I didn't play yesterday and over the past few months I've come to the conclusion: I can never bluff.
Based on my appearance and possibly table demeanor, I can never bluff.
At every table I play, there are probably four or five old guys (55+) and I think I could tell them what color shirt they're wearing and they would have to look before they believed me.
However, this is a great thing when my cards are running hot. When my cards are not running hot, it's a bad thing because I end up trying to make moves and obviously these nits call me down with anything.
The other problem is it makes it hard for me to put them on hands sometimes. Say I flop top pair and an old guy is calling me down. I usually don't put him on a set because I always put them on a weak hand that they're calling me down with. Unfortunately for the kid, sometimes they walk me right to the river and then hit me with the hammer, as did some old bastard on Friday night when he flopped a set of 10's and I turned a third king, which gave him the full heezy.
Sometimes I find myself cursing at these guys in my head 'old bastard, believe this!' but then I realize that this is someone's grandfather and he deserves to be respected as my elder. But does he really need to call me down all the way every time?
Obviously when I have incredible hands it's great. I'm sure I've made more money off of gramps calling me down all the way then I have bluffed off.. but don't get me wrong, I've bluffed off a lot.
The characters I can bluff are the younger guys who are in a similar poker class as myself.
Women are impossible for me to bluff. I don't know why. Maybe they always have the nuts, who knows. This is probably related to the reason why my girlfriends never trust me. I'm too playeriffic for a girl to let me bluff her. Just kidding. Kind of.
This is just a rant but it's been getting to me when I have horrible cards and can't make plays at pots because gramps won't let me. Just lay down your pocket eights father time!!
Last night I purposely left all my cash at home so I wouldn't stray off to Hollywood Park. I made it home, recorded this track for this rap tournament, ate Chipotle with Big Time, smoked something and immediately crashed on the couch. I was supposed to go to the movies but she flaked and I was actually glad she did because I didn't feel like doin shit!
Big Time (my only roommate) left for Cabo so now I have the apartment to myself, which I need to get used to because he's going to biz school in Wisconsin in two weeks. I am about to turn our apartment out!!
Master Bedroom will be my domain
Guest bedroom will be a music studio
Living room will be the lounge
Dining room (which is like 4x4') will be a poker room.
Kitchen will have no purpose
I'm an idiot.
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I tend to wait until I've hit a pot with a solid hand before I try bluffing. I've pulled off more bluffs online than live--for obvious reasons, number one of which being the other players at the table can't see you giggling as you throw $2500 in chips at an A-A-10 flop with a 4-5 offsuit. But even live I pull it off quite often. However, the live games have been mostly against people of our age group, which you're not having trouble with.
Best suggestion would be to play tight for a while. If people see you laying down a bunch of hands, they're going to be wary when you suddenly throw chips at a flop.
Dude, your didn't make 10k within a month by playing bad. Also, not sure what your perception was, yet at the $400NL the swings are going to be larger compared to the $200NL. Possibly, its the factor that emotionally at this time its difficult to face larger lo$$e$?!
Yes, you hit a few coolers with a couple hands. Yet, those few coolers don't add up 6 buy ins. Maybe one needs to re-evaluate the play, how much your betting, and what hands your paying ppl off with?
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the words gents... I agree about both points. I think I am going to take a step down back to the $200, which throughout my poker career has been my bread and butter.
Biz school in Wisconsin? Poor bastard. You know what kind of dumbasses live in Wisconsin?
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