Question about bad runs

[Weir]

When you are card dead and luck dead, how do you play?
When every pot you play you are 90% sure someone has a better hand and will not
fold, do you just rely on hoping you can pull off some crazy bluffs?
Do you just play uber tight until you have no chips? what do you do?

Or do you go crazy and just start going all in with random shit hands thinking
at least if your chips are in the middle you might get lucky?





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[Kingplaya]

Do you mean card dead preflop or do you mean getting outdrawn and just plain old
having a bad night?

If I was getting no starting hands worth playing, and I figured the players at
my table were astute enough to notice I hadn't been playing many pots, I would
raise with what I would call "garbage with potential" say like 56 suited or even
a suited one or two gapper. A hand that you just would like to take the pot with
preflop, but if you're called by a hand you figure to be beat at this point.

If I do get called I hope it was by either a player who respects me a lot and
figures I have something big and is calling me with a pocket pair and is
planning to flop a set or get out, or that I get called by a player who isn't
particularly observant but isn't a big time calling station either, and against
either type I have a good shot of taking the pot with a continuation bet on the
flop, bet size exactly the same as I would with Aces or Kings.

Another possibility is that a player smoothcalls my steal attempt with something
really big, which generally I don't want unless the player is guaranteed to
stack off with just an overpair regardless of the flop. However, if called by a
trapping player who can fold a loser, a hand like a suited connector under the
right circumstance can still make some of my money back that I lose when I miss
the flop and he raises me or smoothcalls me.

Btw, my preflop raise with garbage with potential isn't so much done to steal
the blinds (at least not in a full ring game), its done so that reasonable
players won't label me a total rock and give me no action when I finally get a
hand. However, if your hand reading and timing is good, you can make it a money
winner by bluffing at the right times postflop. Still, never forget solid play
gets the money in cash games with nine or more players. In tournies, obviously
you can't sit around forever with bad cards and keep folding them, eventually
you have to steal some blinds, and those blinds are worth something.

Now if you're just having a bad night (say raising preflop with AK, missing the
flop and having your continuation bet called or raised, and maybe later having
Aces and then the high card on the board pairs on the river when you know your
opponent was calling with top pair and you have to make a laydown, and players
at the table either begin to think you're a bluffer or can be pushed around, its
time to tighten up. This isn't the time for image raises with suited connectors
or even making continuation bets with legit hands that miss the flop.

Either call it a night or wait for some real hands in this case.

Good luck.

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[garycarson]

Weir wrote:
> When you are card dead and luck dead, how do you play?

I'm never luck dead.

Gary Carson
www.garycarsonc.om

[igotskillz com]

i roll a fatty and play tribes, an online team wargame, on my other
computer



On Oct 25 2005 2:34 AM, Weir wrote:

> When you are card dead and luck dead, how do you play?
> When every pot you play you are 90% sure someone has a better hand and will
not
> fold, do you just rely on hoping you can pull off some crazy bluffs?
> Do you just play uber tight until you have no chips? what do you do?
>
> Or do you go crazy and just start going all in with random shit hands
thinking
> at least if your chips are in the middle you might get lucky?


Thank YOU

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