Hello every body, my name is Danny and I'm a losing Poker player.

They say the first step is admitting the problem, so here I am.
I came to the conclusion that I am officially one of those Fish or Donk we all talk and laugh about.
I decided to create a 12 step program to fight this addiction, or sickness if you will.

Step 1 - tighten the F up.

A. No more seeing the flop with rags.
B. No more betting with rags or calling with rags.
C. No more trying to steal small pots.
D. No going busto with TPTK.
E: No fancy play.


Today decide to play an S&G - my win rate lately was nowhere to be found.

opened a cash table at the same time and simple only played Premium hands. Am talking about 7 flop seen out of 42 hands.

First hand I played AKo from EP. LP call , SS BB calls
Flop a little scary : ATJ rainbow
BB min bet. I raise 3/4 pot. LP fold. BB push for less then half my bet. I'm priced to call and his K's never improve

Built up my stack about 20XBB more - mainly people folding to my preflop raise or my cont bets (didn't mind, was busy at the S&G)

Stack $14

I pick K's in the EP.
Now beside me cracking K's I've seen it happen 3 more times at this table (Twice to the guy I busted in the previous hand)
I open raise 3XBB - MP raise to 15XBB. Didn't want to play around and pushed. Had him covered by 23XBB ($2.3) his A's held.

Felt sorry for my self - bought some more chip. 2nd after this a break in the S&G. I look down at 67s in the BB. A limp, raise and a call. I look at raiser stack and decide to call. limper call.
Had to look twice at the flop make sure I wasn't seeing things.
flopped the nut str8.
I blocked bet into the raiser.
EP fold.
Raiser reraises (15XBB)
LP calls.

I try to figure the amount I'm raising to and I choose just a little over min raise. so I raise 20XBB (total 35XBB)
Godlove-him raiser push for his stack (has me covered can you say halluya )
LP calls (small stack)
I happily call.
They flip 9's and 2's

Turn a teasing 2 river a harm less 7 and I'm back to were I was before them K's

picked a couple of more blinds along the way .
for example decided to call a raise with Ad7d from the CO together with 4 other players.
flop 8h8d3c checked around
turn 6d - checked to button who pushes her last 4XBB in.
Original raiser call and I decide to call also. Figuring I might have odds to draw - set to fold unimproved.
river a brick - it checked around and I take it with A high :)

any way, next hand I'm holding A's in LP
2 limpers , I make a nice raise. LP and EP calls.
flop seems harmless enough - 579 rainbow.
EP bet 1/2 pot. ($1 into $1.9)
I am not playing and bet the current pot ($3 into $2.9) . LP fold. EP push.
but only $2.2 more. I'm seriously considering this.
Does he have a set?
did he really call my preflop raise with 68s?
I decide that I am priced to call this and type that in the chat.
His JKo never improves and I take another nice big pot!
I finished the session with 3X buyin.

In this session I folded AQo from the button to a raise. Didn't complete once from the SB.

I might not be a big winer, but at least I cut my loses a lot...

btw, did manage to win that S&G as well - the tightest S&G I ever seen. 9 players and 6 still playing after an hour. Been the SS for the first hour.
Earned my right to HU. Muscled him off his chip lead and lucked out when my 4's turned a set against his 10's

Nicely done.



The key to be a winning player in cash games is to not do anything stupid :P Hope you can handle that :)