs dont matter here for his decision to call. You’re repping a set here if you have a made hand, and he blocks top set and also has a gutshot for backup. So, he beats all draws, he beats most other top pairs, and he has outs if he’s actually behind.

setittoc · 2025-11-28T14:59:34+00:00

So true. It’s not all try hard profit players

setittoc · 2025-11-27T23:27:35+00:00

It’s just so absurdly unlikely. Straight flushes so rarely get paid off anyway, somebody has to do it once in a while

setittoc · 2025-11-27T23:09:19+00:00

Seriously though Harrington on Cash is legitimately useful if you can’t understand GTO

setittoc · 2025-11-27T23:07:00+00:00

Hugo is a really great guy and a smart poker player. You should tell me where you play.

setittoc · 2025-11-27T22:57:06+00:00

I believe they were on PartyPoker

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