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These Dufenhiemers keep raising pre flop when they see short stacks like me come to the table. They never check, they always bet or raise on flop,turn and river. What can I do to avoid giving my chips to,players like this? They always suck me out if i decide to raise or call them. They raise my big blind...and... if i try to raise theirs they just call or reraise and never fold.
Don't buy in short, yes it minimizes your losses, but it also minimizes what you can gain. You will need to tighten up your game for ring. You should read some strategy articles/books. Good luck.
you just have to make good plays in the ring games
Buying in short is always a gamble. Sometimes you get lucky and hit and sometimes you dont.
If you're going to go into a ring game short stacked you'll have to play nothing but premium cards and whack them over the heads with them when you can.
If you're running cool and they still suck you out oh well that's the breaks. Donks will be donks.
Yeah sometimes you just cant beat the deck, had a set of 6's get run down yesterday after all in postflop turn andd river brought running flush cards for an ace rag
#1 rule make sure your playing in your comfort zone on cash tables and make sure to have minimum 25 bi's of the limits max in bankroll... its a marathon not a sprint.... so keep track of ur hourly rate not how much u got at each table.... HEM is good for that...
thanks for your advice , yeah i was not bringing in enough, and im going to stick to the 2 cent games
several thoughts:
1. never buy in short - if a full buy is too much for you that should tell you that you are at the wrong stakes
2. two ways to play cash - one is super tight, the other is being a bully stealer - always bet pre and cb flop, always
3. there is a bully standard to throw people off their games - if they ever enter a pot its an auto-raise - what that does essentially is make a .01/.02 game a .02/.04 game whenever they play - taking most players out of their comfort zone bankroll wise - its not a bad way to play if you have enough money to be playing at .02/.04 and sit at the .01/.02 tables -
a way to hurt the bully play very tight and when they raise and you have a pretty decent hand just go AI- you will need to get very unlucky to lose to the bully - as to the rest of the table, well thats a different story
call them all in with your short stack couple times and they will stop raising.
or.....just stick to tourneys, no matter how tempting it is
cash games takes a special type of player, you must be pretty aggressive on a cash table aggressive always works for me i learned the more passive i was the less my bets were respected just saying the aggression works for me maybe u should try it out
I dont really play ring games, because I think they're not worth it. But, just play kinda tight until you find out their gameplay.
Buy in max, don't play too many hands, don't chase draws unless it's the right price. And just try to win 1 big pot an hour.
First off you should observe the table before sitting and deciding what to buyin with. Secondly the check raise is powerful. Use the check raise just often enough on the bully to where he gets pissed or starts to lose some of his stack away by folding. The next time you have a hand your gonna get paid.
At 1 cent 2 cent level I mean. The play at 1 cent 2 cent level has gotta a ton better over time. Most of these guys understand hand ranges and bet sizing some what now. They still make mistakes and don't always apply the concepts correctly but they do know more then they used to. I have seen better play at 1 cent 2 cent online then at $1/$2 live. Cash games require you to fold a lot better hands then in tournaments.
Firstly the objective of cash is not to go all in and double up as quickly as you can. At cash tables yes you want to take someones stack and double yours but you have time. What your essentially looking to do is trap someone with a very good hand into calling your best hand. At the same time they are trying to do the same to you. You must always be aware of what the best possible hand could be based on the cards on the board. You must be patient. You must know generally the styles of players your playing with and pay attention cause as things happen at the table the players change their styles of play.
When someone starts having to fold to many hands and they are losing chips because of whatever, they might loosen up in an attempt to get back chips ect ect. Its a patience waiting game basically.
I do strange stuff at cash tables like buyin in for min and go all in with top pair and if someone has a set or two pair they win. But for cheap they saw it and think I'm the type of player that will do that with top pair. I then rebuy for max and never do that again. Next time they will pay me with top pair top kicker they have against my set. Its kinda like setting a first impression thing. Once people get a first impression of you in their head its hard for them to break that thought of you out. Conditioning your opponents. If you can condition your opponent to make certain type of response under certain situations its easy to stack them (take their stack). Good Luck.