hey guys,
As maby some of you know, i am on a 15 day live grinding tour in Australia. I landed two days ago in Melbourne and started my first session yesterday afternoon in the crown casino.
I played for 11 hours straight at the 1/2 tables. I won 1 buy in, but i wasn t happy about my play at all !!!
During the entire time i played i seated at 2 tables with very different dynamics. So i am going to talk about these two because i had a lot of problems handeling the differences between live and online.
First table: I started at 6 pm at a 1/2 table where evrybody was a donk. Evrybody limped in all the time, they all called evry preflop raise and played super poor postflop. + 5 players were shortstacked, they had 25 big blinds and 2 players had 50 big blinds. At crown casino 1/2 max buy in is 75 big blinds.
Normalley online i play a TAGish style, but i made some big adjustments; i opened up my range a lot, i was playing a ton of hands...But i could help it to play passive...If i had a good draw OTF i raised IP but evrybody called my all the time..And then they would donkbet the turn.
I had to add 25 big blinds to my stack 3 times cause if i would hit my draw they would stack off, but i never did hit it so...
second table; At 2:30 the table broke up and i had to change... we were playing 7 handed, evrybody deepstack( at least 250bb). As you can guess, all the bad players lost there money against the better players who where still left. I had a good feeling about the table except for one certain player.
Evrybody who played live probably has ever met one of these guys. He was an older regular who used to play 2/5, but changed limits for a certain reason. He played SUPER aggressive...playing 90 procent of his hand, he would never fold against 3bets , he would often barrel 3 streets and he always seem to have a hand.
I had a ton of problems playing agaisnt this guy. i won half his stack in one hand so he was left with 100bb...But after 2h he had 500bb...
I hated playing against the guy...at 5 am the table broke up and they we got seperated at different tables. The guy stood up and immediatly asked what table i was going to play on. I felt disgusted....I felt like the biggest fish ever.
Can anybody give me some advice about playing against such a maniac???
Big mistakes i noticed after playing:
table 1:
-Playing to passive postflop(the problem is, if i raise with my draw evrybody calls me anyway and i don t want to raise my TPTK cause i dont want worse hands to fold. I probably should raise my TPTK cause the call anything OTF anyway...what do you think about this???)
table 2:
- calling to many 3bets with weak hands. i find it very hard to fold vs a min 3bet IP. Even with crap (K8s)
- Calling in inflated pots
ex;
EP raises 7bb, Mp calls, CO calls, BU:hero AJo calls
flop: A76r
Ep leads 1/2 pot, MP min raises, CO folds, HERO calls.
while i know this should be a fold, i still do stupid things like that.
-calling to many minraises OTF and OTT
thx, any advice is welcome
