Aces full of Eights - Dead Man's Hand

Dealer: daemondave has a full house, Aces full of Eights
Dealer: Hand #152504394986: daemondave wins pot ($22.32) with a fullhouse, Aces full of Eights
Dealer: Hand #154544400775: daemondave wins pot (9,903) with a fullhouse, Aces full of Eights

Play where you are comfortable

One of the problems with people succeeding at poker is the style of play.  At first you need to start small. But after this you really don't need to prove anything by changing levels.  You can play tournaments or cash games, but what makes sense is up to you. As the book Your Worst Poker Enemy extols: you are the greatest weakness in your game. You are the one that is going to make the good and bad decisions. Why play at stakes or against players that don't make it comfortable for you?  If you want to play against the worst players forever, who cares. If you think you can sit with the big players then make sure you're comfortable at that level.  You are going to be sitting a long time with those opponents.

If you can make more money at one level than another then do it.

David Ripley's Story

David Ripley's Story

David Ripley, I converted your story into an epub in my cool book poker fonts if you are interested in it.  I hope you don't mind. Enjoy!

Here it is as a GIF:

Here it is in downloadable form...

Here's how bad players lose: reopen raising in a multiway pot

Here's how bad players make things worse for themselves; instead of just calling against really tight players when they have drawing hands, since they don't realize they are probably putting money in bad 5 times out of 6, they reraise in position.

If you have been playing loose, the tight players don't believe you. The times you will have them dominated will be fewer than the times they will have you dominated. So they want you to put more money in drawing against them. They are going to win 4 of those races and they are going to show down if they have a big hand. You can't bluff someone that doesn't believe you. So they are playing the long game against you time and again.

So if you want to see flops to catch and win, your better strategy is to call them all times. You lose the minimum and can see flops. Is it a winning strategy in the long term? No. But if you are in a tournament or are playing for a short period of time you could eke out a win if you are the one that minimized aggression.

The reason I can do it and get away with it, is that I don't play one strategy. I don't have a pattern so they are never sure how good my hand is, and I study the people I am playing with. I know when to stop reraising, then reraise when I have it. As I explain in my book, I actively conduct information warfare while playing poker.  I am watching you while you are watching the cards. I record what you do.  I am unpredictable, I reraise with the nuts and air, I go all in with aces after 2-bets, and so on. I deny you all information you need.

I can sit down at any table and make money without just luck, although luck helps. I get felted when some guy has no idea how lucky he was or they took a gamble to beat me . That's not a sign of weakness in my strategy, it is a part you must accept with gambling!

If you want to dominate them, use a superior strategy to what everyone else is using. Read my book!