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You are posting the wrong hands

offshootoffshoot Member Posts: 1,049
edited May 2010 in The Poker Clinic
By posting coolers or bad beats you are holding back your own game because you're learning nothing. If you think the reason you're losing is because your AA got cracked by a set or because someone hit runner runner flush on you, you're wrong. Everyone has to deal with these and some still manage to win consistently. By focusing on these hands you miss the real problems that are preventing you from really improving. 

Think about hands where you checked back river and you had the best hand, could you have bet there and got more chips? post those hands. What about hands where you folded? maybe you folded top pair or had a big draw that you folded, was it the right move? post those hands. i called down with top pair and he had a better kicker, should i have folded? post it and find out. These are the kinda hands that matter. When you get involved in a hand that you dont know what do in click on the Hand History bit and copy and paste the number of the hand so you can post it later.

Dont ever post results!!! only copy and paste upto the point where you had a tricky decision. If you show people the results then their opinion will be based on what the result was more than what the right decision may have been. If you dont post results it will create more discussion. Once the discussion is over you can post the outcome of the hand.

i know alot of this stuff has been said before but it seems like it needs to be said again. If you wanna post bad beats put bad beat in the title of the thread at least so people know theres no strategy in it.

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    donkeyplopdonkeyplop Member Posts: 3,795
    edited May 2010
    good advice there offshoot!

    so should i of folded this hand?? ;)
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    donkeyplop Small blind  £0.02 £0.02 £2.65
    pattina Big blind  £0.04 £0.06 £2.10
      Your hole cards
    • A
    • A
         
    J1MBOE Fold     
    Chalky09 Fold     
    maveric840 Call  £0.04 £0.10 £2.02
    GoodazGold Fold     
    donkeyplop ???    
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    zingzing Member Posts: 333
    edited May 2010
    hope people will listen mr offshoot

    edit.. doesnt look gd does it
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    beanehbeaneh Member Posts: 4,079
    edited May 2010
    In Response to Re: You are posting the wrong hands:
    hope people will listen mr offshoot
    Posted by zing

    +1 mirrion percentages



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    scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited May 2010
    Excellent offshoot.

    Donkeyplop you should be banned for that 'hilarious' post.
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    CLIOKIDCLIOKID Member Posts: 783
    edited May 2010
    Good post.

    The "strategy" section on here is awful.

    Lucky if you get one worthwhile thread started a week.
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    donkeyplopdonkeyplop Member Posts: 3,795
    edited May 2010
    In Response to Re: You are posting the wrong hands:
    Excellent offshoot. Donkeyplop you should be banned for that 'hilarious' post.
    Posted by scotty77
    just injecting some light hearted humor as alot of people here seem very unhappy with life right now ;)
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    GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited May 2010
    There are far too many bad beat posts here, often thinly disguised as strategy questions. The Poker Clinic seems to have taken over from General Poker Chat as the most popular place to post them.

    What we need is new section for bad beat stories, similar to Area 51, and for it to be the only place on the entire forum where bad beats are allowed to be posted. Moderators would have to move any that get sneaked in elsewhere.
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    WilhelmWilhelm Member Posts: 1,730
    edited May 2010
    In Response to Re: You are posting the wrong hands:
    In Response to Re: You are posting the wrong hands : just injecting some light hearted humor as alot of people here seem very unhappy with life right now ;)
    Posted by donkeyplop
    I blame Nick Clegg.
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